Araknie

Other then X they are also working on a 3DS title, yeah already after Project X Zone.

Amazing team.

@SanderEvers Same here, also puts away some annyoing menù, in JRPG like Tales of the Abyss for 3DS it really helped to the experience, the less you stop it the best you drop it.

It doesn't make sense, maybe, but i sounded cool to me. xD

So they will announce games when they are like 2 month away each?
That seems cool, knowing a game in so short terms will surerly get me eager to think about it and talk about it.

I hope they are there, but i'm sure they will, that talk about how this games are new types and that they don't want to spoil it to competition surely will get the rumor world going.

It seemed strange that the E3 was so classic related stuff from Nintendo but if those games are true and truly new types of gameplay sure i want to at least see them in action.

@Shinta125 I would be nice if so, but really you have to admit that the Advertisment part would be costy if they release a game one year after on a region-free console.

Nintendo's always a company that cuts loose ends, they always did that, from production of a console to marketing of game.
Nintendo has almost only gaming to make money it's not like Sony or Microsoft that they can do region-free console because they don't need the money from localised games, they care only about global sales.

Nintendo is a smaller company and when everybody will stop comparing and understand that you get a different type of an attitude.

I repeat i agree that they ditch region-locking if they can afford a stronger advertisment campaing for every important game they bring...or we will surely see less brought games in our country.

You can't really give privileges to the few that understand japanese affecting those who don't.
Also, for a Nintendo the business company point of view, you want to target the larger audience possibile right?
Yes, because that's what they say since they're on the market, i remeber ads for the SNES in my country, Italy, saying that the SNES was the gaming console that will bring "Nintendomania" to all people.

Also thanks to the region-locking if you a campaing to bring a game in US or Europe it's easier that you will see it done, yes some games needed that do get released but Nintendo said in many Nintendo Directs that all we really want and get vocal about it will get released.
Just in 2012 Nintendo decided to help Namco, Tecmo, Capcom and Square-Enix to release their games in Europe and America if they ask.

I happens that a bunch of really important games will not get released in a row i'll change my mind but right now i can't see the problem.

Read it all folks it you don't wanna sound bogus in your response.

@Jonny Months people, Months for a game in Japanese with a lot of dialogues and text and that you can't go ahead if you don't understand what's what's.

It's like i would buy Xenoblade Chronicles JAP, why would i do that? I cannot understand a thing, you need to be Japanese or have a Grade-1 after doing like 5-6 years of Japanese lessons and going to the official exams.

Even MH4, Capcom already said it will come in Europe on USA, so what's the problem? It's not even out in Japan yet how can you pretend a release date for the UK for example.

I don't see any 3DS or Wii U important games that won't come in the US or Europe, 10 years ago you would have seen a game like Project X Zone.

I remember waiting for Namco X Capcom to come outside japan in 2005 but it never did and the PS2 was a region-free console.

Ni No Kuni on the PS3 did a poor launch in the West also One Piece: Pirate Warriors did the same, and i'm talking about recent games. Siren: Blood Curse is another game that suffered a lot back in 2008, months passed and you can understand japanese really well bought japanese versions.

If they ditch region locking they would need extra money and people to give bigger advertisments when the game comes out in Europe o USA because they need to make sure more people knows about because the interested ones and capable of understandment ones already got it so they need to make it know to way more people and that, for me, would be a waste o money considering the modern cost of life.

I'm ok that Nintendo ditches region-locking only if doing a bigger advertisment campaing for every game don't make them go in major losses.

Sure it will happen soon that some games would not be localized because they would need to concenctrate to some games like in the old times but not all.

It's a compromise, you want to have all important games localised and region-locking or some important games and region-free? Also, now there's still a chance to get Yakuza1&2 HD localised, you think that, with a region-free Wii U, they will go the extra mile and buy the european rights from Sony so they can encode the text for europe and then go and buy the USA right to do the same without having a sure money outcome?

Right now games come in europe and america only thank to region-locking that makes sure that people buy that game because there's no other way?
I don't think many games would have ever come here, including Project X Zone or any Guild game if the 3DS was region-free.

With the DS, Gameboy Advance and Gameboy original we missed really a lot, i know some entire series of games that never saw the light here because they were not seller but niche games and region-free consoles were really a bummer for niche developers.

Why we complain now that we get all the games and in the SNES days nobody got some great games. Even the AVGN said that in 2010 talking about licensed games on NES and SNES saying: "now it's all new story, but back then..."

