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You know, I'm actually starting to think Nintendo's stance on backwards compatibility is going to hurt them in the long run this generation. WiiU will get several must have games, but people won't buy the system, because they assume they can play them on Nintendo's next console. Many already think the console is a failure, and will refuse to buy it regardless of the games it has. Bayonetta 2 and Zelda are the big ones I think will suffer from this.

@ChessboardMan Everyone would be revolting in monarchy mode. I highly doubt even 1/100 of the commands would be loyal.

@CliffordB Yes. You missed the Smash Bros symbol at the beginning.

I said nothing because I plan on buying Donkey Kong as a physical copy.

@unrandomsam Of course Zelda will sell systems, but if it comes too late, it may be too late to save the system. I no longer feel as though Mario Kart and Smash Bros can turn the system's fortunes around, and while Zelda potentially could, it has to come before the WiiU is given up on (by the general populace) as a lost cause.

This gave no incentive for someone to invest in the WiiU. The only unannounced game is a sequel to NES Remix, hardly a system seller. The potential for the WiiU is dwindling lower and lower, to the point where it almost seems Nintendo has given up on the system. One thing is for sure, they Cannot skip the E3 press conference this year if they want any hope of the WiiU not failing completely. They have to utterly knock it out of the park at E3, or else the console truly is doomed. Publishers are pulling support left and right, and so far there's only been 5 first party games announced for this year, with only 2 having firm release dates, one of which is coming next week. If Zelda does not come this year, I fear the WiiU will be too far gone for even that to save it. There's no hype for the system anymore, and the deeper the perception is that the system is a failure, the more likely it will become one.
Nintendo needed to blow us away with this one, turn that negative perception around, and show what potential the future has in store for the WiiU. This direct did none of that.

Ehh, I don't really like the look of it myself.

My mom lost 40 pounds with a combination of Wii Fit and diet.

The link for "posted a quarterly loss" leads to an article starting with the title Nintendo Q3 Results Bring Net Profit...
You contradicted yourself. Loss is expected for the year, but last quarter did not contribute to it.

When's the last time a 360 game cracked the top 20?

Why have we heard absolutely nothing about Yarn Yoshi since its announcement?

@Kawaii_Neko I'm sure you can buy some yen without having to travel all the way to Japan.

Subspace Emissary was the best way to unlock characters. Some characters would on ly appear after playing hundreds of hours in the brawls, but if you unlocked them in the Subspace Emissary you had them for good. I remember diving back in after finishing it to find Toon Link and Wolf.

Metroid Prime Trilogy.

I knew they had no chance of making 9 million sales for WiiU, but their new projections are less than a third of that! I expected the revision to be between 5 and 6 million, not 2.8. And it looks like Nintendo is going to have their second loss in 3 years.

I'll be getting this. 2 bucks is a steal.

Umm... why?

Hang on let me get this straight, IA Labs sues Nintendo for infringing on one of its patents. They lose and have to pay for Nintendo's lawyers which cost more than the worth of every single one of their patents?! And now Nintendo holds the patent they were being sued over!?

While I know he isn't a patent troll, from what I understand Tomia showed their technology to Nintendo, but Nintendo went with Sharp instead, yet they are being sued for using Tomita's technology which they did not use. Unless the wording of the patent is vague enough to encompass and supersede Sharp's patent's, it doesn't seem like Nintendo would be infringing.

It's already gone.

@Giygas_95 You are absolutely right, I forgot that even existed. I just looked through my own ambassador games and found it.

@JesusAcHe Don't get carried away. It will certainly last a few more years at least, but even the Wii, Nintendo's best selling console ever, didn't reach a decade long lifespan. I would be surprised if we get through 2016 without hearing of any plans for the WiiU's successor.

I could certainly imagine them releasing a pokedex app, and things of that ilk.

Sugar Rush! The second course shown was totally like Sugar Rush from Wreck it Ralph. Imagine if Vanellope Von Schweetz was an unlockable character.

"The trailer for the demo and full game is below"
Really? It must be invisible then.

My thoughts went

Metroid? Kirby game? Kirby Air Ride? Mario Kart! No? Smash Bros!?

@Giygas_95 I don't think you do. Super Mario World 2 was never offered in the ambassador program. Yoshi is a puzzle game, not the platformer you're thinking of.

