The whole industry is F*#&ed and it's been heading that way for a few years.

The second hand market is a poor model, while I think private sales of games shouldn't be blocked stores like gamestop/EB are the leeches of the industry. They make insane profits by reselling games that the game developers see NONE of.

Despite being a somewhat crap movie the Pod Race scene was brilliant in every way. The game was also good but it's just slightly better for PC/Dreamcast.

Doesn't matter if you like EA or not lot's of people do. I think they're a giant turd but that doesn't stop millions of people from buying their games.

I guess the iPad isn't a viable game platform like everyone here thinks...

Was it just me or did they leave out the fact the original was released for SNES as Super Putty in 1993? My brother owned the game which I think is fairly uncommon these days.

There is no reason why Nintendo MUST be a hardware company. They don't make particularly great hardware. They certainly don't have many third parties interested in it.

Also you are blind if you can't see the iPad as a potentially perfect console. The ONLY thing missing from it is a physical controller and the amount of effort to make one work is virtually nil. In fact there are a number of games that support the iCade and with a jailbroken device wiimotes work flawlessly.

If anything Nintendo is too focused on their hardware and not enough on their "Mario". They are trying to make games that use functions of the hardware when they should just be making great games with more traditional controls. That's the beauty of the Pre-N64 games, no weird controller required, they are playable on virtually anything with buttons. The N64/Gamecube can be played just fine too but they were the beginning of Nintendo's "unique" non standard controller layouts.

Peter is right in that many people love Mario but not everyone loves to throw money into a system that does very little.

It's not as easy as switching to metric. Builders all over the country would need years to adjust fully and their not about to start.

Monster Hunter for PC FTW! Monster Hunter for Wii was my first experience and while flawed it was really addictive and cool. The map was way too tiny and the environments was a bit too "dated". The inventory was also a bit of a pain.

It's not that the tech analysts have a thing for Apple and hate Nintendo, most of the industry speak is all to do with stock prices and the value to investors. It's not about anything else.

Nintendo is more than out of touch though, they are arrogant to the core. Much more so than Sony. Nintendo should be following trends and they should be partnering up. Their online model could have been contracted out to experts in that field, they should be hiring more developers if they can't release games fast enough. They should kill off some of the management bloat and focus more on making games. They said they were focusing more on "hardcore" gamers but that seemed to have backfired since they are really just offering less to their devoted fans and the "hardcore" are still ignoring them.

These aren't exclusively mobile games especially some listed in the comments because many are available on Steam for PC which is a great platform.

If the screen sucks it's pointless. This device though taking real carts is still just emulation anyway.

This was my first or second game ever. For Atari 2600 though.

Oh I wondered why the styles were all over the place, different song writers.

Nintendo has put out some crap just as bad recently.

While it's not perfect the art style sure is better than the "Super Generic Safe No one will like it, no one will dislike it" Zelda LTTP Sequel remake whatever it is.

This game is really original.

If you don't learn your lesson the first time or the second or the third it means your stupid.

This is a actually a really good thing if true. As soon as gaming becomes less profitable more risks will be taken and better games will be made.

Pretty bad launch though I never buy systems during the first year. There is little in the way of exclusives and lots in the way of re-releases that have been available on others systems for 2 years.

I had an Akai "Ghetto Blaster" that used the exact same red plastic, it was from the same era.

It's the retarted gamers fault and it just makes the industry more troubled and risk averse. This is just stupid. I never buy games before they come out.

I could never get into the Ecco games, the control was terrible. It had a great premise though.

$8 is a lot though. I can get year old games (good ones even) for $7.50 on Steam sales. It doesn't really matter that the game was $60 at one point. The original price point was meant to pay for the game and make profit which they have more than done during the SNES days. Now sure there is a cost for them to re-release but $8 is probably netting them some serious profit per sale. If you are a hardcore F-Zero fan or think you might be sure $8 is not a lot but there are many games I like so $8 x X number of games adds up.

@FyreeTSG Better than nothing though I guess you are thinking of it as that they could be spending their time on more important things. Really though they probably have a big back log of approved games and their neogeo emulation is probably good enough that many of these games just work right away though I'm sure they must spend a bunch of time testing for bugs.

They realize they failed in kidnapping 360/PS3 owners. They needed to make a reason to buy the Wii U. Xbox/Playstation owners are fairly loyal but despite that Nintendo has given them zero reason to switch brands, none whatsoever. The other consoles have been very consistent in their offerings and people know exactly what to expect from them. Nintendo is the same old Nintendo which is bad if they want to expand their market. You can't just say things and expect them to come true, which is what they have been doing with the Wii U. Third parties own the industry now and have for some time you either have them on board or you buy some development houses to churn out some serious exclusives.

