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@Serebii This.

Also i wouldn't be suprised anyway, until you play 'real' games you dont know any better. A tablet is a low point of entry, they are open ended in utility and the games are cheap and plentiful. Kids can easily try 1000 games and spend less than a tenner, the quality of said games is moot as these children will not have experienced 'real' gaming and or not even appreciate it yet.

Nope, first one was such a shallow experience i'll never buy one again.

@rjejr Doubt it, although Hyrule Warrors may get swallowed up by the Destiny and/or Smash 3ds hype as they are very close together.

Bayo2 (late Oct release) will likely get drowned out in the October AAA massacre: Dragon Age, Alien, Evolve, LOTR,Smash 3DS, Sunset Overdrive, Ass Creed unity, Drive Cub, Fonza 2, Evil Within, NBA2k15, WWE2k15 and Battlefield are all releasing around the same time, its actually ridiculous.

Of course i'm talking about multi-console owners and not just Wii U owners. For them the choice will be easy since there is only one retail release per month.

People better pick this game up, the attachment rate for some Wii U games has been disappointing considering all the whining for new games i see everywhere.

Awesome this is day 1 for me but October is looking crazy already as I have Smash 3Ds, Dragon Age, Evolve & Bayo 1&2 all preordered.

Call me crazy but this looks like fun to me, Sonic is stale and the hardcore 2d fans don't realize his type of game has become endless runners and 3D Sonic has never lived up to expectations because Sonic as he was just didn't suit 3D. I'll give it a chance and form my own opinion, i used to love Sonic but time has not been good to him at all.

@Blue-Thunder As i said other than the account transfer the system is the same as MS and Sony. They have an account system and it tracks every purchase you make and can be restored just the same. The difference is a 10-30 min phone call/email exchange as opposed to a 10-30sec self account transfer.

Don't get me wrong i'm all for it, i have so many harmonized eco-systems from steam to google chromecast/playbook etc and i love the ease that i can shuffle my accounts around. However i also know why Nintendo are hesitant to open it up when both Sony and MS have yet to find a counter to the exploits.

While you or i wouldn't share our accounts there are sites and forums that do this stuff on the daily and have been since inception, hell the biggest video game sites i visit have a communitys set up for it.

@Blue-Thunder Nintendo do have an account system... since 2012 on Wii U and 2013 on 3DS. You cannot move the account between consoles without contacting Nintendo, other than that its the same as Psn or xboxlive albeit in its adolescence. Obviously this is a counter to the cloning account trick people have been using for years to replicate digital games on psn & xlive.

@WiiLovePeace One Piece retail is £30 at amazon for straw hat edition. I don't like the anime enough to watch more than a few EPs but ive played through all the OP games so far with my brother who is crazy about them and they are good as stand alones even if you dont like the anime or manga.

I expect average reviews from the press and amazing to terrible reviews from the OP fans much like the other unlimited world games. Check the gamefaqs forums as many people there are playing the Japanese version that released last week.

Why would Nintendo have an issue with it being on Wii U? They would see money from it and its shallow expierence would drive people to the real thing. Until Apple and Google get their crap together there's not much Deva can do when their IPs get cloned as court cases rarely make back the money they cost on these small time crooks.

Such a non issue.

@Action51 Tell me about it those steam sales are ruthless, i picked up Divinity OS (awesome btw) already after promising myself i wouldn't buy anymore games for a while since i already have One Piece & Transformers pre-ordered for next Friday.

Every remotely successful IP in gaming has a 100 knock offs on the App or Play store. I do hope some of these thieves are being sued.

Were like 4 months away from launch <.<, no point getting your panties in a twist.

@Action51 sorry different timezone . Medium and cramped area's depending where on the islands you are. Zombies, plants & animals (for food) repawn normal if you leave the area for about 10mins but on iron man only zombies do. Some loot is randon but key items are always in the same place. Its also a persistent world so if you drop a gun somewhere on an island its going to stay there until you pick it up again.

