Nintendo Download: 21st April (North America)

I picked the two Star Fox games, but I'm getting them physically. Please put that as part of the choice. All you have to say is

Star Fox Zero (physical/digital item)

That's not that hard!

illl be downloading the jockey game, looks interesting!

Not a bad update considering the Star Fox duo and the demo. Still pretty bare otherwise. :/

As odd as it seems, I'm kinda intrigued by the Pocket Card Jockey game.

Nothing that truly interests me this week, though if I do get Star fox Zero I will definitely be getting it physically.

Gonna download Pinball Arcade and a few tables to go with my Zen II

I was waiting for a re-release of star fox 64 for the VC.

My fears were realized.. We got one of the two Mario Party offerings NoE got, and it wasn't Mario Party 2!

Pinball Arcade for me! I backed the Twilight Zone kickstarter like, 3 years ago, so I'm looking forward to finally getting it on my Wii U! I also think I'll try the Pocket Card Jockey demo, it seems pretty interesting to me.

Absolutely nothing for me.

Another DS game on Wii U eShop means Nintendo must be off of their GBA kick (finally).

Just the home themes for me. I have Star Fox Zero, Langrisser Re Tensei and Chibi Robo Zip Lash bought physically. Got Chibi Robo for $17 Cdn @ Amazon.ca

Nothing for me

Can't beat free pinball.

I'm so excited for Star Fox! I wasn't back at E3 having never played any of the Star Fox games but I've went back and played them all and I'm hooked! So excited!

Nothing for me.
I was gonna get Star Fox Guard alone but it turns out to be $14.99 so I'll pass. I only have $10.02 on my eShop funds and my credit card doesn't work with Nintendo so forget spending an extra $10 on an eShop card when I just need the $4.99 lol.

@Porky Yup. I was hoping for us to get MP2, because I would've gladly bought that now that I have sufficient controllers.
Assuming it works with Gamepad+Wii U Pro+Classic, I'd be set for all 4 players.

Blockada had a shot.......... for $3 not for $7. I'll wait for a sale or no deal.

Same can be said for Guard. Another pass for modern Nintendo tech demo junk -yet highly priced to a starved audience.

Wii U Virtual Console continues to be a poorly run joke.
No money from me. Again.

The moment of truth has come. For years everyone was asking for a Star Fox game, now we will see if the series is even worth spending time and resources for Nintendo. Metroid is in the same boat and is on hold. Its time for all those who demanded it to go out and support it. I know I won't be buying this since I don't enjoy the series. I don't think this game will sell a million copies (unless its all ported to the NX) honestly, but I hope im wrong

Wow... Pinball Arcade was originally intended to be a WiiU launch window game!

@Clownshoes If only Nintendo thought the same way most people do. They will just see it as not profitable enough to continue on. Look at how they reacted to the GameCube, they said they made a powerful console and it failed so why bother making a strong console

Star Fox Zero has been getting some criticism in many reviews due to the unorthodox control scheme. But after watching Alex's take on it, I'm willing to pick it up and take my chances. I even warmed up to the DS Star Fox Command control scheme. Though I wish Nintendo would update it to give us an option to play with Pro Controller as well. I don't know but 1 million sounds achievable on the long run. There isn't much to choose from this Spring on Wii U, honestly.
If the game tanks, we might not see a new Star Fox in many, many years and that CANNOT happen. I'd say if people care about the Star Fox series, they should support this instead of whining.

wow gotta love the lack of pretty much anything for 3DS will be interesting to see how long until they do another SNES or if they will just do the short support they just did and call it good lol.

I will download Pinball Arcade. I like Zen Pinball but they irritated me quite a bit when they gave every system they were on but the Wii U a free table as incentive to download. I have no problem buying the tables (already have quite a few), but I resent being treated as an inferior customer.

About Star Fox:
People don't like change the best selling games of every year are sports games with little upgrades. Not to mention a "new" Call of Duty every year!

When do we get the shovel knight themes?

@Aloth I suspect this whole situation it's like when Wonderful 101 got bad ratings from reviewers who frankly put, sucked at it, and blamed the controls.