@Macarony64 Ummmmmm...

People just need to stop comparing apples and oranges.
They seem to even not have read what Miyamoto said.

I will buy it because i liked 3D Land, it's a totally different thing in respect of the common 3D Mario so it would only be normal that Nintendo did a version of that for the main console.

Don't act like it's the first time Nintendo takes a portable idea to the main console.

Kinda figured as much.

Love how Zelda fanboys, like all fanboys, are so fickle about the series, they has an HD remake they get the HD remake, the ask for the sequel to A Link to the Past they get the sequel to A Link to the Past.
And they are never happy about it, they just keep asking...for fickle's sake calm down, you got all you wanted.

Oh my god it's gonna go maybe like the gamecube, what a terrible console that was, no multiplatform games, all exclusives that were almost all really great.

I love how patcher thinks hardcore gaming is having a power console, look at hardcore Sony fans Patcher they are mad angry with the PS4 because it's a powerhouse that forgets to have million series that never got it's full potential out. Right now they're mad angry at Santa Monica Studios because they won't release Dart and Abe, witch they were ready DLC, on PSASBR.

Need to learn what hardcore is Patcher...

@MilesVor Excactly. xD

Didn't i read here this news 2 weeks ago?

This wasn't an Issue in 2011 and 2012 because Nintendo seemed to bring everything out here, at least in Europe here for me, but now it's almost everything.
How i want that Yakuza 1&2 HD you cannot understand.

The problem is me that i don't understand japanese so i won't buy it either until localized, but people who can understand japanese are pissed off.

I understand that Nintendo is afraid of the return of R4 and Homebrew and i was even a supporter of this region-locking since, from one side, it assures a great respect for who bought the boxed copy.

Maybe ditching region locking and updating constantly the firmwares and make them obligatory to prevent R4 and Homebrew return is a solution that will take a lot of time and resources within Nintendo and i understand that will only slow down the progress of games.

But it's still a solution, maybe putting 15 people to care only about 3DS and Wii U system updates seems to Nintendo like a waste, since they always had a policy to contain the costs, and it's only how i can see a solution to this.

Iwata seems really without a clue, we gotta back up Nintendo now, yes it's ok complaining but we gotta propose solutions and make them hear. Miiverse or this site or i don't know could be a way, we gotta say what we think could keep the systems protected without having region-lock.

If not they won't listen.

Who bases the content in the game on the name?

This will not go ever in a game if Aonuma doesn't find a perfect solution.

I sure don't want parts where i take control of Zelda and go around without the possibility of doing nothing, Shiek could be solution but not Zelda.

It's the same character and is Zelda without having nothing to do like Zelda.
Man, i repeated some words really too much.

It's definitevly important since now Sony and Microsoft wants to have some sort of dual screen.

Of course Nintendo is the best solution terms of quality+cost because Microsoft forces you look at your computer or iphone or ipad and Sony wants you to have a PSVita to play second screen game experiences. Those things are not included with the console, plus they cost, plus they are no part of the controller and gameplay it's one or another.

Nintendo gives you 3DS and Wii U, it's all included in both of the you don't need to buy extra stuff and i think that's pretty important.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ySax_0QG9Ho As far a Japanese commercial goes that's an example. It's off topic but i had to post it.

I'm japaning all over the place, i'm IMMA FIRING MY KAWAIIs!

Oh man this was an amazing commercial, i want to game now so i think it worked. xD

Narrowed? Well the seem huge enough to me. LOL

But i didn't like in Mario Kart Wii to have all that space that was outside the course that was for nothing, how many times i tried to find there a secret shortcut without any luck...was pretty frustating. At least now i'll be less tempted to do that.

Warner is taking the Wii U seriously finally, second good news of the week from them.

And with this he's not even confirming the game exists! Oh, i saw a Demo in 2008 and then was vaporware...

@StraTTtheRipper He's talking about PS4 and Xbox One not having 360 and PS3 games.

It might be misinterpreted but when see how Reggie sometimes stops to search, it doesn't take long, for the good thing to say you get the point.

I admit i was particularly attentive and watching and listening to him in great detail so that's maybe why i noticed stuff. I know that when i listen but not watch a video i don't get all the words because my partionating my brain.

