Capcom Kicks Off a Massive Sale on the North American Wii U and 3DS eShops

i have all the games i would want from this but some good deals here

I literally have all of these . . . Some of them more than once :s

I have enough backlogs as it is. Rare counter-examples like Ever Oasis aside I'm done buying games for Wii U and 3DS.

If you own a PS4 as well, that storefront has some impressive Capcom sales this week.

So is MegaMan collection a good game? That's the one that interests me out of all of these.

They've had better deals. I got ssfiv for $5 a couple of years ago. Same with resident evil Revelations

@gardevoir7 if you don't own them already, then yes. It's cheaper than buying them separately on the e shop and it's a good collection. It didn't sell well on Nintendo systems because they'd already released them prior to this

Too bad I don't have more room on my 3ds lol.

Really though, I would love to try MH for the first time. I liked the demos, and I want to get into it, but I feel like it might be too overwhelming. Should I?

@amishpyrate And those two games are sold since years for 12-15€ in retail. Not sure what the incentive to buy would be here.

Used my game spending money for the month on FE Echoes else I'd be all on that Dual Destinies for $10

oh well they'll do it again in six months and maybe by then my backlog won't be completely bonkers

The Resident Evil and SFIV deals are worse than in the past. Monster Hunter Generations for $20 is nice though.

@gardevoir7
Absolutely. I got it last time there was a sale and I've been playing it a lot.

@Aaron09 The demo onl shows you a fraction of the game. You'll repeat each prey between 20 and 50-100times to get their materials or because the game says so (particularly in Générations who loves to give you large amounts of slight variations through similar quests).
The basic principle is: hunt monsters, realize you're pretty weak, start to craft an armor (people will tell you to rush and craft anything, while you can look for specific articles unlocking new "powers"/abilities) by hunting more of the same monster, hunt new stronger monsters,having problems again, fa´rming again, repeat the cycle over and over. It's fun if you can stand it and don't play with more than two people of your level (of equipment and maybe experience), unless you want it to become a pure onslaught where you stand and watch the monster be put into pieces with no retaliation chance. I got both games at launch andboy, was it hard to find people whose mission was not to pierce through the 50-75% of the game, rushing at the famous "end game" and taking me with them. Right in the first days/weeks. -_- On Generation, losing my hundreds of hours totally prevented me to find people willing to play at a certain level (charactersHave no stat, just change your suit and weapon and you can "power down"). After a few days, I just stopped playing and my save isn't even at 50% of where I was before.
Oops, sorry for the speech ^^"

This weakness is nothing for someone who doesn't want to play thr game for the collaboration aspect of course.

Oh, because of the way stats work, you can adjust the difficulty as you wish if you find the game too easy (ex: use a weaker armor, equip negative skills, missing meals who raise health, naked hunting, etc)

Yawn, was hoping for other games in the Capcom to be in the sales line that we haven't seen before.
I wonder how Monster Hunter 4 is?

Though for newcomers, Why haven't you hopped in yet. The Phoenix Wright games will have you in LOVE with the court and the story and characters. I highly recommend to play the PWtrilogy in order before going to DD and SOJ.

I put Love in bold for a reason folks.

Monster Hunter...I haven't tried extensively as I only played demos but it gives a feeling of Dark Souls as you try to bring these big monsters down. Some say it's about as hour draining as an animal crossing game or Pokemon. There's a demo on the eShop if you wanna test it out because the controls aren't 4 everyone.

Megaman Legacy Collection if you haven't brought a megaman game before will be a MEGA bang for your buck.
And resident evil games...uhhh go buy em. Heh, sorry nothing special to say unless you ask me.

@Aaron09 I'll give my opinion. I sat on the fence like you, playing the demo of MHTri, liking it, but never taking the plunge back on Wii. Someone that was really into it tried to get me into it, but I was playing other games. Then by the time MH4U came out, another friend was inviting me to try, so I caved and bought it on a sale like this one. It turned out to be one of the best decisions I've ever made. It will appear daunting at first, getting down controls and settling in on a hunter type. You'll slowly amass parts, assemble weapons, learn new strategies for taking down monsters, and forming a comradeship with fellow hunters, forging ever stronger armor and weapons to take down bigger and badder monsters. You'll fail, redo your strategy, succeed, and celebrate your triumph against insurmountable odds. It will take a portion of your life as this cycle is addicting. Lastly, if you like multilayer team games, then it's a double win. I suggest MHG as a start as something called hunter arts will come in handy for beginners to make your life easier to ease into MH.

$4 for DuckTales. Woooooow!

@Aaron09
Get the physical version for the same price. MH will crush your memory. I started with tri on the wii also. I like these games but dont play them as much as pick up and play type games. These take an investment that Im guaranteed to give up on. I got Generations for 17 bucks last month at gamestop.
The others are also the same price physical as this digital price.
Should you get it? sure why not its kind of cool if you can dump a ton of time and need a game you probably wont complete but it can be a cool game.

@Captain_Toad
If I remember correctly Resident evil is not for left handed players. Is that correct do you know?

