@dragon_rider Genesis and Turbografx games would likely have to be talked about with Sega and Hudson and considering Hudson is part of Konami now might be even harder. I dont think thats Nintendos fault if either of those companies are not ready to redo their Wii VC library for Wii U yet.

We are getting those Kirby games. They will come. They will never not come.

Not counting Super Metroid, Japan is getting 2 VC games on Wii U next week. Japan getting 3 VC games in a week in is not the end of the world. That is only one more than we get. And considering Japan had a bigger library of NES and SNES games back in the 80s and 90s, its not unreasonable for them to have a bigger library. I mean come on.

@DarkEdi Lost Levels beat Dig Dug to it

Why is this news? This was something that could happen with Wii, DSi, and 3DS. It happens to someone with Wii U and its all over the news sites? This doesn't make sense to me why it's being reported as if its suddenly a new or unpredictable issue.

@UnseatingKDawg If you really wanna insist on calling this slacking, the Wii U eshop in Japan, as far as I can tell, consists solely of downloadable retail games. They don't have anything truly exclusive to Wii U shop yet.

@Henmii Trine 2 is $15 on other systems
Trine 2 on Wii U comes with the $8 DLC already as part of the game along with some other exclusive features and modes.
Hence, Director's Cut

@Luigifan141 Right now the save files are incompatible but Nintendo is working on an app to make them compatible that'll show up in I think spring

@Klyo When it comes to the OFLC, pretty much everything that's a download for Nintendo systems lists Nintendo as a publisher even if they aren't the ones actually publishing it in the end

@LEGEND_MARIOID They've been saying for quite a long time now that if they ever did paid DLC it'd be content created after the game was released so that people don't feel bad with an incomplete experience.

There's no American Nintendo Direct since America's getting a whole conference about it

@Wheels2050 Nah, Wii U will have WiiWare buyable so it won't be a problem I feel

@NintendoMaster We were the first to get Kirby's Pinball Land. That and a couple others.

@GameCube Mole Mania was rated by the OFLC so I'd say there's nothing to worry about.

@NintendoMaster We got that Mario Figurine as a Status Prize a few years ago and we will likely get the Kirby prize closer to when they release the anniversary collection here.

@TheGreenSpiny I don't think these are replacing the Game of the Weekend sales

@grumblebuzzz bupkis meaning nothing? I'm fine with them going back to one game a week if they keep the pace going.

It's more likely that any NES game with same screen multiplayer will get the Download Play but anything with alternating will stick with the button code.

So an updated Balloon Fight will have it but an updated Wrecking Crew will not.

@H_Hunter The weekend sales start on Friday.

@TheDreamingHawk There's actually three open spots right now. Most people forget 8-bit Summer covers first week of August too. The trailer didn't list anything for August but Reggie mentioned it on Nintendo Direct.

@Tasuki I was about to say this. I think it's pretty likely Mario is collecting coins for Peach-saving related reasons.

@FonistofCruxis They're getting away with it because that's exactly what it is! Japan got two Viral Survival spinoff games for DSiWare last summer. Teyon has apparently decided to bring over at least one of them.
http://www.nintendo.co.jp/ds/dsiware/kxej/index.html

@FluttershyGuy Don't put too much stake into ESRB ratings leaks anymore. They've been tighter about letting the cat out the bag earlier (not just Nintendo platforms). Just cause Kid Icarus isn't on there doesn't mean anything because it'll likely show up the day of or after release.

@TheDreamingHawk No Wario Land in Coming Soon doesn't mean anything. Right now Coming Soon is just showing eshop exclusive games. I really don't see any reason why they'd bring it up in Nintendo Direct either.

@idork99 I think it's just a glitch or something. Like how the Mighty Switch Force update was a little late.

@Marioman64 Slitherlink has been set for next week for awhile now and Im not sure when Akari is coming out.

@TheDreamingHawk I don't think this is any cause for concern. Coming Soon this week seems to just show upcoming eshop games. We know there are DSiWare games dated for the next few weeks which aren't listed there but it doesn't mean they aren't coming out.
We don't need to jump to conclusions about no VC games being listed.

@Dreadjaws Dev's comment doesn't come off to me as desperation. Just clarification.

@3dbrains Why should Nintendo be ashamed? North America doesn't have the old Snakenoid.

@pokeDrago But America DOES put up 3DSWare and VC in the same week. It just hasn't happened in awhile.

