Svennson makes so many empty promises that he can't hold up, I wouldn't get my hopes up.

". We'll probably be sitting here in a couple years saying, 'Oh that's what they were doing'."

Not likely. We weren't sitting there saying that after the missteps they made with the N64, Gamecube or Virtual Boy, it seems unlikely we will be with this.

@Grubdog

No-one cares about bad new I.Ps

Pushmo/Pullbloxc proved people DO care. They just have to remember to include a good game too.

Aceshigh, not having stock in just means that they haven't ordered more because they have no reason to keep a huge supply of things that aren't selling.

"Get to playing all those games".
I'd love to, but the problem is it isn't 2014 so there is bugger all out to play.
All Nintendo has on the U coming that I'm interested in enough to purchase this year is Pikmin 3, and begrudgingly Mario 3D world. I don't even really want that because it's a watered down rushjob that should have been a 3DS game.
Edit: Actually, Sonic: lost worlds too, that game looks better than anything Nintendo has coming (Well played sega!)

That's means I'll only have bought 4 games this year (I'll give it to them, Lego City Undercover was amazing and one of my best purchases on any console!), but it's still downright terrible for the second calender year of a console.

@Joshers744 and Nintendolife

You have Microsoft to blame for that for making it a feature of the next technological gen of consoles.

The only time I got even vaguely excited during the direct was the megaman half of the smash bros trailer. Everything else was either predictable or just even worse than expected (Looking at you, Super Mario 3D world).

Still, it could have been worse. Laughs at Xbone

@winger fish:

Clearly you missed the following words "home console". The Virtual boy was classed as a handheld, hence the "Boy" part in the name (following on from GameBoy).

It doesn't matter where you think the "race" is, it's an absolute fact that in terms of sales the Wii U has been the biggest home console flop Nintendo has ever had for its first year. Third party support is all but gone, and Nintendo can barely get its own games working on the system.

Thank god the 3DS is there to keep Nintendo afloat, or I'd be seriously worried about the companies future.

The 3DS was in a MUCH better place than the Wii U, beating the original DS models in first year sales, even before Mario 3D land or Mario kart could drop.

In comparison, the wii u is Nintendos biggest flop of a home console in history, undertracking the previous winner of that title, the gamecube, consistently every month since release.

The two cases aren't even comparable really.

@Realgamer4life
Don't even try and call playstation+ bad value for $50. At least in europe, the free games you get in any one month outweigh the value of the subscription by miles. And you get 11 more!

Of course they say that. No company has ever said "Yeah,a price drop is coming" until days before it was about to happen.

@CanisWolfred
And yet, it is still agreed on to be the weakest of the 3D mario games. It was unfinished, it had the fewest stages, and every stage had the same or a very similar theme. They didn't even bother making stages for 24 stars (Blue coins) meaning it had the lightest amount of real content compared to any 3d super mario game (interestingly if 3D land had a star per stage, it would also only have 96 stars).

Philip, I think the major problem at the moment is it's not a two way street. There is very little reason for PS4 owners to get a second console (Sly punch at xbone owners there). And, this is by far the worst situation Nintendo has been in for a long time. Every £/$/Yen spent on non nintendo consoles, means less money for the big N and so they have less to invest in development.

The Wii U has been undertracking even the gamecube (Nintendos other biggest major failure) every single month since it launched, by a moderate to large amount, and Nintendo is doing nothing to help fix it.

I guess the major problem is, when Nintendo had near infinite money to work with, we got Super Mario Galaxy. When they didn't, we got super Mario Sunshine, and are now getting 3D world. Because Nintendo doesn't have the third party support, nor system sales, they can't afford the big ambitious games that they made on Wii, and that sucks.

People claiming Nintendo doesn't need third party support are at best ignorant, at worst stupid.

Nintendo DOES need it. If you don't have a single third party game like @TourianTourist, you missed out on a ton of good games like Sonic Colours, Okami, and many more.

At worst, you ignore the fact that Nintendo made a lot of money on third party games that sell. It makes sense to assume its near the same amount as digital, so nintendo gets around 30% of all profit from every third party game sold. And thats if you're assuming the only problem is "money", and that it would have no negative effects on the company other than in the bank account.

The problem is, you can already see the effects that no third party support is having. The Wii U is dead in the water, and Nintendo don't have a serious big game for another 6 months. And even then, Mario 3D world stinks of a rushjob because they don't have the time or money to create a truly epic new experience like Super Mario Galaxy was for the Wii.

