Nintendo Download: 1st December (North America)

nothing for me this week, don't have the money

Actually I am waiting for Animal Crossing New Leaf Welcome Amiibo physically. Gotta get that game on Sunday if all according to the plan.

Another RCMADIAX game? My favorite!

In all seriousness though, I'll probably pick up Dual Strike.

Dual Strike was probably my favorite advance wars game. I don't know if it's as good without playing one and two, but it was a lot of fun.

Nothing for me this week.

Just bought Mario strikers charged. £3 pounds a bargain considering the eshop price

Missed getting it 4 years ago

Wow and a unscratched club Nintendo pin. Woooohoooo

I would like Advance Wars II but the prices for GBA on a home console are too high, so Nintendo perpetually gets more NOTHING from me, yet again. Wii U has been an astounding disappointment that just doesn't quit -the weekly e-shop dump really shows it too.

So any thoughts about playing AW3 without playing 2 first? I really enjoyed 1 on Wii U but never got around to 2 as it seemed like just more of the same, this looks different.

@Equinox I'm picking it up for my son. It's a good idea. I'll make the levels and he will play them.

@msvt But this is the DS Advance Wars.

Nothing for me this week, I own Advance Wars for Wii U and quickly discovered that even with a modern settings the Fire Emblem formula is still just not for me.

I enjoyed Hyperlight on Android, so having extra features will make it with double-dipping.

Wasn't there supposed to be a Game Awards sale? Or does that go live this evening?

I'm excited to play Hyperlight. It seems like a perfect game for the 3ds.

Disapointing this week, (though, Advance Wars is nice, though I'd rather get the first one) but I got some good discount Eshop sale games this week already like a few Kirby & Sonic games, so I can't complain.

Another week and no Shantae........

I assume Majora's Mask is still $10 for people who downloaded the Wii VC?

Nothing for me this week as I already picked up 3D Sonic 1 and 2 during the sale.

Go and download Advance Wars: Dual Strike!

Let me just post this awesome advert:

I so would get Advance Wars: Dual Strike now, but the eshop cyber sales and Pokemon Moon have already grab my attention for a good long while.

I'll buy it later on down the road when I have more free time and less games to play.

Mario Maker retail later on in the month, the flow of eshop games really seems to be slowing down to a trickle. Hope we get news on Brave Dungeon coming over at some point.

Are they even trying anymore?

@mikegamer Yes--they're trying to make sure Switch launches successfully.

Still a little sad that they haven't made an AW title for the 3DS. May get Dual Strike for the Wii U down the road. Need to play a few more Christmas gigs before I can justify buying anything fun.

Only seven hours to go now... and then, Mario Makin' on the (let's-a) go.

Goddammit RCMADIAX I thought you were done putting this stuff on Wii U

@RyanSilberman at least his still supporting the Wii u.

Nothing for me this week from nintendo or many other weeks/months, just waiting for them to release Zelda Breath of the Wild on Wii U. Not going to purchase the Switch anytime soon either going to hold out for a price drop on the Switch. My PS4 and Xbox One will hold me over for the switch to drop in price and plus I am more of a Sony playstation player. Just like a few of Nintendo's games like mario kart, mario 2d and 3d games, and Zelda, starfox, and metroid the rest of them I don't care for at all.

@mowerdude
Your speaking for me exactly. PS4 will be garnering our household until Nintendo releases the new Zelda, and we plan to pick up Switch when they drop the price. I know it doesn't sound loyal, but we bought our Wii U expecting Metroid, Zelda, and more Mario than we got.

@DiscoGentleman @Don I just checked on the website and it appears to be fixed, just $2 for me now

Nintendos VC team is really slipping.

@Oscarzxn
Yes, I called is AD2 (I forget now what the second GBA game was called, I thought it was this one). Hmm... I think you have just sold a game form Nintendo -that's for the reminder.

Dual Strike......but I'm gonna wait for a bit and see if it gets a reward discount.....I need something to use my coins on

SO getting Dual Strike! Awesome music, great gameplay, unforgettable characters, and a somewhat questionable ending...

Dual Strike! An Advance Wars game sounds like the perfect way to take breaks from FFXV...

Nothing

@Beau_Skunk you can buy the first advance wars!

Dual Strike is the only advance wars Game I've never played. I wasn't going to to buy anything today, but now I'm going to go buy dual Strike

Nothing for me this week. I did get Fast Racing NEO and 3D Sonic 1 & 2 a few days ago on sale though.

@mikegamer Do you want more filler? Here, have some more games you'll never buy

Might be getting 7th Dragon III Code and Steamworld Heist this weekend. My dad is coming down early for Christmas to see my kids, my hubby and I since my older brother had his 1st baby yesterday.

@GameOtaku Nintendo's VC team jumped the shark back when WiiWare was introduced. They never really recovered from that. It is like they cannot focus on more than one thing.

Their mind set: We are going to release NES games. All the Nintendo titles are out, so no more NES games because now it is SNES games. Nintendo's SNES games are done on to GBA. GBA games owned by Nintendo is complete, let's tease N64. N64 is crap on Wii U, move on to DS. All our DS games are finished, hey let's try to release Wii games at $20 a pop when you can still purchase for $0.50 used.

