I think they should also consider some re-balancing. Meta Knight was broken from the get go and Gannondorf needs some serious up-scaling. A slow clone of Captain Falcon isn't good enough for the King of Evil. Where's his sword? Where's his magical attacks? C'mon! Gannondorf IS!

...Try and add Shantae and Simon Belmont, please?

See, that's the thing, @ferthepoet. All Sony is doing is what we should be expecting/demanding of our console makers to begin with. Nintendo already did it, and now Sony's doing it. Only Microsoft decided to buck the trend. In large, Sony did nothing spectacular for their press conference outside of poking fun at Microsoft because they're spiteful jerks like that.

I'm giving the overall Nintendo E3 a solid B. Ironically, it's also higher than any of the others I've rated.

Nintendo: B
Sony: C+
EA: C
Microsoft: D-
Ubisoft: F

It just wasn't a thrilling E3 overall. But Nintendo still has my Christmas savings again this year.

Miiverse deserves to exist just so you can laugh at new-school "hardcore" gamers and their ignorance over the true classics of gaming.

Simon Belmont. And Shantae.

He has a point, y'know. Make the games good enough so people will want to keep them forever. This is why dependency on online multiplayer is causing a flood of used games. Not enough attention is paid to the single player campaigns.

Mighty Switch Force 2!

...Oooh, Columns, too!

BOOOOOO! I wants me my Shantae!

...

...>.> <.<

...Pulls out Game Boy Advance and Shantae cartridge.

No Wonderful 101 listed?

Yeeaaah, probably best not to terribly overshadow the other goodies Nintendo's offering. Besides, there were already two Zelda games in attendance. No need for over saturation.

Well that's a pleasant surprise!

Call of Duty was never my thing, but I'm glad Wii U isn't being ignored by these guys. Despite my opinions, it /is/ one of the biggest franchises in gaming today.

Nothing surprising, but nothing wrong... except for the character announcements for Smash Brothers. THOSE were surprising (even if we could have expected Mega Man). Nintendo has my money again this Christmas.

F-Zero?
StarTropics?
EarthBound?
Wario Land?
A Doki Doki no Panic-style Mario game?
Eternal Darkness?
Geist? (Maybe not...)
We'll see!

Ubisoft...

While I think the used game market is important, I think the monopoly run by GameStop is kneecapping new ideas and IPs from flourishing. Do you really think we'll see another Ivy the Kiwi game ever again? Or even another Moon? No. They'll end up used at GameStop where they get 100% of the profit and the developers get swallowed up by the sea of AAA-releases that GameStop consistently pushes into the public spectrum. We need to take this power away from GameStop. They're the whole reason this is even an issue right now.

The Game OverThinker actually had some really good ideas about that and while it may be too late to stop the XBone and even the PS4, which is rumored to have some major used games issues themselves, it's worth a look. It's kept GameStop from being my first place to get video games nowadays.

Oh, and warning? NSFW audio:

The Game OverThinker V41 - The Revolution: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1C2xRYUDbvI

I think it's a miss-listing because of the impending Virtual Console title, but a collection of all three Earthbound games would be /awesome/.

@valcoholic Y'know, the funny thing? It /might/ have been Disney who asked EA not to break the partnership with Nintendo because they get along with Nintendo and want to reach maximum markets. So, because of them, we /might/ be getting the Star Wars titles at least.

Awwww... I wanted to see a Lagiacrus gnaw apart Ryu...

It's going to be Perfect Dark. No loss.

Just give us the Mass Effect Trilogy and you can go about your business EA. I can go back to ignoring you. As for sports games, I'm a baseball/hockey guy, so you have nothing for me.

Wait a second, this already came out. Last week even! I know, I'm holding it in my hands right now. @.@

Sorry I'm late to the party, I just pulled myself up off the floor.

WHOOO! SHANTAE! <3

MY body is ready, as always, for Shantae!

Physical buttons? I'd go for that.

Still the most important video game in history... at least Mario's history, anyway.

