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This guy doesn't seem to understand that it's hard to make an interesting story/character without it being analyzed as even remotely offensive. I'm not saying a good story/character has to be offensive, but some psychoanalyst (like this guy) could make it out to be offensive. I mean, look at all the people that say the Harry Potter series is anti-Christian (I'm still not sure what that's all about. ).

I love how everybody ignores PokePark like it didn't happen. I think it's more likely to be another one of those, considering it's a more recent series. I have a feeling they will try to make a PokePark game for every new generation of Pokemon, considering they crapped out PokePark 2 not too long ago.

Eh, if it's a PokePark game I'll ignore it like the rest of em. I'd rather attempt to catch 'em all rather than play a poorly put together minigame collection.

@vio - Note that I said "current Wii model." The Wii model currently sold in stores (whether it's Mini or not) does not play Gamecube games.

I can resist. I have no money, four Wiimotes, and a charging dock with white battery lids that would really mess with my OCD when in the middle of that blue.

@urrandomsam: Super Mario 3D World actually does support the Wiimote sideways (at least, the demo I played at Best Buy did). It actually controls better than you expect, thanks to the fixed camera angles. I would rather try playing with a Pro Controller or the Gamepad, but the Wiimote does the trick.

Not a moment to soon. The Wii had it's time, but it's eating into the sales of its successor, which can do everything the current Wii model can and more. I'm also really glad they pulled the plug sooner rather than later. The PS2 ran on long after its time, and when that time ended all it got was watered down ports and crappy cash-ins. Sure, it was the most popular console of its generation, but once consoles overlap into the next generation the final impressions go from "gee, what a great console" to "eh, about time they dropped support."

The first time I tried the 3DS demo for Origins (having not played Origins before then), I thought it was pretty good. Tried it again after playing the PC version for a while, and I hate the 3DS port. Hampered camera, half the frame rate (no matter with 3D on or off), and crappy audio (more apparent when listening with headphones). If you want a portable version of Origins/Legends, get the Vita version. I don't have a Vita, but I heard the Rayman ports were pretty good. If If Ubisoft ports Legends to 3DS, I want them to keep the audio quality as high as possible, and get a better frame rate if they can. But even if they did that, I wouldn't get it, I'd rather have the Wii U version with full camera view and five player co-op.

I love this idea, but I wouldn't go to the trouble to set it up. Not only is the non-synchronization of the two games an issue, but I feel like online multiplayer feels best with 4-20 people, and on top of that I don't see a lot of people using this. After all, I think people seldom use Warppipe or other such tunneling software to play LAN-compatible Gamecube games over the 'net.

I'm actually more excited about Motion Plus for Tennis than the online play. That game in particular really needed it, it's not as fun when any motion you make produces almost identical results. Table Tennis in Wii Sports Resort was fun, but not the same.

@Marakuto: Oh, sorry. I forgot this was only available in the U.S. Must be a huge disappointment to everyone that anticipated something worldwide....

Am I the only one that kinda digs this? Yeah, it's kinda disappointing it was nothing game related, but I kinda like these kinds of contests. You guys had your hopes up too high for a little press release.

I used to have the Joystick thing @SHeldonRandoms mentioned. It was nice until I lost it.

I think the article is being a little extreme. Yeah, you would be stupid to buy these for a device that already has buttons, but I think these kinda things are really nice for Smartphone games that use a virtual dpad. If you've ever played a phone game that used one of those, you'd see why these things exist. Although, if you want real buttons for your phone, you can get one of these when the new version comes out.

Does this mean that the Youtube App Community will stop being the "Post Everything" community?

Nintendo doesn't offer Polish translations while the others do? That explains a lot. Most people like to play games they understand.

Tell me handheld gaming devices are doomed when the next iPad gets two analogue sticks and some face buttons.

I hope the Miiverse app on 3DS allows you to open it mid game. That's all I'm really worried about.

I probably won't pay for Pokemon Bank. I usually barely catch a box full of Pokemon, and I never transition Pokemon between games. But for those that do either or both, it's not a bad investment. 5 bucks a year is one of the cheapest subscriptions around.

I'm not sure if this is the beginning of Nintendo charging extra for everything, though. It's a possibility that Nintendo is charging for things like this in order to help subsidize making up for selling their systems at a loss. Think about it: It wasn't until after the 3DS had its price cut (Nintendo's first time selling a system at a loss) that we started seeing DLC in Nintendo games and all this other pay-to-play stuff.

