@Bluezealand
That only makes is stupider, holding the game back half a year for no logical reason at all, sometimes it sucks to live in Europe... T_T

Finally, have been waiting for this game since it came out in Japan, wonder what the hold-up was this time, translating it to german/french can't have taken half a year... (Counting since the english release for the US)

Over here in EU the brain-training fad seems to be quite over (Maybe Nintendo are hoping for early holiday rush to push sales along?), it's still annoying to get finished games pushed back yet again though...

Let's be clear here, Nintendo isn't dying, but the WiiU's sales figures are embarassing, it's in a vicious cycle now: People are holding off on buying it until some more games come out, and the small install-base (And issues with CPU-power) are keeping developers from making games for it...

The whole gaming market is slowly changing, high time too TBH, churning out the same series but a bit prettier every generation isn't really cutting it, not sure i want it to be like the Android/iOS either (All that in-app stuff >_< ), but $60 a game for the same stuff in a new box isn't going to work forever...

Of course the market's contracted ATM, the portable side is doing decently but lacks the big-name "Shut up and take my money!"-titles that sell 3DS-units and people are taking a "Wait and see what the others come up with"-strategy with the Wii U (As well as the game-issue there)

And apparently there's this little economic thingie going on, as well...

Publishers are just using piracy as an excuse to back away from anything that isn't a sequel to some AAA-title (Since those will sell in huge numbers without much effort), when any game doesn't sell as well as they thought it would they just scream "Piracy!!!", since there aren't any other factors in a game's success or failure of course...

And if some publisher actually dares try something original and it flounders because it's an unknown game for a stupid-high price (Lower prices are never an option, silly!), they yell "Piracy!!!" once again and have another reason to just vomit a new FPS or annual sports game onto the market instead, gaming is a lot less fun than it used to be because of this mindset.

Sure, some hackers have non-nefarious intent with hacking, the anti region-locking for instance, some games take months to appear here in Europe (Or just don't crop up at all), so there's merit to hacking there, but as they say "The road to hell is paved with good intentions", so hacks WILL get abused for piracy.

But to go full blinders-on and saying that poor sales of a game are entirely due to piracy (The game couldn't have been bad or hard to find or anything, right?), that is an attitude fit for a child, not a professional company.

While he is grotesquely overrated, Molyneux has a pretty good point about the two screens, focusing on two screens can work, when they're close together (The line of DS-types says "Hi"), but for WiiU you can't focus on both at once (unless you have a nasty case of lazy eye), so both screens can't be important at once because that will cause playability concerns, so it's a second screen that MUST be optional, what is the point then?

I blame the lack of non-Mario "killer apps" for the 3DS's woes, the recession going on doesn't help much either of course, but how many games that make people go "Shut up and take my money!" have come out over the past year?

Lots of people still stick with the DS (Whichever variant of it they have), the most recent big-name game for a Nintendo console was "Pokémon Black/white 2", which doesn't do much extra for 3DS over the regular ol' DS, the two tie-in Eshop titles aside...

@Chriiis: I didn't say that the 3DS is doomed or that iPhone-kids are going to conquer the world (They have iKillYou-bots in development to do that ), "the problem that Nintendo has" that i mentioned is that their share of the market for handheld games is shrinking due to phones and tablets, for a lot of people the "Handheld = Nintendo"-link isn't as absolute anymore as it was in the Gameboy - Early DS time, and that (coupled with the Wii being near the end of its life-cycle) is hurting Nintendo at the moment...

Aw crap, double-posted my prose, sorry ~_~

The problem that Nintendo has is this: many gamers who started out with Nintendo are 30-something now with jobs and such, for use during a commute, a phone with games is all they need without the requirement of carrying another device with them.

The "Rich experiences" are had by those people on regular consoles (handhelds can't match the power of those machines), where does this leave the 3DS?

As for younger kids, a lot of them torment their parents into buying them a phone or tablet instead of a 3DS, with extra argument for the parents that phones and tablets can do stuff besides games (make calls, do e-mail, surf the 'net, and so on), so that's a lot of people for who the name "Nintendo" isn't the first choice for gaming anymore...

