Look, I'm not complaining or judging, I'm just saying that I think it doesn't look good so far and I agree with the other user who said that it looks unpolished. (And I know it's VERY EARLY to judge, as I said in the first post.) I saw the trailer and the use of 3D to make Link jump in your face just looked silly and lazy. I'm sorry, but it does. But anyway, it's just my opinion, and it can be different from yours — I sure as hell won't be judging anyone who thinks it's the most beautiful trailer they've ever seen. I also hope it turns out to be a great game. Oh, I'm 32 BTW.

@Fusion14 I see what you mean, I saw the trailer and it looks below par in comparison even to the other portable Zelda games. I know it's very early to judge, but still... I would rather see a portable Zelda in a true 3D environment.

At what time these updates become available? I live in Portugal and so far none of these games are in the 3DS eshop. :/

I love Sonic and all, but there are so many Sonic games featuring basically the same gameplay lately that I can't or don't really want to keep up. Too many good games that don't rely so heavily on the nostalgia factor to play instead.

YES!!!

Dragon Quest Monsters: Terry's Wonderland 3D (it's long overdue!!) and Dragon Quest VII. Fantasy Life would be nice, also.

@rjejr Your kids have a Dreamcast? Wow, seriously good parenting going on here!

@Stuffgamer1 Well, we haven't miss any of the main entries since VII came out for the PS1 (even if it only came out on NA), including all the DS remakes. I think we'll see both DQX (at least for the Wii U) and DQVII in NA and Europe, but I have my doubts regarding the spin-offs (Rocket Slime 3 and DQM: TW3DS.)

DQ VII remake for Europe please. (I'm losing hope that DQM: Terry's Wonderland 3DS will ever be localized anyways.)

Also, the announcement of the Shin Megami Tensei/Fire Emblem crossover makes me hope that we'll see a localization of SMT IV, but these games take so long to localize that I don't guess we'll see an announcement anytime soon.

Michael Ancel, few months ago:

“What surprises me with Wii U is that we don’t have many technical problems. It’s really running very well, in fact. We’re not obliged to constantly optimize things. Even on the PS3 and Xbox 360 versions [of Origins], we had some fill-rate issues and things like that. So it’s partly us – we improved the engine – but I think the console is quite powerful. Surprisingly powerful. And there’ a lot of memory. You can really have huge textures, and it’s crazy because sometimes the graphic artist – we built our textures in very high-dentition. They could be used in a movie. Then we compress them, but sometimes they forget to do the compression and it still works! [Laughs] So yeah, it’s quite powerful. It’s hard sometimes when you’re one of the first developers because it’s up to you to come up with solutions to certain problems. But the core elements of the console are surprisingly powerful.

"And because we’re developing for Wii U, we don’t have to worry about cross-platform optimization.

“We can push what the console can do; push it to its limits. And of course, we have a new lighting engine. In fact, the game engine for Origins was mostly just classic sprites in HD, but now we can light them and add shadows and all these things. So there is some technical innovation with the engine itself."

I gave up on Rabi Laby because the puzzles became ridiculously hard for me at some point. I don't remember it very well, but I got stuck in a stage where you had to pile up some hat looking creatures in an impossible way or something like that. The game was fun at the beggining, but soon it became just downright frustrating.

Now this is a pretty silly trailer with some real bad voice acting going on.

@Pikachupwnage We had to wait a little more than a year to have DQVI for the DS on Western shores, so I guess there's still hope for DQMTW3D.

@nindocrash DQ VII isn't related in any way to previous installments. Basically, you have two trilogies so far (DQ I, II & III and DQ IV, V & VI) and four basically stand-alone titles (DQ VII, VIII, IX and X).

Give me European dates for this one and for DQM: Terry's Wonderland 3D and I will glady become a 3DS owner. It's all I'm waiting for, really.

I'd rather not see this guy mentioned on Nintendo Life or other game-related sites again. This type of idiot revels in this kind of "publicity" and angry comments. If people just chose to ignore him, he wouldn't make tons of money with his "art".

@Advancedcaveman I think you're mixing two very different things here to try to make your point. The achievement/trophy system has got nothing to do with microtransactions or the Free to Play model. They are two very different "problems". And games have been addictive since they appeared as a medium, as those absurdly difficult games in the NES era that made you memorize insane patterns already were. I don't mean to be rude, as I kind of agree with some of the things you say, but they are just not related, at least not in the way you're saying.

Hum, no love for achievements/trophies here. Can't say I'm surprised.

I, personally, would never buy a game solely for the trophies (I'm a PS3 owner) or NOT buy a game because it hasn't got them, but I fairly enjoy them. Of course, they are not NEEDED, but they got me to play games such as Uncharted and God of War III more thoroughly then I would if they were not there. (Especially because playing games on Normal nowadays almost doesn't require skill most of the times, and certainly not in Uncharted's case.)

On the other hand, I'm clocking almost 80 hours on Dragon Quest VI DS trying to do everything and the game doesn't reward you AT ALL (not even for completing the Bestiary, which is quite a feat), so I don't think Nintendo games really NEED them, they are usually good enough to make you want to complete them anyway.

But, having said all that, yes, I would like to see a similar trophy system on the Wii U, I think Nintendo would be able to offer some very creative "trophies". But that's just my opinion.

Isn't this similiar to that Namco X Capcom game for PlayStation 2? Which was a pretty bad game, BTW.

Release this and DQM: Terry's Wonderland 3D in Europe and I'll buy a 3DS. It's simple as that.

