The only interesting thing to me about the PS4 "reveal" was the absence of the console itself. And that was obviously because, as it will need to dissipate a load of heat, that it's going to be another huge box. If the latest version of the PS3 is an indicator, then the PS4 might make Xbox The Last One look almost attractive. Sensibly, they went for the big tease and threw in some choice tech details to attract early interest from the easily-swayed. The games they showed were desperately underwhelming. I really hope Naughty Dog have got something good to show at E3. But I'm not enticed at all by the general direction that Cerny and his team are taking PlayStation.
Xbox One is a catastrophic misjudgment of the market.
For me, the 3 things wrong with WiiU at the moment are software prices, absence of marketing, and loss of momentum. It's just like the 3DS's launch year. A steady slew of great games can change everything.

Dear Mr Jorgensen of EA,
I'd be prepared to put my house on a bet that I have more "powerful gameplay", whatever the hell that is, and fun on Wii U than on PS4 or Xbox The Last One.

nik1470 said:
I own 20 consoles and an arcade machine do I get a prize!

Nice collection. But you only get runner-up at best.

Xbox (The Last) One. Legendarily AWFUL design – colossal and misguided. No BC, need to buy permission to play used games, and MANDATORY Kinect? They'll be queuing up not to buy this thing.

@SpaceKappa
I vented to the Nintendo UK management at a show about the lack of accounts. They were sympathetic and had heard there was something in the pipeline from Kyoto. That was nearly 5 years ago now.
NCL are a law unto themselves.

USA version.... the version we should have got in Europe

My interest is piqued by the excellent review. Good work.

I've not got Toki Tori 2 yet. Been too busy with Monster Hunter. But will do soon. Loved the original on Game Boy Color and the Wii Ware remake.

I would be very interested in seeing Edge on 3DS, particularly. Hope that happens.

I've thought of a small loophole that could be a nice little earner for us Europeans, Damo. Only upload 60Hz videos. That way NoE could only claim five sixths of any content ID.
That'll teach 'em!

@Ristar42
It was cancelled. Unfortunately, System 3 have cancelled a lot of retro releases/remakes in recent years. I was stoked when it was announced that they'd bought the rights to Epyx Games. However, the only game released was Impossible Mission on Wii, DS and PSP (possibly other platforms also, I don't remember). California Games got canned just before scheduled release. I was really hoping that some of the fantastic Atari Lynx games like Slime World, Blue Lightning, Zarlor Mercenary and Chip's Challenge might get new leases of life on DS and other machines, but alas no. That was 7 years ago.... Very disappointing to us Lynx fans.
I like Mark, he's a good bloke. Had a very long chat with him on the phone back in the mid 80s – those were the days, when people had time to chat about anything for hours. Come on, Mark... Slime World would be perfect on the 3DS!

And what a lovely posterior it is.

I wonder if there'll be any shops still selling videogames by the time this comes out in Blighty.

Building simulators? Er... could it be [ahem!] Death Star Interceptor?

@SKTTR
That's precisely the role that someone at NoE should have.

The demo wasn't great. Worst offence for me was the choice of monsters and the lack of a gathering quest to ease players in. Lagombi moves so much that he's tough for the novice (and even experienced players) to track his movements. I think a few tutorial videos on combat would have definitely helped and some glimpses at the role-playing elements of the game.
I absolutely adore this game. I've a slight preference for the 3DS version – offline multiplayer with friends/family is tops and it looks fantastic, especially with 3D on.

While we all love the Zeldas, Marios and Metroids, it's the new experiences that I'm most interested in with Nintendo and their second-parties. Remember when Pikmin launched? Or how fresh Wii Sports felt against a sea of first-person brown on non-NIntendo machines? Or the early experimental DS games?
That said, I don't see anything revealing in his comments. Over the last 20 years I've seen the same comments from non-Nintendo platform developers a thousand times – they all claim to love the Nintendo IPs, they all claim to respect Nintendo hugely, and they all never start coding games for Nintendo platforms, irrespective of the popularity of said platforms. The only time you'll see Insomniac on a Nintendo is if Iwata buys the company.

