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escapeVektor maybe and Steamworld Dig depending on the review.

I'm honestly not sure. Nintendo buying Atlus would make a lot of sense and they can give them more exposure in the Western market, like what they've done with the recent promotion in NA.

SEGA would also be a good fit since they have a good relationship with both Nintendo and Sony, but it'll likely stay in just the Japanese market.

Both would work great, but Nintendo may give Atlus a better edge in the long run.

To @James! <3

A 100% discount off your next eShop purchase. /dream

How would creating a new console help? The only problem with the Wii U is its severe lack of games. The Wii U is currently on life support, but once those games start pouring in then it'll be doing circles around Sony and Microsoft.

Another problem, which is more of a lazy developers problem, is the architecture of the console being so different from the consoles currently on the market. The Wii U just shows that most developers care about getting their game out as quickly as possible and not fine-tuning it to be the best it possibly can on each platform.

Not a thing for me, I already own most of Shinens games anyway. I'll keep an eye on 10-in-1: Arcade Collection but, other than that, a pretty terrible week.

89p is a steal. Not too sure on the whole idea though... you really have to upload something that is truly amazing if you want anyone to like it.

I probably won't use it much though...

The detail on Link (to the right) looks pretty impressive for the 3DS version... loving the looks of it more and more than the Wii U version.

Yay! Now all I want is the Plants vs. Zombies table.

@ramstrong Your moaning about 1000 blocks?! DKCR3D takes up 17,500 blocks.

I don't know what to say really... 4 hours maximum for a £7.19 price tag? That would leave a very bitter taste in my mouth...

Maybe if it goes on sale down the line, but not now. The Guild01 games were definitely better though... a lot better.

For a title called Spelunker, you'd think the 'hero' would be able to survive falls quite easily... not die in mid-air! How weak is this guy that he dies from falling on to air?!

I bet the Japanese love it because it's so absurdly stupid... or easy.

Sure... support dying a console, but not the brand new console. I swear developers are getting more and more dumb.

$99.95? Wow, no thank you! I guess only the rich gamers would be bothered to buy this.

3DS is lower than the Wii U... wow...

I think dedicated gaming is starting to die down again now. It really is only the "hardcore" gaming crowd who'd rather play on a dedicated games console. I think that's where the Vita fell down, since that really is between smartphone and console if you look at it.

@Phantom_R That's not very nice. I don't think the majority of the UK are all that well-rounded with the Japanese, therefore they buy American or British hardware and buy very generic American or British orientated games.

Nintendo clearly still have a market in the UK, so we're not all 360 crazy fanboys who play FIFA all day.

I keep reading it as they want the name of the Princess, not the game series. If the question was: "The title of the game that launched a best-selling franchise, was named after F.Scott Fitzgerald's wife."

Now that makes sense to me.

So I just slide back and fourth or up and down to increase/decrease speed... sounds alright I guess. Sounds like a game you could play in your sleep.

@WiiAllDay That'll be really hard... oh, hello Google Translate.

I don't understand China at all... what a crazy bunch.

Besides, if China is already over-saturated with mobile gaming, what hope does Sony and Microsoft have? Nintendo have already (sort of) penetrated the market with the iQue and I don't see Microsoft moving anything, they hardly move anything in Japan. Sony could probably do something though.

But, oh wait, we have all those copies that they make... I don't see this working at all.

Really good developers. Shame Trine 2 didn't really click with me...

I can see the Wii U easily being the console for indie devs, at least they dare themselves to try new experiences overall, unlike some big name devs out there.

@NFreak007 Nope, I've only seen them on online retailers.

Why would anyone want to buy a Wii now? Everyone and their grandmother owns one of these.

Come on, everyone in NA and EU wants to read manga and anime too y'know.

If we get an eBook reader, it shall be truly awesome! Oh, and let us put our own books on there too via the SD Card... some people have quite a lot of books downloaded from Amazon. >_>

Nothing for me... at all.

"I want the opinion to buy games from all regions"

Shouldn't that be option?

Problem is, you can't really expand too much with Mario. It's always followed the same path of completing one course to unlock the next, but Mario 64 and Sunshine went beyond that which was quite nice.

