> 3D Sonic The Hedgehog will be based on the Japanese version of the game, but you'll also get the option to play the pre-release western edition, which has a few subtle differences compared to the final product.

This is misleading. The code itself was distributed worldwide and everybody got their share of rev00 and rev01, Japan included.

http://info.sonicretro.org/Sonic_the_Hedgehog_%2816-bit%29#Game_Revisions

I remember when they hinted that ALTTP would be perfect for a 3D classics with its two levels of depth inside dungeons.

I'm glad we have a new full fledged game out of this thought and also a bit sad not to have the ALTTP 3D classics version. I just like this game.

Plus Brain training games rely a lot more on the long trail, there is less a need of a launch at the right moment unlike more traditional games that make most of their sales in the first week. A June release won't impair December sales, thanks to TV ads and women's magazines shopping lists

I just received mine (sent day one, received two weeks after in europe). It's a very good book with lots of artwork and history. Shame 1/4th of it is dedicated to Skyward Sword though.

"Each publisher has the opportunity to decide how long demos will stay on the eShop, and how many times consumers can play them before they expire." This is missing the last part: "they just can't go over the 30 limit imposed by Nintendo." Sometimes I wished videogame "journalists" were more incisive in their questions. They didn't even address the "why there were limits at all" question. This is not journalism, this is PR statement reporting.

Limiting the use of a demo is insulting. 10 plays demo? So I use a few of them and decide I don't want the game. Then I want to show it to my relatives who's hesitant about geting a 3DS. Bam, they can't try anymore.

I'm a grown-up now but I remember my early days on PC in the 90s. I was not rich and unable to buy all these wonderful games and ended up milking the demos to no end. With limited demo I did not end up buying the games, I just stopped playing.

Tl;dr limiting demo time doesn't make a new customer, it makes a stopping player.

Micross is 10×10? meh. At least it's in free mode apparently.

Guitar Hero is dead. Rocksmith is the future.

They should have cut it in pieces

Yep, there goes my plan to play on the moon

So what happened?

@MultiMariosonic Nintendo has something against the DS compatibility mode. It was included for the DS games but is also needed for GBA "emulation". But because this mode cannot use the built-in functionalities of the 3DS it will never be officially supported or show on the eShop for anything else than DS backward compatibility. If they could have done without the DSiware, they would have.

I don't get all the wait for a Nintendo ID account, if you have registered on the Nintendo website you already have one. My consoles are linked to my nintendo.co.uk account, which in turn is linked to my e-mail address. So Nintendo is quite aware of all my digital purchases and I can recover them with just an e-mail and a password.

Make the Nintendo website registration mandatory and there you have it, Nintendo ID account!

@HarmoKnight except for Mario you don't pay 4.99 but 40.

"an exclusivity agreement to not promote products rivalling Sony's systems"
Breaking news: Sony is starting a new tyre business!

[it should be "not to promote" instead of "to not promote" in the news]

You can have too much Mario. Doing too many games means faster dev time, smaller teams, lower overall quality. I don't want to Mario what happened to Sonic.

@belmont It's because GBA isn't emulated, it's using the DS mode of the 3DS. This is why they can't add features and also why it probably will never come to the non-ambassadors. It was a nice gift but they just can't sell them unpolished like this.

When was the list time that guy made a correct prediction?

@rjejr Which is probably what Nintendo wants. They were very wary of adding the second gamepad to the console because they knew the console had trouble handling it. It was only after the whole Internet yelled at them that they added the function. But at the price of a framerate halved and probably more processing power used. What they did was just adding the possibility and give it to the devs saying "here your second gamepad like you wanted, try to make something good of it but don't blame us if it doesn't work well".

And I suspect the reviews for the first dual gamepad game will be: "second gamepad is nice but doesn't add much to the gameplay and screws the framerate big time." And the gamepad sales will plummet.

Picross e is good. Do we know if it will come with DLC?

@BayCraig100 just look at the screenshots. the lines and columns with gray numbers have been solved. the line and colums with thin numbers have been partially solved.

@RupeeClock So you currently owns 57 cards based on various advertisement offers. you still need to obtain 347 cards, so a minimum of 58 packs to buy and £87 to spend if you want a complete collection. Of course because you can't trade every card for every other, you will most probably have to spend a lot more than that. It all goes down to how rare the rare cards are, but it wouldn't surprise me if you had to double or triple that amount .

Clever advertising is clever.

"With 404 cards to collect it's probably best not to do the maths of how much you'll spend to complete your set"

Based on the image I will assume there are 6 cards per pack. Assuming you own the game and have the first 6 cards, plus the binder that gives you 3 more cards, you need to collect 395 cards. If you are either extremely lucky and always have new cards in your pack or if you are greedy and and exchange every double you may have, you need to spend a minimum of 5.99 + 1.5 × 395 / 6 = £104.99 for a complete collection plus one double.

Yeah I'm not spending that kind of money on cards.

"in Japan it was the last commercially released Game Gear game full-stop." We can then say that it went out... with a blast!

I'm not quite content with the MiWaraWara. Iwata said the crowd would be of people from your country or speaking your language but I live in a foreign country and my family and I speak more than one language. Please don't make me choose, Nintendo!