Anyone have a birthday in Dec? Trying to decide what to use my 30% off on....

@crzysortagamer Mine is on the 15th. Turning the big 33 😏

@90sRetroGaming nice! Yeah my Wii u eshop had a 30% off code so check yours if you haven't already

...So much for playing Dual Strike on the TV....I hate you Nintendo...

the discount for majora's finally appeared

Nothing for me. I'd love Advance Wars on the New 3DS but apparently, Tis not to be.

@Darknyht I've never seen Wii games that cheap used. They usually go for $10/$15 or more depending on the area. So yeah, $20 is a bit much, seeing as the Wii is 10 years old now.
At least, there's occasional discount sales on the Eshop. Got "Kirby Return to Dreamland" half price from the current black Friday sale. (Which ends on Dec. 5th.)

@Joeynator3000
You can play them on the TV, can't you? Depends on which screen setting you're using.

I wanted super Mario maker till I read the review... but seeing that you're forced to play their levels to unlock things just kills it for me. I just simply wanted to make stuff. Maybe they should make an rpg version. That would be much better.

@Beau_Skunk You either have to have one of the screens big and the other one tiny, or use the DS Phat image option where the screens are super tiny. And the option where it doesn't have the Phat and screens are a bit bigger...the D-Pad controls are all weird because you're supposed to hold the Pad sideways. And yeah, Pro Controller won't work...

I love that advance wars game!

lol you really can't tell the Wii U is close to the end because this is how the Thursday updates have typically been throughout the consoles life cycle!! Too funny! And a shame....

@TossedLlama Nah, the CO system as a whole was very highly imbalanced until DoR. Weakening everyone's overall CO unit stat effects, and making the CO Powers situational instead of just being brute force rushers gives a greater sense of consideration for CO choice. The only OP CO in DoR is Caulder, although that's only natural, since he's the final boss.

captivating week

As someone who lost interest in Mario games after SMB3, Mario Maker for 3DS has me hyped for the rotund plumber. (And if anyone asks why not go for the Wii U version, I don't have a Wii U and likely never will.)

@Beau_Skunk I was using just a bit of exaggeration & sarcasm there. Although, when I first moved back to Nintendo, I purchased Prince of Persia, Epic Mickey, Wii Music (a mistake in retrospect), Wii Play and Metroid Prime 3 for less than $20 in a used shop.

The fact is that digital games (especially old digital games) have very little "cost" associated with them. $5 for NES is a scam as shown by 30 NES games + machine to run it is being sold for $60.

@Darknyht
Well, "scam" is a bit harsh considering, VC came out before they decided to make the Mini NES.
Still, $5. for an NES game is still much cheaper then the $20. GBAdvance versions they used to have in the 2000s decade, or the $50. games they had back in the '80s & '90s. Some forget games back then were no cheaper then today's games.
Even used NES & SNES cartridges in some stores can get expensive if they're a rare, or popular game, and many of those don't work well unless you clean their connectors with Q-tips, or something.

@UK-Nintendo I have always said if you look around you can get the Cartridge or CD cheaper than the digital on 99% of games. Congrats on the great deal and always having a copy of Mario Strikers. I still only download games which dont make it cart or CD.

@TheLZdragon Oh you mean like very other week ;O;

@Beau_Skunk Asking $5 for Urban Champion or to be honest any of the Black Box NES games is pretty much a scam. There should be flexible pricing on those games, even if it means Nintendo gets a smaller cut.

Urban Champion =/= Super Mario Bros 3 nor does Rival Turf warrant the same price as Zelda: Link to the Past.

@Windy
Not always, where I live some used NES games can go up to $10/$15. Heck games like "Turtles in Time," & "Banjo Kazooie" are $30 or $40! The VC looks like a bargain compared to that.

@Darknyht Well, there is an upside to fixed console prices. They'd probably charge more for "more advanced" games like SMB3 like $6 or $8 if they did that.
Personally, I don't wanna pay $6 for the Zelda Gameboy Color games, that's why I only got them when they were in temporary discount sales. Seems more like a rip paying more for a game, just because it's popular.
I will admit the $3 or $4 pricing for simpler GameBoy titles are nice though. Still, lower prices might not work for third-party games.

@Beau_Skunk Should be up to a developer to find a right price. Even on the higher priced games, Nintendo would quickly find there is a point where people will not pay. The other side is that they could temporarily put the price on sale.

@Beau_Skunk Thats to bad. I have got some great deals shopping ebay this year. I got 10 games for about 70.00 dollars in 2016. Ive even found some good deals at amazon and Gamestop. Hopefully you can pick up some of that luck.

@PanurgeJr I mean the crappy Wii U VC

@mikegamer Yes, I know what you meant, and what I meant is that they are focusing what finite resources they have on making sure their upcoming console is successful. The Wii U VC doesn't help the Switch, so it gets no resources. There's no reason it should.

But thanks for the prompt response.