@SkywardLink98 the sales figures for BO2 on Wii U weren't that bad (but I'd imagine the ongoing sales have been pretty poor since launch). Activision published some figures a while back that showed the sales to be roughly comparable to PS and Xbox ratios. This game is gonna have to do a lot to make me buy it. Hopefully they'll get rid of the more ridiculous weapons and scorestreaks and take things back to the glory days of modern warfare 1

My launch day Wii had the contaminated lens problem, it never played Smash Bros. and stopped reading anything a year or so ago and the one I bought for my family just before xmas was fine and played everything until the other day. I bought Other M for £4 from ebay (I got given a brand new sealed copy with the club nintendo card still inside!). It wouldn't read on my Wii but was fine on my Wii U.

I might get one of these because the grilles under my U already look like the inside of a Dyson but the thing I want most is a Wii U screen wipe that doesn't leave smears but can reach the corners......

Also, what the hell is going on with the Vita? People are saying Nintendo need more advertising but there was almost 24/7 Vita advertising a few months back.

Didn't Pachter say 55,000 in his own prediction and don't NPD not have access to Nintendo figures?

I am loving this. I hope modern developers are taking note of how the exploration, story-telling and action is interwoven in this game, rather than spending millions on CGI cutscenes..

"Unfortunately, the odds of a Western release seem slim."

This has already been translated for western markets so there's not that much stopping them All we need to do is go onto the Japanese Miiverse and spam demands for Yakuza in EU/US.

@gavn64 - they've had playable demos for Pikmin and W101 for what seems like years now (and not put them on eshop) so I would not count my Mario 3D chickens yet.

Keep Sega out of Mario Kart.

I would much rather see a Nintendo-Sega partnership bring us F-Zero UX and a Shenmue HD remake.

Sonic Racing Transformed is not as good as Mario Kart Wii. It's not a terrible racer but MKW feels like F-Zero compared to Sonic since I went back to it.

Don't let Sega make Mario Kart, just put a gun to their head and make them follow up F-Zero

Dear Nintendo,

Please make more use of the balance board for skiing and snowboarding games. It's getting pretty ridiculous that you had the best skiing/snowboarding peripheral of all time and won't bring out a new 1080'.

I think if I am going to get any game with big monsters to hunt it will be Monolith's "X" game

I won't buy a 3DS until they make a clear plastic one

@datamonkey Wasn't NZ Story on Wii VC already?

Amiga and its games are so under-represented in modern gaming:

Rodland, Chaos Engine, Magic Pockets, Superfrog, Alien Breed, + anything Team 17, Bitmap Brothers or DMA/Psygnosis

I hope the mobile gaming market evaporates, taking EA with it. I think it's someone else's turn to have all the official licences.

If Peter Molyneux was Nintendo then we'd have far fewer games and all of them massively ambitious but less and less complete with each new game. Bullfrog pretty much made all the best non-Nintendo games of my childhood but they're not Bullfrog now and the ideas Molyneux was touting around the time of Black and White were much better than anything he's actually made since. Still can't believe he let the Syndicate franchise get FPS'ed.

If Nintendo sold Mario out to the highest bidder, Mario would be about as much of a draw as Sonic is. Nintendo's characters and exclusivity are the envy of the rest of gaming. I think people like to criticise because they think they could do better with the same assets but they've not come up with any characters/franchises with anywhere near the same sort of value so they're probably talking out of their butts.

This sounds more like Konami trying to take a dig at Capcom rather than anything else.

@MeddlingIdiot true

You should let us choose multiple answers, NL.

Best week since launch but Super Metroid is stopping me spending £9 on Super Ghouls and Ghosts and Mario 2

I'm pretty sure they once had the headline "Nintendo killed my son!"

Anyway, typical Nintendo, paying a UK mainstream media organisation to advertise their product that is doing well while the other console is choking on its own guts.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_products_published_by_Nintendo

Nintendo make lots of new games in every generation but the sales and media hype for these games are overshadowed by Mario and Zelda. My personal choice for a new IP would be a survival game like ZombiU but make it 3rd person, faster paced and less horror and more action. I also think the ability to play 2 player with the second screen needs to be utilised. I will be shocked if 3D Mario doesn't have simultaneous coop.