Not that I am not worried that Nintendo will become a greedy cash-grubber. Even though it seems like a lot of their greedy-seeming actions actually try to help sell more units (New Super Mario Bros. 2 and U, for example), I could be wrong. I hope I'm not, though.

I would actually want one of these, if only to play 3DS games on the TV (Note to Nintendo: If you can find a way to do that, via Wii U or a separate device, that would be awesome. Unfortunately, you're not reading silly internet comments....)

If they were trying to bring back "core" gamers, they really shouldn't have called it Wii U. I would think that a lot of people expected Nintendo to give their console an entirely different name if they wanted to change their image to support "core" gamers equally alongside the "casual" ones (a task that seems rather challenging, and perhaps impossible). I do admit, though, that it would seem weird to not go off the Wii brand, since the console does/can use pretty much any Wii peripheral you can throw at it (as long as it doesn't plug in through the Gamecube slot) like they were all made specifically for Wii U.

@Windy I agree with @DerpSandwich. I really don't think this will outsell the 3DS. I can imagine it selling just as well, but I can't sell it outselling the 3DS. Just $40 more will get you a much nicer clamshell design and an optional 3D effect. And I believe consumers will be willing to pay the extra price for those features, because the Deluxe Wii U outsold the Basic set so much that the Basic was recalled from stores. I fail to see your point in that everyone will want one of these when so much skepticism and hate towards the design was spread across the internet, and even acknowledged in the article on this page. There is an audience for this, but it seems like that audience is ages 7 and under. I'm sure there will be a few people above that age that will want one, but I think the majority of people will want a device that can fold up and fit in one's pocket.

@DESS-M-8 @b23cdq Whoops, sorry, meant Splinter Cell. They're both just Tom Clancy games to me.

If the time comes when a Wii U game needs a mandatory install, why not make a bundle including, say, a > 50 GB hard drive? Shouldn't be too expensive, people that have a hard drive can buy the game alone, and those that need more memory later can upgrade when they need it.

That said, why didn't Wii U get an optional game install for Ghost Recon? It's not like that measly 8 GB in the Basic model can't be expanded (like that model sold very well....), and I'm sure those with hard drives that picked up the game would have appreciated it.

@DarkKriby: A fixed camera angle =/= 3D? Weird, I thought a game being 3D was determined upon the ability to walk across the Z-axis....

Also, it's not exactly fixed, the ability to move the camera has been demonstrated before.

I do understand that Nintendo wants to protect its intellectual properties, but I don't really see harm in the film besides that. Some of you are missing the point; the makers of this movie were not making money off of this film; I'm sure all the fund-raised money was to go to making the movie, which would probably be put on Youtube or somewhere else on the internet to be watched for free. If they were to put this on iTunes and charge $3 for it then yeah, I would see that as theft, but if any money they take from average joes goes to making a better movie and nothing more, then I call that dedicated, hardcore fandom that needs a bit of a push to reach potential.

I'm glad EA was donating their share of the money from the Humble Origin Bundle to charity. That way, I'm not supporting a faceless, money-eating monster that hides behind little good deeds.

Oh man, I really want the arcade machines to come over to NA. I would blow up so much money on those....

I fail to see how this is lame. Beating a Zelda game in one sitting is an impressive feat within itself imo. But what do I know, I never beaten a Zelda game.

Aw. I would've liked a good wireless controller for my N64. Oh well, hope Retro-bit rolls out a v2 with all the kinks ironed out.

Aren't the letters on the 3DS face buttons printed on rather than engraved in? Meaning the A button wouldn't make an imprint on your finger?

This is ridiculous. I saw a used copy of this at Gamestop (in tin and all) a few months ago, going for $50.

Why bring the game to Wii U at all if you're going to make it the watered down version? If you're trying to test the waters and see how many sales the Wii U version will get before pumping out more games for the thing, don't do a hasty job and expect it to even have a chance to sell as well as the other versions among multiplatform gamers. I don't want this game, but if I did, I would grab the PC version, simply because I don't support stripped games.

Unfortunately, there seems to be no good way to tell devs that we want fully featured Wii U games with sales. Unlike Rayman Legends, where we can show Ubisoft they didn't have to make it a multiplatform game by buying it on Wii U and making sure that outsells other versions, if we boycott the Wii U version of this game, the dev won't want to work on Wii U because of low sales promise, but if we buy it, the devs will think it's okay to scrap features for the Wii U version in the name of shorter development times.

