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@lckulczak With the current pricing ($5 NES games, $8 SNES, $10 N64, $6 GBC) I'd be surprised if DS games are less than $10 on VC. I wouldn't be surprised at all if they're more than that.

Sure, it's not the $30 we paid back in the day, but it's still going to be exponentially higher than, say, Steam sales.

I have no desire for this at all. I might buy one or two games I missed... if they release any of those in their ever-slow trickle of one VC game per week.

I did not buy an HD Nintendo console to play 192p games that are ONE generation old and can already be played on my current-gen 3DS by just sticking the cart in the socket.

I'm not regretting my Wii U purchase, but I'm starting to lose faith in Nintendo to save the system with announcements like this that just reek of desperation. I really hope they aren't sacrificing dev-time for actual console games on this.

Is this just for Europe? The DLC hit NA December 19th.

Personally I don't find the game to be nearly as bad as other people say it is. It's a little simple, but continues to change up the enemies as you get farther, adding to the challenge. The bosses are all unique and the fully voiced characters are a treat. If it starts to get repetitive, I just take a break and come back to it later.

In case anyone actually does care though, the new characters do have their own unique playstyles. I've only purchased Gunter, but he moves at a decent base speed, and has no basic attack but can equip two sub-weapons and has infinite ammo with them.

After getting Unepic on the cheap in a Steam sale and finding out my controller is rather inadequate for it, I'll be double dipping on that.

On the other hand, I'm finding it almost insulting that Nintendo has moved over to releasing VC games simultaneously on 3DS and Wii U but still makes us pay full price separately for both versions. C'mon Nintendo, Sony has been letting us play their classics cross-system for years. >:

@unrandomsam I'm currently using the Mayflash Wii CC to PC USB adapter but my CC doesn't show up as a 360 controller, so some games don't want to cooperate with it. Usually Joy2Key is a good enough workaround for those games, but in the case of Unepic it uses some special trigger/bumper shortcuts that aren't available unless using the game's native controller support.

Ugh, I just bought this on Steam during the holiday sale for a few bucks after reading that the Wii U version had a projected release date of March. Now I'm rather torn because the game is good, but it'd play much better on a console since I don't have a decent PC controller.

To those saying it doesn't look good... wat? I've played a little bit on PC and while the humor is a bit dry and the game references are rather heavy-handed, the game itself is a pretty cool Metroidvania with heavy RPG elements.

I might buy a Wii U version, but I'm not sure what it could offer that the PC version doesn't, other than off-TV play. Personally I'd rather have a 3DS version in 3D.

I've been enjoying the game, and while I stopped about halfway through, it was more because of Super Mario 3D World than anything else. I'll be getting back into it soon I hope. I find that the enemies getting harder the farther you go changes things up and keeps it somewhat fresh. I really think this game needs a demo so people can judge for themselves, because I don't think it necessarily deserves the absolutely terrible reviews it's been getting from most sites.

I thoroughly enjoyed this on PS3 and I'll probably double-dip to get the extra content that was previously only on PC. Sure, the harsh language wasn't necessary and the dialog borders on juvenile at times, but the overall experience is great.

I'm personally still holding onto a tiny shred of hope for an eventual port of Knytt + Knytt Stories for 3DS.

I thought "Clear Black" would be translucent like the Smoke Black N64, but those pics appear to be fully opaque. Disappointed.

Yeah, the last 3 videos are still set to private and can't be viewed.

I enjoyed the 3DS version (though I'd love to see IGA get the series back now,) and it's a shame that they aren't supporting Wii U with the HD port. I can see why they would want to put it on the systems that have the other LoS games though, to fill in the gaps (and create gaping plotholes? I can't help but wonder how the ending of MoF works with LoS2.)

I wish Konami would support Wii U though. I'd love to see more ReBirth titles and the return of some Hudson franchises.

@mariobro4 They did specify WiiWare, so other versions may have been successful, but I think WiiWare still had/has the dreaded sales threshold that a game must pass before the publisher sees any profits.

Best part of the trailer: "Comical and amusing characters" followed by stiff, awkward, and emotionless dialog.

I'm glad they're so set in their stance on this. Nintendo has always designed their hardware around their games and vice versa.

For those interested in experiencing the game, realMyst is available on Steam for $6, and has pretty low system requirements. I played around with the original when it first came out, but realMyst is how I finally played through and beat it and I really enjoyed the experience.

I'd much rather they add Miis as playable, and then whoever wanted to play as Reggie or any other real person could play as a Mii of them.

I've heard it's pretty terrible. I would think 3DS could handle a port of RealMyst.

@billychaos I agree. I bought this game a mere two months ago on Wii U, I shouldn't have to buy it again if I want it for 3DS. At the very least we should get the same kind of discount we get for Wii U VC titles we own on Wii. It makes me question every VC purchase I make, because I have to debate whether I want it on the big screen or portable, and very few games would convince me to pay double to have both.