Nice glasses! Anyway, I want to see Mia Fey come back. Yeah, I know, she's dead, but I really don't think we got any real mileage out of her while she was alive... oh, and Emma Skye... and, of course, Detective Dick Gumshoe!

Molyneux is a fan who wants to see Nintendo games on non-Nintendo platforms and realizes that tablets and smartphones are the only way that's going to happen... and that's not going to happen. If Nintendo is going to indefinitely compete in the video game market, it needs their first-party IPs to define their way. They're the best games in the industry and their platforms being the only way to them is a /huge/ selling point.

The most important video game in history, in my opinion.

Good on Nintendo. They always treated their customers like royalty, even if it was just to dig deeper into their wallets in the long run. Hey, good business!

Not excited about the game, but it's nice to hear that SOMEONE rightly considers the Wii U to be a next generation platform, and a big voice too.

Farewell, Deserted Island, where the Rathalos and Rathian tag-teamed me into submission.

Farewell, Sandy Plains, where the Diablos launched me out of there like he owned the place.

Farewell, Flooded Forest, where the Royal Ludroth abused newbie me like no tomorrow.

Farewell, Tundra, where the Barioth turned me into a very bloody sno-cone.

Farewell, Volcano, where the Uragaan left me in his tracks... all the way through his tracks.

Farewell, Underwater Ruin, where the Ceadeus... got his tail handed to him. Never really had an issue with him... ^^;

Farewell, Great Desert, where the Jhen Mohran broke apart more Dragonships than I can count.

Farewell online servers, where I forever chased a Rising Soul.

Farewell Monster Hunter 3 Tri. I lost more hours than I can count with you yelling in rage, getting my butt kicked, and enjoying every minute of it.

...Good times. Toasts the end of an era.

I don't mind that, personally. If you can make that game worth playing multiple times, then I'd definitely call it a winner in my book. Few games do that nowadays for me.

WHOOOOOOOOOOOHOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!

I own this on GBC, naturally, but I'm looking forward to having my digital copy for on the go... and because I don't carry my GBA SP regularly anymore...

...it still looks like a blue Yoshi with a backwards ball cap... gangsta Yoshi, yo!

That's... kind of weak, really.

I think they're both short-sighted jerks. Animal Crossing has raked in over 900 hours of my life and I have a couple dozen titles that have raked in 20-hours or more EACH. Shoot, I still play my Wii games on my Wii U AND my old Wii has found new life in my living room for play with friends and family.

Stuff like this is just the start. Eventually, there will be a new law passed down on the Internet and the wild west of online practices will be gone. Goodbye, LulzSec, goodbye, Anonymous. This change is inevitable and it'll be up to the users to adapt. I'm not saying it'll be like SOPA, PIPA, or CISPA, but something will be done in a regulation sense.

Awesome! Let's do this, Bats!

...I'd like one, please?

While I didn't always agree with his opinion, I still respected it and let it stand at that. Rest in peace, Roger.

The biggest problem is the death of an effective rental medium, like what we once had with Blockbuster and the Ma & Pa video stores. This is keeping new ideas from getting their legs. And who is to blame? Our favorite pawn shop, GameStop, who not only kills the attempt at new IPs with their business model of the used game sales, but also the perpetuated the cartel of game retail pricing. The sad thing is, I have no idea how this gets better. It may end up killing the medium in the long run.

How about they start making up for lost time with some Final Fantasy re-releases on Wii U or 3DS? FF7 and FF9 on 3DS would look fantastic.

Stupid to play with, cool to have. Hang in there, man!

I'll take those two. You can keep Fez.

In the words of the Game OverThinker... "Nobody cares what PHIL FISH has to say." He's the Michael Pachter of developers. Irrelevant, erroneous opinions that doesn't deserve attention. Obvious fanboys are obvious.

Between this, two Shantae games, and Mighty Switch Force 2? WayForward, this is why I love you. So, so much. <3

I don't care what the AVGNs of the world say, all due respect. I LOVE Simon's Quest.

Robo-monkey!!!