I wouldn't mind an open world feel where you can go wherever you want, but you have to have so many stars to unlock a certain course before you can continue. There's quite a few possibilities they can go into, but I think Nintendo have got stuck into the "complete one level to unlock the next" mentality.

@Tech Well Japan is their biggest market compared to everywhere else, so it can't be that... can it?

EU has mainly been a PS and Microsoft fan base, so I can see why they want to try to put their name out there a little more.

@SkywardLink98 There are plenty of games that never got moved over to the EU and only stayed in NA.

@Tech Maybe, but why not release it in all countries at the same time? What makes EU and Japan so special that we get it first?

@SkywardLink98 I was being sarcastic, but EU usually has to wait for releases that NA has had for months, or in some cases, never recieve it at all.

If EU gets something NA doesn't, they get all enraged.

Can't wait to see Operation Plaza in a couple days.

Bought it on release day and it's a really good game, there are a few aspects that I would like cleaned up and the addition of level sharing and actually seeing a leader board, the in-game boards don't really tell you much.

I also agree that "it’s nowhere near as good as the Trials series", but it's still a really good substitute.

This game looks positively amazing... by amazing, I mean dreadfully boring.

Developers dropped support quite a bit during the first few years of the Wii because it wasn't as powerful, but when it started moving, the devs jumped on to the bandwagon. I think we'll be seeing that again this time.

The Wii U is a powerful little console, it's just a shame developers are too lazy these days, they want to make a game as quickly as possible without much hassle and reap as much money. Since the Wii U is built differently compared to the 360 and PS3, I doubt we'll be seeing many ports.

Unfortunately, the advertising has been pretty abysmal... it's all about pushing the console and Nintendo Land. e.e

The Wii U GamePad screen will be better used eventually, but so far there hasn't been a game that uses it extremely well. There has been good uses on Batman and Zombi U (forgot about that one lol).

But every game mainly uses it for the off-screen play, which actually works really well. I just hope there's a game that uses the GamePad's screen properly rather than just an inventory screen.

The Wii U will eventually start moving. It's just had a very dodgy start, just as the 3DS had a dodgy start.

I had a feeling this was going to be terrible. I'm glad I waited it out for the review.

I doubt Nintendo will shut down any of their previous online stores any time soon. And since it looks like Nintendo are going to stick with the eShop name, I can see them closing down the DSi and Wii specific shops in maybe 10-20 years and moving those downloads over to the eShop, which hopefully would be unified by then.

Maybe once WiiWare and DSiWare start dying off and developers are moving on to the eShop they might close them down and move the content over to the eShop.

And the winner is... drum roll

PHILIP J REEEEEEED!!!

@dumedum Every country has made mistakes, every country has had blood on their hands, every country has commited horrendous crimes against humanity. But Germany is usually always the one that gets the stick, even now. Sure, Germany was despicable during the 2 World Wars, but so were America and Britain. And if you can't acknowledge that... well then...

Besides, this is no place for religion or politics.

I had a feeling this game was going to be terrible, glad I waited for the review. And there is no Guild game so far that has been outright brilliant yet imo.

Absolutely nothing worthwhile for me this week. Maybe Project X Zone and I'll look into Sonic Drift 2, other than that it's a pretty abysmal week. :/

Croptacular!

Although I'm not into Harvest Moon as much as I used to be, I'd say that's probably one of the better "farmer" games you can get on your DS or 3DS.

You dumb, you so dumb, so very dumb.

I wouldn't be surprised really. Hopefully when they do release MK8, they'll have the releases for Japan, NA and Europe quite close together. There is nothing worse than having to wait while your NA friend is playing a game a full month before you can.

Best YouTube video forever!

Cheating in any game should not be allowed, and they deserve their punishment. But the fact the hacker can corrupt their competitors trainer is a bit dodgy to say the least.

At least add something meaningful.

I'm sorry to say, but there's too much Mario. Where's our Metroid, Star Fox, F-Zero, Kirby etc.?

Mario may sell consoles, but you certainly can't live on him forever, people are already starting to get fed up. If Mario can have 2 or more releases on 1 console, why can't their other IPs?

Yet another win for the internet!