He made his decision based on his own "strong" feelings that it didn't fit his game. I think he should be commended for that, and try not to have regrets over passing up on what would've been good for business. If I ever got into game development I'd certainly want my vision and integrity to weigh more heavily than the business aspects of it all.

I'm surprised they've managed to hold onto any third party support, especially from companies like Square-Enix who are directly affected by emulation. Considering many of their NES and SNES games are available to buy legitimately for current generation hardware, why would they want to support a system that supports piracy?

And posting your system playing Super Mario Bros on an emulator is supporting piracy, not emulation, no matter how hard you try to legitimize it with technicalities.

And this is the point where the C&Ds will probably start. Standard operating procedure for game publishers to wait until the fan game is done or shows promise of being as good/better than what the publisher themselves do with their IP.

I just post my screenshots to Facebook via the 3DS browser. There's also a (Japanese, but easy enough to use) site out there called tw3ds that works with all images from your 3DS and posts to Twitter via twitpic.

If it really saves the data and then gives it to the next person, that becomes a new type of asynchronous StreetPass where one person gets data from the other, but not vice versa, which loses a little bit of the fun of a StreetPass where you know the other person has met your Mii as well. Perhaps a better way would be if the relay stations could somehow communicate to a matchmaking server that allows say, a person in a rural area near a participating hotspot in one state to StreetPass someone near a completely different hotspot in another state, that way they still both get each other's data. But nobody really knows until Nintendo explains it.

TBD = MH4? sad puppy eyes

I clicked through because I couldn't believe there was a spin the bottle game coming to eShop... after that trailer I'm even more confused.

Being a celebrity, even in the gaming scene, comes with attention. If you're popular enough to have 27,000 followers, then you're obviously going to get a lot of repeat questions. There are a lot of celebrities on Twitter who are as popular or even more, and most of them manage to just ignore it or address it without being offensive to their fans. I know when I direct a tweet at a celebrity I typically don't expect a response, so it's not like ignoring people is going to be worse than telling them off.

I wonder why they've never given Tomodachi Collection a chance in the west. I know I'd give it a shot.

Puzzle & Dragons is decent. I'd be slightly tempted to get it on 3DS just to play it without all the horrible nickel-and-diming and play-time cooldowns that plague the smartphone version (par for the course on mobile games,) but I'd probably pass because it's, as I said, merely "decent," nothing to write home about IMHO. And I'm not sure how well it'll sell on 3DS since many people will only see a game priced leagues higher than it is on mobile, and not think about the microtransactions in the mobile version.

I always loved this movie. It's so cheesy and strays so far from the games, but the whole thing is just like watching a fun B-movie full of Mario references.

This also appears to have fixed a bug which appeared in the 3.0.0 update where the Miis associated with your "Been Playing:" game would scatter across the home screen instead of standing under their proper game panel. I don't know if the bug affected everyone or just some users.

I don't regret my Wii U purchase one bit, but I think the third parties jumping ship does fall on Nintendo. The 3DS launch mess should have taught them that they can't sell hardware on potential these days, and they should have had some major must-have Nintendo titles at Wii U launch to push more people to become early adopters. Then maybe third parties would see Wii U as a more valuable platform. If Nintendo can have a successful holiday then things might turn around a bit, but I'm not counting on it.

I'm certainly not expecting the Wii U to "die," but I'm fully ready for yet another generation where people buy a Nintendo console to play Nintendo games and an Xbox or PS4 to play third party games.

@warnerdan If X will be your first Pokémon game and then you go back to R/B/Y, you'll be sorely disappointed. They have huge nostalgia value, but they're horribly slow and cumbersome and lack MANY quality-of-life features that have since been added. Even the FireRed/LeafGreen versions would feel dated, but they would be a far better way to enjoy the Kanto journey because they're quite simply much more playable games.

@skjia I'm surprised to not see more Pipe Dream comparisons. Am I really getting so old?

I got my first iOS device a few months ago in the form of the iPod 5th gen, and while there are some good games on there, I haven't played a single game that wouldn't be better on a dedicated handheld or console. In fact, of all the games I've played on iOS that I've also played on traditional gaming platforms, the iOS version always feels inferior. Mutant Mudds, Theatrhythm, and don't even get me started on the FPS ports. This even extends to the championing iOS title, Angry Birds, which feels far more intuitive and playable on PC IMO.

Still looks like a Yoshi, considering how many official variations there are. I don't understand why some indie devs can't create original content instead of feeling the need to leech off of the popularity of major IPs.

The wait for this game is excruciating.

@2Sang Animal Crossing City Folk did allow you to carry over your character's face and hair, along with part of their Nook catalog from Wild World. I don't know if this version will do anything similar.

Personally I think it kind of takes away from the core gameplay to start with most everything unlocked so even given the option I opted to start fresh on ACCF.

@SheldonRandoms If you're referring to DLC, they've stated that AC will not have paid DLC. Granted that was a long time ago and there was a point at which we thought no first party games would, so who knows.