There is a learning curve with this one, one that puts seasoned veterans and newcomers at the same starting point until they get a hang of it. Many people don't like having to go back to square one.

Anyone who picked 'nothing' over the Pocket Card Jockey demo must be made of stone.

I have star fox physical so pinball arcade only for me!
Great week!

Hm, nothing good yet again.

@Deadstanley Well I "downloaded" the webpage to my computer to read it. And I bet I'll have to "download" a patch for the game within the next week or two.

That's enough "downloading" to justify putting it on the list.

I've been waiting for Pinball Arcade for a long time, definitely getting it today.

@Aloth Amen dude. You can pretty much guarantree 6 of the top 10 every month without fail. Just the newest editions of sports, COD, Minecraft, Lego, and whatever the big shooting sandbox game is currently until the next one comes out.

People hate anything newish, and Nintendo is suffering financially because of it.

I'm somewhat shocked by the lack of MP2 this week for NA, but EU get it so I'm not concerned!

My personal recommendation is either Star Fox Zero/Guard or the Pocket Card Jockey demo.

Really torn on Star Fox... I was going to get it, and then I wasn't, and now I'm not sure again...

@Barbiegurl777 I would guess we won't hear about DMW2 until E3, if we get it at all (and I hope we do!)

Just the demo for me and I'm picking up Star Fox Zero and Star Fox Guard tomorrow morning and Sega 3D Classics Collection Tuesday morning.

Yay pocket card jockey finally

Nothing for me this week.

Star Fox Zero/Guard would be my downloads. After the Nintendo Direct, my hype level went up, main with the Arwing co-op and the multiplayer-ish Guard.

Also Pocket Card Jockey demo since why not

Is Devil Survivor: Overclocked a good game? I know it's a port of an older DS game, and is about five years old. But that price is tempting and I've been looking to try a new RPG.

@ericwithcheese2 It's fantastic. Probably hundreds of hours of content if you replay to get all the endings. Even a single playthrough took me 70+ hours.

It's a bit more challenging than your average Fire Emblem or Final Fantasy Tactics, but it's almost always fair.

Where's Mother 3?

Mario Party DS and the physical copy of Star Fox Zero/Guard.

....Well at least they're still releasing DS games...still not Rhythm Heaven, though. TwT

What no star fox SNES on Wii u and new 3ds also no star fox 64 on Wii U.

Horrible week and even more horrible sales!!! Unbelievable- pinball arcade only for me

@andrew20 Star Fox for the SNES will probably never show up on the Virtual Console, due to issues surrounding the Super FX chip (see Yoshi's Island on SNES). However, not having Star Fox 64 on Wii U is a valid point.

I'll be getting Star Fox Zero and Guard physically tomorrow morning (gotta love Amazon and their 20% discount).

However, I am disappointed that Mario Party 2 isn't on the list today, after seeing it in the European update. I just don't understand NoA and their policy on VC games. Off the top of my head, we don't have Super Mario RPG, Mario Kart 64, and now Mario Party 2 even though Europe has all three.

The Pocket Card Jockey demo went live late last night so I gave it an hour and change. I give GF credit for trying something new, but goodness it really doesn't work at all. I don't know if this was the idea from the start or whether it was two games. Never had the desire to throw the 3DS at a wall though, unlike their Harmoknight offering with that god forsaken impossible bee boss.

Should have an option for "Star Fox Zero Retail Disc" for those of us who preordered it that way instead

@Ralizah Thank you! I'll give it a shot. That price is a great deal to try out something new.

StarFox physical for me and that's about it. The 3DS is a mere shadow of the powerhouse it used to be. Makes me sad. I love that machine

make it so

I'll be getting Star Fox Zero/ Guard as a physical copy, but I picked that anyways.

Star Fox physical for me. And possibly downloading the Pocked Card Jockey demo, just out of curiosity...

THE MEN.

Yay! Pocket Card Jockey demo! I'll definitely pick that up to see if T want the full game. It's from Game Freak, so it'll at least be decent! (Harmoknight was!)