Fifty ruddy hertz...

Face meet palm.

We'll know a lot more in a month when the machines and their initial line-ups are shown. But I was very disappointed with the woefully uninspiring recent PS4 reveal.

In my experience of over 40 years of gaming, WInd Waker is still probably the finest game I've played.

Wow! That's really excellent.

I'll be getting this...
About a month after launch when it's going for just over a tenner.

They should have made a foray into the sex market, without using the Nintendo name. Could have been a decent money-spinner.

1991 was probably the last year I bought Madden on a Nintendo system too.

If a publisher keeps on releasing inferior product on systems by a particular manufacturer, then they shouldn't be surprised if owners of said systems stop buying their product, especially in a global recession.

@OGGamer Sin and punishment 2 was pretty short , but I would be hard pressed to find very many games that can compete with it as far as pure fun goes. This game is right up my alley and one of the few games that could possibly tear me away from mh3u .Now release date already please !

Quoted for excellent taste.

Drip, drip, drip...Too few games and too expensive.The same argument we've been having for years. Eventually Nintendo have to play catch up to Apple and the others and price their games at a similar sensible mark.
30p is the correct price for a 20 to 25 year old rom. Retail games on disc should be the same price as Blu rays and DVDs. £19.99 tops.

Ubi, can we have some gameplay in our gameplay trailers, please?

I'm yet to be convinced this game will be something other than a lot of prescripted scenes with hours of aimless wandering around in between. I hope not as the game looks and sounds amazing, but little else of the game is blowing my skirts up.

Kamiya says he focuses on fun. And that's why I buy his games. If only more developers, especially in the West, were like him.

No Speccy with built-in cassette deck equals fail.

I've only ever seen one advert on UK tv for Wii U and that was for ZombiU at launch. My missus watches a lot of tv and says she has never seen an ad for the console on ITV or Channel 4 or 5.
It's nearly six months since launch! What the hell are the new Nintendo UK staff doing? The Wii and DS used to be on nearly every advert break at their peaks.
Drop the software prices and advertise the ruddy thing.

It's been ten years? Damn. One of the very best games. Would love to see Joe come back in some form. Perhaps on 3DS. Thought the DS game, Double Trouble, was terribly underrated and very inventive in parts.

@Ren Ah, the days before shovelware was even a thing really.

There has been cheap copycat tat on every system since the dawn of consoles and the early home computers. The Atari 2600 was inundated with shovelware, PlayStation too. The SNES was no exception when it came to poor, uninspired games–it had its fair share of dump too.
It's part of the joy of gaming, sifting through the junk to find the gems.

@Xyphon22
You're not alone. I much preferred the Famicom and its library. I had the Neo Geo and the PC Engine before the SNES, and was always a bit underwhelmed by the latter. Really loved Chrono, Mana, Yoshi's Island and Pilotwings though.
Not a popular view, I concur.

Freedom Unite was my choice of best game of the last gen, and 3 Utimate will be a strong contender for this gen. Fantastic game.

@phoenixology
Good God. You're taking 'not reading the article' to new depths. You don't even have to read the (very short) article to discover it's about the DS game – just the subhead.
It's there in black and white: "DS role-player could find a new lease of life on the 3DS."

Quite an interesting little game. Will keep an eye on it, for sure.

I would love to see the beautiful Qasir al Wasat, by Brazilian developers Aduge, come to the Wii U. It's currently available for Mac and PC – I thoroughly recommend trying the demo: http://qasir.adugestudio.com/#game

And the digital releases cost only £39.99 for 3DS and £49.99 for Wii U. What a bargain!
I cannot believe anyone who has filled out a Nintendo game survey has ever said that a game should retail at those figures. Halve them at least for a more accurate cost of what the public would be prepared to pay.
I got my physical copies double pack from Game for £65. Even that I think is too high for the average punter, though the game is exceptional and I was prepared to splash out in this instance.
Because MH is such a time-soak a download version is very attractive, but not at those prices. I double-dipped on Freedom Unite because the price of the digital version fell below a tenner.