Mario, Mario kart and Smash bros couldn't save the gamecube, and the gamecube was never selling this badly, nor did it have this little third party support. Nintendo is lucky it has the 3DS to keep the company afloat, because everything about the wii u has been a huge mistake by every definition of the word so far.

Hell, the only third party support they really have, Sega and platinum are only on board because Nintendo Moneyhatted them, Ubisoft said they're scaling back U support, and Activision is doing CoD and skylanders, but not any of the other games it has coming, nor will it do wii u versions once they have to make an original game just for the U (When they drop 360/ps3 support).

Long story short, Nintendo needs a miracle to save the wii u, because the games they have coming won't be able to do it.

@Schizor

Pricecuts only work if you have games to sell. Nintendo doesn't, so the Wii U will continue to flounder and hemorrhage third party support for another 6 months, minimum, at which point it'll be too late to save it.

@Rmeyer.
Ubisoft is the ONLY third party developer that is releasing "hits" without incentives (i.e. moneyhatting sega and platinum games). Accusing them of not is ridiculous.

They're withdrawing support, because after this year they'd have to make completely original Wii U exclusive games because PS3 and 360 support is going to go away, so cheap and easy ports (which are the only things worth doing on Wii U because nothing sells close the multimillion dollar budgets ubisoft otherwise has for HD games).

Nintendo completely screwed its early launch lead by having nothing, and still having no major games until December. Even then, all it is is an upres of a 3DS game with changed levels and not a massive improvement like Galaxy was to sunshine.

@deitypower
Smash bros, Mario kart and wind waker didn't save the gamecube. Expecting it to be able to save the wii u is folly at best.

Really regretting my wii u purchase.

@hydek
They didn't piss off a "huge portion" of anything. Their fanbase which was buying 10m+ copies of AC 3 and Far Cry is almost entirely on PC/PS3/360

I can't believe how stupid Nintendo are being, you have the gamepad in your hands at all times! That should have been used as the tingle tuner!.

He has a lot more to apologise for than bad latency with the state of the Wii U for (at least) the next year.

How can I vote for which of the zeldas to download first, I'll get them at the same time!

What the heck.

They release the terrible 50hz version of kirbys adventure, which I don't buy out of principle, so then they release the 60hz version of superstar complete with a discount... only for people who didn't care about the games not being in 60hz anyway.

Can you tell I'm angry?

@Banjogeek.

But you can see Big in the seaside hill track in SASRT, which was significantly after that forum post.

No. Noooooooooooooo. NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

Sega. We don't want new gameplay. Just make it sonic colours 2 with new/different wisp powers.

Pretty please...

@pikchuka97
Because most people DON'T think the other characters are as fun as sonic.

Why would you want them wasting time making other crappy characters when they could be adding more sonic stages?

... No nintendolife, "the next best thing" would be downloadable demos straight from e3 on the eshop!

Nothing for me this week. Already played revelations on 3ds and Nintendo can stick their 50hz versions where the sun doesn't shine.

That's an extremely roundabout way of saying "yes, using women to seduce people/targets/guards is back from Assassins creed 2/brotherhood/revelations".

Congratulations on reporting a story that was already reported as false several hours before you posted it Nintendolife.

I do always appreciate you following your story sources properly =_=

@ Nintendolife editors.

You can avoid being forced in to the murphy sections by using a wiimote to control the game.

At least, you could in the original demo, I haven't actually tried it on this version. Obviously, it won't work on the murphy challenge mode levels.

By gods, it's like I'm reading a list of yesterdays Neogaf threads. What went wrong Nintendolife?

I would probably have gotten Fire Emblem Digitally if I had been given the option to before the preorder for my game shipped.

Yeah... waited for 3 hours at the meadowhall one, got a grand total of 4 streetpasses and no-one was playing multiplayer anything.

This one was a wash out. Oh well, free fire emblem/monster hunter posters and a nintendo branded bag at least.

Hmm. This makes me tempted to pop down to meadowhall in sheffield, but I can't really imagine where they're going to do it, there is barely any space! Especially not in either of the two game stores!

Is there no more info than this on the event? It's a bit late to announce it too really...

@Andy Green

Not everything counts for stars. The existing Wii U Virtual console games do not have surveys on your list, and neither do any 3DS Virtual console games.

Not to mention, half the game names on your "treasure list" don't match up to the survey they like to!

For instance, I clicked the button next to "The Denpa men" and it took me to a "Gunman Clive" survey.

@Prof_Elvin_Gadd

I agree.. sometimes. If It's a well known developer whose work I have played before, then I feel I can reasonably get in on the action.

