To me, XBox One is 1/3 Skype, 1/3 XBox Gaming, and probably 1/3 other stuff that may get someone to care about it. Let's examine each piece:

• Skype & XBox Live are actually still the same as always, just more interactive and definitely made for big screen experiences. The casual market wouldn't mind a Skype box, but there's already so many other ways to use Skype that don't involve buying a console.
• The gaming is still up in the air. All we've seen so far is movies and tech demos. Until the games are actually in the players' hands, we really won't know if this part works just as good as XBox 360 or even better. I'm of the camp that says poly counts count for nothing if the meat of the game is dry, and that's all we really know about at this time. >_>
• The Kinect One interfacing is actually kinda cool from a geek standpoint. Finally, we could have a truly Star Trek-ish experience in the home. The question is who's willing to pay boocoo bucks for that? NFL Interactive, Halo Movies ... sounds good on paper, but I'm not a big sports fan nor played much of Halo, so really I get nothing out of these deals.

Finally, I leave with this little tidbit: Microsoft keeps saying how Kinect One will cause us to "throw the remotes away", yet we keep seeing them pull out their smartphones and use SmartGlass interaction to control the XBox One. In other words, using the phone as a remote.

I've been waiting for this moment to happen since the early days of 3DS, so of course I'll get both!

Picked this up when it was released this afternoon. I really like the adventure aspect and the dark atmosphere. The only issue is that I've hit a bad snag with really no way out I can find, so now I have to wait to see if someone else finds the solution.

Even so, highly recommended for anyone who likes adventure, sci-fi, and haunting environment games.

Picked up Damrey & MM5. I had played the Harvest Moon on GBC when it was brand new, but I already have a good portion of Harvest Moon releases (HM: Another Wonderful Life, HM: More Friends of Mineral Town, HM Boy & Girl on PSP, and the first 2 Rune Factories with RF4 on preorder), so will pass on the nostalgia. Having said that, HM on GBC is a good mobile version if you want a streamlined, scaled-back version, and highly recommended if you really don't have any other HM games for DS.

@peach64 Well, here's more business-oriented things that should get EA thinking differently:

• Origin on PC hasn't really worked out as well as it could have;
• They've had too many high-profile screw-ups, especially on the PC market, not to "restart" their brand on consoles again (SimCity);
• Being labelled the Worst Company in America even further damaged their name brand;
• The vast layoff picture is also not really giving anyone confidence.

If I were an investor right now, I'd probably end up declaring EA's stock "junk". They've hurt themselves so badly right now, they need a fresh start. Nintendo 3DS and Wii U are actually the best ways they could rebuild their brand image. By now, everyone knows that PS4 and the next XBox are already setting themselves up for a long-term failure, but Nintendo (and other companies) are looking to the future and see that, even if Wii U were to fail, 3DS is still a healthy platform with 13.95 Million global units and growing.

Bottom line: EA's either going to have to throw themselves into 3DS development and try to rebuild their brand, or get lost in the dust with a name brand that is now synonymous with "worst company for years". :-

I'd love to play this game, and an updated 3DS version would be the perfect way to do it.

(Especially since I'm not an owner of a PS3.)

After a long string of them putting up 3DS titles I already bought with cash prior ( >_<; ), I decided to waste some coins and get 3D Classics: Urban Champion, if only because it's free and at least it's a decent time-waster.

@Nekketsu3D It has a very good chance of coming over. It's obvious that ATLUS used EOIV as a testbed to see if the other games might stand a chance of more widespread international appeal, and so far from the response to EOIV, I think there's a very good chance this will come out globally.

The company is also one of the big reasons we'll see it — it's published by ATLUS, not Nintendo directly, and ATLUS so far has built up its reputation to the point of having a loyal fanbase for almost all of its game imports. Also, SMT is enough of a juggernaut that they can afford to take some risks here and there.

I'm still fuzzy how our court system continues to let this happen. It's a broken system that says anyone around the world can just zip into the U.S. Patent Office, file a patent, then when a foreign company tries to sell technology CREATED IN ANOTHER COUNTRY in the U.S., they can suddenly be sued for it?! They are both Japanese companies and the Nintendo 3DS is a Japanese invention, so just by common sense, this should've taken only to the Japanese courts and left the United States judicial system out of it.

It just boggles the mind how idiotic our patent system really is. @_@

Mega Man 3, Ketzal's Corridors, and HarmoKnight demo for me this week.

(Still waiting on Legend of the River King, next week maybe?)

I was waiting for a good roller coaster game to hit, so I was holding out to see what else it had to offer. Now that I know, I'm getting it right now.

I played the original, and it definitely struck me as something innovative for the time. Combining fishing with fantasy RPG elements was a pretty nice change for the genre as a whole — it's more like Rune Factory than vanilla Harvest Moon for that reason. It's too bad that the later entries in the series didn't stick with the "battle for bait" system, but with Rune Factory doing well... who knows?

I like roller coaster creators, so this sounds like something that I'd look into, but I'll wait for the review before I decide.

Although, I'm betting this will give a lot of people vertigo with the 3D enabled. @_@

Downloaded it a few days ago after playing all the way through the (excellent) demo version. It's worth checking out!

That's odd ... where's the Etrian Odyssey IV announcement? It was released in NA this week...

For anyone who hasn't seen EO4 yet, it's definitely worth buying via download (or at least checking out the demo). Most fun I've had with a dungeon crawler in a long while.

Crashmo & Ketzal's Corridors, when the time comes.

Since I like the original a lot and I'm a Dragon Quest fanboy, this one's a definite buy for me if it's NA bound.

