That was actually the 5th slide down, the 4th is an image that says Nintendo 3DS and some stuff in Japanese.

Anyway I think they need to be like Microsoft and have a demo of EVERY game.

@16: Yeah, because the Wii, PS3, PC, and every other gaming device on the planet NEVER fail and need a restart to fix. That only happens on Kinect.

Grab a blue Classic Controller with a **** sandwich down under.

"The games included in the Super Mario All-Stars collection are Super Mario Bros., Super Mario Bros. 2, Doki Doki Panic, and Super Mario Bros. 3."

Fixed it for you, Nintendo.

Sonic 4 is in absolutely no way, shape, or form a return of classic gaming. It doesn't play like the old Sonic games. It doesn't even play like the new Sonic games. It's a completely brand new playstyle, and when it's completely new, it's obviously not the return of something old.

Also, I have to ask what drugs you are on if you miss passwords.

@69: Wow, you really are sad aren't you. Only people who own Wiis have seen Back to the Future, and everyone who owns the other consoles are jocks? Pathetic.

Why is GameTrailers calling that exclusive? I saw it on YouTube yesterday.

Shame on you for lying, GameTrailers.

@11: Majora's Mask? Masterpiece? Not really. If you want a good example of time travel in Zelda, you would pick OoT or Oracle of Ages. Majora's Mask just had a stupid time limit where if you didn't finish your goal fast enough, you had to go back in time three days and start all over. It is certainly not a good time travel mechanic, it was just an annoying hindrance to gameplay.

"over-reacting to Apple"

That one. Apple is a joke when it comes to the gaming market. Yep Apple, I'm really going to buy your expensive as hell phone and pay the expensive as hell monthly contract to play some crappy $1 browser games.

Rocket Mario huh? Well he didn't have a gun, but Wario got to pick up the rocket part in Super Mario Land 3 and it was a pretty awesome powerup.

"PSP Go - 1,590"

Ha. A shame though, the Go does have some decent features. Too bad they didn't just put the ****ing UMD drive in it!

I wouldn't expect anything less from Telltale, those guys are just too awesome for words.

Later the two kids were in tears anyway as they realized how bad Doki Doki Panic is. Poor kids.

No NES stories for me though. We didn't have one. Had a GameBoy though, that was good times.

Do want! Also I hope we finally get to fight Alex. I still need to plant a nice Ragnarok spell on his face.

@2: I think they just mean the trailer is light on talk. If that really was Kraden, I'm sure he'll be yakking and yakking and yakking and yakking and yakking and yakking...

@3: No it's not, screw all this red crap. I want to know where the Mario collection is.

This makes me sad because apparently there are currently no plans to release this outside of Japan.

Also I think this trailer isn't very faithful to the games, I mean I can't tell exactly what Maya is eating but it sure doesn't look like a hamburger! OBJECTION! I OBJECT!

Okay okay joking aside, I would have been sold the moment Phoenix was tapping his paper, but again, the above.
http://www.escapistmagazine.com/news/view/104551-Professor-Layton-Phoenix-Wright-Crossover-for-Japan-Only-Says-Capcom

I was all over the pins until it said "450 coins each." Come on guys, you can't have a bundle in there or something?

So it's for Twitter and iPhone? All they need to do is work in Facebook and it will contain the trifecta of fail.

But I don't want red versions of hardware I already have. Where's the Mario Collection?

I think it's unfair to say that Superman 64 aged horribly. That game was horrible at launch, age has nothing to do with that one.

Hopefully they'll allow more demos on the 3DS store as well.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=arpySop_-Os

Had to be done.

facedesk

Seriously. Does it really matter how you spell color. With a u or not we know what word is being used. Jesus christ.

"Red hot like a chili pepper"

I'll get the socks.

Eh, for this one I don't care if they release it in NA or not. If I want to play my whooping one game that supports WM+, I can just use the plug-in. No need to buy yet another Wiimote.

@12: Stop playing Animal Crossing and you won't hate your gaming time anymore.

ba-dum-tish

Glad to hear they stayed away from bottomless pits every 5 seconds, but I don't like the sound of the bosses. I've already seen shots where they recycled the Sonic 1 Green Hill Zone boss for the umpteenth time (the nostalgia factor for that boss wore off a long time ago SEGA) and it sounds like they recycled more, unless I didn't properly understand what was meant by "another classic Sonic boss with a few modifications".

Plus, no matter what, they can't shake the stink of the failure of "we still don't know how many more episodes there will be" from themselves. I'll probably check out the demo on XBLA tomorrow, but it'd still take a keg of something alcoholic and quite a few blows to the head before my standards are lowered enough to buy this for $15 without any indication of how many more parts are coming and when they are coming.

