Nintendo Download: 20th December 2012 (North America)

Doesn't Mario Tennis Open sell for 40$ retail? Does that mean a 10$ discount?

SAAAAAAAAAALE

....... checks wallet

@Happy_Mask Next week.

At long last, Wario has arrived! Definitely a lot of stuff to choose from this week.

Was wondering where this was. Anyway, once I get the cash and/or some review scores, I'll be looking at escapeVektor, PIX3D, WL2, the NSMB2 DLC, perhaps PRB and Anonymous Notes Ch. 3.

@Skotski

Ha Too Funny! But so true...

That is a ton of content. I believe the WiiWare game has a demo as well.

BTW my body was not ready for this.

Wow, lots of stuff here. I guess it's a final push before the holidays.

Argh! I just purchased Trine 2: Director's Cut yesterday too!

I find the idea of charging the original price of PilotWings Resort disgusting. You can buy it for $20 almost everywhere. Even sleezy places like GameStop.

Glad about Wario, and that the sales last past Christmas in case I get a points card!

No poll today?
I finally got one of these anonymous notes. It's cool.

I may get Wario Land II and the gnomz demo later

Nice selection. Escape Vektor sounds promising and now may be a good time to get Trine 2.

Finally, Wario Land II! One of the best Game Boy games, no doubt!

Bittrip Saga doesn't look like the perfect bittrip collection, but for $15 bucks I might get them. Having them all on a handheld (where I actually will play games like that) for a lot less then buying them on Wiiware isn't that bad.

What were they thinking with Pilotwings? That game sells for $20 or under at most retailers. I wish Pokemon Rumble would get a price cut too. $35 just seems too high.

No poll this week?

@brandonbwii: Well, it IS disgusting. And yet Bit.Trip.Saga is only $15 to download, which is LESS than the retail version launched at. Nintendo is too bloody greedy.

I had to check Nintendo's press site for this info, as it was available over two hours ago (no idea when it went up). Got Wario Land II (how long you think we'll have to wait for 3?) and Little Inferno.

@Stuffgamer1- 13 years to be exact.

RETRO CITY RAMPAGE!!!!!!!!! AAHHHHHH! Where are you?!?

@Happy_Mask That was next week.

EscapeVektor is effing awesome. Nothing else is interesting.

Only good price is Bit. Trip SAGA for retail downloads. We need some sales, and a DLC bundle for NSMB2.

Nice week.

SMH at Pilotwings price though.

$40 for Pilotwings? I've seen it as low as $20 CAN at some retailers. Pffft!

^And $5 USD

Not to mention $20 MTO and some cheap Pokemon Rumble Blast though the last one is fine IMO.

Just curious, but why did it take so long for this to update today?

Anyway, I got Wario Land II. Might pick up Little Inferno too since it's on sale now.

Well i'm definitely picking up bittrip saga as that is insanely cheap. Would pick up piliot wing, but that is so over priced i kinda feel bad for anyone picking it up.

Vampire Crystals has a pretty fun demo. 3 stages and part of a boss fight. Glad they included 4 player co-op in the demo. Looks like a fun game.

I was thinking of getting PilotWings, but not for $40! Amazon it is, then.

YES!!!!!!!!! YESSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS-
Finally wario land 2!

This is the first time i've seen the 'Nothing for me this week' bar at less than 30%.

Nice =) So the "have it your own way" eShop mantra its working, great deals for those games... ill take Trine 2 for 15 everyday.

BIT.TRIP.SAGA for 15 ? that seems like an awesome deal !! but will save those 30 on my 3DS if a "Christmas deal" comes in...

Hmmm, what's the record for most games added in one update? I can't recall any larger updates than this. I went with escapeVektor.

Pilotwings Resort should be $4.99

Anyways, I'm getting Vampire Crystals as my final Wiiware purchase.

Still no Zombi U demo....the 15th has come & gone Ubi!!!

SALE!

Holy crap, I never expected to see something like this on a Nintendo console, and so soon after its launch, too! Kinda makes me wish I had a Wii U right now...

Looks like a bountiful week. With that said, there's personally nothing of interest to me.

Hope you all find something you like

A sale on a Nintendo console?! It really is the end of the world!

