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I need Sheik for sure. Only other one that I want that hasn't been revealed yet is Lucina.

Oh, I didn't know Europe was getting Golden Sun 2.

Can't wait to play it in about May in North America.

What I don't get is that Sega as been making Sonic games for over 20 years now and have one of the strongest, most recognizable brands and the resources to attract some of the industry-best talent.

So why are most Sonic games they release still a buggy mess with boring, uninspired level design?

Sega pls...

Also, I love the physics in Mario. The inertia has always felt really intuitive to me and made the game much more thrilling. I wouldn't enjoy that kind of mechanic in another game, like let's say Zelda, but it just felt right in Mario.

After the big fuss I put up about the $80 price point on the collector's edition, I caved and got it. Think I'll keep it sealed though, next to my sealed Bravely Default collector's edition.

And I also took the plunge on that super sexy Grimoire 3DS XL. I don't even care that it's not the New 3DS. It looks so wonderful. ♥_♥

Poor Miyamoto...

Oh man, I couldn't disagree more. Mario is like THE definitive example of intuitive and responsive controls. Especially later games with the diamond face buttons, the way your thumb fits over Y for running and B for jumping is perfection.

It's also important to note that most platformers of the time used Up on the D-Pad to jump... which is a horrible idea and everyone who does it should feel ashamed of themselves. Yes, even Smash.

Reggie...

Your machine has lower specs, completely different architecture, and a userbase that is generally unreceptive to 3rd party content. It doesn't really matter how big the userbase is. You're still not going to get those AAA multiplats.

The second part is just nonsense. It's not a "this or that" situation. The PS3 had an extensive library of both exclusives and multiplats.

On a personal note, the biggest shame of the Wii U for me is that of that extensive PS3 library, almost all of my favorite games on it were 3rd party exclusives from Japanese studios like NIS, Atlus, and Bamco. In other words, the type of games that could easily be on the Wii U, but aren't. I can live without the AAA multiplats and both Sony and Microsoft's 1st party IP. Them not being on Wii U is no big loss to me. The bigger loss is not having games like Disgaea 5 and Guilty Gear Xrd.

Listing the lack of exploration and open world as a "good" thing and welcome change from retro RPGs is really messing with my perception here. Large open maps is one of the things I absolutely miss most about old RPGs. Area selection screens and long series of hallways can bugger right off.

Kind of ironic that Wii U was literally the only hardware that increased. What a dismal week.

Also interesting to note that you have to go all the way down to #7 in the software to find a new release. Even the new Vita games tanked, and the Monter Hunter-Smash-Yokai Watch trinity is still untouchable.

@Jaz007 Backers can get burned. When you fund a project, you're not purchasing anything tangible. There's risk involved, if the project doesn't meet its goal or if the starter doesn't follow through.

For a company like RK, crowdfunding can be seen as unethical. They have several games out now and unless they have poor sales or terrible management, they shouldn't need to shove that risk onto the consumer.

This kind of stinks of exploitation of crowdfunding. Unless there's some terrible management going on, they have the money to do this already. They're just trying to shift all the risk of putting up a budget for the game onto fans. That's not cool.

"Please, please like this one." -Sega

Is this guy even aware of the costs associated with making a film? Dude couldn't even fund a small indy game twice, and now he thinks he's doing that plus a movie?

It's kind of funny seeing a bunch of independent sources simultaneously see a gap in a market and pounce trying to cover it. It's like showing up for a Halloween party in 1977 thinking everyone is going to go nuts over your cool Han Solo costume.

"Perfect game" "Must buy" "Best on the SNES" "Nothing is missing"

...9/10.

@Samuel-Flutter It is a shame, and I feel silly looking back. Guess that's a part of growing up though.

I think Iwata is right in his analysis, but a little off in the demographic. I would say 15-22, not 18-25. I'm 25 and nobody my age was playing Pokemon in 2003. We were 14-15 in 2003. That's the "Ew, Pokemon is for kids!" age where we thought "childish" things would make us uncool. I distinctly remember going to my first party when I was 15, so no, I definitely wasn't playing Pokemon lol.

Ehhh... too electronic/synth for my taste, but it seems very well done anyway. The arrangement and mixing are great. Hope it does well.

Dang, those be some spooky savings. Almost disappointed that I paid $30 for the Wii U version.

@BensonUii If you have any interest in the game, the Wii U version is definitely the definitive one.

Shame, Fatal Frame V would have been perfect.

I love Junji Ito's work. Uzumaki was the first manga I read in full. He's the best in body horror that I've come across in manga.

@hydeks The PS4 doesn't need a price cut at all. Last month, Microsoft had a promotion where you got a free game with purchase of the console. That included bundles. You could get a Forza or Madden bundle for $400 and get Destiny as a free game. That's $50 less than the PS4 Destiny bundle AND came with an extra free game. Still got beaten by PS4 in sales. It couldn't even beat PS4 in US or UK, its most dominant markets.

With the XB1 price cut, $350 for a machine that you don't want is still a worse deal than $400 for a machine that you do want, and for the vast majority of the market, the XB1 is a machine that they don't want. Outside of US and UK, it's a complete slaughter. The PS4 is outselling it 5 to 1 in some regions. 10 to 1 in Japan.

@gari14 Maybe because Mario Kart 8 was the last 1st party retail game. Surely there were some Bayo 2 adverts that you missed though, because the game broke the top 10 in UK all-format charts.

