I'll probably watch the reveal to see if it has any interesting features. Always nice to see what new tech is in store for us. Of course, I only have enough money for one console so I'll be sticking with the Wii U (and my gaming PC).

@Strongo9 I'm pretty sure there would be a lot of people that would choose the Wii U+PC combo so it is odd that it's missing from there (then again the question was just asking about systems).

They probably have a more sustainable, long term approach to software sales than EA which is why they're sticking around.

There was obviously a reason those remarks were removed. Probably one of the worst places to post something like that as well.

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Yeah...removing those comments isn't going to do anything. I wouldn't be surprised if that guy is in A LOT of trouble right now. Though it is surprising someone that stupid got into a senior position.

People had to "figure it out" back in the day? Don't kid yourself.

http://metroid.wikia.com/wiki/Super_Metroid_Nintendo_Player%27s_Guide

I hope you guys didn't forget the existence of player's guides in that time and age. The only difference is that this is a more noticeable problem with the widespread use of the internet. So stop stroking your egos.

I wouldn't bother with a boycott. The gaming community in general is notorious for being all bark and no bite. A boycott could fail for a multitude of different reasons and even when "successful" could still be written off. In the case of strong IPs, it would just mean the impact was not noticeable. In the case of niche titles, the games would just be written off as being too niche (and another game would never appear again).

Even a petition or many letters would have a better likelihood of actually succeeding since at least they can be considered tangible and would get the point across.

@Thomas I think you guys should have an option for not owning either console. It'll skew the data less. Of course, it's still possible someone could troll but the majority of honest people will select that option if it's there since in their case it would be "not applicable" really.

@RupeeClock The later games used a Wailmer for Surfing. Though since the bottom half of its body is in the water it ends up looking like a generic blob.

Hm...a France theme this time around. Looks like they have an Eiffel Tower equivalent in the background (wonder if it'll be used for anything interesting).

@Aviator If the comment was made in jest like Damien mentioned, then most likely that was it, since jokes/exaggeration/etc don't need to be terribly long.

@RupeeClock That's due to the fact that Nintendo doesn't own 100% of the Pokemon franchise ( I think the division was something like 33.3% for Nintendo, 33.3% GameFreak and 33.3% for the Pokemon Company-which is further split between Nintendo and GameFreak so total is probably around 50% each?) GameFreak is also a contractor so Nintendo does need to give them some leeway, to not end up pissing them off.

@Bass_X0 Didn't they already try something similar with DLCs on the 360 and PS3 (Harmony of Despair)? I heard that one only did decently well.

The combat in the 3DS game felt clunky and leveling to unlock moves only served to make things worse (since you didn't really start with that many attacks to begin with).

EDIT: spelling errors

@Happy_Mask Well yeah...you know with all of the undead guards and a potential celestial object crashing down on your head the Ikana Castle can't really be worth that much.

@aaronsullivan I assume he's just being LordJumpMad in this case. The poor grammar is a dead giveaway.

Wasn't the original Eternal Darkness split into chapters anyways (a lot of them if I remember right)? So this results in episodic content that adds up to $25 ($5 * 5 episodes).

Their other decisions are the ones you should be more wary about. Like the Kickstarter as Peach64 pointed out. And having Denis Dyack at the helm.

Hm...unless he's not telling the full story here, there are definitely regulations in Canada against doing something like this.

However, that depends on whether or not he was a contractor. If not, he has to be given a certain amount of notice and compensation for the amount of time remaining (from the time he was notified). The only exception to this is being terminated with "just cause" which actually falls on the employer to prove the employee did something wrong.

Otherwise, if he's a contractor there may be clauses that allow him to be unceremoniously deposed of like this (though generally speaking contractors aren't stupid enough to not have something involving this).

Okay so they got their so-called "next-generation" engine to run on PS3 and Xbox360 which has weaker tech than the Wii U (albeit slightly)? They managed to get it running on a console with one of the least traditional architectures in the last couple of generations (PS3) and somehow failed to get it running on the Wii U?

I'm sorry but from a programmer's perspective I'd have to say, "I love the smell of BS in the morning."

Uh isn't the Hojo clan's symbol generally a isosceles triangle (with a longer base) vs the Triforce being an equilateral triangle?

Hm...I like that a successor is being developed but as many people pointed out already, Mr. Dyack doesn't exactly have a good track record after the Nintendo projects (which were overseen by Nintendo obviously).

http://kotaku.com/5955223/what-went-wrong-with-silicon-knights-x+men-destiny

Ironically enough, he complained about all of the milestones and restrictions when he was working on Eternal Darkness.

Guys it's not a game, at least the article says that.