Now talking to all folks on NL.
He really has a point, this year there are a lot of games that you don't see on a Nintendo Home Console since long time of at least two years: Pikmin 3 is long awaited from the fans and everybody that loves real-time strategy also will like; The Wonderful 101 seems like another Pikmin but when you know Platinum you know them from an action driven gaming company, any kind of action, but this is a never before seen anywere this i what i call new IP because i didn't ever see that gameplay; Sonic Lost World could be a new IP if not for the Sonic themed gameplay, with lots of variations, all over the place and who knows what; DKC Tropical Breeze it's a new DKC, it's been absent for 3 years, and it will blow my mind, stages when you can go both under and overwater and David Wise...amazing...oh, and the first DKC with 3 different playable characters.

Super Mario 3D Worlds is the only one that's almost common, why almost? Because the director liked what they have done with 3D Land on 3DS but had too many retrictions to his ideas and so did those ideas on the Wii U.
It's not amazingly new, but has some cool things like the 3D Land design taken to the max and never before seen local multiplayer in a 3D Mario, local multiplayer is important to any Nintendo console owner. At least will be fun and if it will have also the SWorlds and they will have some extra hard levels you will see praise even there, but that's only me hoping for the best.

It's true, Nintendo has always fewer games than their competitor but they choose carefully what to do, even when they did Mario is Missing they put it really to make it what the director had in mind, even if it was very different from any other Mario game. You can say they wait a lot some times, but i say they gather the ideas and then pull of that amazing gem that alone will make you never regret having their console. Or they make them do it to some interal teams sometimes.

Just think about it: Megaman 2 for the NES, A Link to the Past for the SNES, Pokèmon Red/Blue/Green for the Gameboy, Ocarina of Time for the N64, Paper Mario: The Thousand Year Door for Gamecube, Dragon Quest IX for the NDS, Xenoblade Chronicles for the Wii and Resident Evil: Revelations for the 3DS. What my life would be without those games?

Being a really long time fan of Nintendo, i have no doubt that, despite having always less games than other consoles there will be that game, the one that will make me do that question, also on Wii U.

And if i feel annoyed because having only Nintendo console means also, i know that, having periods of time when you simply don't have anything to play...well, in that case i have my computer and i have Steam and i perfecltly understand who does the same choice.

Or Wii U and PS4 or Wii U and Xbox One if you don't like PC gaming, fine by me. But, if you really like games and you know what creativity is don't miss on a Nintendo console, just because Nintendo speaks in terms of gaming genres that other companies seems to have forgot and that's bad, gaming should never lose true Platforming, Physical Action, RPGs of all kinds, unique Strategy and random stuff games.

Most importantly the random stuff, that always has the most fun value and i like that Nintendo is not confining that to the indie market.
Sony and Microsoft are doing 95% of their boxed games all for mature audience or very much story driven, but they mostly miss gameplay. For me gameplay is not playing for 5 hours The Last of Us after having spent 70€ on it, finishing the story and never touching it again. I know that it's a really good game, it's a great story and such but i need gameplay also.

So there is two sides of gaming, fun and serious at the moment. What i want to say is that's ok the play serious games but don't forget to have the same quantity of pure and innocent fun. I'm 25 years old and i don't take any regrets in doing silly stuff in games, you know why? Because, for me and i hope other people, games are a way to escape reality. I like to play some serious games like Remember Me or the last Tomb Raider on my PC i can't do it too much of them in a row, just because all this plausible scenarios in gaming can only take my mind so far.

It's just that immaginaton and silliness and pure fun can take me to the next level, like Borderlands 2 did or Project X Zone is doing or Animal Crossing: New Leaf is doing or Skyrim did and is doing.

We need all those things put togheter and we will be complete gamers.

(this comment is counting on who has the money and the will be a complete gamer, not willing to change others ideas only to make others see that gamers like me want to keep being like this, because we think it's best for us)

@Darknyht Sorry i didn't consider that case. That's a whole new story...

And they give you free furniture ever 15 days and if you don't like it you can sell it like anything else.
Love this game i am discovering something new every day still.

These are the same people that wanted Nintendo to drop the hardware market and go multiplatform and ios.
Really don't care about poopoopeepeecaca Patcher imitations.

What EA has to offer to a SNES born gamer like me that loves Japanese games, long games and gameplay before "content and experience"?

Mirror's Edge 2? Yes, if guns are so much optional like the first title, then what?
Really this almost needs a Talking Point, like: "What America has to offer to Ninty's?" Or a poll, depends on how you do it.

I'm, after having some troubles convincing myself, playing Tomb Raider 9 (damned reboots) and it's a really great game. It's finally the true successor of TR4 that i long awaited and i glad it exists because it's fun.

