@Einherjar
Yes they did, Lego City and Mario are two examples of AAA titles. I know... I know... people are going to say but it's not a 3D Mario! MAKES no difference! do you honestly know any Mario fan that says yuck, a 2D Mario game.... there are more casual gamers out there that are more a fan of 2D Mario than The 3D ones.

If they make a Galaxy 3 then the fanboy press will just be saying... more of the same but in 720...

@G3ry
I agree... Wii U and a PC is the way to go... anything worthwhile on the other consoles is always on the PC and Nintendo games never are.

I can't wait until all the Microsoft fanboys run out and buy loads of games and then try to play them 10 years later to find that they no longer work. Maybe then people will realize what kind of company they are, they do not care about the gamers. I own my Wii U games and will be able to play them forever.

@RancidVomit86
so if your preference happens to be Nintendo you must be a fanboy? wow, the state of gaming really must be sucking these days if all people care about is CPU speed and GPU, wow, very sad... I suppose if a brand new company all of the sudden announces a system that is twice the power of nextbox people would then say Microsoft sucks? of course not, why? those are the fanboys, I hope they enjoy what Microsoft is now doing to help ruin gaming, do you not realize that you will only be able to rent games for the new xbox? don't believe me? just try to play those games in 10 years and see if they work.

@Beppeoioi
Seriously? if I were faced with the 3 consoles I would definitely buy a Wii U. Did you forget that Nintendo makes the best games out of the three? and most of the third party games on the other two consoles I will be able to play on my PC as usual... Nintendo is the real winner.

Any chance for a Wii U release?

The best thing would be a price cut at this point, it helped to save the 3DS.

Focus on mobile? go ahead and release all your freemium crap there while real game companies like Nintendo are making the quality games.

They ruined Sim City, I bet part of them dropping support is that Nintendo won't support their DRM crap...

Its total idiots like this that make me glad EA isn't bringing their crap to the Wii U. EA has been going down for some time now, just give it a couple more years.

Please be a BRAND NEW Mario! not Galaxy 3! those were great but do we really need more of the same? make it totally different!

@Haxonberik
I kind of agree... it might be fun but to some if feels more like button mashing than strategy.

That will be great if they come out this year... I'll believe it when I see it...

I planned on playing Pikmin and Wii Fit U long before now and that didn't happen...

Sort of like saying... if I were Nintendo I'd make Mario controls suck?

@element187
It's easy... I (and a lot of other people) prefer the 2D ones...

@LetsGoRetro
I just don't think the problem is all about the games... there are some great Wii U games now that people are ignoring... and even when I mention Pikmin to people, most do not even know what that is. A brand new killer IP might help though...

@LetsGoRetro
Mario Paint is a great idea!!

Yet to bring out Mario? the Wii U had a new Mario game from the start and it didn't help.

Two screens on a console just wasn't a great idea, even Nintendo is struggling to find a good use for it. Tell me I can play my 3DS and DS games on it and I will like the idea much better.

I missed the old days when the game is all that mattered, no arguments over CPU speed, etc... this is ridicilous anymore... too many people that care about nothing but power, no matter how powerful the next xbox is, it will still pale in comparison to stuff out 10-15 years from now, so lets just worry about the games.

CPU and graphics do not make classic games! the game does! look at the NES, it has plenty of classic games and who gives a crap about how fast the CPU is!

Insomniac must be delusional from lack of sleep

@hms
720 IS HD but there are also 3D 1080 games on the Wii U that run just fine, Skylanders Giants for example...

@Pixelroy
YES!!! We better get Castle of Illusion!

Rockstar always has some excuse... now Nintendo has a powerful system it's going to be that the user base is too small... but I guarantee that they will jump on the Nextbox and next sony systems on day one. Lets just face it, they don't like Nintendo. Lego City is better anyway.

@dizzy_boy
umm... Skylanders

ummm... I'm already using the Activision Top Shot Elite rifle with Call of Duty on the Wii U, this isn't anything new...

I found something even better a couple of weeks ago, I Dig It HD. One of the best ipad games I've played.

Also worth mentioning...

Across Age HD (like a SNES RPG), House of the Dead Overkill: The Lost Reels, Boulder Dash XL, Space Miner HD, Air Mail, Star Command

@Farmboy74
Yeah but out of the 280 games I own there are only 2 games that work with it (only 100 games out of hundreds of thousands supporting something isn't good support). There are tons of new games that would benefit with it but the developers usually just say "I'll think about it"....

@Farmboy74
No TV solution works well... airplay is just horrible for games, way too much lag. I do like the bluetooth controllers like the 8 Bitty (the NES like icade controller) but only a few games support it. Somehow adding 15 lines of code to your game to support it is too difficult for most developers.

