Claytonbob

I just want the silly thing to be in stock. I refused to play the eBay game for the mini. I wanted a Wii on launch day and it took me weeks to find one. Maybe ban them from eBay or something. eBay guaranteeeing a price of $220 for the mini was ridiculous and artificially inflated the price. If I can't get a switch easily I'll just wait a few months and my confidence in Nintendo further eroded.

Yea it was way too much trouble. Plus I didn't feel like giving them my personal info. Who comes up with this stuff?

I really tried to give it a chance but eventually decided it was just wasted space on my phone and deleted it. I never found any part of it fun or entertaining.

I like the idea. I can't play games on the TV b/c the kids are always using it. I can play on the Wii U tablet but can't leave the room. So I play my 3DS XL but it hurts my hands as I have large hands. The switch seems to solve all these issues.

EBay's guarantee of $225 means if one ever does show up on a shelf in the US a scalper will grab it. With only 4 or so stores carrying them someone can buy up all the stock in a town in 20 mins. So I'm just going to give up trying.

We tried target and we're 8th in line. They got 6. So we went to ToysRUs and they had 20 or so. We just missed that one too but then a man walked up and handed his ticket to my 6 year old daughter. We we very grateful. What a kind thing to do.

Great news. So I fire up Pokemon Go and what do I see? A pidgey and Rattatta. O well. My interest continues to be at an all time low. The Halloween thing was interesting but all the eggs I hatched were the same old things I have 100 of. So wasn't that great.

I just got to 2,000 Silver coins now I can...O well I guess I can watch 220 of them expire. How exciting.

As long as they don't play the "shortage" game like they did with the Wii, Amiibo, and seem to be doing with the NES Mini.

Mario Teaches Typing XP Edition coming soon?

@Flowerlark I agree. I've been watching Amazon US like a hawk for the NES mini and the Ocarina of Time Link Amiibo, but they are still not available.

I think it's great. Nintendo has been relying on their core fan boys too long and need to open up and let the masses get to know their IP. My kids are very interested in Pokemon now. Only because of Pokemon Go. Now they can get into Mario too although they already play it on their 2DS.

I'm still trying to figure out what's up with the purple ¿guy?

Just realized that Amazon gives a 20% discount to these as well within 2 weeks of release date for Prime members. So they are $15.99 each.

I played it for about an hour tonight and enjoyed it. The screen stutter drives me crazy and I was in initially taken back by the low rea but it's fun and that's the most important part.

I'm much better at power sliding in Mario Kart that in my Accord.

Used Sparky to get a Jolteon. I had already randomly evolved a Flareon and Vaporeon. Sparky worked fine.

Doesn't matter how many countries they launch if they can't keep their servers up.

Um. I'm stunned, but my NES still works.

I chose Charmander but found a Pikachu on the second day. I've since hatched another Charmander and caught two Bulbasaurs. No sign of squirtle though. Maybe I need to find more water.

BTW the servers are terrible this evening. It's been unplayable for several hours. I've actually caught a few and it just freezes. That's when I can actually log on to the game. I even checked NintendoLife.com assuming it was because they had launched in Europe and Asia, but aparrently not.

I just want to warn the Europeans what to expect. In the 4 days this game has come out its taken off like wildfire and I would expect most of the US population has heard of it. It's in the top stories of the Associated Press, local news etc warning of dangers of not paying attention and getting hurt. In middle Tennessee there are dozens of people at the local park, all glued to their phones or literally yelling "Pokemon" to people they pass in their cars. It's weird, it's like a holiday or something. People are stopped in the middle of the road or on the side of the road in random places staring at their phones. It's so easy to pick them out. It's like some video game infection. The small park I mentioned has like 10 Pokestops and 2 gyms. I live 20 mins away on a dirt road and there are zero Pokemon here. No joke, they did NOT place any Pokemon in the wild. It's just an urban and suburban game. I'm disappointed in that part. I thought for sure I could catch plenty of them in my 8 acre filed. As for gyms there are several but seem to be beaten within a few minutes by another team. I did manage to hold one for 4 hrs or so in one random gym in the middle of nowhere. I like the game, but it needs more Pokemon in the wild.

Anyone else have a male character but all the achievements say things like "Battle Girl?" I'm not sure what to make of it.

Just spent 20 mins circling my 8 acre field and saw nothing. I guess just like the cable companies the Pokemon Company doesn't know there are people living outside of the city. Useless app.

Here we go!

