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That list is more than 90% trash. Many of the releases are the same game (karaoke/brain train-dance off stuff) with different distributors. The most exciting games on the list are golden oldies Chrono Trigger and Zelda OoT.

Too many default - ie, elegant and petite - noses in that line-up. Suspicious. Where are all the honkers? C'mon, be honest and make with the ugly!

@Gamesake: Fair point. The IP wrecking crew was a collaboration of 3rd party and in-house. That's much better, isn't it?

@3 and 17: Protect their IP? Heh! Should've kept the franchise away from Team Ninja then. These guys look like they're doing a much better job.

Phew...that's gonna be a lot to recall if they can't fix it!

(I'm kidding, I'm kidding!)

He's right. Lots of quality indie devs have been put off Wiiware because of limitations like download size, etc.

Machinarium was once destined for Wii. Likewise Super Meat Boy. Likewise Braid.

I know Nintendo feel their ongoing successes mean they can ignore what critics are saying, but it would benefit them in the long run to listen a little.

Awesome find, that site. Thanks!

@32: Ummm, let's see now...how about N64 and Super Mario 64. Gameboy and Tetris. Playstation and Wipeout. Xbox and Halo. Wii and Twilight Princess. Shall I go on?

The 3rd party stuff seems pretty decent. But as for 1st party stuff...well, I feel it's the weakest launch line-up in Nintendo's history. There's nothing there that I find appealing, having already played the flying mini-game in Wii Sports Resort and Nintendogs too, so I'm going to sit tight until the software catches up. Probably will wait until the ("it's not happening"...but of course it is) 3DSlite/i in 18 months time.

That...is awesome. If he resurrected that style I'd purchase x10 of every Nintendo product. Do it Reggie, you know you want to!

Me and my Mum lost many happy hours to this game when I was a kid. Really hope it comes out. I'll buy two copies for sure. One for me and one to send it as a gift to my Mum's Wii. In fact, when I got her a Wii a couple of Chrismases ago and explained the Virtual Console to her, the first thing she asked was, "has it got Burger Time?" - Lol

Whoever dreamed up that promo idea needs to be hung, drawn and quartered.

Still, those bags full of knitwear make a change for the area I suppose, as polythene bags in parks in the Elephant and Castle usually contain other substances. I imagine the dealers in the park this morning, faced with a pile of Kirby plushes, thought they were ODing on their own stash.

Anyhoo, I bought the game today. It's sitting next to me now. Happy am I. And not even lacklustre Nintendo marketting can spoil my mood.

To go without a couple of spruced-up tech demos at launch is no great loss.

Real shame to see a classic company like Hudson being downsized. Here's hoping they rebound sometime in the future...

Anyway, never mind. It looks rubbish.

@ Zak Canard: cheers for info. on Mastertronic. Blast from my 80s past. Aah...Kickstart, Finders Keepers, all this goodness at pocket-money prices...be still my beating heart!

@38: problem solved, did you say? Buy them again?

It looks nothing short of 'awful'. Not sure how 3D could redemm it tbh. But I haven't played it, so...could be a Zelda beater after all?!

@James Newton: Obviously. However the proportionally higher retail cost only goes to prove that Nintendo are selling it at a proportionally higher cost to Euroland retailers, because they know they can. Except they've side-stepped admitting this by claiming it was all down to the retailers. In the US, however, where the price is very attractive, Nintendo are happy to claim the credit. Don't get me wrong, I love Nintendo products and games and I will get a 3DS eventually, but really I think this episode has exposed them in the worst, most money-grubbing and duplicitous light.

The usual bull**** from Yarnton. They 'left' it to the retailers (DID they? Really...?) as they didn't want to take the flak themselves for ripping-off the European customer...yet again.

ALL the details? Nope, no price announced. Which means: Eurozone must get ready for a price-shafting again.

Guybrush Threepwood, he speak heap big truth. This is a loss for gamers, pure and simple. A gamer with wide-ranging tastes - such as myself - would need a system for each region. Win-Win for Nintendo. Again.

Can I do an official licensed puke now?

The only cast iron certainty in all this speculation is that the UK will get shafted with by far the most expensive version.

What a cheap way of forcing the consumers' hand into getting the 3DS. No reason why lots of people shouldn't want and be allowed to continue to buy and play DSi. Great back catalogue, affordable, and not everyone is in ecstasies about a 3D device with battery life so short it's not really portable.

Shame so many are dismissing thsia non-issue. Not being able to read language sometime doesn't matter in the enjoyment of a game. Some of my DS faves include Ouendan and Jump Superstars. And it was a real thrill to ba able to travel to Japan and pick up intriguing games you'd never seen/heard of and just take a chance on them. Ah well, no more of that, until the 3DS is hacked - as inevitably it will be now, and very soon. Not that I'd hack mine, but many, many people now will as a result of this stupid region-lock decision.

bit.trip.runner over cave story for wiiware? oh, really?! there's the right to freedom of opinion, and then there's blatant error. this is the latter.

@61 - what planet do you hail from?

So cool. I think Retro knows Nintendo almost better than Nintendo knows itself. Please Nintendo, give them another franchise to rescue, something else that you've left to die!

There's already been a DS sight training 'game'. It was unbelievably awful, as you can imagine.

I love Poe's work and his life story is intriguing. Shame it didn't score better or I might have got this.

So they completed the game by breaking it and cheating? Terrific achievement, guys!

ONly one error in this article. it says: "...of 2011"

Miyamoto-san said a few weeks ago that they were only halfway done with it.

Should be retitled to: Dr Lautrec and the Pending Lawsuit

Dreadful, generic trailer with cringeworthy dialogue. And that monster looks like it's been flown in from Sin and Punishment 2. Oh well, the game can only get better than this.

That is possibly the greatest thing ever. I want it. No, I NEED it!!! I awnt to decorate my house with them. Please come to rubbish Nintendo Europe...

Like the Toulouse gag. is it really based on Toulouse Lautrec, as poster implies? That would be great! Detective by day, libidinous dwarf painter of prostitutes by night.

I loved this game in the arcades as a kid. Yep, I knew it was always . OR, maybe I was at it. Never mind, there was always Yie Ar Kung Fu.

Still, way to wreck a child's gaming memories! Go Nintendolife...!

Hurray!!!!!!!!! Gonna buy this later. Will seductively unpeel the wrapping from a virgin points card that I've been holding back on, gently tease the number from under the foil, then lovingly insert. (ahem)

But what am I going to do for my weekly Thursday moan from now on?

"There's only one good thing to say about this game, and that's that it doesn't actually set your Wii on fire." LOL.

There's something depressing about this, especially the suggestions of Valentines' Day romance. Can you imagine snuggling up with your loved one in front of this?

The best thing about this week's stuff is that it's only one week until next week's stuff.

Yay, cheaper and bug free!!!

Cool. Is this from a new game?

The best developer-made microgames so far (IMHO) have been Fly Home and the one from Pixel. The PIxel one is astonishingly clever, artistic and well-made. The rest - from Gaijin dude, SuperMeatBoy dude, World of Goo dude, and Metroid dude - were just rubbish.

I'll take the willy warmer...er, I mean banana pouch, please.

Fortunately, no amount of paid-for blather from no-talent celebrities will put me off this game.

@17: explain that to Okami and Little King's Story.

UPDATE: It's not discontinued. Amazon made a boo-boo. Clicky: http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2010-11-16-nintendo-discontinues-wii-speak

Now that's what I CALL a lava level!

My copy of DQIX is still pristine in its wrapping waiting to be played, but this promotion makes me want to flush it down the khazi.