Meh, i'll wait for the inevitable next revision, but only if that revision has some added features besides a bigger screen (Just like the DSi), some more games of "Shut up and take my money!"-calibre are a requirement too...

Nintendo should focus less on re-releasing consoles (Since the "Wait for the inevitable update"-mentality must have hurt 3DS sales) and just focus on plain ol' releasing some more good games, now THAT would be compelling to consumers...

I only occasionally use 3D, i have a lazy eye, so getting both eyes to coordinate enough for long is a pretty big strain (Can't get my eyes to play nicely at all when i'm tired), the games are still fun even in "mere" 2D, anyway

In Holland at least, there are two shelves of DS games for the one shelf with 3DS games, many people who are interested in Nintendo style gaming have a DS (one of the three versions), and with games still coming out for it (And the months long slump in releases for 3DS), as well as DS games being cheaper overall, why should people upgrade?

I just find it funny, given the state of DSiware right now, that Nintendo is getting all high-and-mighty about which developers they want to do business with, sure "Garage developers" make crappy games sometimes, but the "Let's do another sequel, derp!"-attitude that's killing off franchise after franchise by now doesn't seem to be working either, so some new ideas are needed, other than "Let's take "Mario party"-like games, but we CONTROL THEM DIFFERENTLY, yay us!"

So, DSiware is floundering (A few good games aside it's as bad as Reggie claims Iphone-games to be, but more expensive), and Reggie starts ranting about poor quality of iPhone games? That's rich...

"Shantae: Risky's revenge" was the reason i picked up my DSi again for the first time in a few months, it was all iPod touch games for that time, since they're potentially as much fun (Crap games exist on every platform), but for 35 euros less.

And again no Shantae: forev... i mean "Risky's revenge", VERY annoying...

This is... [takes Dr. Evil pose] despicable?

Back to the point, Tri4ceholder has a point, movie tie-ins are rarely any good, they float solely on the big name of the movie, sad but true...

So 2 counts of "Meh" and one count of "Maybe good if only i lived in another country", stellar job on the DSiware there, Nintendo...

If only you had some good games ready to go instead of this, oh wait...

@Mickeymac: I'm not a fan of the shooter genre, am i now excused for being utterly underwhelmed by the downloadables this week?

Yay, another week, another batch of dippy puzzlers and a sleep...timer...thing, or something, what's keeping the games that are actually worth the points? The non-existent translation?

Well, it's the apples/oranges debate here (Get it? ), but DSiWare at least is just completely blown away by app store offerings (Though honestly DSiWare is blown away by near anything at this point, a few games inbetween the tripe aside), and by the looks of it, more and more DS-cartridge games are iphone ports as well...

The casual market that Nintendo seem so fond of is lost to Apple, since buying a phone AND a portable console can be beaten by buying a more expensive phone but forgetting about the console (As long as your interest is casual games, but hardcore gamers buy more hardware anyway), not to mention price-point, who cares if an iphone-game doesn't last as long as a DS-game, here in europe the iphone-game costs a few euros! (0.79 for smaller games, $5 for big license ones) DS-games are 40 to 45 euros each, which will you take a gamble on first?

40-something euros per DS-game, and most of them are shovelware (Lame iphone-ports, movie-tie-ins, collections of games that would be lame as Java-based timewasters or weak attempts to port games that are popular on way more powerful consoles), so to keep on trying to go "It's piracy that's lowering sales!" would be silly to the extent of insanity at this point.

Either lower the prices or bring out more good games, or divide them up in 2 ranges, really good top-tier games like the Mario-games and pokémons, the games that will last a while, at full price and an official line of "Not as long playtime or deep gameplay, but cheaper" for people who want that, selling trash for full price doesn't work anymore...

@GumbyX84 Nope, you unlock stuff in Shantae by playing MFC, makes more sense since Shantae is the more recent game and all...

And the newsletter thingy mentioned an "Import room in Scuttle town", a location in the original Shantae game, so'my "Logic 8-ball" says "All signs point to MFC gives perks in Shantae" ^_

Now hope that Shantae:RR doesn't take the usual half year to arrive in Europe, it's not as if there's a lot of translation-work to be done...

Latest release date as of this writing: "During the holidays" (According to the Nintendo "What we're up to in Q4 2010"-pressrelease), here's hoping...