I wish the Wii U would get full support now, because when the XBone and PS4 roll out and devs spend more time taking advantage of the more powerful hardware, I'm afraid that multiplatform games will be of Wii quality, either being no-shows or hastily put together and nowhere near as grand as the versions on other platforms. It would be good to have a lot of multiplatform games on Wii U now, when all three major consoles currently on the market have nearly even footing, and the Wii U can play a game almost and well as the 360 and PS3 and have that advantage of the 6" screen on the controller.

/me cries that the comments section for an article about a government official being gifted a Wii U has turned into an argument about age demographics and "real gamers."

Please don't make me want to leave this site, guys. I don't want to have to get my Nintendo news from a shudders multiplatform gaming site.

I wish this and the arcade machine came to NA. Seems like something I'd keep popping in coins or swiping a card for.

It could make decent sales in NA, even in the state arcades are in here. I remember this one arcade game from about 8 years back called Dinosaur King. The game itself was essentially glorified Rock Paper Scissors (seriously, they didn't even hide that), but every time you started it up the machine spat out a Dinosaur card for you to swipe into the game as your monster of choice. I've seen kids hogging the machine, hoping to collect all of the cards. That's the only reason anybody actually played the game; paying a dollar to play Rock Paper Scissors against a CPU (or your friend) doesn't sound like a very good way to spend money. I'm sure Marvelous and Nintendo put together a better game then that, and I would definitely give this a try if I saw it around.

Then again, back when Dinosaur King came out, my friends were still playing Pokemon. In this day and age when kids of all ages are playing Call of Duty, a Pokemon arcade game having success in NA would be a tossup. I guess the success of this would be determined by how many "Collect 'Em All" people often visit arcades. It seems like a longshot of coming here, but I would love to give this game a try.

I can see a WW HD bundle getting some sales, perhaps from people that get nostalgic over WW but sold the game long ago, and haven't gotten a Wii U yet. I dunno how many people that includes, but I would bet it would get some sales from people looking to buy a Wii U to relive their childhood/teenhood/earlier-on-adulthood in 1080p, among grabbing some of the games coming out later.

And please people, stop with the "PS4 is only $50 more, Wii U is doomed" crap. The systems cater towards different markets. Nintendo has seemed to be catering more to a niche market these days, and I'm okay with that. I like their innovative hardware ideas, but I chiefly buy Nintendo systems to play awesome games (why else should you buy a console? 8 GB of RAM? Pah.). And if Nintendo ever goes under, I'm sure they'll switch to being a third party, and I'm okay with that. I'll just buy whatever console they cater towards the most, and continue buying mostly Nintendo games for that console while I load up my Steam account with indie games.

@psycoticdev1l: Considering the inclusion of sentences like "Nobody is going to buy the game becuase of it. People are only going to not buy the game because of it." in his comment, I believe he is joking.

And I thought Ubisoft was slightly less evil than EA and Activision....

@GamerJunkie: On top of what @TreonsRealm said, if you actually read all the other comments, you would have found out that all the other versions of this game are pretty buggy, whereas Nintendo is not letting this game see the light of day on the eShop until all the bugs are ironed out. As much as I love getting Steam games on sale, I'll take a more expensive version over a cheaper version if it means a higher quality experience.

Waiting for the likely-not-coming day where every digital shop follows Steam's lead and has a super sale 2-3 times a year.

Take your time, KnapNok. Kinda looking forward to this.

That's a shame.

You heard me, it's a shame that R4's and other flashcarts are banned from most of the world.

Actually, let me rephrase that: It's a shame that R4's and other flashcarts have to be banned from most of the world. I am highly against piracy, I've been asked if it was possible to pirate Portal 2 on Steam before, and hearing that there was some sort of option for that, I told the asker that I didn't support piracy and that I didn't know of a solution anyway. The thing is, I don't think Nintendo would be so hard pressed to get rid of these things if they didn't allow people to pirate games.
People seem to forget that these things aren't completely evil. They were originally intended (at least, what I believe them to be originally intended) to run homebrew and store a collection of games that a person had legally paid for so one didn't have to swap cartridges to play a different game. But since anything the flashcart can run is fair game to the flashcart, people use them to pirate games.
I'm not saying all pirates are evil, there are the few that pirate games to try them before they go out and buy the games, and those that do it to play rare games that don't go for cheap on eBay (Earthbound being a prime example). Heck, I'm part of the latter group, and I'm trying to be as ethical as possible with the policy; I stopped playing Earthbound via emulation once I heard it was coming to Virtual Console.
So, to rap that all up, I blame the pirates that do it because they don't want to pay for the games at all for ruining flashcarts for all of us that would like to use them ethically. Don't blame the people selling them, it's not their intention to take money away from Nintendo, just to make money themselves, or better, because they want people to use the carts legitimately.