Also, you could call DQ7 "the third Chrono game". Playing the original, I found many elements in it that reminded me a lot more of the Chrono series than what I've seen of the Dragon Quest series, which is probably why it's also considered the "black sheep" of the Dragon Quest line. Even so, it's a wonderful adventure that fans of Squeenix RPGs should definitely play at least once.

A new Mario Golf game by Camelot? Count me in.

I'm definitely getting both of these. I played both of them on the original hardware, and still have a soft spot in my heart for both of these.

(btw, those who are dismissing The Legend of the River King would be remiss to do so. Fighting creatures to use them as bait for fishing is a fun twist and the fishing mechanic in the game never got boring.)

From a business standpoint, it's easy to understand, but lately a lot of companies have been looking at it the wrong way. The mindset of most third-party developers should be, "Can we make X fit onto Y with a minimum of dollars and development time?" Lately, however, the mindset of so many companies has been, "Well, we can't make the Wii U Gamepad work with our game, so we're not going to lift a finger to do anything with it."

Third-parties need to get a clue: stop with the cop-out reasons and start answering the primary question. Or even better, tell us WHY you can't make it work on Wii U, peripherals aside. These days, it's like they have to keep the "why" away from the gaming public, leaving all of us more confused and less interested in their products. >_>

The minute I saw "Biorhythms" was coming out on the shop, I burst out laughing. Not because of the app itself (I have more than a few Biorhythm programs), but just that it's something that I never expected to see on a DS or 3DS.

Yeah, nothing here really says "buy me". Waiting for next week.

@C7_ Firstly, it's tough to sell anything Android to those who have heavily invested in other markets (like eShop, PSN, or even iOS). Secondly, even if this were priced right and you had a ready market of Steam platform games that could support it, it still requires consistent online connection. This is still something not everyone has or can easily afford. Also of note is that to stream games you need a WiFi connection, which effectively makes this not very "portable" yet. If hotspots are reliable and you are willing to pay for the use of a high bandwidth, high capacity stream connection, then this could be a good system. But we're just not there yet.

Hate to say it, but it's already been tried many times before, with Gamepark's GP2X and Tapwave's Zodiac being the most notable that never materialized. Not to mention the other not-so-portable consoles that promised personal computer gaming on a device. The fact that it will most likely need a high bandwidth and persistent Internet connection already makes it hard to sell this to anyone but the upper-middle class and above, which is a pretty small share.
There are numerous examples throughout computer & gaming history where these devices have not captured the market, and it's easy to see that this will end up being one of those footnotes.

@MultiMariosonic SMB:TLL is just as fun as SMB Classic, but has a bit of extra challenge thrown in, like longer jumps and a few areas that are fun to try and reach (like pipes underneath an overhang). Even though it can get frustrating at times, a lot of the challenge is lessened by the use of Restore Points, so you don't have to feel overwhelmed if you are at a point you can't cross right away — just restore and try again.

@47drift Being a CLAMP fanboy, that's definitely one awesome GBC variant I'd like to hear the history on. O_O

Just got Super Mario Bros.: The Lost Levels, but passed on Mega Man (I have MM Powered-Up if I want to play the original). Waiting for Mega Man II to hit the shop.

Just got Crimson Shroud.

I was considering getting Ninja Gaiden, but then I remembered that I could never beat the game no matter how many times I played it on my NES. It's a bit too tough, at least compared to the sequel (which is also the only NG game I've managed to complete).

Pokedex 3D Pro's actually been quite useful to me while I'm playing Pokemon Platinum (so I can get a lot of Pokemon I'm still missing from the Sinnoh releases).

At the moment, I use it for team building, since the statistical data is illustrated a lot better. I don't really want to wade through EV/IV manuals, lengthy online texts, or thick artsy Pokedex strategy books — this has everything that's truly needed right at hand for the more casual player. It's also more convenient than you think: With the 3DS, it's not like you can't save your game, drop out of a bit to check the Dex, then come right back into your game. In practice, it works quite well.

The cherry on top for me is the Pokedex voice — it's nostalgic overload for me, since I was an original Pokemon Blue player and a first-run watcher of the first season of Pokemon when it was new to the U.S. Now I really miss not having Pokemon Yellow anymore. >_<

I've had the Playstation version forever, but never got to finish it due to my first gen PS2 no longer playing PS1 games. Now I get a chance to finish it.

btw, for those who don't know or are on the fence, this is a really great DQ title. Not only are there various worlds, but also a lot of other places and events that radically change as you progress. Probably one of the better storytelling RPGs out there that now a wide variety of DQ fans will have an easier chance of playing.

Picked up Liberation Maiden and not disappointed by it. It has some challenge to it, and the anime cutscenes and voiceover work are especially well done. This is one I'll be playing for a while, at least until the other Guild01 games come out here later.

I agree with Obvious78 ... something here is fishy. There's so many ways they could get Megaman back out there:

• They could re-release Megaman Powered-Up on other systems as a 25th anniversary nod.
• They could come out with a full 10-game collection of the originals on other systems
• Heck, they could do what Square-Enix is doing for Final Fantasy, and release the entirety of Megaman games (Original, X, Zero, ZX, and Legends + Tron Bonne) with soundtracks and an art book in a glorious superset.

So, yeah, if CAPCOM doesn't do any of the above and XOver is really coming out as the 25th anniversary game... then, yes, Megaman is dead and buried.

Looks like a nice JPRG/Adventure. The "ghosts being an influence on attitude" aspect isn't quite new, since both the Shin Megami Tensei series and The World Ends With You use similar mechanics, but I would still want to check it for the variety of Japanese spirits and for what looks like a cohesive story.