@Priceless_Spork As a Left-handed person I can confirm that you can play Resident Evil just fine.
You can play with your feet too just don't get angry over dying though.

Downloading Meg Mang now. As someone who hasn't had much exposure to the series and hasn't bought any of the games this sounds PERFECT for a newcomer It's essentially $1 per Meg Mang game. You can't beat that!

Compared to the usual Nintendo eShop discounts this is quite good.

Compared to PSN sales (that change up every 1-2 weeks) this is nothing special, the PSN games usually get a much better discount.

If Nintendo really wishes to compete they seriously need to get their act together. I still support them because I know there will be a small number of games over the lifespan of their hardware that will make buying it completely worth it. It's getting harder and harder to justify buying Nintendo hardware over the years though.

Sorry for the negativity guys

So... what if I don't have any friends to play online with? Is Monster Hunter still worth it?

Wow, a lot of Crazy Discount...

I traded in my Wii U version of Monster Hunter 3 Ultimate for the 3DS copy a while back. I honestly regretted doing it since I hate playing hardcore games on the 3DS with such a low-res screen and cramped controls. I might be picking up the Wii U version again during this sale... and possibly some other goodies!

Still need to grab Spirit of Justice...

I'll think about it.

Quick thought, I wonder if that Street fighter deal works in conjunction with the 40% off from my Nintendo. Already own it so I won't be trying it but it's worth a shot if anyone wants to get it.

I feel like all of these games are great. And look at how steep that Monster Hunter 3 Ultimate discount is on Wii U. That's legit a 500-hour game for $8.

Games on sale I already have! Great!!! 🙌

The Switch is 12-13 weeks old and hasn't had any games discounted yet. How long after launch did the 3DS and Wii U have their first sales with discounts?

Wow. Games on sale we all have. Great plan

Europe? Europe? EUROPE? Europe? EUROPE?

Most of the Wii U eshop should have been heavily discounted by now. The only ones Nintendo can justify not regularly rotating through the sales are Breath of the Wild and Darksiders. I mean, are they still shifting downloads of Super Smash Bros for £50 in significant numbers, if at all?

@noutBr
I've made this point several times before. People getting excited as axiom verge has £2.50 knocked off it and I picked up hyper light drifter on steam for more than half price.
You are completely right- Nintendo need to be aware of what others offer and then match it on their eshop.
That includes cross buy games you can use on more than one machine at a time.

Capcom may aswell permanently drop the prices on some of these games. I've seen their four WiiU games discounted quite a few times over the past few months

@JohnnyC I agree. But I think partly why we don't see more discounts is because a lot of these games are being ported over to Switch. I'm talking more about the indie games. Like take Little Inferno for example, I've that on one of my Wii U's but at Christmas I wanted it on another Wii U. And the game had been discounted previous Christmas's and at other times throughout the years but it wasn't the Christmas just gone. I thought to myself that's strange, how come it wasn't? The answer came a couple of months later when Tomorrow Corporation announced they'd be porting it and other games onto Switch. They probably didn't want to devalue the game. Why sell it for €5 when you can get double that on Switch?

Damn I really really hope some of these come Europe-side

Bought megaman legacy collection on my 3DS did not own any megaman games so 6 games for the price of a single VC release is a steal.

Note how none of the SF2 VC games are included. I wonder why?

@wiggleronacid I agree about MH on 3DS. MH4U on 3DS seems a great (better balanced) game, but I preferred playing Tri on the Wii. If I had enough time in my life I could be tempted to try MH3U on Wii U... Always like the idea of moving the save game back and forth between it and the 3DS version. Probably should wait for the Switch MH really...

Spirit of Justice for me. I need my Phoenix fix.

If this comes to Europe I'd be interested in the Mega Man Collection

@SLIGEACH_EIRE That would seem reasonable for any other company. For Nintendo there seems to be 2 insane business decisions for every genius one, and the pricing of their retail and digital titles - particularly the ones that are older than 18 months - has always been absurd. I know they do Selects, but that's an oasis in a desert in terms of the number of titles included and how long it takes those titles to be added.

I only play my 3ds for car rides, that's why I bought Mario Party for $40 last night. So these aren't my type of games...

At least until they come to Switch

@Rei It kinda sounds boring, but that price...

@MeloMan Thanks, but dang, I don't have much time anymore lol. I guess summer is as good as time to do it than anything else.

I have pretty much everything except Megaman. That price isn't bad but I know I'm not going to play it much because I suck at Megaman. Yeah I can take down monsters 100x bigger than me in Monster Hunter but I'm dead before the first boss in Megaman.

Would be cool if they would do that in europe aswell. I am interested in MH4U but I dunno If I would like it because I dont have and will not buy a new3ds just for the c-stick.

@crackafreeze If you never played monster hunter, I heard MH4U did a great job introducing new players to the franchise. I only played MH3U and really love It. I think you could buy and enjoy mh4u. I never played MH4U myself because I dont know If I would like the game without a right analog stick. If you, on the other hand have a new3DS i think you will like it. Monster Hunter games are the same anyway more or less. But as I said MH4U is more beginner friendly then MH3U. I dont know about generations though...