Hm...this can go either way depending on what social networks they posted the original meme on.

For example, the Reddit TOS seems to imply anything goes once you post or upload onto Reddit. There are a couple of other TOS's listed here:

http://www.blueglass.com/blog/who-owns-your-meme-user-generated-content-ownership-on-social-networks/

Well, I have to agree with this move. Due to the how ISP are acting and have been acting for awhile now Cloud Gaming can't really take off because at the end of the day it's still too reliant on your own connection.

Perhaps we'll see the day, when Google's Fiber forces the other ISP's to be more competitive.

@connicron Nope, unless you fed it tons of electricity over that year.

So is this sort of like PayPass? If so it could still have some security issues, namely any random person goes near you and reads the card information. They better have a good system in place to deal with that.

@rjejr Um...E3 isn't really open to the public anyways. A quick look at the actual page verifies this. They're fine as is.

As long as their demos are open to most journalists there's no problem.

@SetupDisk If you can't tell from some of the comments that have been posted, there are a lot of Negative Nancys here. Quick frankly, I recognize some of these people from other articles about Nintendo's practices posting just as negatively. In fact, I'm pretty sure a few of these guys are already in the "Nintendo is doomed" group which hasn't been proved remotely right. So I wouldn't bother trying to reason with them.

Tertis has a very good point, a VC already exists that can be accessed on the Wii U especially when they're adding the option to direct boot that section of the console. Seriously ask yourselves...is the Miiverse integration really THAT important that you couldn't just pick up the Wii VC titles?

Quite frankly, considering the number of problems with the console they have to fix already, the VC has very little importance in comparison.

May have been a better idea not to put VC on the console at all since A) they're not going to please everyone (even the ones that say they would be) and B) the VC makes very little profit for them in the first place (especially if they have to remake each game). If anything the VC is a loss leader.

Well it's not exactly a problem if it's like one cutscene at the beginning of the game that tells them that secret passages "exist" since not every game out there even has secret passages (including a lot of the older games). However, if that happens multiple times, where they just point out every single secret passage it'd be pointless to call them secret passages.

@Yosher That's wrong. They added the Miiverse functionality as well. That would have taken quite a bit of additional coding for the original game considering the things that Miiverse adds to each game. So no it's not just an addition of off TV and save states. This topic has been gone over a million times already yet doesn't seem to stick. You're lucky that it doesn't cost you MORE than it already does.

@LordJumpMad That reasoning sounds somewhat believable. Doesn't exactly help the kiddy image they have but it does sound like a decision they could have made.

@Mr_Video Wasn't Radiant Dawn hard mostly due to the fact you couldn't grind levels but they threw you into situations where you had different characters available (compared to the ones you had been training/promoting)?

I haven't played the game in awhile but that kind of comes to mind.

And so it's confirmed...that bar on the left is indeed a magic bar and NOT a stamina bar.

Thankfully, it has gone back to buttons.

@Jon Was there any diagonal movement when you guys played the demo? Or was it solely cardinal directions? Just trying to figure out if it'd be better to use the nub or the pad in this case.

@Peach64 Luigi's Mansion is more niche than a 2D Mario game which has casual appeal (hence a larger audience).

A lot of their dormant series are pretty niche as well. If people really wanted the games they would have bought them, which doesn't appear to be the case. The last console F-Zero game only sold 650,000 copies WORLDWIDE which would be pretty poor sales considering the amount of resources that would have gone into a game like that.

Not to mention they have their investors breathing down their necks as well.

Hm...Animal Crossing's popularity in Japan is pretty scary. Though I wonder if it'll manage to surpass Wild World's 11.85 million worldwide sales; its Japan based sales haven't quite reached the mark of Wild World's Japanese sales (though this isn't factoring in eShop sales so maybe its getting close).

@Prof_Elvin_Gadd You mean the extras? That's a good theory though I guess we'll have to wait until the first editions sell out before we can verify. Though I wouldn't be surprised if the player's guide is what's running up the price.

@Koapa Well the Wii U version of the game is a port of the 3DS one. They probably added the online multiplayer during the porting process.

I think it was already confirmed somewhere that MH4 has online multiplayer.

http://www.siliconera.com/2012/09/19/monster-hunter-4-has-online-multiplayer-out-in-march-2013/

Well, the game does feel like its own world. Other than the coins and Luigi himself the game doesn't seem very Mario-like, which is the point.

Frankly, if I was training a new team to takeover, I'd want them to get the basics right before adding stuff left and right especially since NSMB isn't handled by EAD Tokyo.

Well, at least the next Mario game will be handled by EAD Tokyo; haven't seen anything from them since Super Mario 3D Land on portables and Super Mario Galaxy 2 on home consoles.

