My mind drifts to Valve...

We're still waiting for episode 3...

This is what most DLC should be.

I'm glad more Ninten-velopers are getting on the right track.

I sense bias on the internet.

Console wise I agree. Japan does produce some lovely games for the Wii and 3DS and whatnot.

PC wise, I don't think so. Japan is behind on this front for whatever reason. There are way more quality games on PC being made by American and European developers.

Not accepting anything that had to do with online was a mistake. Missed out on a major market.

They are slowly correcting this with the 3DS E-shop but they've got a long way to go.

Don't worry guys, if Duke Nukem has taught us anything; these games will be fired up again in a years time, come out a year after that, and suck really hard.

I always liked Bomberman, shame that it couldn't make it.

It just seems dry. From the gameplay videos I've seen, your character moves a little too slowly. He moves kind of at the rate of Kirby, but without the flying/copy traits ability.

Also without bosses, this sounds like it's going to be a grindfest while simply moving left to right in two layers.

I was never really interested in this game, and it's not sucking me in now.
But any FPS made by R.K. will have me buying it day one.

I haven't been having any trouble with time delays.

It's fun. You can draw a funny picture when you're bored, and then send it later.

What sort of things can the player unlock?

You know, my major console triumphs never happened at Christmas, for some reason I always got consoles or portables on my birthday, or when the end of the year report card came home.

I think I got a Gambe Boy Advance one Christmas when I was...8 or something. It came with a Bomberman game that I adored, but I forgot the name a long time ago.

Getting the free GBA does induce a bit of nostalgia, particularly the Mario Vs. DK. My friend and I always laughed when the TV says "Mmm Bananas, Mmm-"

Have a great break everyone.

I thought they were going to update the games so they had multiplayer?

I'm going to spam everyones inbox heheheh

I couldn't sleep, so at like 5 AM I checked the E-shop and sure enough, they're here.

Nintendo said they had "Plans" to update them so they have local multiplayer right?

The NES games were available a day earlier then they said they would be, maybe the games will be available on thursday

I vaguely remember the Wario Land games being hard when I when I was a tot...

This is great news! It makes me want to sing!

This was a triumph...
I'm making a note here, huge success...
It's hard to overstate my satisfaction...

Needs more Canadian Stereotypes...Eh...

Didn't they do the same sort of thing with the NES games? They released those a day early as well.

Yay, I'm in.

what are the numbers up to now James?
I'm curious to see just how many people have joined these past few days

I won't get my hands on this until monday

Isn't there a cap for the amount of people per community? Can I reserve a spot ?

I have something like this.
It's called the FC Mobile 2. It can hook up to your tv, and came with a light gun as well as two controllers. I think it was 70$ at an indepentent game store.

It's a nice way of playing SM3 on the go.

I know these updates are supposed to be universal, but is it possible that Europe could be getting these after 2012, and NA and Japan before?

How many do you think are going to sell once Mario Kart 7 hits?

Wasn't it like, 2 months ago when we saw people saying that the 3DS would never do well, or something like that?

Fastest selling Mario game in history you say, nice.

I wonder if swapnote will be added. They said that we "would" be getting it in December, now the update is in December.
I hope they don't delay the Ambassador games until next year.

Anyway, I'll be playing SM3DL until MK7 hits, then I'll be playing that until the update, at which point I'll continue to play MK7

@ 30 The cards I saw (And took pictures of) are 20$ cards

@46 I live in Toronto Ontario. I'm a bit perplexed that you haven't seen them yet

Might also be worth mentioning E-shop cards are now available in Canada in Futurehop

"Incidentally this is by far the cleanest Samus search result we have"

That's just sad -_-;

It will.

Oddly enough, the original metroid 2 came out in America before it came out it Japan. Now NA is getting it last...
Maybe they're still jealous?

I'm surprised at how many people don't like Metroid 2.
It was the second game to come out; and despite being a gameboy, has one of the better story arcs in the franchise, next to super metroid and Fusion.

I'll probably get it when it comes out it NA. Soon I'll have 3 mmetroid games on my 3DS at any given time (4 if I have hunters in the game slot)

@10

Came out way after our Thanksgiving...

But I'm glad we have a date, even if it is on the last possible day of the month >.<;
But hey, we get Mario Kart 7 four days later

Will they do updates or patches?

Anyway, Reggie and Nintendo of America is now 20% cooler

I don't really like this. I feel like now I'm just going to rush through the singleplayer so I can unlock the raid mode. I kind of like it when I can do whatever I want like in Starcraft 2 for example. I played the campaign when I wanted, and played online when I felt the urge. I found the campaign more satisfying that way

I also think their reasoning is baloney :/

I called shenanigans

If it was a joke, that would PETA was trolling, and PETA doesn't troll.

I suppose this was the only right thing they could do, but it makes their image even worse.

"Lots of coins"

Lol

@84 With a pre-order, you reserve a copy for usually about 2 days. I paid for the game when I pre-ordered it, so for me it'll just be in/out. Oh, and I get a keychain (You get one when you pre-order MK7 too)

I'm looking forward to it. I told my friends and they laughed. Oh well xD

@ 46 I agree.

DLC doesn't really unlock things already on the cartridge or disk, it adds to it by saving something (that can be used by a cartridge or disk) somewhere in memory. Like your SD card.
It makes sense that good developers wouldn't be able to fit everything they want on a cartridge, they aren't super big after all.

DLC simply means that developers can fix bugs, or perhaps nerf certain things that could be considered as cheating.

I'd rather play one game that is completely perfect as opposed to a few meh-good games. DLC gives games more replayability

However as other have stated, it can be a complete waste of money as well. It's inevitable that some developers shell out half-******* DLC for ludicrous prices.

But, yo gotta take the good with the bad.

Makes me wonder how these developers got the Dev kit to begin with

Honestly, it's not the DLC that excites me, it's the thought that just maybe, we can get updates for games.

@10
Hey, with the oddball choices for 3DS classics, it might make the list

@21
Not really. The whole world is going to know about this.
Besides, with all the sales of the DS's and Wii's, I think they can stand a little splurging.

Too bad it's in New York
I wonder how much a train ticket would cost me...

@9 It's happened plenty of times in the past.

Tetris for the gameboy
Mario 64 for the N64
Halo for the X-box
Halo 3 for the X-box 360

Once a system get's a game that sets it apart, people will buy that system.

@19 Just in case your not trolling...
The perfect system came out long before X-box live. Anyway;

So, am I too understand all of this, will not be coming in the next update? Just knowing demos and possible DLC (Hopefully good use is made of it) is making me smile.

I like Luigi more, he's goofier.

Although, his voice sounds a little weird. Is this the voice for Japan or eveyone?

Wario, have you ever tried Penumbra? I only ask because I think you'd enjoy it quite a bit. You could run that thing on a netbook.

For Nintendites, I'd recomened Dementium and Dementium 2.

For anyone with a PC, I'd recomened Penumbra and Amnesia. Those are easily the scariest games I've ever played.

You know, all these trailers aren't making the wait any easier XD

No MLP FiM?
No thanks.
I'm also pretty sure despite the North America label, it's actually only the US