EDIT: Someone was nice enough to provide a demo on PSN, so I'll be trying that sooner than I thought. Only because of the good review though, if people were saying it stunk I wouldn't have even wasted the bandwidth on that. But since this review seems like there might be hope for the game, I'll try. Still won't buy though, not at this price with no information on the other part or parts.

I read "Cell Chip Could Power Wii Successor". Do I win the cupie doll?

Anyway I hope they can make Wii 2 beefy in terms of hardware but still keep it from just being another entry in the "my penis is bigger than your penis" competition of powerful hardware. Let's face it, people want HD graphics these days, and even if they didn't, more power means more ability to do things in a game.

Example, look at Dead Rising on the 360. Then look at it on the Wii. Then back at the 360. The Wii version had so few zombies that you can probably go through the whole game without ever being bitten or grabbed. Why? Not powerful enough to show as many zombies at once.

"When you add in the wired controllers"

Well at least I earned something. I was trying to figure out why that would even be worth mentioning when all controllers were wired back then. So I went looking and it turns out the controllers were actually hardwired to the Famicom, no unplugging them. Didn't know that!

Thanks Nintendo. I'll be over here checking the awesome website you made us.

@5: I lol'd.

Also I love the irony of this being about making great games to overcome piracy, and yet there's a Sonic title and a Final Fantasy title in the box art mosaic. At least the other 14 games will feel better knowing that they aren't the worst one featured.

@2: I hope everyone looks at the episodic nature, and title, of Sonic 4 and doesn't buy it.

First, it's $15 for one episode. That alone is doing it wrong. Then if you read the interview that's linked in the article, SEGA doesn't even have any clue how many episodes there will be in total yet. That is also doing it wrong. And finally, it's a Sonic game, something SEGA can't do right no matter how much they want to.

In short, Sonic 4 is doing it wrong in ever conceivable way.

@15: I love you and if I was a woman I would want to have your babies.

Anyway I would be happy if the only thing they did for Sonic's 20th birthday is fix "Sonic's Ultimate Genesis Collection" to have Sonic 3 and Knuckles in it, and maybe Knuckles in Sonic 2. Really wasn't any reason it shouldn't have been on the disc in the first place, and come on, that's some great Sonic stuff right there. And since they chose to put Sonic's name in the title, they should deliver on as much Genesis Sonic as possible. Or they should have just done what they did in EU and not put Sonic's name in the title (in EU the collection is called "SEGA MEGA DRIVE Ultimate Collection").

But here I am, ranting about a game that isn't on Wii on a Nintendo site. Oops. >_>

I have no hope for any remake or re-imagining they want to do of the Genesis games in either 3D or a new 2D art style. These are the same people that shipped "Sonic the Hedgehog Genesis" for GBA and "Sonic Classic Collection" for the DS, both of which were just ports and both of which were just glitchy messes. I just wish SEGA would leave the old games alone now, because every time they touch them anymore they always manage to deliver disappointment in some form.

Come on Iwata, you have to realize that it's going to die eventually. You've already sold one to any gamers who would be interested and a crap-ton of people who would never even look at the 360 or PS3. There really isn't that much of a market left.

@7: I was going to say something about other regions getting the junk while Japan gets all the goodies, but Japan got this waste of coins too? I'm genuinely surprised.

@42: You're right, Red Box will never stand a chance against Blockbuster who is doing so well right now. What with Red Box doing really well, and Blockbuster filing for bankruptcy last month... Red Box is doomed.

Did he say the market is going to iPhone? Okay, he's completely out of his mind. Just because people can play yet another iteration of Tetris on the shiny overpriced piece of junk doesn't mean that people are discarding their DS systems.

@24: Very well thought out rant. The iPhone tries to do so much but fails at doing the basics right. Apple was so rushed to pack the newest one full of features that they forgot to make the function that the device is named for, a phone, work properly! "Don't hold it in your left hand like we do in our ads or your call is dropped! Congratulations, you spent hundreds of dollars for a device that can't do its primary function as well as a $20 TracFone from Walmart."

So we just now get the remote we should have had in the box at launch...

Although it still won't do any good because they won't use WM+ as much as they should as long as so many people out there still just have regular Wii Remotes.

@23: You do know that a Wii Remote Plus in a Wii Wheel for Mario Kart wouldn't actually do anything, right? If a game doesn't support WM+, having it plugged in won't change the way the game controls. Playing Mario Kart with a Wii Remote Plus will be the exact same as playing it with a regular Wii Remote.