@brucelebnd Xenoblade and The Last Story sold decently well at 830k and 510k respectively yet we still have to see how well Pandora's Tower sells.

Tales of Graces f sits somewhere between Xenoblade and The Last Story in terms of sales (770k) so the demand "seems" to be there but then again it could just be the publicity from Operation Rainfall that pushed sales. There's no guarantee we'd get the same results if a JRPG were released on the Wii without that campaign (especially considering that the original Tales of Graces sold rather poorly in its own region so much so that it sold LESS than Symphonia on the Gamecube).

Hm...if that really was the logic then I wonder why he made Tales games for the Vita when you know the PSP was outselling it in terms of Tales software and hardware units.........................MOAR PSP TALES GAMES!

@Five-seveN I'm pretty sure he wanted them to try something different in that case. As a game developer, it's important to remain flexible. If you can't make a game without a storyline, that focuses more on gameplay your games could end up being stale in the future since you'll be stuck in a certain mindset. This especially holds true if he's trying to train his successors.

Really doubt this is "desperate". Nintendo hasn't had any trouble staying afloat, mostly on their own before.

If anything, it's just them jumping the gun again like with the 3DS. Due to the difference in development time and life cycles with portables and home consoles they obviously have to use a different strategy.

@GreenDream The problem with that argument is that a lot of people most likely learned that about Muk back with the tv show, which at that time, a considerable number of kids were watching.

However, the newer games don't have that level of fanatism when associated with the show anymore. Most of the people that used to watch the show have grown up age-wise and don't watch it anymore compared to the number that still play the games. It's definitely a problem with nostalgia and fad mentality now. That's not to say the designs couldn't use a bit more work in some cases but I guarantee you that the problem is mostly from the previous areas mentioned.

@MeWario Mewtwo was always classified as Gender Unknown, same with Mew. It would be strange if they suddenly gave a gender where there was none before.

Kind of got a The World Ends With You vibe with this design. It's probably due to some kind of mutation system they have in place for the new games.

MAYBE EVERY POKEMON IS GOING TO GET A NEW FORM!

lolz

@TysonOfTime You mean the demo?

@Five-seveN So you would have wanted them to delay the game to remake the models for such a minor detail, especially when they discovered that after the fact?

I'd find the pushing products part believable if they were consistent. However, the PS4 posting shows up only on the PS3 and Wii U product pages. The Xbox360 has no such pages (instead it has a holiday bundle showing). I can almost bet that will be shortly replaced by a posting for Microsoft's new console.

That already makes it seem like it's no coincidence. The Vita product pages only verify this, as unlike the 3DS pages that ask you to consider a Vita, the Vita pages have no such suggestion for looking at a 3DS.

@CanisWolfred Did they remove it from Strange Journey?

From what I can find on the wiki Press Turn was created with Nocturne unless it was called something else in the earlier games. If that's the case then this is the second "main" game to use it?

@Damo From what I can find on Wikipedia so take this with salt:

"All kyudo archers hold the bow in their left hand and draw the string with their right, so that all archers face the higher position (kamiza) while shooting."

However, that might be due to a lack of left-handed practitioners. I heard from a cultural perspective they are very right hand-oriented.

They changed the combat system to Devil Survivor's (unless of course Press Turn is from an earlier game)?

Well this sounds promising:

"Since this is the first title from the original SMT series in a decade, we tapped the best developers from many of ATLUS' acclaimed projects including Nocturne, Strange Journey, Persona, and Soul Hackers to create a premium experience that lives up to our fans' and our own expectations."

@Raylax I say they are allowed to. Generally, the time gap between games is longer than a year. I have yet to see Nintendo go yearly with a franchise for a consistent period of time.

@Wildfire If I remember right, it comes out with the Summer Patch though they already had some titles up for early purchase such as Punch Out, F-Zero and Balloon Fight for 99 cents through a monthly promotion.

@SpaceApe I really hope you aren't trying to start a flame war.

That's good news, got some spare dollars available on the eShop. Did they mention the price yet?

@Nekketsu3D Uh wut? Every Etrian Odyssey game has been released in the West (North America).

Didn't Devil Survivor 2 come out not long ago for the DS? They already want to do a remake?

Seems a little early to make an announcement for EO5, maybe it's a compilation game this time? I don't think it'll be a console port of 4 though...it'd be odd without changing the environments around and improving the animations considerably (the viewpoint may need to be changed, I guarantee someone will complain about the first person view for a console version).

Was that a TMNT reference?

Hm...I don't particularly like the platforms in the game; the colouring seems off compared to the background and the characters