I think it would be wiser to put more in the box, so to speak, than lower the price on the box. The problem isn't cost, it's value. Software and hardware bundles will be key. Not just games, but bundling with extra controllers or amiibo will surely increase value in the eyes of parents and gamers.

The XB1, on the other hand, really needed a price drop to be competitive with the PS4 because it's essentially the same product as the PS4 competing for the same audience. There's not really any value that Microsoft can add to it, because whatever else they put in the box, Sony can just do the same thing. Dropping the price is the only way they're going to remain competitive through the holiday.

The Wii U is currently being sold at a profit, by the way. Hardware gets cheaper over time, not just for the consumer, but also for the manufacturer. Nintendo reported back in May that they were no longer taking losses on hardware.

Why am I not surprised to come back to this article 12 hours later and see over 100 comments about Shantae's boobs, and half of them from Kirk.

I'm just tired of writers going out of their way to try and appeal to specific people with female characters. Lesser writers only seem capable of two types of female characters - meek, clumsy women to appeal to otakus and Duke Nukem with boobs to appeal to dudebros.

Yeah, I'm guessing that about 45 or so of the 50 "new" things are things that we already know.

Cool beans. Not sure if I want to pick this up alongside Half-Genie Hero or alongside the OG and Risky's Revenge.

Heaving 3D cleavage is a compelling argument tho.

@flummerfelt There are so many spin-offs that it's a little too much to go into for an article comment, but there's 4 main series games, with SMT IV on 3DS being the latest. The one before that was Nocturne on PS2, so the main series is spaced pretty far apart. All the stories are self-contained like Final Fantasy though, so you don't need to play one to play another. They're challenging dungeon crawler games.

Devil Survivor: Overclocked is the newest SMT spin-off. It's a tactical RPG game set in modern day Japan. It's pretty good too. It's probably the best non-Fire Emblem tactical RPG on the 3DS.

The biggest and most unique spin-off is the Persona series, which has its own fanbase and is probably even bigger and more popular than the main series. Those are Sony exclusives, but if you have access to them, I highly recommend Persona 3 and 4.

Yeah, these have been up on Amazon for like a month now. I could have sworn I read that on NL, actually...

@TheRegginator These aren't low quality ripoffs. These are officially licensed by Nintendo and have the seal of approval. Hori seems to be Nintendo's go-to guys for Wii U peripherals.

@LunaticPandora Not deluded. I know this game will still almost certainly look terrible when it's done. I just didn't want to pass judgement until it's done.

I really don't think N64-style graphics are something anyone should strive for these days. It was Nintendo's first steps with 3D polygons and they've aged horribly. They look worse than the sprite graphics of SNES games.

That said, the video is pretty bad, but it's pre-alpha, so I don't want to be too disparaging.

For anyone wondering, the card "Set #1" came with Persona 4 Arena Ultimax. The cards are pretty large too, much larger than a standard playing card. The size difference with the 3DS case in the second pic is probably about accurate. They're quite nice.

TWINE was better than Goldeneye in my opinion. Better mechanics, better level design, better weapons, even the single player was more enjoyable.

He could always buy the Wii U version. It's more powerful than the Vita.

@jordanmarsden That's for Europe. Nintendo of America doesn't really do VC.

Maybe not Zelda, but I'd definitely be interested in seeing Mr. Aonuma direct an open world futuristic action/adventure game with motorcycles.

Since finishing Deus Ex: Human Revolution, I've been waiting to see another great game with a neo-noir, cyberpunk feel.

Yeah, I've definitely learned my lesson from Ubisoft games! That's why THIS time, I'll definitely be waiting for the Game of the Year edition.

And I sure hope this runs at a steady 30FPS for that true cinematic feel.

In related news, Monster Hunter 4 Ultimate sold 1.6 million units this weekend. Holy balls. @_@

So what I'm reading is that this week the 3DS sold around 235,000 units in Japan this weekend (not including old models, which probably sold an insignificant amount).

That's more than PS4s sold worldwide all last week by a fairly wide margin.

It also sold almost as well as the DSi launch in Japan (274k vs 233k). That's pretty significant.

@Jazzer94 Yeah, I wouldn't pay more than 20 for a demo either.

I can't get over how much this has expanded on those side missions from SM3DW. Everyone was questioning if this was a cheaper $20-30 title when it was first revealed, but now it just looks like it's bursting with content with fantastic level and gameplay design.

I don't think people understand how probability works, lol...

This is a little misleading. The won't greenlight AAA sequels if the predecessor didn't sell 2 million. That doesn't necessarily apply to Darkstalkers, Mega Man, Ace Attorney, or even Street Fighter. It really only applies to stuff like Resident Evil, DmC, Dragon's Dogma, or Azura's Wrath.

So this is pretty much non-news, as most studios won't greenlight sequels to AAA games that didn't sell 2 million.

Yup, Day 1 for me. Already got rid of my physical DS carts.

Probably just AoS for me.

My Wii U, 3DS, PS3, and PSV collections are better than his. B)

I do think it's important to keep in mind that Bayo 1 released on an installed base 10x the size as Bayo 2...

@ZeroZX_Dev I dunno if the cause is so noble... Every parent should read to their children. It's a huge part of not only the child's development, but the bonding between parent and child. I refuse to believe that there are parents who don't have 10 minutes to read to their kids every day, unless they have quintuplets or something. Some people are just too lazy and expect TV to raise their kids for them.