But the number of american developed games that is fun, to me, it's like 3 or 5 in a year. Most of american developed games are too serious for my liking, sometimes i like taking a games that's also a personal experience but really it's an occasion, mostly i want gameplay and that i will last a lost. I don't even care for story if there isn't.

Gamers like me are having a hard time relating with this american market that every year become, at my eyes, a great ratatouille of guns and cars that rarerly pulls out something interesting.

So really, graphics are never in my mind when picking a game. When someone talks to me about graphics and how much cool they are the word "cool" insipires my SNES, Wind Waker and Xenoblade Chornicles.

Me and my search for fun in gaming continues, thanks to Nintendo my belly is going to be full with some next Wii U titles, yes even Super Mario 3D World. I liked a whole lot, completing it 100%, 3D Land a game like that on the Wii U is my dream. If there are the SWorlds really just that would make the trick in for me.

I'm simple like that.

@Darknyht It's not true, there are a lot of those games that are totally offline, they should work.

Only the few that are only online should not work but that's the only problem. It's normal that they will bring down online services after a while but, i repeat, offline games are not affected.

You have the Wii U with the Wii inside of it and games are there, they cannot take backwards compability away so every offline game will work forever.

I have SNES and N64, NGC and a Wii U so i'm covered, this article only tells that you will not be able to buy them in the future but that only 100% online games will be lost, why did you even think that offline games will be precluded to you...i don't know.

@Dizzard I don't like internet business, then.

@manu0 So what? I'm that way. I want to be proud of my collection and gaming feats and i'll say them whenever i want.

Welcome in the free internet.

SPOILERS ALERT!

So i might already have Project X Zone here in Italy. I got i saturday, D1 break to the rescue!

How to prove it...mmm. Let's say i saw Morrigan, Chun-Li, Akira, Bahn and Pai Chan go in an office of some young lady that has a lot of money after beating a large but weak group of guys lead by Drei Belanos.

3 hours in, not trying to rush, amazing game. Another never before seen combo of gameplay from Monolith Soft.

@Happy_Mask You're missing the point by a mile.

It's not that the matter, it's people buying and creating domain to take advantage of videogame companies that have to buy them from 'em.
Also called Blackmail.

Yeah, right like where is the long awaited Nintendo Polystation 2?

BTW, now i know that Microsoft was drunk even back when they started the home console market.

Yeah sure, i see Nintendo dropping region lock soon people. Really why they should, they must control things easier, things are already ef'd up as they are in hackers and crackers's world.

@pc999 Sonic Lost World will have online multiplayer, but if you buy a Nintendo console you do it because you think online is secondary, it's so secondary that the Wii U is the only console, home console there's also the 3DS for handhelds, with online access totally free.

Glad to see that Mike Mason was only mocking Mario, strange way to love him but i won't judge your fetish.

Pretty much sums it up for me, all games have local multiplayer and some have online also. That's what a console should do.

I didn't see Sony nor Microsoft announce at all about any new game that will have local multiplayer, in the end they force me to go online even if i want to play with a friend. I feel distant to him, even if he is next door and he has to stay in his home so we can play togheter.

To play some PS3 games with my best friend we had to take some single player games and pass the controller every now and then, why?

That's only my opinion and how i like to play, but for who else should i talk?

Hope that green baloon shat is totally optional because i will never use it.

@wober2 We're talking about Mario here don't BS us like that.

So talking about mario, did a ever a Cat Suit that allowed to cheat the flag pole if done right? No. Did i ever see the concept for handheld Mario like 3D Land applyied to a Mario on the home console? No. Did i ever see 4 players local multiplayer in a 3D Mario game? No.

An Indie Developer destroying all the ranters in the world.

PS: Xbox One will have second screen with smartglass and PS4 will have second screen with PSVita. LOL!

LOL one consoles is still in production, the other is not, duh.
It's like when this site said the DS surpassed the PS2, same deal.

I already know of this method of working since was the same adopted to get Olimar and Mr. Game and Watch into the fight.
That gave the both series fresh air cause we have a Game and Watch reboot with Game and Wario, yes it's a Game and Watch title, and we will very soon have Pikmin 3.
Wii Fit Trainer and Villager does not need fresh air or a reboot but Mega-Man does need another chapter. Even Sonic after 2008 really got his spin back thanks to Brawl, can't be anything but good, you get to know a new character if you haven't already and you discover the series where is from or the single game if there is no series.