I bought Star Fox but for the Super Famicom. Sorry Nintendo.

I finished the Pocket Card Jockey demo. It's fun, I can see myself spending countless hours on it. I can't wait for the full game to come out.

Star Fox Zero and Guard physically.

Fire Emblem Fates DLC
Fire Emblem 3DS Home Theme x2

That's about it for my weekly spread.

I'm going to wait a few weeks on star fox...

I need a demo of Star Fox before I go spending $60 on a game with questionable controls.

If you say this is a horrible week, I don't understand you as a human being. Carry on.

Yeesh. What is it about big game releases that makes it so there's absolutely nothing else of value? I mean sure I'll download the Fates DLC but that's not a game.

And I'm not simply talking about the week of the big release. Whenever big releases happen, we get garbage the week before, the week of, and the week after that.

@Aloth 3 different developers, each working on a different storyline. The team that made Black Ops 3 hadn't developed anything since BO2 (the year Wii U launched).
I get it, you're not creative enough to hate anything besides CoD. But pairing a sports game with 1 team and annual releases with CoD (Activision has seperate devs working on mobile on top of the big 3) really invalidates the majority of your comment.
Even EA has multiple studios working under their umbrella, with seperate studios in charge of Madden and NHL, in addition to DICE and Bioware.
I'm sure you knew all about this before you commented and chose to do so regardless.

Physical copy of Star Fox Zero for me!

For Nintendo, the issue with Star Fox Zero is the same issue Nintendo has had for 23 years. The complete and utter failure to listen to their fanbase, or anyone outside of their own front office. They respond poorly to criticism and they have come to a point that many (rightly) believe they will never recover.

Star Fox Zero and Wonderful 101 do push gaming, but there is little reward for the investment. There is innovation for the sake of true progression and innovation just to be different. Nintendo wants to be different, they just don't always do it well.
And they've become very stubborn. The DS succeeded, so they followed that with 8 follow-ups in less than 8 years. It's overwhelming for the average consumer.
The Wii U flopped, so Nintendo eliminated the 8GB option.
Instead of improving on their failure, Nintendo turned their back.
Funny then, that Nintendo is surprised consumers have done the same.

I just downloaded The Pinball Arcade, and you do get one table free. It is called Tales of the Arabian Nights. I believe this is the same free table that was on the iPhone version.

@Yoshi because they are horrible with the vc!! It's disgusting! I hope this doesn't continue with NX and don't even tell me we will have to rebuild our vc library from scratch again I'll just go bananas!!! Ugh

Getting Star Fox retail!

When will Pinball Arcade come to Europe.I really like Zen Pinball 2 and Star Wars Pinball,so I can't wait.

@Locke159 Yeah well ... no, not really. No one ever at any point in time asked for a Star Fox game with gyro-controls, running on two screen at the same time. I'm really on the fence about it myself. Had Star Fox 64 seen a VC release, (as in Europe) I would have bought it in a hearbeat - despite still owning the N64 cartridge and the 3DS version. On the one hand because my N64 is not normally setup to play, and on the other hand to show my support not matter what.
This game though is $65 on the Canadian e-shop, which frankly, is a bit pricey for a game one might buy simply to support a game/franchise.
Controls and 2nd-screen aside, the fact that there is no dog-fighting multiplayer (not even local) is a major turn-off for me, almost as aggravating as the gyro-controls, and more than the 2nd-screen nonsense.

On the one hand I want to play and support Star Fox, but on the other hand, under no circumstance do I want to support Nintendo in turning perfectly good games into tech-demos after leaving it's fan hanging for almost two decades in the first place. I mean what the ... we had to wait this long to finally get a in principle "real" Star Fox game, and then they have to go OUT OF THEIR WAY to settle it stuff like the gyro-copter?