Nintendo needs a Steve Jobs who will fire all the dead weight. I'm not sure Nintendo of America even has one person worth keeping.

It's incredibly true. I've seen examples of all of those in modern games so no you can't "ignore" them. I give up on a lot of games near the beginning if they hand-hold me too much. I hate the mandatory tutorials that require you do do certain actions but at specific times. In other words you can't do it any faster than their incredibly slow pre-programmed pace. So many games now are nothing more than interactive advertisements. Zelda hand holds you so bad that you aren't playing a game any more you are just following a storyline. Some people don't mind which is fine but I don't like to play by the rules, I like to play creatively. I like games that focus on skill and can be played differently more than once. Zelda use to be like that, Mario use to be like that and thankfully still is in some ways though I could do without the silly stories and childish characters.

Ummm I can do this on my Wii, PC, iPad or pretty much anything with a CPU and memory. Stop reinventing the wheel. I actually like the silly styling.

Who is this guy? Hey Nintendo, you have too many suits.

Woz is an interesting guy.

Remember how much a geek Cliffy B use to be? He became a "rockstar" after Unreal Tournament. =p

I think they are both right and wrong. Nintendo needs to be critisized and needs to learn from it.

One of the first Neogeo games I played. It is a solid 7. 6 is definitely too low. Not a huge amount of variety but actually decent considering I don't normally like this type of game at all.

Nuuuuu=(=(

This could be really cool as long as it's not insanely over the top fast. I loved the first two games and bought a wheel for them. Now I actually have an S2000 so it's all more relevant. Hopefully there will be lots of customization.

I agree. What most people consider as "mature" games are mindlessly childish, sexist, and racist garbage if you take an educated look at them. That doesn't mean they can't be fun but they are extremely shallow. Most adults I know consider video games themselves childish so...yeah they still have a long way to go.

There was a huge uproar when he claimed video games are not art, I was one who completely agreed with him. Blockbuster video games especially take their plot lines (as shallow as many of them are) directly from movies. The original Call of Duty ripped it's plot directly from the WWII movies that were big at the time, it was complete Deja-Vu. Granted you can say that most blockbuster movies aren't art either, they are just explosions. There are games worthy of calling art though being interactive it's hard to classify them as such. I think Ebert would have enjoyed some of the more subtle games like Machinarium, Limbo, and others I can't think of at the moment. If any game is art it's a stylish game that doesn't require you to be a "gamer" to enjoy.

There are certain elements of Japanese culture that translate really well for western gamers and others that don't. I love really good Japanese games but there are really few of them these days. Their attention to detail is amazing. Many western developers completely lack any attention to detail and most blockbuster video games are devoid of anything interesting.

Also it's kind of a jerk thing to take it from the employee that wanted to save it, nearly fire him, and then put it on display like they knew what it was.

I have ROB. It's a shame Best Buy trashes electronics that could be important parts of history.

I swear gaming news has turned into "Company X said this". And then they come back completely contradicting an employee's previous statement. Stories are being made out of offhand remarks that should never be stories in the first place. But I guess anything is news.

Eventually we will get the full controller. The thing that has always bugged me about the wiimote on PC is that no one bothered to write proper drivers. You can use glovepie which is great if you need come custom setup but for just using my Tatsunoku stick or classic controller it's an extra few steps. It's much better on Mac or under Dolphin (which just detects it and works). The Pro controlelr is interesting because it is standalone and doesn't attach to a wiimote.

Gearbox has minimal street cred only due to Borderlands, really they've never done anything ground breaking. Borderlands is solid but really repetitive. Also how good can you expect a game to be based on a movie series which has only declined to complete garbage?

I don't know about this Cox guy but I think this is a great idea. The RPG elements added into the Castlevania series were great and something I've wanted to see in Zelda since they last actually did it in #2. Zelda is mostly linear adventure game, I'd really like it if you could actually play the game differently every time. There are a lot of classic RPG's I play over and over because the experience is always different. Zelda adds almost nothing "extra" to the game other than the odd collectable & hidden heart pieces. Everything in Zelda is pretty much mandatory and handed to you.

How can the WW2 setting be a turn off? That's very...odd. Anyway 4 while still a good game was a let-down for those of us who played the games in order. I played 4 when it came out and it was not nearly as good as 3. Going back though it's still a good game.

That's silly, delayed to go multiplatform? I guess they don't want it on this fiscal year.

Pretty sure this was strongly rumoured at the time.

I was a Game Gear owner back in the day but now I have 3 of these babies should have bought a 4th & 5th. One of them is modded to add midi in. The hardware is pretty bulletproof for the most part. The plastic is a bit brittle these days so some of the screw down places inside break the first time you take it apart.

The delay is a surprise the exclusivity is not. I knew as soon as they announced the game being exclusive I called B.S. Since when has Rayman been exclusive.