I very much disagree that Nintendo tends to mix things up on threes. Typically threes return to original gameplay style, whereas twos veer sharply from it. Mario 3 had a lot more in common with Mario 1 than either had to do with Mario 2. Look at the difference between the Legend of Zelda, Zelda 2, and a Link to the Past. Same goes with Metroid, Metroid 2, and Super Metroid.

He got dozens and dozens of games that christmas!

I don't think Nintendo should be making 3DS or WiiU games for smartphones, but I could see them making companion apps for their games. A pokedex app for example, or something along those lines.

I feel at this point it is next to impossible for Nintendo to meet their projections. 9 million WiiUs and 100 million yen by April, when in December it's only half that, does not seem to be feasible. It makes me wonder if Iwata will be stepping down as he alluded to if the projections were not met.

I'd like a dueling Mario bundle.

@Zyph The WiiU had a ffull year to itself with no next gen competition, and it totally squandered it. Every time Nintendo doesn't take advantage of some period to advertise or sell the WiiU, some people keep saying it's smart of them to hold off, so they can take advantage of the next period. Then the next period disappoints, and they say the same tings again. 2013 was supposed to be WiiU's year, but it failed to compete against the curren gen offerings. Now the next gen systems are launching, and Nintendo still hasn't given a convincing argument as to why people should buy the WiiU! People keep saying things like people will buy it once it has good games, but Pikmin 3, Rayman Origins, and Wind Waker HD have not brought it anywhere near the level of sales it needs to be competitive. Super Mario 3D World lookss fantastic and many say it will boost sales, but an Intergi survey found an abysmal 1% of gamers want a WiiU this holiday season! I love my WiiU, and don't want Nintendo to scrap it, but at this point I doubt it can recover. Nintendo has absolutely no chance of achieving its projected 9 million sales by the end of the fiscal year, not when it's made less than half that in a full year, most of which were within the first few months of launch.

Assuming direct control.

Take two hours of Mario, and call me in the morning.

I think it would be good to have a new entry every 2 to 3 years on consoles, with handheld entries interspersed throughout. it definitely should not become a yearly console franchise however, I could see it working with a yearly hand held console pattern.

"Just $199 US dollars"? Was that a reference to the infamous PS3 launch price reveal?

It feels like 9/10 of that minute and a half long trailer were spent in menus and maps.

Is it just me, or is the HD a bit too bright?

@DrMonk
this is an any percent speed run, meaning sequence breaking is allowed and encouraged.
There are other categories of speedrun, such as 100% where everything must be completed in the proper order, and distinctions are made. He got the world record time for the any percent run at 19:15. I think the 100% run time is between 4 and 5 hours for Ocarina of Time.

With the subheading "BARF" I expected a scathing review of a terrible game, yet there was far more praise than criticism. I'm not implying that I think it's a bad game, never having played it, merely that the subheading was misleading.

Has the 360 even hit a million units yet?
Oh, and congrats Nintendo.

Horse... solitaire?!

What currency are those in? At first I thought it was dollars, and was wondering why they were so ridiculously expensive.

How similar is it to Super Metroid, in terms of no handholding? I made it through that okay, but they seem to be cautioning far more with this game.

So it's a very tiny minority that imports that drastically hurts sales to the point where companies don't even want to localize because everyone who'd want it would already have it? You are contradicting yourself here, unless these importers are importing thousands of the same games at a time.

It almost seems like a Zelda parody, rather than a Zelda knock-off.

At first I thought this was a game engine, rather than a game, like Unreal engine or Frostbite Engine.

I rented it, didn't like it, and didn't get very far. Later I got it with the Ambassador games, and played it to completion. It was better than I'd first thought. Zelda 2 is still the hardest game I've ever completed.

They skipped over Bayonetta 2 extremely fast. That game seems to be the only one that pushes the Wii U's limits graphically. It even stands up to the best of what Xbox One and PS4 had to offer. Strange that most of Nintendo's first party offerings look more like up scaled Wii games than something truly next gen, considering that Platinum has shown it is capable of such.
Overall, I was rather disappointed with this E3 from Nintendo. Mario looks evolutionary rather than revolutionary, I expected more from Retro, and Wind Waker denied the inclusion of the missing dungeon(s). I am excited for Smash Bros and Mario Kart 8 though.