I think his stance on VGs changed definitely when Wreck-It Ralph (3/4 stars review IIRC) gave the audience the possibility to explore gaming in a respectful (both to newcomers and hardcore gamers alike) way.

The article's ending is as poignant as it gets. RIP, Roger.

Knew that back when adding Bowser's entry in the movie's character sheet on Tv Tropes!

In a perfect world, graphical snobbery wouldn't even exist, and gamers wouldn't give a damn about graphics at all. Seriously, many gamers are likely to have missed on Super Mario Galaxy out of Wii-related graphical snobbery alone. I mean, ugh.

With that U logo on a blue background, it was kind of a given. Unreal foreshadowing, anyone?

Using a CoD pic as the thumbnail for an article about "Stifling Creativity".

Made my day.

An April Fool's prank. With Luigi.

As a Luigi fan myself, I have to say, this is downright cruel.

Kingdom Hearts on Wii U... if it's one of the HD remixes, then I predict a sudden temperature drop. In Hell.

While it didn't happen to me with Ruby and Sapphire, if there's no backwards compatibility, I'm not getting X/Y. Either that, or a wide array of previous-gen Pogeys available in the games in order to make up for the lack of backwards compatibility. (Ruby and Sapphire had neither.)

I said it once and I'll say it again: what else does Nintendo need to buy back Rare?

I'm proud to own the game already for the fact it brought many FF characters, elements and mythology to Nintendo consoles alone (One-Winged Angel on a Nintendo console is literal music to my ears); then there's all the other stuff, including the small detail it's a damn fine game on its own right.

That said, the Final Fantasy series, what with being mostly composed by Nobuo Uematsu, is usually good enough to justify its own purchase; even better when you've got a good RPG along with the music... and even better when you make a good rhythm game out of already good music.

N!!! Singlehandedly made my day. If it's on 3DS, it's gonna be a day one purchase. Or a day two one, depending on when I manage to boost my eShop credit.

Hopefully the game won't snub the 3DS just for the sake of pandering to HD, though.

All aboard the doom & gloom bandwagon, YAY!

(cut to Kaz Hirai riding a flying PS4, with Nightwish's Ghost Love Score playing in the background)

Wait, what? What?

I really need to stop drinking when I read these articles. Now my table is a mess all over again.

I'll say, just wait 'til we get a single screenshot of the new Smash Bros. next E3. One screenshot, and the Wii U will sell like candy once again.

The line between enough nostalgia and too much nostalgia is way too blurred...

If this means Kingdom Hearts 1,5 HD Remix for Wii U and more exports for S-E titles, then good riddance.

Yeah, a bit harsh, but hey, there's tons of stuff gamers want and they're denied.

At Tv Tropes, we call this "Digging Yourself Deeper".

What could help the Wii U sell? [activating smartass mode] Games.

[takes cover]

Lawsuit coming in 3, 2, 1...

Seriously though, if they pay Nintendo whatever Nintendo asks for the use of emulation, the console might well make it to the stores. Then again, what with Rayman Legends and Ninja Gaiden Razor, it'd only add insult to injury if even first party and second party NES and SNES titles "went multiplatform". It's a depressing thought, I know.

@Zach777: Think you have it bad? I'm a Kingdom Hearts fan, you do the math.

Can't decide, but sure as hell it won't be Heroes of Ruin. All of the localizing efforts that should have gone to Kingdom Hearts 3D went to that game instead, and the localization team went out of its way to have HoR even dubbed, while Kingdom Hearts 3D didn't even have translated on-screen text for Italy and Spain.

Seriously, it's one of the few games I'm actually wishing to bomb. It's ruffled my feathers the wrong way.

Great. My 3DS Streetpass Plaza already has enough impossible-to-complete puzzles as-is.

"Ugly Secret Babies"... guys? Care to play a rimshot here?

Aaaaaaaaaaaaaand the fandom rejoiced.

@CyberNature: Well said.

@moomoo: Well said, again.

Wow. Just wow. By now it's safe to say people are actively trying to screw over the Wii U.

I mean, damn it.

@grimbldoo: Well, I merely stated another point to discuss after agreeing with the valid points I saw in the replies to my first comment. That's all.

@FOREST_RANGER: I didn't say discounts for first-party/second-party Nintendo games are some kind of salvation - they're more like an option Nintendo should start considering for once. Then again, if they've never cut their prices on any game they've made, they won't start now for sure. But if Nintendo starts discounting something, well... it would help. Maybe it won't change everything, but a few more copies of NSMBU could be sold.