@thesilverbrick: Did you even read the article? It wasn't held back because of the lack of software, it was held back because it didn't work for some people. (Dang, ninja'd by Skotski! )
And I think it was good why he explained it's absence from the market. If a company announces things but never brings them to fruition and the company never speaks of it again, consumers lose trust.

I wonder if this free Unity license can be used to push games to other platforms including Wii U.

@BeeZeroOne1: Huh, I was just wondering today why I saw so many Microsoft Studios published indie games on Steam lately.

I hope the news of this gets spread to the ears of other developers. Why constrain your game to PC and 360 (and in the future, XBone) because it's in the hands of Microsoft when you can get an SDK liscense from Nintendo and keep your publishing rights, allowing you to port to other consoles?

I hope that they don't have to balance it with a patch. I hate it when things gameplay wise change as part of a patch, even if it is to bring an overpowered character down to standards.

@MrSRArter: Yeah, like how Shadow was confirmed for Brawl with a screenshot, and was later found to be an assist trophy. It's an Animal Crossing stage, I'm pretty sure she's just part of the background. I'm not saying it's not possible that she'll turn up as a playable character, but I don't expect it and it was so far not been confirmed by words.

@Gioku: Really? How did they make a 3D N64 game out of a 2D SNES one? Or are you talking about Kirby 64?

@Solidopc: I would love it if MK8 had some sort of DLC, as long as they stick to delivering new tracks/cups/maps/characters, but NOT carts. If they released new carts as paid DLC, that would give people that give extra money the advantage of having extra carts to chose from. And even if it was released as free DLC, releasing new carts after the game came out could unbalance the game.

Looks like an interesting game. I'll think about picking it up.

They were improving the entire game during the delay rather than setting the Wii U version to the side and working on the ports?

Well, if that's the case, I'm kinda glad it got delayed. Better to delay a game to make it better than to rush it to market and have it feel incomplete or broken. And even if the version that would have released in February wouldn't have felt incomplete or broken, the delay will have made this game better anyway.

Can't wait for this game.

"We publish games where we think we can make a great game and hit a big audience, and make money."

Fixed.

Good call. A new console Zelda would definitely overshadow a remake of an old one, and potentially a handheld Zelda as well.

Just because this flyer looks like it came from a color printer does not mean it's fake. It just means that the Wheaton store might have gotten a little too excited and made their own poster spilling the beans. Some stores like to make their own posters. And yeah, I'm disappointed with the list too, but seriously, why all the glum faces? It's not every day that someone can just walk into a store and try a game that hasn't been released yet. A trip to E3 can set you back plenty of dough, a trip to Best Buy is free. And frankly, I'm pretty excited to try Wonderful 101 and Pikmin 3. And hey, maybe New Super Luigi U and Wind Waker HD will set in some improvements to the titles they were animated from. Heck, maybe Wind Waker HD will make enough enhancements so that I actually like Wind Waker.

@Kirk: What do you mean? Nintendo innovates and makes a superpowered controller with a screen on it when they could've just made a more powerful Wii with no significant innovations, finally gets their online crap together and makes an awesome network for Wii U, complete with a special social network just for games, did their part in pushing out one of the best launch line-ups I've seen in years, and tries to bring a slice of the E3 floor to everyone in North America. Please tell me how they aren't doing enough.

I'm getting sick of this community. All it does is complain every time Nintendo does something nowadays.

Doesn't the 360's backwards compatibility only support about 10 original XBox games? I'm actually surprised that anybody uses that feature on the 360 at all.

I may be one to never sell my console, but there are people that will sell their console to subsidize the cost of the new one, and many will only do that if they can still play their old games.

They should at least push out an effort to be backwards-compatible. The difference in CPU architecture may not allow hardware emulation, but software emulation could work, albeit be a little iffy.