I was hoping that we would have the same sale in NA but we got much less. I did pick up Majoras Mask 3D, Oracle of Seasons, and Oracle of Agea though. I'm still holding out for Links Awakening DX and all the Mario games to go on sale here for my 3DS.

One question is, Will the NX be backwards compatible with the Wii U library? That's the normal practice but if it is it's silly to buy a Wii U now, just wait for the NX.

I had trouble finishing the trailer. It effectively turned off all interest for this game. I loved Friends of Mineral Town but this doesn't seem interesting to me.

Nintendo please get rid of the paging. Showing me 10 games at a time is beyond tedious. I don't really care for the 3DS eshop structure. I feel I can never find the things I want in there. Also show me the download size before I commit the funds for a game. Finally yes please allow a game to be on multiple systems at once. I now have to either buy physical or purchase the game on my 3DS and separately on my daughters.

I would be thrilled if they just fixed the battle mode, but I doubt that will happen. I predict an all Fire Emblem cast and track set.

I only use it enough to get the points. When it asks you a question just add or remove a period from your previous response to get credit. I also despise how when you change clothes it asks if you want to take a picture, you say no and it does it anyways and then asks if you want to share it. And I say no again. It the has the same response every time.

I think the issue is most of the games are rather silly. DK64 had a Crocodile attack an island of monkeys with a floating island. The game is fun but who wants to watch a movie like that? I'd rather them try and make a serious live action movie. Metroid is my first thought but Zelda has potential. Mario, while I love him, I'm just not sure I can stomach him in live action and I fear an animated version would just be to silly to watch as well.

I had no idea this was possible. I just spent a hour watching random 3D videos. Thanks.

@sWiTcHeRoO that's the first boss battle I thought they would list. It was terrible.

I got the $13 bundle. Street Fighter is the only one I've tried so far.

Good looking figures but I find them more annoying than entertaining. I'll pass.

I live in the sticks where they limit your downloads per month to 5GB. Nintendo expects me to purchase and download a game twice to share between my 3DS and daughters 2DS. Amazon gives like 15-20% off new games for prime members. I RARELY download a game, why would I? As for Miitomo I have no friends with Nintendo hardware so that game is useless to me. I'll get enough points to get Zelda Picross then delete it from my phone. It's sucks battery like crazy anyways.

I bought this game from a blockbuster forever ago for near nothing. I had no idea it was worth something. I hope I can find it.

I'm excited for this option. My kids are 5 and 3. They were quite excited to see the Star Fox trailers. Now they can actually play the game. They won't care they are invincible. They will have fun and that's what matters. When I was young we always turned on infinite lives on our NES game genie. It allowed us to enjoy SMB3, TMNT2 etc. who cares if it's easier. We had fun and got to levels we would never have seen without it.

I refuse to buy any of these games again on my 3DS since I own them on Wii and Wii U. Nintendo's model is frustrating. I have 2 iPads in which I only buy the game once. Same is true for our 3 Kindle Fires. Now I have bought my daughter a 2DS and have to buy all games physical so we can swap them. I prefer digital but I'm not paying for them for each device. Why can't my Nintendo account own the rights to play the game on any of my devices like Apple and Amazon do? It's frustrating and until fixed I'll be very careful what VC games I buy. So it's actually. So owning more consoles in which j have to choose has reduced the number of VC games I'm buying.

Open up Mario Kart so that your Amiibo not only unlocks a costume but an actual character you can race as like in Infinty Toybox Speedway. Also allow costumes to be in all 4 Mario Maker Themes. That's what I would like to see.

Maybe they should team up next to make that poor girl some Mario pants.

Congrats, this is the only site I read every day.

I have it on GameCube. I have it on Wii. I'm still scared of chainsaws.

Seriously though I can't bring myself to buying an old Wii U game for $20. They should be $10. Then I would buy them all even if I already own them.

I wish there was a way to find levels that would appeal to my 5 year old. She loves Mario but most are too hard for her. While they are at it, provide a way to filter out the automatic levels as well.

Simon Belmont
King K Rool
Banjo Kazooie

I like this approach much better.

I can't wait. I do hope they keep it fresh with DLC adding new items and features.

I liked the construction theme but the in game footage didn't really show that you can make your own levels with this game. It looked more like cheating to skip over the hard parts, then just a bunch of craziness.

This and Goldeneye consumed a huge amount of our time whenever we got the cousins together. Time well spent.

So is the modern colors Mario amiibo coming out on 9/11 as an individual unit in the US or can you only get it as a system bundle?