I'll wait until 2013 anyway. None of the launch titles seem exciting enough for me to invest on a Wii U this year.

@PoshSnivy This is true. They certainly took their time.

@LavaTwilight This has nothing to do with the ad being British or American. It's a bad ad, period. BTW, I'm Brazilian.

@PinkSpider I was really embarrased when he went "pue pue pue". Seriously, I loooked around to see if I was really alone.

Anyway, that was a really unimaginative run-of-the-mill advert. I would expect Nintendo to be more creative.

Given the lack of love Nintendo is showing for those of us who live in Europe, I'm starting to think they don't want me buy their products. And I would gladly buy a 3DS until the end of this year, but only if Nintendo cares to give us some decent launch dates and localization news. I mean, the DS sold extremely well here (as in everywhere else in the world), why not give a little more attention to the European market?

@Burning_Spear That's the point, if you can get past the hatred towards Patcher just because he's Patcher, in this case what he says is not entirely pointless.

@Wildfire This might be true, and Sony and MS did copy the Wiimote, for instance, but I don't see the Vita/PS3 crossplay as merely an attempt to try to do the same thing as Nintendo. Move was an attempt to copy the Wiimote, but I don't see how a feature announced before the Wii U is out can be simply an attempt to do the same thing, but anyway.

@childofacid Okay, I see your point now, and sorry if I sounded rude, but I still don't think Sony and MS are too worried right now in copying the Wii U.

@childofacid Sorry, but your comment makes no sense. What exactly is Microsoft and Sony doing "the same" as Nintendo? Do you mean the PS3/Vita crossplay? Because that's nowhere near the Wii U in terms of experience or proposition.

OK, Patcher-bashing aside, I am a little afraid that the game pad will be cumbersome and that it will take away some of the simplicity of merely sitting in your sofa and playing a game. I don't know if want to be multitasking/worring about two screens at the same time all the time when they are not aligned as in the DS. In this sense, I can see where he's coming from.

Release dates for the 3DS are pilling up for North America while we hear next to nothing on the European side. Let's hope today's Nintendo Direct changes that.

Announce the release dates for Dragon Quest Monsters: Terry's Wonderland 3D and Code of Princess on PAL territories already!

My guess is that Sony and Microsoft were not interested enough in the game, otherwise they would have come to Platinum's aid when SEGA jumped off the boat. I'm glad Nintendo took over the franchise, since it's another step towards a larger audience for the Wii U. The following months will be very interesting indeed.

It is a fair price. I also like the idea of two bundles, basic and deluxe. It gives more people the chance to get the console at launch without having to pay more for things that are not essential for the experience. Smart move.

@Tsuchinoko
I see, thanks for the info! I'll try to learn more about the series and maybe play the GBA/DS games before getting this one, like you said.

Great, it will be my first Fire Emblem! I would love to play all of them in order, but I have to admit that I never got my head around the timeline thanks to the convoluted Western releases. Is this one part of a broader timeline or a stand-alone title?

Well, the first thing that comes to my mind is Patcher prediciting that the 3DS XL would not impact overall sales.

yeah, idiocy has no limits.

@Geonjaha I'm also starting to worry about the lack of news regarding the localisation of Terry's Wonderland. It has sold so well in Japan, why not localise the damn thing already?? At the very least, it would keep the name of the series alive in the head of Western gamers until the announcement of DQ X for the West.

I guess in Europe we're kind of sensitive about this, since Nintendo overlooked the European market for so long on previous console generations. Where's our edition of Super Mario RPG and Chrono Trigger anyway?? And I'm talking about CARTIDGES, not some lame ROM legally emulated!

PS.: Also a joke.

@SigourneyBeaver If this isn't merely a joke, you're comparing apples and oranges, my friend. Different products, different functionalities, there's no way you can compare it to "the lower half of a 3DS".

Won't buy it until I see some release dates for the Wii U version of Dragon Quest X anyway.

Sounds good to me. The screenshots are not half bad either.

@Strongo9 I think you do have a point, but I still think it's quite unimpressive for a DQ. Sure, there are almost three times more DS systems out there than Wii consoles, and I guess you're right about that. (I can't understand for the life of me why Nintendo haven't waited to make this a Wii U launch title — it seems the Wii U will be a much more online oriented machine) Also, I can say that being a MMO detracts me as a fan of the series.

@FOREST_RANGER Unfortunately, VITA is not doing good anywhere.

@SpaceKappa And Europe too, please! Not to mention Dragon Quest Monsters: Terry's Wonderland 3D.

These are not impressive numbers for Dragon Quest in Japan, considering that IX, for example, sold more than 2 million on pre-orders alone.

Must be nice to get paid to say whatever you think based on... just what you think.

"Woke up this morning thinking the 3DS XL will not impact Nintendo's overall sales. Ok, guess I worked enough for just one day. Give me my paycheck."

(By the way, I'm a consumer and I'm "compelled" by the 3DS XL. I even have waited for it, since I'm all for bigger screens and the small 3DS screen was a turn off for me after having a DSi XL.)

Frankly, these games are 0,99 cents in the App Store for a reason. They are casual timewasters, there's nothing in these games that would justify this price tag. I don't hate Angry Birds like so many gamers do, I even enjoy it, but this is a joke.

I'm interested in the game, might even buy it eventually, but I'm not crazy about the fact that Nintendo caved in to the DLC model. If I'm paying full price for a game, I want to have a full game in my hands.