Anyway, this looks like an awesome week. The option to get all 6 Bit Trip games for $15 is absolutely crazy, too. That's an incredible price. I know I'll be getting EscapeVector.

Whoa, we're actually getting a sale. That's surprising.
AND on the same day that Steam's starting its holiday sale as well.

I just bought trine 2 a few days ago... ftw lol so my free 500 points from nintendo network premium replaces the $5 extra I spent urggggg

I'm still busy with my CN rewards (TwinBee and Metroid II), so no downloads for me this week. I will get Wario Land II eventually, though.

What an awesome week. BIT. TRIP SAGA is one of my favorite games on the 3DS, and escapeVektor coming in on eShop...

Oh, and don't forget about Wario Land II finally arriving to Virtual Console. Took them long enough.

Now if only SEGA released Ristar for 3DS Virtual Console... then my life would be complete along with the Mother Trilogy revamped.

At last! Wario Land II will be mine!

I bought Pilotwings for $4.99 brand new at Best Buy. Nintendo should charge even less as they don't have to ship anything to you and they don't have to send ti to a retailer who marks up the price so they make a profit. Nintendo blows sometimes.

I saw Anonymous Notes used in complete condition for $3.99 at Disc Replay and almost bought it, but I already spent $3.98 on Chapters 1 & 2. Now, I've spent a total of $5.97 on 3 chapters so now I feel like I probably should have bought the physical copy.

I bought Warioland II for GBC early this year, but am tempted to buy it again anyway. I also am craving that 3D game collection.

@ThatTrueEvil: I also wish they put Ristar on the 3DS Virtual Console, though it'll most likely be the game gear version (and hopefully the japanese version for that extra level)

Wario! Cha cha cha!

I STILL don't know why people complain over the retail pricing... it's the same as the MSRP, so why is everyone angry? Companies follow MSRP, that's the rule.

I got Wario land II this week, and will get EscapeVektor and Bit trip and pokemon rumble blast when I have money

Companies don't follow MSRP all the time. Capcom's store for example (and that's the worst example ever).

That's still a bullcrap excuse. It's called "keeping up with retailers"

Also, we need 3DS sales and price drops like Europe. I'll bite on my 4th Cave Story and any other shoddy Nicalis ports then, as well as a few other games.

Vampire Crystals was pretty fun! Though I wonder, now that eShop is out and we've heard so many good things about it, has Nintendo changed any rules for devs still releasing games on Wii Shop? Did Shanblue get to price Vampire Crystals on their own, or did Nintendo still do that themselves?

Damn! I could have saves $9 if I had waited to get Trine 2 and Little Inferno. Also could have picked up chasing aura.

I took the plunge for Trine 2 not that long ago, and now it's 20% off. Sheesh.

Imma download Pilotwings Resort but should have been $20, just like Star Fox 64 3D should have been $30.

I got anonymous notes III I really enjoyed the first 2 no matter what reviews said I like the Action RPG and item collection play style. I do wish item changes would show on avatars but oh well

Same here with Trine2...4 bucks lost. Well a lest i can buy little inferno and nano assault with one card.

This is great that there getting the rest of the past retail downloads out

Cool. Ya, I just check the eShop every Thursday to see what's on there on both Wii U/3DS and saw these. I'm pretty tempted to just use my $15 from 10% back for Trine 2(already have on PS3), but I like having all my retail games on the SD card, too, so Mario Tennis Open might be a go for me... I already have it, but nothing I can't deal with in terms of reselling for slightly less, than rebuying it, especially when people who don't want to buy the full priced new game will easily buy it from me for $25-30, then I can buy it again for the SD card. That's how I manage to rebuy the games full price again, so I'm stealing a potential second hand sale from GS, and a new one from Nintendo, but since it's digital, Nintendo's only getting a laggier service at the worst... Whatever, and Wario 2 will for sure make it on my 3DS soon. Good week I'd say...

One of the best week ever. I want a lot of games, that´s weird from me. More weeks like this.

I want one of each category.

If anyone can tell me that SAGA has fixed the lag/framerate issue (esp with Runner) then I'll sell my cart (heck, maybe I'll keep it!) and download this from eShop.

what happen with the framerate?

