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@Yorumi they said it was "unsportsmanlike", that is, in the context of a sports game, it was too much violence.

Assuming I can track down a ROB and Duck Hunt (cause I'm sure those will have print runs in line with other such easy-to-find amiibo, like Little Mac and Marth...rubs temples) I'm all over those two.

Seems the eShop has suffered a crippling stroke thanks to Ryu and co., sigh.

looks at SEGA's finances

Yeah, mobile is working out great for them...

@ricklongo that might be true if there were any big games on the horizon, but since the path ahead looks pretty clear, they probably don't have a lot to worry about other than irate fans massing outside their HQ demanding more copies--"no ink, no peace!"

@ekreig it's a hit--Nintendo's shipments are predicated on retailer demand, not their willingness to withhold stock in a Russian Roulette-style attempt to generate hype.

@TwilightAngel judging by the people I'm dominating in most matches, yes.

I would never use voice chat--at least not with anyone but friends--but they still should have put the option in there for those that like being sworn at by 13-year-old miscreants.

@AyeHaley the idea is probably that because they're so common, the fakes will blend in more seamlessly, rather than stumbling across a thick vein of WiiFit Trainers, Marths, or Captain Falcons, which should set off at least some alarm bells.

@Artwark Shining Force>Fire Emblem until my last breath!

(Damn you, SEGA.)

Zombie mode to be released around Halloween, I'm sure.

Given that Nintendo are control freaks, turning over your OS development* to, perhaps, the most easily-hacked, sliced, and diced OS in the history of OS' seems a bridge waaay too far on the believability scale.

IOW, try harder, rumor-mongers.

*Even if heavily-modified, this would be extraordinarily foolish.

That's...creepy.

@Peek-a-boo naw, just the ludicrous warblings of trolls who conflate a handful of people with the entirety of the "Nintendo fan base".

Hilarious that NL is doing PR for Slightly Mad on this by attempting to help them in their spin job. That's pretty pathetic guys, as we all know that SM is now lying through their teeth and you do a tremendous disservice to your readers--and your credibility--by swallowing this nonsense and then passing it on to your readers as the new, fully revised, reality.

As for the rest of you missing the point: the problem here is they LIED, not that the WiiU suddenly, at this late date, can't handle it*, even though SM has been saying for years now that the U rev was coming along well--stop being patsies and being so easily spun by some obnoxiously insulting revisionist history.

(Moments like this make me realize how it is politicians get away with constantly, incessantly, lying through their teeth because their media enablers--and their readers/viewers/listeners--will help cement the lie as conventional wisdom. How utterly pathetic and predictable, tho, given where we are as a culture.)

A few thoughts:

1. Supply and demand.
2. Supply and demand.
3. Gamers don't understand basic economics.
4. Supply and demand.

Thank you for your time.

More of that patented Stability(TM) on its way.

I'll get it, but it won't be until it slides its way down to $10, alas--too many games, too little time, and there's absolutely nothing impulse buy about a $20 MSRP for DL games, alas.

@AlexSora89 Google Homepass and set it up--it's pretty straightforward.

@flojomojo we didn't even get them on SNES, actually, which couldn't scale individual sprites but, rather, only background layers (thus putting the Lynx above the base 16-bit consoles, at least in this one area)--not until the SEGA CD (or, if we're being pedantic*, the NeoGeo) did we get true sprite scaling and rotation effects a la arcade games.

*Pedantic, because it was, of course, an arcade board in a console case.

@dronesplitter I am heartened to hear that first-time players, in isolated cases (alas), are having as much fun w/ these games as those of us that played them first-run in the arcades did.

One, small, correction: it's "GET TO DA CHOPPA!"

@WaxxyOne actually, that's nonsense. The faster CPU in the Genesis conferred a distinct edge in sheer sprite manipulation--you simply do not see bosses like those in Gunstar Heroes, Contra Hard Corps, etc. Those multi-jointed spritemares simply could not run on the cripplingly-slow CPU powering the SNES, regardless of its superiority in other areas.

(The same can be seen in shoot 'em ups on both platforms where, even though the SNES could manipulate more sprites on paper, the reality was that you paid the price in massive slowdown or had to sacrifice raster effects and background layers to do it--Compile's MUSHA versus Space Megaforce is a prime example of the latter. Same company, but the latter is vastly inferior, technically, to the former.)

Seconded: no 3D, no buy.

(And slowdown? On a SI clone?? The SI games on DS had a hell of a lot more going on than this game does, and there was never a nanosceond of such on them.)

A cynical person might remark that everything is going according to Nintendo's biz plan...

@Captain_Gonru Bingo. Your comment should be posted as a news story, as it's pretty much how all action figures/figurines are shipped.

Each case will hold a grip of the popular characters, then diminishing numbers of the lesser characters down to perhaps 1 or 2 of the least popular character.