I already planned to go digital on AC anyway, but it's nice to know I won't have to pay a $5 premium to do so.

I don't believe this has anything to do with pushing downloads on consumers, as this same shortage also affected the Pikachu 3DS XL HARDWARE. Wal-Mart stores here in the US got both Lego City Undercover and the Pikachu XL while stores like Target and Amazon.com had no stock on launch day. I didn't notice or check with MH3U because I intended to buy both versions digitally anyway.

I don't know what's up with the shipping delays, but I don't think Nintendo is creating false shortages to promote digital games, and certainly not with a game that requires an external HDD even for premium system owners (Lego City Undercover.)

Anyone writing this off with sarcastic comments like "omg Amazon sold out of Nintendo systems" and "oh no, advertising similar products on a product page!" clearly isn't paying attention.

Shortly after 3DS came out, Amazon put the product "under review" and stopped selling 3DS systems. Since then they have not carried ANY Nintendo systems and ONLY on the Nintendo systems pages does it say "Try Vita instead" or "Try PS3/4 or Xbox instead."

There's clearly something going on behind the scenes that has Amazon actively trying to steer shoppers away from Nintendo systems and to the others, while they are not stocking the Nintendo hardware. Amazon.com has not ever stocked the 3DS XL or Wii U themselves.

There's obviously something more to this than low stock or "normal retail behavior."

Props to him for pushing it through to release, but considering the WiiWare version was already likely to have the worst sales numbers, and then also releasing the game on other more popular services a while before it got to WiiWare pretty much guaranteed failure to reach the threshold.

This seems almost completely pointless. First of all, not all shows that are on Netflix have the Netflix streaming icon (for example, if you check MLP:FiM, no Netflix option is given even though all three seasons are on Netflix.) Secondly, when you choose a show on TVii, it only lists episodes that are airing/have aired on broadcast TV recently, so you can't start from episode 1 or whatever episode you have bookmarked unless it just happens to have played recently.

Finally, when you do choose to watch something on Netflix from TVii, it closes the TVii app and launches Netflix, thus completely defeating the purpose of even using TVii for Netflix.

This feature is almost completely useless.

I've been playing MH3U on both 3DS and Wii U, and there's barely any difference. Even on Wii U I end up using the Monster Target feature to adjust my camera more often than the right analog, so other than underwater the controls feel fine on 3DS.

The more personal opinions I hear from Phil Fish the less respect I have for him, both as a developer and as a gamer in general. He comes across as immature and fanboyish.

As tempted as I am to echo the sentiments of everyone saying they'd trade these for Earthbound or Bravely Default or the plethora of 3DS VC games they've been getting while we get an NES game every week or two, this really illustrates a larger problem with the industry in general. There is simply too much separation between East and West here with regards to who gets what and what they think gamers in each region want. Publishers (and some developers) need to realize that chances are if a game is good, there will be people who want to play it across all regions. Unfortunately sometimes we can't even get a cheap digital port of games like GCCX2 or in Japan's case, VVVVVV.

Wow, so much hate for the series in these comments.

First of all, four entries all on separate systems in the "NEW" series (with an expansion coming) is hardly "milking" in the days of God of War 7 and Lightning Returns (AKA Final Fantasy XIII-3) not to mention yearly CoD games, etc.

Secondly, the series has evolved greatly over time and each entry is unique. The firs NSMB was admittedly rather rough around the edges and I dare say uninspired, but the other three are fantastic games with a lot of polish, and other than reusing the same music entirely too much, I'm a big fan.

My biggest complaint with the Wii U entry is that they added back the Raccoon Suit in NSMB2 which added back the much-needed verticality that was lost after SMB3 and SMW, but then went with the inferior Flying Squirrel Suit in NSMBU. I'm sure it was because the game is built for multiplayer, but I think the huge vertical and horizontal levels is what made SMB3 and SMW so great.

Lastly, there's a reason the NSMB series continues to sell like hotcakes. These games are genuinely fun and enjoyable. If you disagree, speak with your wallet and don't buy them, but it probably won't have much effect because millions of us are buying, playing, and thoroughly enjoying them. And it's not like these are coming at the expense of 3D Mario. We even got arguably one of the best Mario games since Mario 64 just over a year ago in the form of Super Mario 3D Land.

If it could actually stream my desktop to the screen I might use it, but without the screen in use it's just a comically large controller. I'll stick with my Classic Controller USB adapter for now.

I've got the Pokémon Championship skin atm, but if I can get the Porygon-Z skin I'll probably never change it again. Too bad these will no doubt be the other evolved starters.

I'm sure a few devs might get creative with PS3 and Vita connectivity, but it'll never catch on big for the same reason it didn't with GBA->GCN. No developer in their right mind is going to want to release a game that requires two game systems to play. What the Wii U really brings to the table in this case is connectivity between a handheld and console out of the box with no extra hardware purchase required. Every Wii U owner will have the tablet controller, so devs have no reason to not use it.