I'm going to pass. I've already got the ones that appeal to me

And...now I regret buying Ducktales Remastered during the last sale. That price is a steal!

Nice. I got the NES Mega Man games for a dollar each, and the Ace Attorney sales should sway some people who are hesitant about paying retail prices for that series.

@Aaron09 It didn't for me: I loved the games, especially MH4U who bothered to feature a little story intertwined into its beginners quests, preventing me from feeling that I was doing useless things. What Generations wouldn't have, had it be my first game (so many quests seemed just tedious for nothing, they don't bother integrating the minimum of informations into the beginning quests, letting you read everything elsewhere, etc).

Personally, I would advise anybody to get the game (unless it's someone who can't stand to put more than 10min in a gaming session, or to need a certain time to get the thing he wants), maybe (just maybe) this discount will bring a wave of fresh players to the game who will make nice companions for you (if you have a friend who wil get it simultaneously, though, it's a sure buy).
But if this description sounds boring to you, it should light a warning in your head.

Any news on whether this is happening in Europe as well?

Oh Capcom. Attempting to make people buy the old titles before E3 where you announce XX 3DS and Switch versions for the West. Lame.

Highly recommend Dungeons & Dragons: CoM. It's actually two online side-scrolling beat'em up games in one , and for about $4.00, over the usual $15.00.

The MH games are fun. There's a little learning curve, but it isn't that bad.

The RE games are decent.

@Aaron09 @crackafreeze

Yes. I have hundreds of hours on each game. I would wait on Monster Hunter XX though. Since its Generations with more content, and hopefully you'll have a Switch by then if you don't already.

MH3U is best on Wii U, since theres online play and voice chat. The HD visuals aren't the best, but it's still enjoyable. I'm one of the strange people that enjoyed the swimming, which is gone in later titles.

I loved MH4U. Its a huge, huge game. Tons of monsters, challenge and things to work toward. Lots of cheaters online though. Its definitely worth playing. It introduced a lot of new things.

Generations is very good. I really enjoyed it, but if you get seriously into it, you'll just be wanting XX. Theres no G Rank and some of the difficulty and bigger monsters from 4U aren't around. The new monsters and deviants are great. I loved the hunting arts and palico gameplay. They bring back some great stuff from all the Monster Hunters. So you get a taste of 3U, 4U, Freedom Unite, 3G, the first one, etc. It does leave me missing things from 3U and 4U. No cheaters since save data is tied to the 3DS and not the cartridge.

Each experience is unique. I'd wait for the newest and pay full price personally. Don't get 3U unless you have Wii U or a friend locally on 3DS who'll buy the game too.

@crackafreeze I recommend MH4U as the best entry point into the series and the best MH solo experience. I don't know what the online is like at this point though, since most people are probably playing Generations now.

If you want to play multiplayer online you're probably better off going with Generations, but if that's the case I'd just wait until XX comes out. Personally I don't feel like Generations is a good introduction to the series, although others might say otherwise. 4U has a kind of cool little story in single player mode and gradually introduces you to the mechanics that way.

It seemed to me like Generations just throws almost everything at you right away (and also has no story whatsoever). It also has way too many tedious gathering quests (which you don't have to do, but then you have to resort to looking up in a guide which quests are needed to advance to higher ranks).

Having put hundreds of hours into 3U, 4U and Generations, I like 4U the most. Just my opinion.

For this sale price, I'd recommend getting 4U even if you only play the single player mode, and if you like it, get XX when that comes out.

@VR32F1END Monster hunter 4u it is then! One more thing, what kind of cheating occurs here?

No Virtual Console

Also if you want you can combine My Nintendo 40% SFIV discount and add to this sale another discount.

And as was mentioned in this article, here's the superior Sony capcom sale

Which Ace Attorney game is the best to start with? I had one of the games on the Wii but it was so blocky looking that I found it unplayable.

@CaPPa Chronologically, Ace Attorney Trilogy comes first and includes three games instead of just one. That's the one that I would recommend.

@Captain_Toad

People patch their save data to get things they shouldn't, and they also create custom quests that reap benefits. Things like instant HR999, instant parts and money for hard to get armor sets and spheres to upgrade them. Going on quests with somebody with those can ruin the experience, and give you things you don't want. Fake HR999 without wystones can incline certain random players to boot you from their room. Its been awhile since I was on, so I don't know how many people still bother doing this.

Thank you folks for the recommendation. Download MH4U now!

Geez Louise, 20000 blocks of storage?! are you serious?

@CaPPa Ace attorney Trilogy. Play them in order!

@crackafreeze I tried 3U after playing Generations...and it wasn't pleasant for me. The older games are by no means bad...but feels more clunky compared to the latest iteration. It's like playing the better sequel and then not appreciating the older game you would have liked otherwise...

@Captain_Toad

The game is a powerhouse on 3DS. Its gonna blow you away. I actually think it may possibly look and perform better than Generations. Its big, in every way.

I picked up the DND game and have enjoyed playing it with friends. Not a beat'em up that I remember, but similar enough.