I'm sort of interested in this, because it's meant to have Mirror's Edge style free running, but... I find Zombies suck my interest right out of most things. I just don't get the whole Zombie fascination. I'm guessing it's going to have a lot more gunplay that Mirror's Edge too, so that's another downer.

Final Fantasy (Wii VC) - The only FF game I've ever played before was X, so I'm making an effort to go back through them all. I've actually been playing it all month, can't believe how much grinding is needed.

Donkey Kong Country (GBA via DS Lite) - I never owned a SNES, but I did buy the first two of these games when they got ported to GBA. Unfortunately, my GBA was an original model, and because of the unlit screen I hardly ever played anything on it, so giving this another go, planning to work up to DKCR 3D.

Inazuma Eleven (DS) - I love this game! It took a while for me to get into it, but now I just can't stop playing it. Currently working to level up my team's ball control stats.

Easy to answer... Fire Emblem and Luigi's Mansion! Expecting to add New Leaf to the list of reasons very soon.

@GiftedGimp I'm just realistic. This is an awful story with no logic at all. I think E3 announcements will make Wii U sales spike, and I think they'll still good through July and August because of Pikmin 3 and Wonderful 101, then reach even higher when Mario Kart comes out. I think Wii U will sell more than the other two this Christmas.

I am very positive about the Wii U's future but it is not selling well today, nor was it yesterday. Yes, it's overall numbers are comparable with other consoles after 6 months, but that's because all the Nintendo hardcore went out and made it one of the best console launches ever. In 2013 it's regularly selling 40k and under each month in North America. By comparison the worst month the 360 ever had was 140k, nearly 8 years after it came out. No console since the Saturn has sold as badly as the Wii U did the last 2 months.

An 875% increase on almost nothing is still almost nothing, especially when it just means people were buying the console at ASDA last week when that was the cheapest place, leaving Amazon with almost no sales, so now they're the cheapest place, people are buying from them instead. It's still only 50th on the best seller list though, so the sales are nowhere near 'good', let alone great.

@OverturePT All we know is that it increased, but the fact it was still only the 50th best selling video game item after the increase suggests sales weren't actually that high. It's ranked right next to 32gb vita memory cards, and I don't think they're selling too well.

I'm not trying to troll or hate on the Wii U. I think once the E3 announcements come, you're going to see a very good bump for Wii U numbers, with monthly figures doubling at the least, maybe even going higher. And with Pikimin 3 and Wonderful 101 coming in the following months, they'll keep looking good. Maybe not amazing, but good, building up nicely to the final quarter I think Wii U will outsell the other two that are launching, providing they get things right. A Mario Kart bundle and a small price drop would do the job, and releasing 3D Mario would almost guarantee they'd outsell the other two (the other two will probably sell all their stock up to Christmas, but 3D Mario should still sell enough Wii Us to outpace that).

@MacAdam81 Sorry, but it is pure fantasy. Wii U is selling around 5000 units a month in the UK. That's a little over 150 machines sold every day, and Amazon maybe sell half of those? So it goes from them shifting to about 75 units a day, to jumping up to 300 units in one day because they knocked £70 off the price. We had this exact same situation 2 months ago when Monster Hunter came out and ASDA dropped the price to £200. People were whooping and hollering over an increase of 125%, but when the figures came out at the end of the month, they were worse than before. I think a turn around in sales is coming, but this is not it. Just look at the items currently selling better than it on Amazon. It's had a big increase in percentage, but it's still very low down in the best selling items list. It's ranked right next to Vita memory cards.

Don't people learn after the reports of Wii U sales increasing 125% for the last price drop? Sales were awful. Even tripling the numbers still makes them awful (and sales everywhere else won't be boosted by this amount, this is just due to Amazon dropping the price on the premium unit).

Go ahead and book mark this comment so you can laugh at me if we see May's NPDs showing the Wii U is now selling 150k a month, but it's not. This won't effect monthly sales figures at all. The numbers are far too small to begin with.

I also think it's REALLY important that they show stuff that's coming out in 2014. Every console has a drought of games in it's first 6 months, but for every other console you see stuff that's coming out way before. When the 360 had no games, they were showing off videos of Mass Effect, Gears of War and Bioshock. When the PS3 had no games they were showing off videos of Metal Gear Solid 4. People were playing Mario Galaxy at E3 and putting videos up 18 months before it came out. Nintendo to create a buzz of excitement about the console, not keep everything secret.

Would have been nice if it had been a bit later for those of us with jobs! Are the conferences usually that time too? I don't think I've watched an E3 conference since 2006, but I seem to remember them all taking place in the evening UK time.

I want to see lots of new stuff instead of new updates to old IPs. It's kind of hard to make a list, but... I'll try anyway.