The only oddity (but not unheard of) is that, reading between the lines, this only applies to the very first shipment and each subsequent shipment will contain basically none of the known rares going forward.

Source: years and years of (ill-spent) action figure collecting, camping stores in the AM, making sure to be there when the box came off the truck to get first dibs on chases/rares.

"It's been stressed throughout the development of this homebrew exploit that it won't allow 3DS ROMS to be played, which partially heads off criticism that it'll contribute to piracy."

LMAO, yeah, and if you believe this, I have a rare gold Nintendo World Championship cart, sealed, to sell you for five bucks--wtg helping promote this to a wider audience, NL.

For those of you living in a dream world where this does not turn into a ROM launcher within 3-months, bear in mind that, unlike w/ the DS family, Nintendo does not a. have the userbase to absorb nearly as much wanton piracy as plagued those devices and b. a much higher percentage of the 3DS family userbase will take advantage of it than the percentage that did on DS, which means it will do serious damage to a company already reeling from the disastrous U situation.

All in all, while I'm sure NL can hide behind 'journalistic integrity' on posting this (just like the NYTs hid behind it when publishing US nat'l. security secrets like any good group of proto-anarchists--the UK has its analog in the Guardian*), just keep in mind that you are introducing a much larger group of people that don't frequent hives of scum and villainy like GBATemp, and as with any 'marketing', it's a numbers game, and you are going to damage Nintendo's bottom line when this does 'magically' start launching ROMs in the near-future.

(I am not referring to the abuses of the NSA, but those during the second Gulf War, where there was *nothing[/strong] to be gained--except damaging the government--by the parties involved. Promoting proto ROM launchers most definitely fits in the latter category, not the former.)

I have no idea why people have no idea what this story is about.

Calling the SNES Drac X a "port" of the PC Engine rev is stretching the meaning of the word "port" until it has, literally, no meaning at all.

@Wilford111 did you actually play arcade games back in the day, or are you just 'remembering' a time you didn't actually live? I ask, because I did live those days, and I dumped well over $5 into games like Woah Dave more times than I can count and, in fact, I still do so with games you would deride as "simplistic"--things like the Bit.Trip series, for example.

<i>As you'll know if you've read the recent Console Wars...</i>

Did anyone not know this before reading a book about it???

And instead we got Lair--seems the Dark Side truly won out on that one.

Please, please: upgrade the super cheap-looking UI elements. Hell, I do this for work*, so if you need someone to do those fairly cheaply, **I will do them**.

*I'm obviously not in sales, marketing, or tact, but I do solid work.

@unrandomsam oh, that's easy: the media makes it look much worse by counting temps and the like in the cuts which is, as you noted, something not normally noted at all, in any business.

@WingedSnagret I was sorta thinking $6.99 as a bundle, sigh.

This is what happens when you bet, heavily, on mobile, and combo that up w/ making 'Western-style' games, instead of Capcom-style games.

(In fact, I'm sure, privately, Iwata has a laugh at Capcom's current trials and tribulations for this very reason.)

@vitalemrecords when it was new, we all called it S-N-E-S, at least in the northeastern USA, but I haven't heard anyone refer to it as anything other than "sness" in a decade or more.

Frankly, I'd prefer the original arcade iterations of most of the best Coleco games--stuff like Venture, Cosmic Avenger and, yes, Donkey Kong (plus Jr. and 3).

(That isn't to say some Smurf's Adventure or otherwise might not also be worthwhile.)

X-Type has been yanked from the eShop, no doubt because of the bug.

Steel Empire...for $30...for a slightly buffed remake of a (solid, but not great--it sure as hell isn't a Gaiares, TFIV, or MUSHA) shooter from 1992...what am I missing here?? A desire to make sure no other shooters are ever brought to eShop?? Did someone at Teyon cut this deal while on a 3-day bender and agreed to a mil up front?? Sales are going to be severely depressed if a shoot 'em up junkie like me--with no money issues--is balking at the MSRP.

(I mean, for God's sake, Kokuga was $15 and was a full retail release in Japan!)

It's basically Rune Factory, Jr., and is pretty fun, even for ancient gamers such as myself.

Hawkman is obscure??

For the love of God, Nintendo, NNID-tied software licenses, not hardware-based.

Bought, SEGA, if you'd bring it over to the USA.

Uh, people bought the Wii because it was cheap and had a unique, for the time, library of games--good luck pulling that off w/ a $400 console (w/ no pack-in, system-selling, game) and a slate of games designed, overwhelmingly, to appeal to teenage-and-20-something males.

Going way out on a limb and predicting, now, that this never sees the light of day on U, alas.

@Hy8ogen What he said.

Killer 7 is one of the greatest games of all time? Wow.

EA has reduced itself to trolling Nintendo fans...

@liljmoore "This is only 3 days of sales" <--worth noting in the OP.