I think an HD Wind Waker, Mario Kart, Smash and 3D Mario (this xmas) will be enough to bring the Wii U out of its embarrassing predicament but they will need lots more games and then some decent marketing to keep the momentum when the other consoles are out. The delays so far have been terrible so I'm guessing that any of those games are vulnerable to missing 2013.

As for Monolith's 'X', I will only buy it if they keep the various English accents from Xenoblade.

@Fusion14 what doesn't mean crap?

I hope this isn't true. I don't know why anyone would jeopardise their job by posting inside information on 4chan but maybe he just wanted to put Wii U fans out of their misery. Rockstar were good to Wii by most 3rd party standards but maybe they didn't get the sales.

Anyone who thinks Wii U doesn't want or need GTAV is misguided. For the Wii U to be a success it has to at least have some mainstream appeal and there's already going to be a 1-2 year EA drought guaranteed. If sales don't pick up, Nintendo will just start putting resources into 3DS instead. GTAV with its own Wii U advert showing off unique features would be a better system seller than anything confirmed to be out by then and the Wii U needs system sellers. Not getting WWE doesn't bother me in the slightest. It's not real wrastling

I hope the game isn't a crock of dundees because I'm sure Nintendo would publish a sequel entirely by themselves if they liked the concept of the new game.

Eternal Darkness is probably my second favourite GC game behind RE4. I think it was my favourite game of all time when I first bought it so I hope they don't mess it up.

I do worry that Precursor might have been trying to blackmail Nintendo into publishing it by saying it's for PC and Wii U. Nintendo don't want this game to kill any chance of Eternal Darkness 2 and if the ED team make a multi platform game based in that universe, it pretty much takes the franchise out of Nintendo's catalogue.

@nintendogamerz

Sega collaborated with Nintendo on F-Zero GX.

Please be F-Zero-U!!!!!!!!

I don't know why everyone thinks that it's not possible for the clock speed to be changed so dramatically. Nintendo probably didn't make a console with such an under/over-clockable processor but if a firmware update can change the multipliers on the CPU from within the BIOS then there is no reason that this improvement couldn't happen but I think the architecture would have been figured out by Digital Foundry if that was possible.

I thought the speed seemed more like the OS had been cleaned up rather than running on better hardware. Can't rule it out though, it would be an excellent anti piracy measure to not give would-be hackers enough power out of the box to run future games.

My guess is that Nintendo DLC will be good but expensive. I would easily buy additional retro tracks for Mario Kart so I'm hoping for that!

I didn't think they were blaming Wii U, they said that it had been a disappointing launch and it made them cautious about the PS4 and 720 especially given the current climate. They were probably delighted with getting any sales of walking dead at all. Even Black Ops 2 isn't the graveyard it was on launch day (unsurprisingly)

If you pay them, they will come

I don't care either way. They either do a main even like Sony and MS and all of gamerdom find out through the internet or they do another event and all of gamerdom find out. I am bored of waiting for the next Wii U direct at the moment though.

If Nintendo have playable demos of Mario Kart and/or Smash Bros then they will steal lots of attention without needing a press conference. I just hope the show stealing moment is them saying "we pulled out of our partnership with EA to bring you GTAV with a new partnership with Rockstar"

@Peach64
This has little to do with basic business. EA have been in games long enough to know how many sales they'll get from a Nintendo launch so they have no financial excuse, you don't announce a partnership with a company that isn't profitable for you. That is basic business. Even with Wii U sales as poor as they have been, EA have not had many consoles with bigger launch year user-bases than Wii U.

We also know that Ubisoft find it cheap to port games to Wii U and I don't believe for a second that Ubi have as much developer talent at their disposal as EA. For them to say that FB2 was so bad on Wii U they didn't bother trying with FB3 when they've got FB3 games coming out on the old consoles seems like lies or lack of trying to me.