Runner, esp in 3D (and World 3 levels) has framerate issues (gets real choppy and Commander Video, as well as the moving background, lags). It's only on the 3DS version though. I have WiiWare and Bit.Trip Complete and those versions are lag free. Still, Bit.Trip SAGA for $15....?? That's a steal!!

However, having that sexy Nintendo life quote on the back of the cartridge box is priceless in my opinion.

@Bezerker99 I think Gaijin mentioned somewhere that it's the exact same version that's on the cartridge.
I think it was their Twitter...

The whole bit trip saga for 15 dollars? SOLD

So who's going for PIX3D??? I bought it and loved it! I like pixel art

Wow, this was a good week. I had already bought quite a few games off the eShop in recent weeks, and I just went a little crazy and spent, ahem, $45 on games released today (BIT.TRIP.SAGA, Wario Land II, escapeVektor, PIX3D, 3D Game Collection, and the NSMB2 DLC).

I should be good for a while...

Oh wait, Lost Levels and Fluidity come out next week? Uh oh.

Whoa. This is the week when EVERYTHING happened. Guess they wanted to be sure we had a chance to nab things before the end of the world!

A new WiiWare game. Hurrah, hurray, hooray and huzzah! (Only too bad that we Europeans must wait until next year.)

I wonder, was the bit trip game got its issues fixed? or is the same as the physical one?

@ThatTrueEvil @SheldonRandoms Ristar would be awesome. Even better in 3D with those beautiful levels.

Been playing escapeVektor all day, already one of my favourite 3DS games. It's 4 times bigger than the WiiWare one and looks incredible in 3D, i'm overwhelmed.

Far more interesting than a 10 year old platformer guys.

So, North America finally got Wario Land II? Took us long enough.

Someone correct me if I'm wrong - Europe has Wario Land III already, correct?

If that's the case, I won't be expecting WL3 until... summer? For cryin' out loud, we're still missing 2 "8-Bit Summer" games!

I am still very disappointed that they don't offer 10.00 off on Retail downloads. You get no Box, artwork or Cartridge. I guess this is going to be something Nintendo just isn't going to budge on. It wont matter soon when every game is digital download only. My prediction is within 3 years everything will be digital. Can't wait for Gunman Clive i'm really looking forward to playing that with the control pad. They Really unleashed alot of good gaming this week.

Also if anyone is thinking of Downloading Pilot Wings you can get it from Amazon for 14.95 Save yourself 25 bucks. There are a couple other titles like this also. Steel Diver which isn't in the Eshop yet is 6.95 at amazon. what a good deal! When I see this kind of difference in price I will try and report.

@Nintendolife Would it be possible to make a section for reporting on pricing descrepancies between the non-digital and digital download games? I know it would take a ton of effort on someone's part but would be very informative.

@X-Factor
You can probably get Pilot Wings for under $10 at retail....just FYI

Wii U eShop sale? O: Cool

@Azikira Just an FYI. Nintendo did run a few lame sales over the summer in the 3DS Eshop. Since I think Late August Nothing on sale. Seems they are very content to let the old DSi games Rot right where they are at Full price. Sad thing is...most of the first DSi Downloads are just bad games. Sony runs their shop the same way so I guess oh well. But really some of the older should have a sales section to go into. and these old Carts that have recently been added to the Eshop for Digital download at 39.99 is just crazy

I don't think were going to see any sales on software.

Got wario land 2 and ANC3 just because I had the first two nd they were fun.

For the whole retail should be cheaper... I sorta agree, depends on the game TBH, and yes there should be sales for every game at certain points of time

I heard that that if a game is on eshop for a year it becomes free!

@Honeydew: Pardon my French, but where the HELL did you hear that? That sounds a tad too good to be true, wouldn't you think?

@rayword45 Not really. Some companies choose to follow MSRP (Nintendo), others don't (Aksys). Personally I bought Pokemon rumble blast

Why in hell do you consider that a legit reason? Name 5 other companies that do that with EVERY RECENT TITLE, even the ones that cost half as much elsewhere like Pilotwings and Star Fox. Name them. I can't.

There is no reason for them to charge $40 for Pilotwings for a digital download with no box, when I can get a box and manual for $35 less.