I'll be picking up a few. These are more like the prices games should be. Hope that more of the download versions of retail games also follow Ubisoft's lead. £50 for a download game is an insult to anyone's intelligence.

The best thing they could do for this game and Wii Fit U is to drop the download prices from the excessive prices they normally charge. The games/apps where you dip in for a few mins every day suit being on download, rather than physical media, so Nintendo shouldn't discourage their purchase with exorbitant pricing.
That goes for all their download media too, but especially games of this nature. Unfortunately, NoE and NCL are depressingly myopic to this fact.

Of course, it helps if shops and supermarkets actually stock the games. I've not actually seen Monster Hunter 3DS, for example, in any supermarket, only in Game. You'd be lucky to find much stock of any Wii U products in any supermarket. And the 3DS stock and brand separation from DS is still really poor.
Luigi has had a store presence and voilà – sales. Funny that....
NIntendo reps need a major kick up the arse.

The game I bought a MegaDrive for. If it's given an uplift, I hope the original graphics would still be available as an option, because I don't think they can be improved. 60Hz is all I'd want to see. Marvellous game with a glorious soundtrack.

Was playing this on my Neo just last weekend with my eldest. Still a brilliant game. Challenging, with nice graphics and fantastic speech. Can't believe I've had this gem nearly a quarter of a century and it's hardly dated at all.
We need more games in this genre. Cabal came out a year or so earlier and its sequel Blood Bros hit the arcades about the same time as Nam 75, if I recall. There was Taito's Rambo 3, also around 89-90, but I wasn't a fan of that one.Then came the good SNES game Wild Guns. And an arcade game 10 years ago called Gamshara by Mitchell (the Polarium on Nintendo DS, Pang and Puzz Loop developers) that looked very Nam-inspired, though I never got to play it. Sin and Punishment N64 and its stellar Wii sequel are both pretty similar too. Anyone able to think up other games in the genre? I'm running on fumes now.

Sun, don't get upset. It's an easy mistake to make if you're not properly versed in the terms involved ('increase' and 'of') and the explanations have obviously not helped you.
You need to understand what is being required: that is, an INCREASE of 125% and not simply finding 125% OF the original number. Here are the differences explained:
Let's take a number – 40.
100% OF a number results in that same number, yes? It means you have got all of that original number. In this case, 40. (Here's the working: 40 x 100/100. Cancel out the 100s to give 40 x 1/1, or simply 40). Following so far?
However, an INCREASE of 100% would mean STARTING with our original number 40 and adding 100% of that original number 40 (that is, 40) onto it. Essentially, you're just doubling the original 40, or adding it to itself. Resulting in 80. OK?
INCREASING by 125% would require adding an extra 25% of the original number (40) on top of that, resulting in 90 here [40 + (40x100/100) + (40x25/100) = 40 + 40 +10 = 90].
So you see that finding 125% OF a number is another way of saying the original number has INCREASED past beyond its whole (100%) by 25% (let's use our number again: 40 x 125% = 40 X 125/100 = 50).
It's all in those two keyword terms OF and INCREASE: OF means multiply (with percentages we're multiplying by figures out of 100) and INCREASE means an addition is required.
Hope that clears it up for you.

Haha! Nice subhead, Thomas.

@FineLerv
Stop talking sense. There's no room for that round these parts.

I would like to see the next DQ on 3DS and Wii U. Take the best ideas from DQIX and add StreetPass, online and local multiplayer, DLC, collectible cards, perhaps even some NFC.

There must be something in the water in Kyoto. How do Nintendo management all keep looking the same age as decades pass by?

@Damo
Come on, Damien. Cancellations are when the fun usually starts on forums!

New Super Mario Bros 3: Copy and Paste in Haste 3DS revealaton.

No Icarus? You're kidding!. Time for an uprising.