Year of Luigi Gets Official Send-Off from Shigeru Miyamoto

Bah, I'll keep celebrating it. Afterall, I haven't even quite finished Dream Team, and I still have a lot of Super Luigi U left to go.

inb4 Year of Yoshi confirmed.

It was an amazing year to me, especially since they FINALLY made a sequel to my favorite Gamecube game Luigi's Mansion.

Still celebrating it, love the green thunder with all my heart.

Year of Luigi was great

The Year of Luigi was great but all good (or in this case, awesome!) things must come to an end. Luigi deserved it, so I personally hope no-one else gets the 'year' treatment, as selfish as that sounds. I'll always be on the side of the Green 'Stache.

I think it would be great if they continued things like this for more under appreciated/underutilized characters.

Is it just me or is there a bittersweet irony in the fact that the year of Luigi has coincided with one of Nintendo's worst financial years?

This was a good promo...dare I say, I'm sad it's come to a close!

Okay now give us our direct and DS VC.

'twas a good year for the man in green! ..but I also spot an image mentioning 2014 as the Year of Yoshi. Hint hint, guys?

I've been a fan of Luigi since SMB on the NES. Maybe it is because I am the younger brother, and I was always player 2 on almost a every game.

I will always believe Luigi is superior to Mario, and will always be green at heart.

I'm also glad that Luigi's special year got a formal official closing as opposed to fading away. Makes it all the more special.

Year of DK time. Make it happen.

K so... Nintendo direct?

(Sniff)

We'll always have the Year of the Luigi in our hearts.

I wanted to post on the Miiverse community one last time before it was over, but I was too late.

_{i bet NL announces year of yoshi on april 1st}

With the grumblers on this one, have Nintendo got anything relevant to talk about as well as their quaint self congratulation? The fact that they seem to be skipping another Direct, after an absence of any new Wii U title reveals last month and no direct the month before that. Aside from Indie games we have no significant releases in the first half of the year (-1day) and no release dates for anything beyond that. If we are lucky we might get Watch_Dogs in the summer but there is a very real chance that it might not even be out this year.
Sure we could be getting regular releases in the forms of X, Bayonetta, Smash Bros, Yoshi, Fire EmblemXSMT, but so far those have only been giving yearly estimates, most of which were set over a year ago. There is currently a very real chance that there will be nothing until around October. I really hope X is as close to completion as it looks, and that Nintendo is going to drop some suprises on us because right now the situation looks terrible. : (

Bizarre that Miyamoto brings the 13 month year of Luigi to an end 2 days after the end, and nothing of note happens to replace it in a week Super Metroid is 20, Yoshi has been released on the 3ds, GDC is happening, and everyone is looking for a bit of good news to tide us until MK8. It's as if they had something planned and it all fell through before they had a chance.

Yup, that sums up Nintendo....

One of the best celebrations of years of.

So... The year of Wario anyone?

What was the point in continuing the Year of Luigi in 2014 if they didn't release anymore Luigi themed video games? "Sigh' I kinda thought they'd pull a NES Remix and announce a new Luigi game before March 18... But I guess not.

Year of 2nd Tier Franchises next. Star Fox, F-Zero, Fire Emblem and more.

Where is luigis mansion wii u!?

@antipop621 Heck no. No more DK games please. Bring on the Year of Yoshi though!

I want the new Yoshi's Yarn to be as challenging as Yoshi's Story!

Luigi will always be loved by gamers, and even with his year officially over, people are still going to hope that the green machine will still make great appearances in games.

Now for Yoshi to get some love for all the times some people dropped him off a cliff. (You know who you are)

<3

It was fun. It was goofy. Classic Nintendo.

@SecondServing I want it to be as challenging as Donkey Kong Country Returns or maybe slightly harder. (That is the perfect difficulty).

You think they would have given NA SMB3 at the end.

@KnightRider666 Or Luigi's Mansion 1 on the VC...

I really hope there's no "Year of Yoshi", it'd lower the importance of the Year of Luigi...

I liked the weirdness of luigi throughout the year, but I hope the next year is given to someone non-mario.

Year of Diddy Kong for DKC 20th anniversary!!!

Moving on: Year of Waluigi!!!

I generally play as Mario (my younger brother would usually play Luigi), but I have come to prefer Luigi as a character, even if I still mainly use Mario.

I'm the older brother, but I have fond memories of always picking Luigi playing Marioparty 2.

I'll only consider it done when NES Remix 2 releases.
And it's great that next year i'll probably be fine with using him in Mario Kart again. It would just not have felt right during the YoL.

It will always be the Year of Luigi for me!

(pfft) Oh yeah (sure) hooray for Luigi! (whatever).... Can we start the "Year of Metroid" now??? Just wondering

Luigi should had more recognition by Nintendo, just by releasing Luigi Mansion for the new generation remastered. Now, put it on the eShop !