@ThomasBW84, @Ren & @GameLord08: Well said, all of you. You've stated good points - however, we shouldn't forget that while being undoubtedly the gaming company that's been around the longest, Nintendo is also (sadly) relatively new to digital delivery; despite that, when it comes to discount, Nintendo's never pulled the same stunts other companies did. For example, as far as my personal experience goes, Nintendo's "Player's Choice" lineup of games throughout the years never offered true "budget prices", and while the GameCube titles saw the discount in Europe as well, the GBA Player's Choice games never saw the light of day 'round these parts; its spiritual successor, the Wii "Nintendo Selects" aren't exactly cheap, going as far as copies of Wii Sports sold for a whopping 44 € price tag. Now compare that to, say, what Sony has done with discounts. Right now there are the PSP Essentials, a relatively wide range of PSP titles sold for 9,99 € each; also, the PSP holds the (dubious?) honor of having the cheapest game I've ever bought, Ape Escape P, that I've found for - I'm not kidding - 3,60 €, without said game even being shown to be in some kind of bargain bin.

Catching up with discounts would help Nintendo a lot already, especially with all those doom&gloom news we hear about nowadays. Nintendo would be amazed to see how many more customers they'd find if only they lowered their games' prices just enough - something like a 10 € discount might sell 1000 more copies alone, if not more. Nintendo's strategy of "cheap hardware, expensive software" (as a foil to Sony's "expensive hardware, cheap software") just... just doesn't work anymore. Or if it works, well, if doesn't do its job as well as it used to. Times have changed.

Wait, so learning that lesson only now counts as evolution? Sorry to burst people's bubbles, but the fact that lowering prices helps selling games is, um, common knowledge. Doing that soon enough, now that would be evolution.

@Gamesake: The problem is, as I said, it seems like third party devs just can't help snubbing Nintendo consoles for the sake of snubbing Nintendo consoles, as if it's some kind of twisted status symbol. You know, it's like an abyss between Xbox 360 and PS3, which nobody seems to have any problems with, and Nintendo, the one nobody seems to want to work with/for. As if people are afraid of being associated-- wait, no, it's kind of irrealistic, but it's what's happening. I mean, think about it: the first Square title for the Wii U is, no matter how good, an Eidos property. Not a FF title. They could have ported Final Fantasy XIII, but instead we get Deus Ex. And, to nobody's surprise, FFXIII is the FF title for PS3 that didn't have any problem coming to 360.

Okay, what I just wrote is kind of rushed, so I'll try to word it as well as I can. The point is, "late ports" are multiplatform titles, and we know that, while Wii U exclusives just can't help going multiplatform, the same can't be said about the opposite - titles said to be "multiplatform" in that they're for both PS3 and Xbox 360 actually can't seem to reach Nintendo consoles at all. And while there was indeed a gap between the graphical power of the PS360 and that of the Wii, the latter's successor now does have the graphical power that (sadly) is all that matters to the devs, but despite that, multiplatform titles - may they be either "new" or "late ports" - still manage to "skip" the Wii U, as the titles of the related newsposts say on this site.

So, to recap, as I said the only problem with "old Wii U ports" is that there are actually too little - more shouldn't hurt, really. There are tons of titles that Nintendo fans have been missing, so why not bring them to the Wii U? The answer? "We don't want to bow down to that", or some other bee-ess excuse.

[erupts into furious gibberish]

What about working on a worldwide rerelease, instead of trolling the fans?

Sorry for blowing off steam like this, I just had to say that.

@Beta: I know, right? Sadly, the fact that just about everything about in the Kingdom Hearts series except the main games (Birth By Sleep notwithstanding) is on Nintendo consoles means either:

a) The Kingdom Hearts franchise is tied to Sony with a contract that explicitly prevents numbered games (I and II) from appearing on other consoles, kind of like some sort of "partial exclusivity"...

b) Square Enix is just trolling its fandom.

I would rather get an "ultimate edition" of Kingdom Hearts 1.5 HD Remix, but I digress.

(Before you ask "why are you commenting here, then?", I was referring to Deus Ex being the "mysterious Square game" that was coming to Wii U. So much for another S-E franchise! But I guess Deus Ex fans are gonna be all the more happy for this, so good for 'em.)