3D Mario (not a Galaxy game, something new)
Monolith's new game
Retro's new game (REALLY want it to be a new IP)
Square-Enix and Nintendo partnering up to make a Kingdom Hearts style game, but using Nintendo characters and worlds rather than Disney

Advance Wars 3DS
Starfox Adventures type game on the 3DS by Next Level Games
GBA Games on the 3DS VC

I'd love to just see a bunch of great new games come out instead of the 'next iteration' of a 25 year old franchise.

@mjhopkins81 None of those examples are backwards compatibility though. I've bought loads of digital downloads of old classics, and I've bought many HD ports, but I very rarely play an Xbox disc in my 360 or a Cube disc in my Wii.

It helps give new console owners something to play for the first 10 months, but if they really wanted to play previous gen games that bad they probably wouldn't have just forked out on a new machine. It's extremely dumb to come out with a comment like this, but I think he's right about it not being important. The only consoles that have ever really been backwards compatible are the PS2 and the Wii, up to now. It was nice to have in the 360 because most 360 owners never had an Xbox, and it was nice in the Wii because most Wii owners never had a Gamecube, but how many people buying that thing are not going to have a 360?

MS didn't ruin Rare, nor did they lose their touch. Dev studios are in constant transition of staff. None of the people that made their great games are there anymore. It's why buying dev studios is dumb. A dev studios greatest asset is their staff, and you can never own them.

I did enjoy Viva Piñata, but that's the only game of theirs I have enjoyed since the 64, and even that was 7 years ago.

I just hope they keep the quality up. I don't think it's controversial to say the Cube, DS and Wii versions were not great games. Good, but not great. Fire Emblem Awakening is great, maybe the best in the whole series, certainly my favourite 3DS game. Will they keep the quality up now that the pressure is gone? I hope so.

I think people are deluded if they think Nintendo shouldn't see MS as a threat. Nintendo have a very real problem that almost nobody cares about the Wii U right now. I expect revealing a 3D Mario at E3 will help, but Nintendo has it all to do. I'd be amazed if the Xbox One ever sold under 40k consoles in a month (unless those sales were limited by stock shortages, an issue with is certainly not a problem for the Wii U at this time).

Nintendo have to work very hard to turn this around. I just hope the people in charge there have a bit more sense than everyone claiming MS is no threat. If Nintendo coast along with this attitude of 'we'll just wait for everyone else to screw up', the Wii U will end up with hardware numbers that make the Sega Saturn look impressive. Thankfully I'm 90% sure Nintendo know they need to work their heiney off to turn this around.

I can't wait for E3. It should be amazing for all 3 consoles. Despite Wii U having been out over 6 months already, PS4 actually has more announced games that I'm excited for than the Wii U does (pretty much just Pikmin 3 and Wonderful 101). However, if we do see a 3D Mario this Christmas along with another big game that's not yet revealed, then I'd be surprised if PS4 could match that with 4 must haves at launch.

As for Xbox One, I'm reserving judgement til E3. I thought the reveal was lame, but I don't think that automatically means it's a bad console. They just showed off stuff I had no interest in. They revealed the specs to be what we've known they were for 6 months, and it's plenty good enough to be a gaming powerhouse, and the controller once again looks fantastic, so there's no reason why it can't be a great gaming machine.

Exciting times ahead, especially for multi-console gamers.

With regards to the polls, ever since I left school and got a job, I'll buy all the consoles. I never want to go back to the days of making one choice, and then having to try and convince myself I made the right one. I'd much rather know that when a great game is released, I can go and buy it, and not sit about casting envious glances at another console.

I don't actually have a PS3 yet, but I'll be picking one up around the time PS4 launches. Then I'm perfectly content to wait a year or two before picking up a console from this gen. The first years are usually pretty barren, but picking a console up during it's 2nd holiday period usually works out well.

@SchamMan89 Really? Well that's not so impressive. I mean, 15 amazing exclusives would be great, but they won't all be fantastic. I can't wait for E3. There should be some amazing announcements for all 3 consoles.

I think focusing on this casual multimedia stuff is a mistake. Yes, okay, they had huge success in going after that demographic with 360, but not at launch. Hardcore gamers buy consoles at launch, and this show wasn't aimed at hardcore games. Having said that, 15 exclusives for launch including 8 new IPs is a statement that has me interested, so I'll wait for E3 before passing judgement.

@Discostew on PS3 it sold around 6.5 million units, on Xbox 360 it was about 4.5 million. On the Wii U it sold 70k. Just like NFS Most Wanted, they probably spent more developing the Wii version that they made back. When you make a loss on every game being made like that, it would be pretty dumb to keep releasing them.