If Nintendo and EA's "unprecedented partnership" was like any other announced partnership between two companies, there would be written agreements in place, games in development, dev kits given for free, meetings between EA and Nintendo where assurances were made etc. etc. EA have dropped Madden and Tiger and only brought one port after launch, I think it's safe to say that they are not wholeheartedly behind the partnership that they announced to the world and every promise they've made to Nintendo in writing will cost them money if they break it.

Of course there are 2 sides to this story and it's not unthinkable that Nintendo were the ones who ruined this deal.

EA are the 3rd party with enough talent and devs to make FB3 work well on Wii U.Their anti competitive behaviour is ridiculous and they're probably being sued by Nintendo on the quiet every time they cancel these games. It would be funny if Nintendo now teamed up with Steam and EA had to abandon Origin when it failed.

https://miiverse.nintendo.net/users/Nintenjoe82

https://image.miiverse.nintendo.net/a/posts/AYQHAAABAAC8UKEKVgCdcQ/painting

What happened to Jack Thompson? He was the biggest idiot in the gaming world at the start of the last gen and now people seem to care more about Michael Pachter.

Manhunt 2 deserved a mention seeing as it was allowed by Nintendo but not by the BBFC.

I might enjoy the sun and have a bbq this weekend. I've completed all my games and am not ready to try to 100% Lego City yet.

Ok maybe Megaman.

Nintendo should give the 2D Mario series to Michel Ancel.

I have ££££££ that I want to throw blindly at Nintendo and they just don't seem to want my money at the moment.

Super Metroid is a definite for later in the month but if they drag out the full price VC games any longer, I will actually have Wii U games to play instead. Where the hell is Super Mario Bros? Why did the Wii VC have a much better selection from the off?

I always wished each subsequent Zelda had as good a light and dark world to explore as the LttP one so I'm happy but it would be nice if they found a good way to implement it like the time periods in Oot.

I've said it before but I really think they should have the dungeon order affect the whole of Hyrule. If there were 10 main dungeons in total and Link aged a year each time you completed one the game world could be changed i.e. complete a water temple and flood the desert turning it into a jungle. I'm sure this would make the game the most complicated thing ever if done properly, but I'm confident in Nintendo to come up with something special for Zelda U.

For me everything except for jumping is totally intuitive with Wiimote controls but the recoil (or lack or recoil when using dual analog) puts a disadvantage on wii controls.

When a kid, who likes GTA, steals a car, takes up position on a hill and takes out 50 policemen, 100 civilians and then flies away in an RAF Harrier I might consider GTA to have been an influence on that person.

I'm sure the constant war on terror that's on the TV is far more influential on young minds when our TV and politicians are actively defending our soldiers killing people on the other side of the world and the news is far more graphic than something like GTA. The other thing that's stupid is the fact that if you take away all the fancy video game graphics, children will still imagine killing things in their head and play the most violent games using their imaginations.

Will they turn off the MH3U servers when 4 is released?

If they can do this with Monster Hunter, what will become of Sim City

I thought the original excuse was the 3DS. The 3DS struggled so they couldn't fully focus on Wii U..?

Better than the Smash Bros. scrolling sections.....

I will upgrade Super Mario Bros and buy Lttp and Super GnG. I'll wait for SSF2 and I think Megaman will have to be discounted for me to buy it. Restore points and gamepad play definitely make these worthwhile. I never completed half the games back in the day so it will be nice to use quick saves.

I don't think the price is too high but the £ to € conversion is horrible on the eurozone and some of the games should never be bought full price. It's annoying that they are drip feeding us but they'd never convince us to buy half of the NES games otherwise.

I've stuck my gamepad onto the front of a welding mask and have made a virtual reality version of this app

I know it only just released but only two Wii U VC games is a bit poor. I'm not looking forward to the wait for Super Street Fighter 2!

Can't wait for this to come out on Wii U!

I may just finally be able to complete the lover with restore points!

@FiveDigitLP
I didn't realise they had to be unlocked. I couldn't figure out how to up my awesomeness level either but only played for a little bit. It definitely has the 'just one more go' aspect. I'm surprised Nintendo didn't manage to make the touchscreen bits of NSMBU as much fun as this game!