Nintendo Download: 17th April (Europe)

A 1st party demo for a change? Gonna be picking that up then!

Golden sun

Etrian Odyssey demo? Please let it have more than 3 uses.

Mario Golf: World Tour demo now that is a surprise.

Downloaded kid Icarus uprising last night too fr £29.99. That one seemed to slip in secretly. Been dying for this to come to eshop for ages.
Surely there should e some discount on older first party tells like star fox and ocarina of time soon? £40 each is ridiculous and slack to not manage and maintain the price points. £20 each I would snap these up

hey, i seen this on go nintendo an hour ago! good work nlife!

Nintendo Pocket Football Club, and the big demos of course.
Sometimes you want multiple choices!

Looks like a fantastic week of downloads. Golden Sun, Pocket Football & Castlevania 3. I can't wait till Thursday till I download them all.

I was going to wait for Castlevania on the WiiU, but I really can't wait.

I'm going to be getting Nintendo Pocket Football Club first proper purchase I've made in awhile.

Great week with 2 nice demos!

I'd like to see castlevania 2 & 3 on Wii U then I'd buy them all at once including the snes one. Including the rockman series if they complete the series. I voted for golden sun but I'll hold on a bit. I've too much backlog now I could wait for a sale on the games on my wish list.

Edit:
I'm kidding myself. The combat in golden sun looks epic it will pass on my insta-buy list. Is the story epic too?

Epic Mickey 3DS is STILL 44,99€ instead of the 19.99€ you said like half a year ago...

So I guess its price being cut to 9.99€ is wrong information too.

Castlevania III! And woohoo for Mario Golf on 3DS VC. I recently played the game on cart (paid a lot less than that download price too), but will happily pay to have it on my system.

Not a bad week must say! Will give the GBA games a miss.

Epic Mickey on the 3DS for €10 sounds perfect for what the reviews said about it at the time, been waiting for it to be cheap since it launched.

Mario Golf Demo, never played a Mario Golf game so gonna give it a shot and see.

Castlevania III: Dracula's Curse, I might get this.

I'll see you all on the pitch.

Excellent demos this week- will be getting those. Epic Mickey on the 3ds was okay but i wouldn't pay anymore than that. I traded my copy in since after the finale, there's not much else to do. If there's a demo try that as it will be more than enough to tell you if it's for you.

The GBA-titles and the demos for me^^

@Daemonite Damn... So it looks like prices are not the same for every european country, because here in Spain Epic Mickey 3DS has never been cheaper than 45€, how nice
Thanks for the info!

"you will receive a free download of the Game Boy Color Mario Golf for free"

But the real question is: Is it free?

I wish they'd discount 1 Snes or Nes game a week.

Nintendo Pocket Football Club!
..and hopeing for a Nintendo Pocket Ice Hockey Club, wohooo!

Going for Nintendo PocketvFootball Cluband Mario Golf World Tour

Clicked I Am In The Movie just for the heck of it

Putty Squad! About bloody time!

I can't wait for the GBA titles this Thursday. I need to see more love for Maximum Velocity in that pole though.

Insert rant here; ....never mind...

@DESS-M-8 Yeah it came out on Wednesday. There was a news story on the German Nintendo site but it never got translated. One thing it mentions is you can buy 18 AR cards and the Stand for €5 through their online store:
http://nos.nintendo-europe.com/?locale=de_DE
I might ask Nintendo UK if they plan to do the same on their UK store (though I'm not that interested in it or trying Kid Icarus being left handed) as currently there is nothing like that on there.

Wait you mean we're finally getting Mario Golf? Awesome!

Nothing for me this week again.

Ooooohhh man, I really hope Golden Sun and Castlevania3 release in the NA eShop.

@BertoFlyingFox I was about to type the same thing before I saw your post. Golden Sun should be a lock for NA, Castlevania 3... man I hope so.

E3 can't come soon enough. I could do with some more pleasant anticipation where these updates are concerned. On the other hand maybe we all just got spoiled last year ? =(

Mario Golf demo only, just bought Lego City Undercover to help make my Wii U library last until at least MK8's release so not buying F-Zero yet.

Ha ha, ha ha, ha ha ha

Saw the title said "big name demos" and came in here looking MK8 and SSB or Lego Hobbit (since it was delayed 2 weeks thought we might have gotten the demo to make up for it) on Wii U and what do we get, a couple of 3DS games.

I dont know whats funnier, TWs sense of humour or Nintendos complete disregard for demos on the Wii U home eShop. There are several demos in Target and Gamestop kiosks - DKCTF, Game and Wario, WW HD - why arent these on the eShop?!?! Its bad enough Nintendo doesnt want to sell Wii U hardware, they should at least want to sell Wii U software to the 6mil of us who ponied up already.

Mario Golf is a pretty huge thing to get a Demo.

Golden Sun and maybe Pocket Soccer

not sure about nintendo pocket football club :/

@rjejr Because most of them already buy the games.

Nothing this week either. Maybe Giana Sisters? Nothing else is tempting me. Although it does annoy me that 3DS is getting more classic Castlevania games while Wii U is getting... more Game Boy games... SMH

Might try Mario Golf.