As good as I'm sure many of the crowdfunded indie games are going to be that come out of this deluge of kickstarters, I'm not risking my money with a new development studio who have never released a game before.

@ gurtifus

Hey! The Castle Conqueror: Heroes games are pretty good, and Bookstore dream was an interesting management game.

No need to drag down the good efforts (admittedly, not great) that they have made because of one(or several...) turds.

Someone should stick a reminder in for any wii u owners: Super Metroid is going to be $0.30 for a month from halfway through may.

It's probably not worth wasting the coins if you can get the better wii u version soon for nearly nothing.

@ChaosAngel.

No, it updates on thursdays.

We get update notes on mondays, but that's because nintendo europe has some semblance of preparation unlike nintendo america.

Checking my mailbox far too often to see if Luigis mansion or Shin Megami Tensei have turned up Nothing yet, but I haven't seen the postman pass by either...

@Geonjaha

A certain eshop dev on neogaf let it slip that his game only sold around 1/3rd the amount in Europe that it did in North America, which is probably why Nicalis aren't in any sort of rush to get games out in Europe . They've probably had similar results with VVVVVV and Nightsky .

Still sucks though.

It's just not a choice in Europe.

Either Nintendo needs to stop overcharging for Download versions, or I'll never , ever buy them over the retail version. Simple as.

I would absolutely LOVE digital versions of Fire Emblem: awakening and Animal Crossing, but Nintendo is going to charge £40 for them, so I'll just laugh and get them for £30 or less at retail.

@Hardy83
You mean an account system like sonys where they're not going to let you access any of your PS3 downloads on your PS4? Yeah, that seems so much better than Nintendos approach of transferring everything.

"MapleStory: The Girl’s Fate is the first title from the franchise to be released on anything but PC and represents a big step forward for the series. "

Come on Nintendolife, seriously, you posted at least one article about the original Maplestory DS game, or all the iOS games? Someone needs to be hired for fact checking.

Is there anyone left who actually wants this game? I hope not!

Oi, Mr article writer. The Europe 3DS Fire Emblem console bundle isn't the same as the North American one.
North America got a regular 3DS in the bundle, Europe is getting a 3DS XL.

Ugh. now when this 2 year old port absolutely tanks, square will point at it and say "Our games don't sell on wii u!" as an excuse not to bring over games in a timely manner.
The pc version of the game has already gone as low as $4.99/£4.99 on steam, and I didn't buy it then! I'm not going to buy another inevitable full priced (£39.99) port.

And what idiot greenlighted this instead of making a timely wii u version of tomb raider?

Punch out (if it really is in 60hz! I want to support the idea that we want all VC games in 60hz...) and little inferno. £4.99 hits the sweet spot for me to try it out.

If I won the grand prize, probably monster hunter ultimate and Lego city (I'd need a hard drive!), and if there was any left over, save towards the remaining upcoming parts of the tyranny of king washington assassins creed 3 dlc.

If I won £15, it'd go towards fire emblem awakening DLC when it finally comes out in april.

I want it, but it's a tough sell at £40, when it comes out the same day as (For Europe) Luigis mansion 2 and Shin Megami Tensei: Devil Survivor.

I can probably wait a month or two for it to drop a little in price.

Oh come on, it's obvious why he's wearing an eye patch and his arm is bandaged, he was caught in the courtroom explosion we saw in previous trailers.

@haywired
Because unlike the DLC, these spotpass paralogue missions build on the main story, and so Nintendo gives them away for free.

The DLC maps are all bonuses with characters from other games (season 1) or alternate stories/extreme challenges/some jokish conversations (season 2)

Everyone should make a point to play the spotpass downloads, especially the last one, which gets you one final character in the game.

@xbassmonsterx

Don't be stupid. By that logic, we should all be playing games JUST on the PS2. And even if you can say it in hindsight, no-one could have expected the DS to eventually outsell the gameboy, which was the best selling handheld (and console!) until the PS2 and DS came along. And it still took 5 whole years from the DS launch for it to eventually overtake the gameboy sales. Should they have just not made any games for the DS for the 5 years from it's launch then?

Layton is doing fine : It's getting roughly what you would expect in comparision to Lost Future, when you look at the ratios of DS owners in to 3ds owners.

There are just over 10million 3ds owners in Japan. When lost future came out, there were just over 25million. Azran sold 130,686 copies. That * 2.5 is ~327,000, so only 20k less than Lost future, and better by ratio than every other game in the series.

I don't honestly know how well they expected the game to do, but if they projected much more than this, they're fools.