the load times never really bothered me, the random freezing every now and then does tho~ :X

anything we hope for in the upcoming updates? personally i want to see a feature that Iwata told us we'd have last year, and that is the ability to download software while the system is in stand-by a.k.a turned off~

also since long downloads present the risk of brick due to lose of power (in my case the 6 hour download of NFS: most wanted U i went through a few days ago had my heart pumping..) i think Nintendo should release additional OS software which would in theory allow temporary backups of important system data in case of a power-loss, of course this last part is a personal preference i'd like to see, idk about anyone else here~

i'll be playing~
Wii U:
NFS: Most Wanted U
NSMBU (collecting the last star coins)

3DS: Style Savvy: T
Mario Kart 7

i think i'm just going to go with a usb adapter for SD Cards~

make it happen~!
agreed @Rect_Pola a new F-Zero would be nice too~

hopefully the demo comes out Thursday ~

interesting proposal patcher but you miss alot.. Nintendo is making profit on the 3DS and i'm sure its surpassed the 30 million mark by now~ the Wii U is approaching 4 million in under 5 months~

i am sure Nintendo will do just fine if they only sold 30-50 million Wii U's but the thing is, big hit games arn't out yet, look at the 3DS once the big games came out, it took off same is going to happen with the Wii U. Also i should note that consoles NEVER sell well during this time of the year~ one year from now we'll probably (keyword: probably not certainly) be hearing these "console market is dead" articles due to the PS4 and 720 having a slow first year...

"might be nintendo's last console" interesting considering the fact that Nintendo's stock just went up not down~ As much as i like sony i will point out that sony is in a much much worse position than Nintendo atm, the Vita (despite having a boost of sales in Japan recently) has had a poor first year, and the PS4's success is going to rely on 2 things, price and games~

all this was i.m.o btw~ we won't know the real end results of the Eighth generation console sales until it ends some 4 to 7 years down the road, happy gaming~ =)

NSMBU, and rayman legends demo on wii u

style savvy and mario kart 7 on 3DS

hopefully that need for speed most wanted u demo comes out next week~!

can't wait~

i'll be getting the Wii U version of this game, hoping some of the interactivity with the environment will be controllable via the gamepad~

those who are saying its better than mario kart 7 i ask you all this~?

how~?!

the framerate is horrid on this version of all-stars racing, on mario kart 7 you had constant 60fps even with the 3d on, and a good internet connection~

not saying this is a bad racing game no, far from it, but framerate is very important when it comes to any kind of racing game and mk7 is by far the optimum kart racer on the 3DS, Sonic All-Stars racing is good, but the framerate issues keep it back quite a bit to be perfectly honest~

graphically both games look good, but MK7 has more polish than Sonic Transformed on the 3DS while still maintaining a healthy frame-rate ~

I can tell this generation I will have a Wii U this year once the ZombiU bundle hits shelves, and a PS4 by the end of 2014~

personally only Nintendo and Sony are interesting to me so far this gen ((the 8th generation), Microsoft throws up alot of ehs for me, due to my experience with the 360, which i just sold~ again, personal opinion/experience~

@belmont it is the best RE game since RE4~

i played the PS3 version of RE6 when it came out because my friend got it, the presentation was good, the story good, the gameplay... -twiddles my fingers- unless you like having quicktime events everytime you stumble too close to a zombie ((literally every 2 seconds especially during ambushes)) then its definitely the game for you, RE6 was the first game to truely frustrate me in years to be honest, and the only time i enjoyed it was during the cutscenes..

Revelations on the other hand made me feel like I was playing a original RE game with RE4/5 gameplay, which was great in my opinion, and unlike RE6 the gameplay in Revelations is addictive and barely if ever becomes frustrating (i even found the swimming levels to be fun).

so in the end i probably won't get the Wii U version for awhile due to the fact that I have it on the 3DS~ but to me Revelations is the better game of the two, especially in the gameplay department~

Iwata during the last Direct: "there won't be any new titles from Nintendo until march"

what does ubisoft do....

they delay the one major Wii U title to come out in February by SEVEN MONTHS! not only that, this delay might hurt Wii U in terms of February sales now...~ :

something new and original but still using elements from 64, Sunshine, and the Galaxy games~

i'm excited for wind waker HD cause i never owned the GCN original~

so, now the wait for E3 begins~
titles i'm excited for:
that new 3D mario game
mario kart
the next Zelda
super smash bros
that new yoshi game

but most of all, I'm excited to see the new Zelda games at E3~ >o<

i'm glad that they are porting this to the wii u instead of RE6, i played RE6 on the ps3 at a friend's house, and the contant action commands every other second a zombie or monster would jump out at you got quite annoying imo and i always felt Revelations was what RE6 should have been due to Revelations having the action gameplay from RE4 and 5 but with a nice focus on claustrophobic don't turn that corner to quickly scares that the early games were well known for~ However with that said its unlikely i'll be getting the wii u version tho, cause i got the original on the 3DS a year ago~ ^^"""""

finally a solid release date ~ was hoping for a feb release date but thats alright~ harvest moon, and paper mario: sticker star should hold me off till march, if i take my time with those games which i have been~

i'll be playing Style Savvy: Trendsetters, Harvest Moon: A New Beginning, and Paper Mario sticker star this weekend~

my top 3 3DS games of 2012 are~
1. Style Savvy: Trendsetters
2. Resident Evil: Revelations
3. New Super Mario Bros. 2

i have yet to pick up Kid Icarus, metal gear solid 3d or the new Paper Mario yet tho~

ummm, wheres super mario 3d land~? o.o

@TruenoGT: glad to hear that it does trasfer~

@SanderEvers: interesting response? no obviously i'm not Nintendo..