I want Nintendo Pocket Football Club ! Release it NA so I can buy it Nintendo ! I don't care about baseball

@SanderEvers Can do it from a Nintendo Zone (Train Station / Shopping Centre etc). It is still more than likely going to cost more than the cart and the download together though.

Last NES game I am bothered about. (Hope Konami does Crisis Force).

How bad is Epic Mickey 2? I'll feel tempted to grab it if the same discount comes to the Americas.

@ricklongo No idea about the Wii U one the 3DS one plays quite a bit like the Master System Castle of Illusion though. (I paid about the same price for the cart and I think it was worth it). I only played one level at a time and I didn't really get bored of it.

I can see getting Golden Sun eventually, but I've got to deal with my backlog first!

@rjejr I 100% agree.....I also saw the headline, got disappointed, then wondered the same as you!! Really is no reason not to have more demos available except for the fact they have pretty much given up on the Wii u. Just look at the amount of retail games with dates confirmed for 2014.....it really is tragic. Also, seems strange to not have vc demos or trial usage(limited uses maybe) as the prices are high and discounts unlikely and many users simply havnt played the game to know they would like it!

Will buy Golden Sun and Castlevania once i'm finished with a few games. Will check out the Mario Golf demo.

Was really hoping pocket football would be like classic Championship Manager...

NPFC for me.

Playing as a water boy for a football team is some good fun!

Not a great week for me. Already have Mario Golf World Tour and Etrian Odyssey Millenium Girl physical copies preordered so not really bothered with the demos. Already have Epic Mickey on 3DS (thought it was OK) and the Wii version of Epic Mickey 2 so not interested in those either. And already have Giana Sisters, and original carts of Golden Sun GBA and Castlevania 3 NES (along with a Wii VC download of the latter) so will probably ignore those for now. Ho hum. I'm still patiently waiting for Game and Watch Gallery 3 on the 3DS VC, not sure if it'll ever arrive though

Just GBA for the Wii U VC, i suppose this is to be expected for the time being but how long will this trend continue? It's strange to be in possession of a next generation HD home console and to currently have only old handheld games to download. The GBA is OK but it should never be the main download diet of a next gen home console.

Mario Golf AND Epic Mickey! Finally a good week! ^_^

@ToxieDogg

If you care about Mario Golf so much that you already preordered it (which I have done as well), why would you not be interested in getting to try out the demo a month and a half before it releases?

@Game-Over Agreed. Hopefully it'll stop soon

NPFC is here!!! Pre-ordered a copy as present for my friends son for his Birthday and will be puchasing myself on Thursday with my credit left over from Christmas. Cool demos too, which I will be of course downloading.

Still think all these GBA games would be better suited to my 3DS.

@KennyPowers Because I already know it'll be a good game (based off the others) and I'll just be ruining the anticipation and partly my first day enjoyment of Mario Golf World Tour when it's released by having already played it If I was in two minds as to whether or not to buy it, then I'd try a demo but it was always going to be a day one purchase for me. Same with Etrian Odyssey Milennium Girl, I've already played other games in the series and enjoyed them, no need to spoil the fun of playing the new one at launch by playing a demo a couple of weeks early.

Sucks PSN has really good discounts on Retro City Rampage and Escape Vector but 3DS doesn't yet.

Wow... Castlevania 3 and Mario Golf Demo... Good week for you guys!

I was all "Oh boy, new demos!" and then I remembered my 3DS broke...

OOOH! A new EO demo! Gonna play that of course!

@Unrandomsam The 3DS E-Shop had a big discount on EscapeVektor last year and was cheaper than the PSN version at the time, so I ended up getting it on 3DS. Discounts don't always last forever unfortunately, though.

Yay for demos!

It's pocket football and demo time for me.

Really interesting that Nintendo sneakily finally put Kid Icarus Uprising last week to the European eShop as well, Nlife didn't mention any of it and I was really surprised to see it in eShop.

Interesting to see Putty Squad released at least for 3DS. The Wii U version is cancelled by them according what they replied in Facebook since they didn't want the +6 million users of Wii U to buy their game.

Wow, that Mario Golf: World Tour promotion looks really awesome, especially since I'd like both games!

€7 for F-Zero. That's absolutely hilarious.

Just found out that they just released the US version of Golden Sun in Europe and not the usual Euro5 version.
Why every other game (Mario&Luigi, WarioWare, Kirby etc) was released that way and not such an important title is beyond me.
So much for buying these games out of impulse just for the sake of supporting them. Im seriously disappointed.

@Sceptic Stop whining about the price tag. If thats too much, get youserlf a cartridge of it. And good luck with those safe batterys.

@Einherjar: Yeah, I should probably stop whining and accept the alternate reality that nintendo prices their stuff in.

@Sceptic Well, what do you expact ? AppStore shovelware prices ? Get these games for free ? These prices are perfectly fine for what they offer.
And liek i said, if you dont like them, just get the game in cartridge form and hope that it will work for another year or two.

Don't worry, I just don't buy them at those fantasy prices. Yes, I feel a dollar or two would be more in line with the actual value they provide and add more value to the whole VC concept from a consumer perspective, but nintendo is all about the milking these days.

They'd rather rip off a hundred people real good than sell it to ten thousand at a decent price. That's their loss IMO, but I guess this way they can go back to their board meetings and talk about how priceless their IP still is. Certainly not in revenue, but in valuation.