If well done, like Sakurai used us to, is even better.

Thought something and than tried to write it, for the first time i could write it all.
So really it works this way finally.

Look how many comments in here and how many comments for Kokuga.
As a 25 year old gamer that started with a SNES i now really feel like i don't belong in this gaming world anymore...

Europe nao, please.

_{(A) Watch the language please
(B) If you have a problem with our staff, we invite you to get in touch personally to discuss your concerns. Thank you! — TBD}

@meppi Sorry but i remember being able to read Japanese games on PS1 and PS2 just by applying a strip of paper on the optical lens.
Even without cracking the console, PS1 and PS2 were able to read Japanese games just by giving input by a DVD called Action Replay that costed like popcorns.
That's not having a region blocked console.

I had a PS2 and i saw a friend doing that to the PS1 and i got so angry becuase my tremendous honesty forced me to buy any games when he was enjoying anything for free.

Did you forgot that Nintendo in 2011 started a campaing against piracy? And for the first time you sustain an article that wants inconsistencty from a Nintendo policy? Like they didn't put that on their regulations since than, really WTF?

So my entire argument that come after that first line, that you loved to take away of the argument, like any other person in the internet but me, is perfectly valid because reflects fact that i saw and experienced, i would never talk of a gaming matter if i didn't experienced it.

I precise that i'm talking about European PS1 and PS2, becuase i live in Italy, i don't even know if it makes a difference but now i need to tell every little detail becuase you didn't have the courtesy to ask and come aggressively towards me.

Maybe ask why i said all that or read all what i said next time, maybe there is a reason. (oh internet)

Sony was always region free, and i still remember the PS1 and PS2 being the most cracked consoles of all time, making it hard to sell games for smaller devs, at them times you had to go in a full disc release. And the PS3 was hacked.
PSP is also the most cracked handheld of all time and so the problem above.
It's not a new thing kids are doing and Nintendo was never caring for being open.

They didn't use a propietary format by using DVDs for the Wii and it killed software sales because of people cracking the console.

Stop telling Nintendo what to do when they are the only that care about the consumer, i buy a copy and my copy has value for a very long time, if you're not taking the consumer side in consideration.

Also all games are release pretty near these days even from Nintendo, like NSLU was 1 week of difference worldwide, Pikmin 3 in 2 weeks will be out in all the world, same for The Wonderful 101 and in one day Pokèmon X/Y will be out all over the world.

Really this issue is no matter at hand when you think as a consumer and you see the release known dates of the upcoming games.

Also, is this an american world? Is this the world when gamers can't wait not even some months to have their games in their region, it's not like translations of games with like 10000 hours of text like Xenoblade Chronicles takes little time you know. There is a limit to what Nintendo can do first person at the same time.

People saying: "It's 2013!" It's stupid, it doesn't mean that in 2013 people can translate a the same speed Superman reads the whole 4 books of Space Odyssey.

I'm sick of this articles causing even more trouble to Nintendo every day that passes, why journalism does not even think anymore?
Since i was little my parents said to me: if you don't have anything to say just shut up.

I only watch them if i don't buy the game i wanna play so there's a reason to it.
Sometimes happens that i discover a game that way it really rare.

I'm glad that Nintendo is easing the tension but i dislike that nobody is talking about that in the comments, like they didn't read the article...

@bahooney Calm down a sec Bethesda never developed really something on Nintendo consoles since N64. I bet it's hard for them even try to approach Nintendo, they give a bugged game to every console and even their PC counterparts have minor or major bugs.

Really, they are not very good developers because they need time to understand a platform. Look Skyrim on PS3 for example.

I like almost only exclusive on my console and i get multiplatform on Steam or GOG so it's the kind of thing that suits me.

Good good, since i buy this stuff i would feel angry for people using the console for free.

@Donald_M Oh see, i'm not alone.

I'm so a sad person, my first passion in life is games and i had a SNES. What a sad person i am.

Nintendo Life was asking, i answered you should get angry at them if you don't like my and others responses.

NO to all.
I will get DLC after i'm dead.

PS: The answers show how much real gamers Nintendo has left, feel offended all you want i don't care.

@KeeperBvK If not you would have complained for not enough advertisment.

I just enjoy that Jimmy Fallon is a gamer, he dedicated an entire week to videogames, how cool is that.

PS: Glitches can be good, i remember Sunshine.