I'm not much for fanboy rage, but it's hard to CARE about Star Fox and at the same time not be UPSET about what they turned it into.
IF this was the first year of the WiiU, I would accpet the thing as an attempt to sale the system and it's unique features, but at this point, we all know the system is dead. IT will replaced with a successor in a likelihood within the year, so what is the point of all of this? Why not just give into a bit of fanservice and give SF fans what they'Ve been waiting for, for so long.
I almost wish they would have turned it into a NX game, which hopefully will refocus on the software itself, and not on any kind of "look we found a way to change a perfectly running system" (like the Star Fox control scheme of generations past).

TL;DR:
It's a tough call between supporting a franchise one loves and a control-scheme (among others) one despises. Nintendo should never have made those things mandatory, thus never have Star Fox fans put into that position.
Same story for Metroid and Federation Force ... if I want a new Metroid PRIME (else I can just go play Axiom Verge, can't I?) I have to buy Federation Force? .... Really? Because that might be asking to much =(

Pocket Card Jockey, Pinball Arcade, and one of the 3DS home themes for me. Also a reminder to finally buy the map pack for Fates.

@Barbiegurl777 Yeah, importing is probably your only hope for that bear game. How heavy is it on menu options? Some Japanese games are easier to play than others. If the language in it is basic, it could be easy to learn the dialogue as well.

@ROBALEXXX Same here, kind of a let down to not get a Star Fox VC title.

Well now that Star Fox is officially launching tomorrow, Nintendo really doesn't have much to talk about for Wii U (except Zelda U). Time for Nintendo to bring on a direct teasing the Nintendo NX and a specific launch date.

I'm always up for odd control schemes. I am a proud owner of DK Jungle Beat after all. But why cant they come up with a new scenario for Star Fox. I bought SF64 on the Wii despite the fact that I own a cartridge because I thought it would be cool in 480p and my n64 wasn't hooked up at the time. I prefer my old games old so I never bought the 3ds remake. Besides I never have found all the secrets in the original so I can still play that with a purpose not just to relive my childhood. In fact that's what I do on occasion. Nowadays on my actual N64 since its hooked up to my CRT again. The fact that it in fact tells the same story as the SNES original, which I also own and maybe even prefer, was interesting to learn all those years ago when I learned the SNES game existed after having played SF64.

SF Zero telling the same story is less Interesting and closer to kind of baffling given the recent release on the 3ds. I kind of doubt they planned this to be the case or they wouldn't have released SF64 3d at all. I'll probably buy this some day for cheap just to try the controls. For the record some sort of killer multiplayer could have made up for all this. See Splatoon.

It seems pretty obvious to me that this game was another release meant to extract capital from their most loyal customers to maintain funding until they can try again at achieving mass market success.

See also: Amiibo, character themed Wii Remotes and other merch, Zelda remakes.

I am getting Star Fox, but it'll be the physical release. So I'm not really downloading anything this week.

Star Fox retail for me!

Star Fox Retail! Can't argue with Amazon pre-order discount. And I prefer digital.

Might as well give Pocket Card Jockey a try.

I might get Mario Party DS.

Just picked up my Starfox and getting ready to play. But really, Pinball Arcade coming out now of all times? I got like 2 hours of sleep because I was playing Tales of the Arabian Nights! It's a solid port of the Pinball Arcade platform. Full 60FPS, no glitches or dropped frames from what I've played. I've been playing since it came out on iOS a few years ago so I've accumulated quite a number of tables. Too bad there's no syncing of purchased tables from other platforms (that would probably be impossible). Also, I hoped that the menu interface, or at least the table packs would have been more clearer as to which table purchase has what game(s). Of course Farsight kept it consistent with all the other releases like good developers, sarcasm. So now I'm a little torn between buying full season packs (29.99 US), full season Pro packs (39.99 US, for the pro tips and examining the individual play fields), or just repurchasing only my favorite tables (4.99 for the recently released tables like Twilight Zone and Aadams Family or for the earlier packs which came with a few tables each). I don't mind though, I've spent way more than these pack prices on these machines back in the day.

Holy Cow Pinball is here!!!

EDIT: I just spent like $130 on season packs 1-4

I really don't get why the US dollars are shown as "$" only. It kinda bothers me and I find it confusing, specially when it's so close to prices in other currencies.