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My guess is something to connect the 3ds to the wii u or something that incorporates both systems. Wouldn't mind a new 3ds lite either.

I still think they should have brought something to e3 live such as 3ds games while having a wii u direct. Nonetheless, the Smash Bros. invitational is the best thing they could have done because let's face it: after MK8 is released Smash is the only must-have wii u game in 2014. I think the invitational will spark plenty of interest in smash too.

YESYESYESYESYES! The past 48 hours have been the nintendo that we all know and love. Not some trash like the past 1.5 years. Hopefully they keep it up! This is a no-brainer and it's going to increase their profits, brand recognition, and customer satisfaction all in one.

Nitnendo's making some smart decsions as of late, they should continue to promote MK8 because it's the only surefire game other than smash to boost wii u sales in the foreseeable future.

Wow. I might have to pick up MK8 even though I don't own a wii u yet.

Bad movie, but good actor. Hopefully there's plenty of koopas for him to step on in heaven.

Looks nice and it's an obvious choice for nintendo to bundle since it's one of 3 games that can possibly save the wii u. I think $299 would have been smarter though just because it looks like a much better deal.

@arkady77 uh...what? Did I miss something? You claimed that "Asia Pacific" was the greatest market for video games. Others along with myself posted information making you factually wrong. You cried and called us trailer park boys (which I assume is an insult) and "left".

NL is pretty good at keeping offensive and insulting comments to a minimum and remove said comments quickly, so I honestly have no idea what you're talking about in regards to comments on this site. If anything, you're the one who resorted to the lowest common denominator by insulting @KennyPowers.

@AlexSora89 I'm psyched too that for the first time in a while, smash is getting the center stage. Hopefully it's not the only worthwhile game at e3, but that's pretty much the only one we know of as of now. Yarn Yoshi, X, Bayo, and FExSMT all look decent too, but one is bound to be released in 2015. I'm hoping yarn yoshi is closest to being finished. For some reason, it's the only other wii u game in development other than smash that's exciting to me personally and usually I think Yoshi games are mediocre in comparison to other nintendo franchises. The others I listed seem good, but not my style.

@Unca_Lz I hope so. It looked really unprofessional last year. It dehypes people too when it happens and ruins the magic. Imagine them revealing a sbb4 character and the second before the reveal it froze.

@kennypowers you know he's not really leaving this page. He's just pretending because he's embarassed.

@alexsora89

I'm on my phone so I can't post a picture of the Ron Paul It's happening .gif. just use your imagination and pretend it's here.

A market is a demographic you are trying to persuade to use or purchase something you have. By definition, the US is a larger market.
@gatorboi352 lol

@KennyPowers I think Arkady is just a 13 year old kid or something maybe a troll. Just ignore him if he bothers you, but he doesn't bother me so I will generally respond to him.
@arkady77 Business major from one of the best public business colleges in the country here. Guess what: America is the largest market. Sure, Japan may have a more population dense for video games, but it does not make as much money as the US.
Evidence:
http://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Society/2012/0316/Top-video-game-markets-in-the-world/United-States

I'm psyched for smash bros at best buy, but it's a really dumb idea for nintendo to skip out of a traditional press conference again. Even if they just showed upcoming 3ds games at a traditional conference would be good. You can't create the same reaction or hype with a nintendo direct as you can with a press conference.

That's nice both in sentiment and quality

Awesome but I hope it's more easy to recreate stuff than petit computer dsiware. I never could figure it out, but never put a serious effort into figuring it out too.

@Azikira Ouch, you hurt me in the nostalgia.

@Lobster If it's within a buck difference, though, it might be worth getting the milk or juice or whatever. I don't eat fast food, but if it's really cheap of a difference, I'll give the food to others.

@Daisaku36 you're objectively subjective and I'm objectively objective, so I'm right and you're wrong.

@Unca_Lz I think they ignored the hardcore fanbase to a large extent because they thought they could ride out that wii sports/fit crowd for a lot longer than they really could.
Wii music was a perfect example of trying to please the casual audience over hardcore fans. It was fine for a while, but once they tried to cross over the hardcore games with casual tendencies such as nintendoland, it was made a poorer experience than it should have been. Nintendoland as an idea is amazing and the perfect game to introduce and gather interest of various franchises, but it's execution was made way too casual. Sure it's fun to play with friends at a party once in a while, but who is going to play nintendoland at a tourney?

How much more is the happy meal than just the toy? Trying to figure out if it's worth the drink, I'll just give the food to someone on the street but if it's within a buck difference, looks like I'm gonna get some happy meals.

@Tobias95 Also I want to support nintendo as well. I think they have the best company in the entertainment business, better than Sony, Disney, Fox, Microsoft, Apple, you name it. Problem is, I won't support them when they are not creating good material. The failure of the wii u should be a wakeup call for nintendo to know that gamers have had it with ignoring the hardcore gamers. The only games that have been released to non-casuals so far have been pikmin 3, Earthbound on VC, and W101.

@DarkKirby while I see graphics and processing power help make a good game, I totally agree that they aren't requirements. That's why anyone who attacks nintendo for having inferior graphics is wrong. Nintendo's all about games, unfortunately there's not many to count. Wii sports is a great example of a poor quality game but yet still one fun to play.

@arkady77 if you think WWHD is better than OOT, New Mario U is better than SMB3 or SMW, Game and Wario is better than Warioware touched, DKCTF is better than DCK and DCK2; then you have objectively poor taste in gaming.

