North American Nintendo Direct Round-Up (22nd June)

Ahem...

BETTER THAN E3!

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Holy kanoli! Sounds like sakurai's cooking up one massive games if he has that many developers! But, if there is a prototype it would have been nice to see.

E3 is for casual gamers now. Nintendo Direct is where it's at.

Yeah, BTW its 12:16am over here, and SML isn't discounted yet

I swear I'm going to start watching these. Especially with all the Letter Box updates on them.

21 min of NINTENDO DIRECT 6-21-12 ›2 days of NINTENDO ALL ACCESS E3 2012

Announce this for Europe as well darn it!! I want one of those giant 3DS's!!

@19Robb92 We've put up quite a lot of EU news — 3DS XL hits EU on 29th July!

@James Yeah saw it, did not manage to edit in time - sorry.

Can't wait to pick one up though

No worries! Think I might grab one myself though I wish they were blue all over instead of just the outer shell

@James
Yeah, I hate that little black outline on the top. That's why I'll be waiting on the white one:

Beautiful <3

souls calibur and tekken characters are Smash-bound!

I though that this Nintendo Direct show was far more eventful and interesting than Nintendo's recent E3 press conference. I was completely surprised by the 3DS XL. I like the new, bigger screens and the improved the battery life. I'm not sure if I'm going to get one though. Now that I've seen more of the new 3DS XL, I think that the original 3DS design is more sleek and sexy looking. Maybe I'll just wait and see if Nintendo releases a special edition for Black Friday this year.

Wouldn't say it was significantly better than E3 though WRT announcemets

Happy to see the uptick in VC releases.

E3 might have been able to compete with this if they compressed everything into 21 minutes rather than 3 conferences full of so much fluff. I still think I'm more excited by the 3DS XL than I am about anything at E3 though.

Man, all these collections and love for franchises yet Metroid missed out

This DLC trend is troubling. I thought Nintendo was steering clear of that, but that must not be the case. If Nintendo releases DLC, I hope it's at least fairly priced and quality unlike some of Capcom's debacles.

Good god nintendo though im peeved ill have to wait f
to geta black XL.

I've been busy with work this week, so I missed out on a lot of stuff. We're getting a sale here too! I totally had no idea about this. I might as well get Pullblox (引ク押ス) and Super Mario Bros.

http://www.nintendo.co.jp/3ds/eshop/1stanniv/index.html

EDIT: Oh I see. It says "Store opening First Anniversary sale, Thank you festival". I should have been expecting something like this.

Is the kingdom hearts demo available in the UK?

Nintendo Direct is a hadcore gamers best friend.

@MadScientistMan Yes it is.
And it's so totally awesome./

@Nick-Clegg Agreed
I was actually already going to get the game, but it will be my first Kingdom Hearts game! Off topic, I'm watching Jeremy Kyle right now, so nice pic!

Europe doesn't get a round-up?

You disappoint me Nintendo-Life..

Look on the bright side, Europe, Fire Emblem will probably get released there before Western Continents, if Xenoblade is any indication...

I wonder how 3DS XL will fit into your pocket when trying to get those coins... This is confusing @~@

I'll probably get this on Black Friday, do a system transfer, sell my launch 3DS, and get a murse.

I love how the 3DS XL goes out the face of the box and continues on the side.

look at that monstrocity... not interested in xl, waiting for lite (also, double the battery life, half an hour more is still not good enough nintendo!)
Fire emblem is a must now and layton looks awesome. no monster hunter...

spoiler: didn't anyone notice the consequences of no right thumb stick?
seriously.. we have to buy another, bigger circle pad?

WOW. Just...WOW. SCHWING! EXCELLENT! AYE CARUMBA!

DEMO DEMO DEMO DEMO I can only see the word DEMO, nothing else.

One step closer to having The King of All Cosmos in Smash Bros.