Even the Vita, which has 30% lower hardware sales than the Wii sold over 200k, outselling the Wii U by 300%. It's not a lame excuse, the sales for these games are not just poor, they're abysmal. Even Lego City, a big exclusive that got great reviews sold less than 94k.... maybe even a lot less than 94k.

I loved Harvest Moon on the GBA and Gamecube, but haven't played one since. I think I meant have to pick this up when it drops a bit in price.

@Einherjar I'm a Nintendo fan and I don't want to be visiting the website equivalent of North Korea where we're just lied to about how great things are and how much it sucks to be anyone outside Nintendo fans, or that guy in Iraq telling the TV cameras there was no invasion, while you could see tanks rolling in behind him.

"Don't panic! These threats are not real!".

No thanks!

I want to be able to discuss the problems Nintendo are facing, to discuss what we all think they should do, and even to discuss when someone else is doing things better. NLife are reporting all news related to Nintendo, it just happens to be a lot of bad now. There's no conspiracy. People aren't staying away from Wii U because they read on a website that it sold badly. Lets discuss the real radians they're staying away, and what we'd like Nintendo to do.

I'm a but disappointed with this. Luigi's Mansion and Fire Emblem were great games and sold well, so it was sending the right message to Nintendo. This just tells them they can put the Pokémon name on any old rubbish and have it sell

@Tornado the difference is PS2 was still getting huge games like God of War 2, Shadow of the Colossus and Final Fantasy XII so you could understand it. The Wii hasn't had a big game for nearly a year and a half, so why are more people interested in it than Wii U?. PS3 never sold under 40k either.

I'm confident Nintendo will turn it around, but the problem is a lack of excitement, which is why I found Fridays Nintendo Direct so disappointing. All consoles lack games to begin with, but with every other console there's footage of games that might be a year or two away, something to draw people in. With the Wii U... it's just Pikmin 3 and Wondeful 101.

A lot of fans are ignoring how bad the situation is though. No major consoles have months as bad as the Wii U has been having consistently in 2013. And this just after the release of 2 well reviewed exclusives. Will Nintendo turn it around? I think so, but to say this is no problem and normal for a new console? Not true at all.

Kotaku can back up their claims by just pointing at the awful games SK put out. Their one success was under the strict watch of Nintendo, and Dyack hated how much control they had. He's made rubbish games, awful business decisions (the mess with epic), and then goes and makes the funding process of his new project look extremely shady too.

First of all ask for a ludicrously high amount, then offer donator rewards that you can't even fulfil by getting your full funding. Set it up on your own website with murky T&Cs that allow you to keep the money even if the target is not reached, and THEN set up a kickstarter with an extended deadline. Yeah, that will win back people's trust.

I used to love this on the Dreamcast, but I also really liked the Phantom Menace game on PC blush In my defence that was back when I was relying on my parents to buy my video games, so would get 1 for my birthday and maybe 2 at Christmas. I'd be lucky to have 10 titles per generation, and when having so little exposure to games, you can't tell when something is terrible.

Oh, and I've said this several times already, but a lot of people seem to think that releasing Mario, Zelda and Metroid will solve everything. Check those Wii sales charts. SMG, SMG2, Twilight Princess and Skyward Sword aren't troubling the best sellers, and there isn't a Metroid game in the top 50. Nintendo can make the Wii U a success, but they have to work at it, not be like most of here and go 'Meh, it will be fine once we release Smash Bros'.

Nintendo don't need third parties, but they probably want them. If the Wii U sold Gamecube numbers, then it wouldn't be a disaster for them, but would they be happy just throwing in the towel like that? Now they'll never get the huge sellers as exclusives, but what about some cult hits? Kingdom Hearts 3 and Shenmue 3 might not be too hard to secure, and would certainly get a lot of hardcore gamers interested in a Wii U. Try and get Platinum to sign a contract for more games too because there IS a chance that Wonderful 101 and Bayonetta could bomb sales wise like Lego City did, and they might not be so eager to keep making Wii U exclusives then.

I'm in the camp that isn't really a fan of this either. I just don't consider it a Mario game.

@Imac99 I don't have anything against them at all, they're obviously well made. I just suck at them (and all fighting games). I always end up buying really highly rated fighters and I can never get into them. Of course, my only experiences with SSB so far have been playing it with friends that are pretty good, so I just spend the entire time having my ass kicked.

I'd like to see a Nintendo Kart too. I'm guessing at this point the brand name is too strong for them to stop making Mario Kart though. Heck, for all the Mario brand sports games they should just use everyone. It's not like they have to hold the characters back for Zelda Golf or Metroid Tennis.

Well, unless something major changes between now and E3, they'll get to show off their games to a lot more people by doing it through store demo pods that just putting them up for download through the Wii U itself. I know Microsoft was putting up demos of games from E3 as far back as 06 though, so not really an unprecedented move.