@3: That's only because Apple rips people the hell off. Even the iPad without the 3G tech is overpriced.

Anyway I'm glad they didn't go with 3G for a different reason. Not everyone has good cellular coverage, and 3G would have rendered the device impotent for some people. I am one of those people and thus am glad they left 3G out in favor of Wi-Fi and a new tag mode.

This was a pretty good game in its own right. Way better than Mario Sunshine too. When you put this kind of thing in a game about a different character in the Mario series, you don't expect anything else. But when you give Mario a water pack and tell him to go clean stuff, it becomes "WTF is this crap, I wanted to play a Mario game, not this thing." Only good bits of Sunshine were the special stages where they took that awful FLUUD thing away.

But yeah, Luigi's Mansion can get away with something different because you don't have such high expectations when you go into a "Luigi" game.

"Instructions

1 Unmount the NES and DVD Player
2 Put DVD into NES
3 Close the NES case
4 Install the circuits
5 install the RCA and AC/DC
6 install the IRDA and finish him!"

Bahahaha! Sounds like a crappy GameFAQs guide written by a 9 year old. Or something out of an IGN Strategize video (thanks again for telling me to go for headshots in Red Dead Redemption IGN! Never would have figure out that simple concept used in almost every game with shooting stuff ever if you hadn't told me).

They're going to have to add a lot more than StreetPass and co-op to make me buy this game again. I can pop this into my PS3 and play right now if I wanted to (yes, I have one of the awesome PS3s that plays PS2 games).

Wow, that guy sounded like he actually knew something about what used to make the games so fun.

Although I don't remember anyone asking for Sonic 4. I just think people wanted a game that doesn't suck.

@1: Episodic content is fine when it's done properly. See Telltale Games, they're doing it right. Other companies, like Valve and obviously SEGA as seen here ($15 for part one which is out soon and they don't even know how many more episodes will be coming right now), are doing it wrong.

@16: Probably any WiiWare game available, considering the history of recent Sonic games.

What Emerald did wrong in comparison to Ruby and Sapphire: putting in that terrible, awful, obnoxious phone feature from GSC. Whoever first came up with it for 2nd gen should have been fired and whoever thought it was a good idea to bring it back again should also be fired.

What emerald did right in comparison to its older brothers: everything else.

"the games are always well made, solid good fun"
I object! Gold, Silver, and Crystal were utter Taruos feces. Those games were so bad that I gave up on the entire series as a kid. In fact, if it wasn't for me wanting something long to play on some school field trip later on in life and going "Hey, Pokémon Sapphire, those games were always pretty long so what the hell" I still probably wouldn't be playing the series to this day after the awful taste the 2nd gen left in my mouth. GameFreak shouldn't have remade those things (remakes were just as bad as the originals, actually worse since they ignored the only good thing about the 2nd gen titles and brought back the stupid Safari Zone), they should have retconned them so hard a temporal wave went back in time and erased them from ever existing in the first place.

Why... Why admit to that? "See that horrible game right there...? That was my idea."

I would have just kept my mouth shut about it.

1. Putting anti-piracy firmware updates in retail games isn't going to stop piracy... Because pirates aren't buying the game in the first place.
2. From what I understand, StreetPass only works in sleep mode. So if a pirate just turned off his 3DS instead of going to sleep mode... (Or removed the battery, as impractical as it may be. But so is dicking around with custom firmware and other such crap in the first place.)

Not that I want the pirates to win, but Nintendo doesn't seem to be trying all that much on this one when you think about it.

@11: Three?

1. Kirby Super Star Ultra
2. Kirby Squeak Squad
3. ???

Yeah there are only two. And even if there were three, why should that stop them from making another?

The new first thing you do when you get out of bed in the morning: Forget going to the bathroom. Forget breakfast. Forget a shower. You will pick up that 3DS right now or Reggie will be by soon to break your face.

@5: Considering Sony, that's really not surprising.

"Some classic titles will even get 3D make-overs, but Nintendo warns these updated titles may be priced differently than normal VC games:"

Insert Phoenix Wright style "HOLD IT!" here.

Games that get 3D updates may cost more? So, what if I don't want the 3D update? Will they offer a non-3D version for less, or will the 3D one be the only choice? I fear it will be the latter.

Okay, so sleep mode, with both SpotPass and StreetPass on... I wonder, when you open the 3DS back up, will there be enough battery life left to actually do anything?

I'll probably have this off though, much like WiiConnect24 as there's barely anything gained by having it on all the time.