@TheDreamingHawk I only see 2 DSiWares for the E3 week Thursday

@Fabian It's already been said in these comments but this game's already listed in the US eshop as Coming Soon so yeah we're definitely getting it over here too sometime.

So does Paul's brother like...have a name?
The official description just keep's calling him Paul's brother.
Oh no that's his name isn't it? The parents just gave up and called him Paul's Brother.

It's not worthy of the same classic status as Out Run, feeling a little workmanlike in comparison,
Geez Louise, I thought that said womanlike. I was wondering what that even meant.
Maybe it was a compliment to Super Hang-On's curves. Right guys? Because of....racing?

@Hyperstar96 Kirby's Block Ball is totally coming next week if I read the eshop right. When there was a Coming Soon section awhile ago, even though the eshop itself didn't display the dates, we knew what most of them were cause of nintendo.com and it basically organized the games coming soon by release date.

Kirby's Block Ball was sandwiched between games confirmed coming today and next week so I'm now 100% sure it's coming next week.

Huh? Weren't most of these dates confirmed awhile ago? I remember seeing a bunch of these back in March. At least all the ones for May-July look familiar.

@FluttershyGuy That's not really a sign of anything. Ratings leaks for VC games are just more common through the OFLC than they are with the ESRB these days. Heck theres hardly any games anywhere getting leaked through ESRB these days. Most of the time, when ESRB posts a new listing it's for a game that's about to come out or just came out.

So no, it's not a sign of VC priority, just that ESRB in general is not as leak-y as it used to be.

The "rule" that NoA doesn't release 3DS VC and 3DS Downloads on the same day is silly. It happened for awhile last year and I was hoping when Punch-Out and Fun Fun Minigolf came out on the same day last month people would drop that silly theory. If I read the Coming Soon section in the eshop right, Kirby's Block Ball will be coming the same day as a 3DS Download, so hopefully people start dropping it then. It really irks me that people think this is a thing that is true.

Technically speaking Tokyo Collection is a prequel. I guess. If we can call these sequels and prequels. Japan got this one a few years ago, then Gothic a few months after, then they got two others after Gothic. They would be uh...Lolita and Princess Collections.

So it's not so much that Tokyo Collection removed things. We just uh...got these out of order.

And that is your useless trivia of the day!

Ok I always thought saying "VC is dead" during the western hiatus was silly, but while VC games are being added to the service?

Come on people...

How odd...why leave Sonic 3?
Somethings up here...

Hey I dunno if anyone cares but I get the feeling that Ketzal's Corridors is the US name for SpeedThru: Potzol's Puzzles.

@Tsuchinoko The company for these games are Irem and they've been having financial troubles for awhile.

@SkywardLink98 They came out here and it's likely they'll be removed here as well.

@25 But that's just it. There HAVE been exceptions. That means it's not a hard rule and I don't like seeing it exaggerated like "oh its impossible for 3DSWare and VC to come out at the same time." All it is is just coincidence.

(NoA is incapable of releasing 3DS downloads and VC on the same day)

This is 100% not true, we've had plenty of weeks with both on the same day.

Not like the promo was first announced for Europe first anyway

"could this be the first 3DS download to support DLC?"

Isn't that Zen Pinball?

Hey as it turns out, we did get Swapnote. It's just a case of the PR not mentioning it.

I think it should be noted that the Picross e games aren't published through Nintendo so that's likely why we haven't heard anything about them coming over yet.

@1 It was confirmed for an American release at E3 2010 before Layton 3 and 4 had come out.

@12 Wonderful! I was getting worried since it was taking quite a bit longer then usual.

Do they have plans to give us the Hip Hop one?

Not that I'm desperately waiting on it or anything, just curious.

I see Kirby's Adventure go for $10 on Amazon so $7 shouldn't really be a big deal.

@Link79
My guess is that the queue of VC games ready to be released in NA/EU is drastically low and rather then release one game as soon as its ready with weeks of nothing in between, they're building up a bigger queue so they can do consistent releases.

And if that's true, I wouldn't hold it against them.

Alternatively: Blame Namco for whatever reason is holding them back on putting their Arcade games out everywhere else.

Alternatively 2: Blame D4 for whatever reason is holding them back on putting their recent NeoGeo releases out everywhere. I have some hope that they'll pull through eventually though.