I'm bored of Mario Kart, not a fan of Smash Bros but new 3D Mario is huge for me. They're usually worth buying a console for. I just hope it's not too gimmicky with the gamepad. I want them to just focus on making a great Mario game.

I get that they're saving the big announcements for E3... but I feel they should have shown more today. The Wii U needs a good news buzz vibe around it right now. With so many huge titles being revealed to not be coming out for it, on top of continued abysmal hardware and software sales (nobody can say these are normal for a new console anymore), they just need something to get people excited.

There will be announcements at E3, but there's also the possibility that by E3, a lot of potential customers could instead have being swayed by the Sony and MS reveals. Now was the time to get news websites focused on some good Wii U news.

Not interested myself, but I know those Sonic and Mario Olympics games are big sellers, so it could help sell some systems around the holidays.

Is anyone else a bit worried that Nintendo are totally missing the point with DLC? What happens next time they're considering some major additional content, but they feel it's not worth producing a disc... do they bother with it at all?

It also sets a bad precedent that Nintendo fans are prepared to pay the cost of almost a new game for some DLC.

As long as they review well, Pikmin 3 and W101 will finally be the first Wii U games I actually want to play. Pretty sure they'll both turn out good too. Yay!

Well that was underwhelming They'd have been better off skipping this one entirely.

@hiptanaka @baba_944 I believe MS don't allow ports unless they come out the same day as the original. So Ubi had to decide... exclusive for the Wii U and risk making a big loss, or delay to release it on everything. At the time people said it would have been a huge seller in February, but lets not forget it was competing with NSMBU as a 2D platformer. Lego City had no competition on its genre and still sold bad. It sucks, but you can see why these decisions get made, and it's not because everyone hated Nintendo.

They've put a lot of effort in the last 12 months so I'm glad to see it rewarded with better sales, but it had such a horrible start, that improving on it really wasn't a tough job.

More bad news for Wii U. Lego City 3DS was the 10th best seller with 94k copies sold. That means the Wii U version sold less than 94k all month. Possibly a LOT less. That's one of the big exclusives. Do people now understand why Ubisoft had to make Rayman multiplatform? And with regards to hardware... Xbox 360 has it's worst monthly sales ever, at nearly 8 years old but still sells four times as much as Wii U. For anyone saying Wii U sales are normal for a new console, take a good long look at that. It's not all doom and gloom, Nintendo can turn it around with games, but thank god a lot of posters here don't run Nintendo as many are still claiming the figures are fine and Nintendo don't need to put more effort in.

I'm so fed up of reading people using the term 'unprecedented relationship'. Get over it. Things change. The money they have lost on Wii U games so far more than justifies their decision to me.

I don't buy the claim that they're doing this because Nintendo didn't want them to handle the online of the Wii. They don't handle the online systems of the other consoles either, but they're not ignoring them. I think, given Nintendo's history, it's far more likely they got EA to do a lot of work on the online system and then with it pretty much done, they pulled out, as they did with Sony and the SNES CD add-on back in the day.

Like I said though, there doesn't need to be any bad blood. Spending a few million porting NFSMW U and then having it sell under 10k units is more than enough reason to give up on a console until it's userbase grows.

@SparkOfSpirit Maybe. It seems weird to organise an event for the media to play your upcoming games so they can go away and write positive stuff about them, but supply them with a poor build. I'll be getting it anyway, my free game in the NOE promotion, I just hope NLife haven't ignored major technical issues.

I'm surprised people are moaning it's not got a 10/10 despite having frame rate issues. I had a friend go to the recent media event and he said the frame rate issues were terrible, and by that point it was almost certainly ready to go gold within a week so he couldn't see it being fixed. He actually described it as a mess.

@DefHalan That's not how it works. Nintendo won't control the ads, they just get the payment for it. They won't be Nintendo ads.

It's kind of sad that on the day EA of all people drop their online passes, Nintendo pulls a move like this. Yeah, it's their right to do so, nobody is denying that, but why are they doing it? The money they will make on these ads is nothing to them, but it's stirring up a lot of ill will towards Nintendo from gamers, which is exactly what they don't need right now. They have annoyed a lot of people today, people that are pretty hardcore Nintendo fans.

Hoping for some new game announcements but they're probably saving those for around E3 time.

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Tom Nook is Nintendo's greatest villain haha.

I loved the Kotaku article on this yesterday, especially the YouTube video they found of the kid ranting when she came to the realisation he was a loan shark!

It's doing well for me, but plenty of room for improvement. I think the DS had a far stronger library after 2 years, but things are really improving as of late. Fire Emblem is in my top 2 games of the year so far and Luigi's Mansion isn't far behind.