I used to love EA but I really think it's time for them to go away... they have done nothing right lately (Sim City's DRM for example) and their future is scary...

Sony_70
If Microsoft were just a game/console company they would have been dead years ago. Sometimes I think they keep throwing money at their console business for just reputation alone, they want to be at the top regardless of the cost. Nintendo has to earn their success in the console world.

@aaronsullivan
I've been reading Toucharcade for a couple of years. They do pick out some of the better games but for every good game there are about 100 bad games released that they don't bother with. People don't realize the huge amount of garbage released every day until you use appshopper or something that lists all the releases real time.

The few "quality" games release on Wednesday nights, most of those I don't even care for because I'm not into endless runners, etc... The rest of the week is mostly garbage that is made with game makers, etc...

Sure, IOS has a lot of good games, currently 1,181,386 apps total but with 99% of them being crap how many good ones will we really get? the major game publishers for ipad, EA, Rockstar, Gameloft, etc... are already able to make Nintendo games when they want to... so who exactly is Nintendo helping? hopefully some worthy companies. I also don't want all the fremium crap.

@Wiidsguy
I disagree about "the more games the better". People complained about all the shovelware on the Wii, do you not realize that the IOS market is 99% shovelware? it could hurt the e-shop overall if we are flooded with crap. I have an ipad and there are definitely some good games but they are in the minority.

No mention of save states... that's why I want the Retron 5.

@mch
I totally agree, that would have wrecked Lego City Undercover.

@snax007
I pointed out those games because they each have potentionally hundreds of hours worth of gameplay in them and they aren't ports to me. Just because a game is on another system doesn't make it any less of a game.

My point was that there is more than enough games to keep people busy on the Wii U, it's hard enough to find time to play the games I already have. The problem isn't with the Wii U library... it's with most of todays gamers... people see a review giving a game less than an 8 and write it off as garbage. I love Tank! Tank! Tank!

Unfortunately what attracts most people these days arent even the games themselves, it's "how good is Wii U Tvii?", I couldn't care less... or "can I play DVDs on the Wii U?" I say are you too cheap to buy a DVD player? or "what are the social features like"... umm, your cell phone, facetime, facebook, twitter, etc.. don't have you stuck up your friends butts enough already?

I'm beginning to think Nintendo will be the last true gaming company, I hope we never see the day where the next Mario game is an endless runner, or worse yet... released on a cell phone. Thats when I am finished with modern gaming and will just stick with Retro.

@ThomasBW84
I understand... I just have friends that whine about not having anything to play but I somehow cannot convice them that those really are good games they should give a chance.

I personally think they should have given us improved motion controls and not have done the whole two screen thing, it just makes things more confusing to casual gamers, my wife doesn't even want to touch the Wii U, heck, even my grandma bought the Wii.

There are lots of possible solutions... one example that would improve sales is if they need to announce that the Wii U can play DS and 3DS games. I don't know what they are waiting for, all the hardware is there. Just PLEASE give us a cartridge adapter and not expect us to repurchase the games.

The Drought has already ended. If you haven't bought Lego City, Monster Hunter or Need for Speed then do it, you couldn't ask for better games...

If you have them and beat them already then... umm... get a life?

It should read... Gaming will suck by 2017...

I like the game though, the controls are just different... it adds to the challenge. If it controlled as well as Mario there would be zero challenge in the game.

I'd be more excited about this if we could play it on an actual console....

@Burning_Spear Sony and Microsoft didn't skip E3 last year when they had no hardware announcements...

This would have been the perfect time for a huge announcement... something like "now the Wii U can play DS and 3DS games!"

It's a huge mistake to not do anything, it will only make people just write them off more than they already do...

Save states for ANY game and HDMI output... it's MINE!!!

it's overrated anyway... I hardly touched GTA IV.... Lego City Undercover is better

wow, nice vague answers...

Please get rid of the tube-like scrolling... I loved Animal Crossing on Gamecube but cannot stand how it's been ever since...

you guys know that the voting isn't here right? you have to e-mail it...

@Nintendojuenger - Yes, I got it from Australia, only took 6 months to actually find someone in Australia that was willing to sell it to someone in the USA... had to pay someone like 4 times the price just to get it... just wait until those guys want some of our USA exclusives!

Why only licensed games? some of my favorites are not licensed, Micro Machines, Fantastic Adventures of Dizzy, Crystal Mines, etc...

We have had some of the best games come out recently, Need for Speed, Monster Hunter and Lego City, no complaints here, I have more than enough to keep me busy. What important game are we missing at the moment? nothing I can think of...

Skylanders is a great game, I would be quickly be bored with this game, it's not worth buying toys for.