[EDIT: Also, what @Shiryu said.]

Cue the doom 'n' gloom troll-vultures tearing their hair off.

So, we're asked what we think about this, huh? Well, my stance is, keep 'em coming in droves! Why yes, late ports are indeed a good thing, especially for Nintendo purists who don't own other consoles in the first place. They've been available everywhere else, but who cares? There's a Nintendo version of them now, that's all that counts.

Sadly though, these "late ports" can literally be counted on your fingers (give it a try), which is exactly the problem - the ports can give the Wii U the biggest library a console has ever witnessed in its launch window, but having so little is quite the middle finger. I'd rather have either many late ports, or none at all. It's as if third parties were hesitant to give Nintendo support, despite the Wii U having all the graphical power they all seem to crave. I'm starting to fear they feel like helping Nintendo at all is inherently a bad thing - as if keeping a franchise on PS3 and Xbox 360 is some kind of status symbol or something (inb4 "you don't know anything about how the game industry works!" comments).

Also, as I said in a comment for the Deus Ex newspost itself... well, so much for a Nintendo home console Kingdom Hearts game. There go my hopes of seeing "KH 1,5 HD Remix" on Wii U.

So much for a Nintendo home console Kingdom Hearts game. There go my hopes of seeing "KH 1,5 HD Remix" on Wii U.

As I said in another earlier newspost regarding a various-handhelds-emulator console: what else does Nintendo need to bring GBA games to the eShop?

Given nobody brought it up here yet, it's my turn to be a jerk, I guess.

Ubisoft would have saved themselves the trouble of cutting the prices by releasing a certain game when it was supposed to come out. Ironic how not selling something, in order to earn more money later rather than earning less early, ends up being even more of a financial loss.

(inb4 "how dare you reopen that wound! Ubisoft doesn't even have to do that in the first place, it's only a favor they're doing to us, you don't know anything about the industry!")

Shout-outs are always welcome.

"You've found the Nicolas Cage Mask!"

(Link screams before even wearing it)

Wait, what?

What?

What.

What?

(drinks coffee, spits it, drinks some more and spits again)

What?

Fellow Luigi fans unite!

Harmoknight demo, here I come!

Ugh, "watch out"... uuuuugh, the puns...

Hey, might as well as reply, right? "Youkai Watch: coming to all consoles..." [puts on sunglasses] "... except Game & Watch".

YEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHH

@Deathgaze: I wouldn't rule it out so quickly. Just hear me out: just like Zelda Wind Waker is going to get a HD rerelease, the same could happen with Eternal Darkness. Yeah, a M-rated title in HD. The potential of hardcore PS360 fans joining us...

Good. Now this should shut up all those "doom 'n' gloom" vultures.

@Maniac911: Just as it happened with GCN and Wii - which says a lot about how much we should be "worried" about it. Either way, though, as stated in another comment above (@Mudjo), I'm actually glad there's a good reason this time around. Usually a game's code needs to be rewritten in order to fit a console better, as it's currently happening with PS3 games supposedly not being able to run on PS4s until sometime after launch.

Still, as I said in another newspost, just wait 'till next E3. After we get footage of Wind Waker HD, Mario Kart U, Super Mario U and Smash Bros. 4, third party support will be crawling its way back to Wii U.

@KodyWB-98: Thanks. That comparison was the first thing that came into my mind when thinking about all these gaming vultures. They're like "Nintendo, if your console sinks, then why don't you just quit the home console business?", and Nintendo replies, "Because it's just too soon to say that. Besides, you know that one moment where your hope to see us going third party dies? I feed on that".

Speaking of Matt Groening references, the shout out to the Futurama episode "The Farnsworth Parabox" is just pure gold, pun not intended.

Okay, the Doom 'n' Gloom guys should just stop acting like vultures for once. They're really so sure the Wii U's gonna fail, without ever mentioning E3, to no one's surprise. I'm sure the next E3 will be focused on the so-called "doomed console", the Wii U. And it's gonna rock.

Seriously, as if Nintendo's gonna fall like this. I mean, such guys as that Cliff What's-his-name-again are like "I KNOW THE WII U WILL FAIL" and Nintendo, especially after E3, are gonna be like Moe on this awesome clip from the Simpsons:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rt1yI70ZpRA

(I can't embed it, can anyone do it for me?)