"move the save data to the sd card before transfer"

games like mario kart wii and brawl don't allow you to move their data to an sd card~ or do they transfer anyway?

@Bass_X0 six years is a long wait too~

this i want~~

love this game~ it'd also be great if Nintendo released a Wii U Style Savvy on the eshop~

would rather see them do a sequel to Revelations on the Wii U, as Revelations was more of a step in the "right direction" then RE6 ever was~ personal opinion of course~

@adrenochrome oh they do, sometimes when my Wii or 3DS had a internet problem the system would ask to try again later~

@CeroNavy
after the update we are suppose to have 3GB available for use in the basic set and 25GB available in the deluxe~

also Ron, once your Wii U is done updating could you confirm if Wii mode lets you use the systems memory, or if it has its own dedicated memory for virtual console games/saves and wii saves~ thanks for the answer when you can respond~ also i can't wait to get my Deluxe Wii U soon~

3 years~ oh my i hope the team that worked on the galaxy games has been working on a new 3d mario game alongside this one ((behind the scenes of course)), if not then we may have to wait awhile before we see a new one~

i'm hoping on getting mine next week, if not then its gonna be fun store hopping all december~ just hope the shortages arn't nearly as bad as the Wii was~

i do believe this will be available for the Wii U, having said that the quality is great, so much better then the youtube XL we've been using for 6 years on the internet channel, i recommend downloading the youtube channel regardless if your getting the Wii U in 2 days or not~ ((10:38 EST when i posted this so its technically a day and a hour 1/2 for the midnight launch here in the US~))

@Kirk then just buy the retail games, and Wii controllers don't cost nearly as much as it will cost to get a Wii U gamepad, and all your current Wii controllers, Wii remote, nunchuck, classic controller, and classic controller pros will all work with the Wii U~

not to much of a problem with me~ i'm siding between getting a 64GB usb flash drive or a 250GB external HDD, judging from my Wii first party library and the sequals that are sure to come on the Wii U ((Super Mario U -a 3d sucessor to the galaxy games- Smash U, Mario Kart U, Legend of Zelda U etc.)) , a 64GB usb flash drive would more then suffice~ as i will buy most 3rd party games retail in case i wanna trade em in later, which is something i almost never do with first party Nintendo games~

I'm gonna try to get the deluxe set on black friday, if not then the whole month of December is gonna be a game of go to the store everyother day just like the Wii was, hopefully shortages won't be nearly as bad~

@erica_hartmann there are alot of people that don't even take the time to read the manual~

@TrueWiiMaster yes i have a 1TB external HDD i use with my computer and it has its own powersource~

a 250GB external drive will fill most of my needs~ anyone know any good deals on ones with high consumer ratings and ones that have their own power source~?

could care less about achievements~

@3dbrains you should really go with the 32gb model, the deluxe digital promotion a copy of Nintendo Land, all in all its a much better deal then the basic 8gb set~

@pinta_vodki thats exactly what i've been hoping they would do, just one more firmware update to allow us to tie our Wii's into the ID system and then the transfer process with be streamlined~

@HarmoKnight until your console breaks down and you lose all your downloaded purchases, the user ID and account system is so much better as all that information is saved to your network ID, and all you have to do is sign in~

hoping Nintendo ID does come out before the Wii U does, as I have to change out the disk drive of my original Wii -had since 2007- myself, so i don't lose all my virtual title games~

with Nintendo ID all of our download info will be on one ID so if a system goes bad all we have to do is sign in with a newer system and get our purchases back, something we can't do yet with Wii or the DSi and 3DS.

F-Zero with online play at 60fps would be amazing on Wii U and they need to make it happen~

It seems so odd that the Wii never had a F-Zero game, the last F-Zero game I played was GX on the GameCube~

getting a Xbox 360 now would be taking a step back, especially since Wii U is superior in everyway~

Getting the Wii U!

@clavier141 I agree, or at least we should get them at a discount~ If we buy the Retail for $39.99 then download them at the same price, theres no garuntee we are gonna get a good deal back when we trade in our retail copies~.

For example if I did decide to buy Mario Kart 7 digitally for $39.99, I probably won't get $10-$15 when I trade in my physical copy of the game~ so physical owners who want to go digital should be granted huge discounts from Nintendo if we already own the games.

Eternal Darkness
Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker
Resident Evil REmake
Resident Evil Zero
Resident Evil 2 (if not the GCN port, definitly the N64 one as it was never available on the Wii's VC)

to name my top 5
and every other gamecube game i currently own so i can preserve my disc copies and used the eshop downloaded versions on Wii U

@Kage_88 thats what i said..hopefully their are some good trade deals with this and the old models

hopefully we will be able to download both GameCube and Wii titles because i really want F-Zero GX, Eternal Darkness, Resident Evil 2 (the N64 edition if they can, i know it didn't release on Wii due to its big file size, and i also know it was ported to the GameCube too~ ), the Metroid Prime series, Fatal Frame 3, Zelda: Wind Waker, and so much more~

almost as bad as their misconception of video game prices http://www.amazon.com/Super-Mario-Bros-U-Nintendo-Wii/dp/B002I0K3CK/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1340222860&sr=8-1&keywords=new+super+mario+bros+u, not to mention they got the release date off by a whole year why do retailers have to make wild assumptions about console and game prices before they are even announced? i'd rather wait and see what Nintendo says in a few months~