@BlackSpy Yeah, the ads used to be kinda confusing, odd, and dubstep-filled, but Marketing decided to take a hard turn toward the casuals. There are three commercials roaming around now that involve three different families visiting NoA to play some Wii U. All start with someone saying "Nintendo!" so the consumers know what they're seeing. The three ads then deviate a bit: There's one with a father and his son, where the kid just goes crazy over the thing, proclaiming it the "Bestest system in the whole world" or something, and the father says "I like this!". Another has a family with a father with a soul patch, and it basically ends with the mother basically saying "[The Children] need to play, that's an important part of their childhood". And then lastly, we get a family saying they've seen a Wii U at the father's brother's/friend's house, where they kinda enjoyed it. They also mention that they didn't know it was a whole new thing. And then at the end there's a banner saying, "See why more families are upgrading to the Wii U!".

Yeah, the ads have completely lost any focus on teens/gamers, but for the current market Nintendo's trying to hit, I'd say they're pretty effective. It's like Marketing just said "Ok, yeah, people keep thinking this is an upgrade, let's just outright target that."

Ooh, it's also 10 A.M.? Simultaneous announcements are usually good stuff...

I won't have a Wii U for a while, so Super Metroid it is. I believe the upgrade cost will always be $0.30 for these Famicom Anniversary games, so that'll be fine with me.

Noooo Nintendo Channel. ;-;

Yeah, I wasn't the biggest user of all its stuff, but there's a lot of exclusive content there, aside from Nintendo Week (which NintenDaan has thankfully put on YouTube! ). Yeah, Ultimate Wii Challenge as Austroid said, some kinda Excitebots challenge where some people are in a casino or something, a 7 or so minute piece on Retro when Prime Trilogy was coming out... Looks like I'm buying a capture card to back up this stuff. That is, if NintenDaan didn't already back that stuff up. He was good about that.

Wow, Nintendo's giving a good amount of control over sales to the devs.

NOPE

@Chrysalis Nope, SF and BN were both great. I prefer the modern-dayness of BN just a slight bit more, but I really love SF, too.

@Kagamine I believe Reggie was quoted E3 2011 as being some sort of fan for Killzone. And while not an executive, Sakurai owns things.

Guess I'll be saving my 150 coins, haha.

Yeah, this was quite the surprise. I mean, it was surprising enough when it was announced for Japan, but then this happened... It's such a short gap. Many are saying Game Freak is rushing Gen V, and I'm inclined to agree--Gen V has been weird being on the same system as Gen IV, so it'd make sense to try to get out 3DS games in the form of Gen VI as soon as possible. Some are speculating it may be a sort of a parallel to Gen II as Gen V was to Gen 1; only 100 new Pokemon or so, and maybe some evolutions of Gen V Pokemon.

As for a Europe announcement, even if one isn't announced for whatever reason, this event should work fine for European games. At least, the European Wi-Fi event for shiny events last gen worked for NA games.

@Janett Mighty Switch Force, easily. I'm not sure in terms of quality, but always go for the time-limited one.

I was going to wait out on Mighty Switch Force until it came to Wii U, but yeah, that's a great price.

Darn.

Own Donkey Kong and Super Star Ultra. Tempted by the original Super Star and the others, but my coin reserves aren't vast and I'd rather it be counted for next year.

@Red_Kinetic Not sure about Wuhu Island Loop and Bowser Castle 1, but Wuhu Mountain Loop had a part that would let one fall of the track and come back 30 seconds ahead of everyone else.

So Time Trials will always still be able to be borked, as the patch is deletable, but this is wonderful news for online.

Glorious.

Already have, Pictobits, so I'm done. Don't have enough coins to get everything willy-nilly anymore.

The first actual Wii U game trailer, and not one for other systems. Wow.

"as much as 70% of 3DS owners in Japan and the U.S. have connected to the internet"

Such is the power of prompting a connection on setup.

Here's hoping that target is met.

Just something minor: When you boot a 3DS or head back to the menu with some in-app button, your icons of the stuff on your SD card takes a bit of time to load. These used to be blank spots, but are now blank slates.

YES. I should win a bet with a friend. Free B2 for me!

Worth the 150 coins, not the $5. That's just from someone who never does anything with high scores.

Ouch.

Nifty. A bit odd to raise everything by 50 coins over what they'd normally be, but nifty.

Darn, darn, darn.

I was assured by a Nintendo rep two months ago (yeah, lots of stuff can change in that time) that 3D Classics Kid Icarus would not be available in the eShop. I suppose that meant that it could still be sold elsewhere. Ah, well.

3D Classics Kid Icarua won't be offered on the eShop publicly, at all. At least, that's what customer support claimed two months ago.

Of course.

Last figure what about 8 billion dollars. Awesome.

Hahaha, Nintendo quoted this on their description. Seems good.

I already bought Picross a few months ago, but Art Style looks good. I'm a bit iffy on Radar Mission, but I'm a sucker for these promotions.

Nifty, just read the press release and was hoping there was a report on it.

Don't forget the little jingle that plays at the beginning of a round, which is obviously the Metroid jingle that plays when you start the game.

This may be a bit of a dumb question, but are we supposed to retweet the tweet that said "News:..." or a specific competition tweet, like in the case of Jam City Rollergirls?

"The 3DS will make use of standard SD cards and there is currently no announced limit as to what size SD card can be used with the system."

It wasn't completely confirmed, but on NOA's 3DS site:

"The Nintendo 3DS system has SDHC card compatibility to increase your storage space even further."

It didn't specifically mention SDXC, so it can be assumed that the limit is 32 GB. Also, I could've sworn someone specifically said 32 GB, but I can't find that right now.

It's not necessarily confirmed, but there was a footnote in the interview about OoT 3D, and it says it is scheduled for Spring 2011. Then again, the facts could simply be old, or it could be a translation of a note in an old interview.

"This classic, vertically scrolling shoot-’em-up is perhaps Capcom’s finest moment of the pre-Street Fighter era."

Correct me if I'm wrong, but didn't Mega Man come out before Street Fighter?