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I'm pretty much convinced this year's gonna be the Wii's swansong, and that they're going to reveal its sucessor in 2012. So, by that logic, 2011 and 2012 will most likely have some of the best releases for the Wii yet, however, most people will pass them by because of the new console right around the corner, and these brilliant games will fade either into obscurity or cult classic status, so that Nintendo will not be convinced to make a sequel. With a few exceptions, of course. Skyward Sword and Pikmin 3 being the most likely examples.

I got lucky, then; the place I preordered the games (Yeah, I got both) didn't really have too many people getting anything there for some reason, even though I got there about fifteen minutes after it opened. Maybe someone out there actually likes me for once!

@2D: Thank you for almost killing me via choking from laughing.

Argh! Curse there being so many things I want to get in March! Curse it! Cries

Welp, now's as good a time as ever for me to check them out.

@TrueWiiMaster: You took the words right out of my mouth.

...And that's pretty much sealed the deal for me. Before, I wasn't sure if I was going to get it or not, but now I'll be first in line the day it releases. Good thing I've yet to play MQ, seeing as I couldn't be bothered to get the Gamecube port because my N64 copy still works.

There's a reason I stick with Nintendo: they've been in this business the longest out of pretty much all game makers around today. I think that they'd know what they're doing by now.

I...Am not surprised at all. I mean, it's the sucessor to the best-selling portable of all time, and the second best-selling video game medium (behind the ps2). Actually, the 3DS might make some new records over its lifetime.

Awesome, but as a couple of other people said, why the 9/10 if there was nothing wrong?
It's gonna be a looong 42-hour wait...

Ah, the old N64... My first ever game console. I got mine way back, in '01 I think. It was used, so I don't know what happened to it with the previous owner, but it's still working after all these years. Even with the near-hell treatment I gave it when I was six. Can't say that for my DSi, or original DS for that matter. I used to be so mistreatful with my stuff...

This might finally give me a reason to play Conduit. I'll get it, if I have the money when it comes out.

@WiiLovePease: Yeah! What he said!
Also, please, please don't tell me the 3DS shoulder buttons are like the DSi's. They don't work on my DSi anymore, even though I've only had it for about a year. That means that Mario and Luigi, Golden Sun: DD, and a few others are either trickier to play, or impossible to complete.

@WolfRamHeart: if not this year, then next year.

@MasterGraveheart: sorry, wrong game. In this game, it makes the wait feel twice as long. =(

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A main Mario game being released is always good (yes, even you, Sunshine/SMB2). I hoping this is out before the year is over, but I'm willing to wait as long as it makes the game better.

Still waiting on the Lynx, GBA, Neogeo Pocket, and Wonderswan.
Nintendo, I love you, and I am not saying this just to suck up and get you to release these systems =P

As long as I don't hav eot pay to use it, I'm happy. I only have so much money.

Meh, Mario is always fun. What's not to love about a (platformer/rpg/kart) Mario game?

I wouldn't know about the browser, since I don't have a PSP/PS3, but Opera's done a pretty good job so far with what they've been using.

@tristenj1992: Amen. I'd actually be surprised if it didn't sell at least 50 million, if not 100, what with how well the DS did.

Might get, actually probably would get this if I wasn't saving up. =(

@Sadman: LOL

Love the review and tagline! Love it!

Those lucky Japanese... Getting a system a full month ahead of us poor, unfortunate English-speaking rest of world.
Though, anyone who didn't see the shortages coming obviously wasn't a gamer between 2006-2008. No offense intended.
EDIT: BTW, when's the Nintendolife import coming in?

I can't remember if this was asked already, but do regular DS wireless connections/Wi-Fi connections work with the 3DS?

@2: Agreed.
It's just too bad I live on the wrong side of the country to go to this event... =(

Well, at least you guys don't have to pay any more than you do for regular DS games. That's something.

I love you guys for doing this faq.

Street Fighter, nintendogs+cats, and Pilotwings pretty much for sure. Steel Diver and Rayman, maybe. If I get the money.

One of two N64 games that I ever got new. I found a brand-new, unopened copy in a thrift shop one day a few years ago, and, well, the rest is history.

That's one of the most unique, if not "fun" ideas I've heard anyone come up with. Insta-buy.

Samba de Amigo? Streets of Rage? Phantasy Star? Panzer Dragoon? ChuChu Rocket? Madworld, possibly?

WumboXpert: we can only hope. GIVE US PIKMIN 3, NINTENDO!

Well, at least my old Wii/DSi Nintendo Points are all used up.

"Idiot human... does he really believe that he could get away with that? Our plan of recreating the great Kleptron will come to be, no matter what these stupid humans want to do... Mwa ha ha ha ha! They all will suffer for this insult!"
Is probably what Nintendo is thinking.
Honestly, though, that guy was being a moron. From what I could gather from the article, he was just doing it because he felt like it.
EDIT: and because he felt like being mean, can't forget that.

That's... green, I guess. I just wish that the economy would go back to where it should be, so that prices wouldn't be so high. In a perfect world...

Finally! I never actually played Super Mario Land, and I did own Link's Awakening, but the save battery ran out before I beat it and I never got another copy.
Hoping for GBA, Neogeo Pocket, Wonderswan etc. games at some point.

@komicturtle92: Agreed, though I'd hope they'll let us mix ingame songs with our MP3s.

...Interesting.

Won't get now, I'll wait until I have all those 3DS-related things registered.

@estoiagamer: You took the word right out of my mouth.

@quazzaazazazaazaza: Nintenroaches for me. Watch your favorite creepy crawly do its business..

Mario used Super Jump Punch on Australian Gamer's Pocketbook!
It's Super Effective!
Australian Gamer lost $350!
...
Australian Gamer blacked out!

If they release everything here in NA, I'd probably have to get Pilotwings, Street Fighter, and Nintendogs+Cats. I have some saving up to do, especially considering Pokemon and Okamiden are both coming out that month.

Just give us the freakin' US lineup, so I can actually plan for money!

@zranoll: Me too. Those lucky Japanese got it about half a year before the launch of the 3DS, though, most likely because there hadn't been a new Pokemon game for two years (HG/SS).

I think retailers are morons for decreasing the shelf space of a console that's sold almost as many systems as the PS2. Besides, I doubt that it'll die for another few years; the GBA had games made for it up until 2006, two years after the DS was introduced.

Course, when you remember that Sony hasn't released (nearly) ANYTHING about NGP, then you realise that, at this point, only Sony fanboys will be getting it. No offense meant to Sony or aforemented fanboys.