@tobias95 I can completely respect you for thinking the 3ds is the best handheld. While I'm not 100% in agreement with that, at least the 3ds has an amazing lineup of games like Kid Icarus, Awakening, X/Y, and ACNL. The Wii U has had very few groundbreaking games, unlike every other console other than the Virtual boy.

Dr. Luigi and Game and Wario aren't complete games. Dr. Luigi is a nice thing to have on the eshop for some zen-like gaming, along with NES remix too, but at the end of the day, it's not a full game. I wouldn't call Dr. Luigi a rehash necessarily because of the limits of creativity of the puzzle genre, but I wouldn't give it credit as a groundbreaking game either.

G&W was priced at a cheaper rate than other wii u games for a reason. It can be fun, but it's not something you can play for a hundred hours.

@arkady77 can't tell if troll or srs
Name 5 GOOD games exclusive to the wii u. Tip: you can't
>Pikmin 3
>Mario 3d world
>W101
and even though DKCTF is a rehash imo, I'll give you that one as a good game as well.
That's it. 1.5+ years. next to nothing. The sales numbers speak for themselves, making you objectively wrong.

@arkady77
I am sure you are. In fact: Nintendo life please make a poll for what people think the best gen has been.

@Tobias95 you are among the small minority then, because if there's dissent on a site dedicated to nintendo, imagine how negatively the video game industry as a whole is viewing nintendo. I'm happy with the 3ds, but the pii u has been nintendo's worst home console to date by a longshot. It's on pace to sell half of the gamecube's sales, and only 3 good games are left to move a large amount of consles for the wii u, which 2 of them being smash and zelda are not going to do as much to move sales as most are thinking because of WWHD and Smash for 3ds.

@steamtrain ok now I get it. I never understood how game freak operated. Please understand.

@steamtrain but isn't pokemon owned by Game Freak? I know nintendo owns game freak in a majority, but I didn't think they entirely owned the franchise.

@Tobias95 nintendo technically doesn't own pokemon I believe. Pokemon is a second party franchise, but it might as well be owned by nintendo.
They need to definitely make mario, zelda, kirby, smash bros, mario kart, and metroid merchandise. Increase brand recognition, increase profits, increase fan happiness.

@RoomB31 that's still questionable. As long as it's profitable, it's fine, but Only like 6-7 million units have been sold so far and the only 3 big releases left to sell systems are smash (which will be significantly decreased due to the 3ds version being released first), MK8, and Zelda U.
MK8 looks positioned to sell at least a few hundred thousand wii u's, and smash will probably sell a little less than MK8 now that it's not a wii u exclusive. The only game left to shift the console is Zelda, and even Zelda won't be a miracle because many zelda fans have picked up WWHD in order to help move units.

Also, please undastand

I hope Iwata blows us away at e3. He's in a tough spot, I can forgive him for the failure of the wii u personally because he brought us the genius of the DS, 3DS, and Wii. 3/4 amazing consoles is a pretty good track record. Also, Nintendo's a business and it's bottom line, so his idea of quality of life to bring in more money is likely another very good idea, although probably not very beneficial to us nitnendo gamer fans other than nintendo continuing to exist as a company.

I like the idea of it. Something creative at the very least.

Greninja is such a cool looking fighter, but man he is the definition of flavor of the week. I hope that gamefreak adjusts their promotional pokemon to include greninja so he actually is important for more than 1 generation. I don't want another jigglypuff in smash bros in 3 installments later.

@AshFoxX They should definitely go back to old titles. It's the only way they can differentiate themselves from the walmarts and bestbuys. I mean, how much space do gameboy and gamecube games take? Especially in how much they can turn around a profit from each one because walmart and bestbuy cant be bothered with such small niches.

Sad I would support game stop over best buy any day

Not a big deal, especially if they come back with a new reward or 2.

Hmmm...will the first time this appears in a direct also come with a possible new challenger?

How is this not a 10/10? It has a great story, amazing graphics, innovative gameplay, and ba ba black sheep! Oh wait, it only has the last thing I listed.

I feel sorry for anyone who has to review this

Looks cool, might have to find a copy of this and if not, use a rom.

Although I still think it's a decent game, I think this is actually the worst F-Zero game in the franchise.

More proof that if E3 isn't a 1 hit KO for nintendo, they're going to be in VERY big trouble.

Nice, but how about game and watch gallery 4? It's been at least a decade since I played it last, and would love to play it again.

Someone should seriously call the president and putin and tell them smb3 is out for vc. This should end the conflict in the Ukraine. After all, the revolution was about smb3 getting delayed right?

I didn't think I was going to live to see the day. I no longer have to mention SMB3 every week!

Only care about Ubi, EA can go bankrupt for all I care. The only game series they ever made worthwhile was MVP baseball. Other than that, they just repeat the same stuff over and over again. At least there isn't a "New" Super Mario Bros. game every year. I think the video game industry would be better off without EA honestly. They just dilute the game pool with shovelware and remakes every year.

This is what I think almost all games should be priced at. $40 is way too much in my opinion, especially remakes and sequels that are similar al a New super mario bros. 2.

Only games with peripherals or extra content like Smash Bros should cost $40. I find myself buying eshop games as they're much better value, even if I'm more hyped about 3ds games like 3d land or Pilotwings.

I'm surprised that they don't allow same sex marriage in the localization. I would expect a company like nintendo to be more welcoming towards lgbt people. I don't personally care, but I'm sure there will be people who won't be interested in the game if they can't choose a partner that emulates themselves.