@Action51 There is also a Challenge mode consisting of 8 different challenges that can be played co-op. They are essentially remixes of the four islands with crazy themes like Zombie Zoo (All Animals) or Chainsaw combat. Each can be played on normal or iron man mode which is very hard.

Its far from perfect but imo its alot better than alot of the Eshop games that have been reviewed higher by this site. Check out Miiverse before you take the plunge and see what people are saying about it and make sure its for you.

Totally disagree with the score, played through this both solo and co-op and it was a blast. Miiverse comments are also mostly good, only complaint is lack of online.

@darkswabber Welcome to the multi-console club, serious question, why buy it on the PS4 over Wii U (or at all) if you have both consoles and it will be free on PS+ in a few months?

Well Junes NPD will show if it translated into sales. Though I expect Nintendo may have an amazing Holiday period boost with both consoles.

Day1 can't wait to do a co-op run through.

Guacamelle is releasing the same week so I may have to save this for later if at all.

Day 1, love the original version.

@Dragoon04 In that case wait a month or two for Watchdogs, Ubisoft games value always drops steeply fast. It'll be 1/4 of the price by Xmas, I doubt the other two will have significant price drops for a while.

@ThomasBW84 No love for Transformers and One Piece?

We get 1-2 games a week every week without fail so people can't complain about that. The things people seem to complain about is the lack of N64 games and less throwaway releases like the sports games.

Totally forgot about DS games incoming, if they have features better then the originals and the price is right I may pick some up dispite owning a 3DS.

Maybe monkey Pirates, looks like cheap multiplayer fun. Not sure about Pullbox yet as I'm not in a puzzle mood right now.

What happened to the How 2 Survive review? I got it day one and its a good port so I'm surprised no ones really speaking about it outside of Miiverse.

I think this E3 done what last E3 didn't, show people Nintendo were serious about the Wii U and would not abandon it due to low sales and bad press.

Spatoon+Treehouse+Zelda+Smash tourny = win

@Mahe FYI You can't buy a Wii U without a gamepad but you can certainly use a Wii U without the gamepad. You can boot up and navigate with a wiimote or pro controller, the only things linked to the gamepad are the eshop and the settings menu (which is weird).

Yep 3DS was second place for sure its been confirmed. Wii U was at just over 60k so its likely it was 4th place. Still that's pretty good considering, June will be very interesting as it took a few days for the MK8 hype,good word of mouth and memes to sink in.

@CanisWolfred @Genesaur Gundam extreme vs full boost is probably the best Gundam game ever made. You can import it from Japan if you have a ps3, most menus are in English anyway and there are online translation for other stuff.

@AVahne There's been an account system since launch, Nintendo however have been really crap advertising it. Probably due to it being abit clumsy to do on their end and them possibly fearing abuse. In anycase I've have all my Wii U & 3DS purchases redownloaded on to new systems following theft.

If you told me that Mario, Sonic, Megaman and Pacman would be fighting each other in a major budget game in the future when i was a kid, i would have slapped you.

Oh come on, take a chance and localize it Namco.

This is such a non issue, i'm glad Mii's are in it and i think removing them from online play is also a good idea after the mii's i've seen some people make.

@LEGENDnoONE I'll bite your troll bait, Sonic was actually the first console game with a level editor via debug mode that gave access to mod tools if memory serves.

Also LBP is a physics based platforming/puzzsolving game with extensive customisability and creation options. Mario is not physics based at all and Mario maker is clearly not about customisation but rather using a set amount of props to create interesting courses.

This would have to sell amazingly in its first month to even be considered for localisation. The Gundam franchise both anime and games have a long history of localisation issues.

UK is always behind Germany and France in Nintendo sales, so I imagine its doing well there also.

Looks like a summer push for MK8 for Nintendo.

F-Zero is the only major IP we know is not currently been worked on at this point.

I expect we won't have to wait until next E3 for more news as Nintendo have been getting more creative and aggressive with the directs despite the drop in their frequency.

This has without a doubt been my best E3 experience ever thanks to Nintendo.

@HappyHappyist Only works in friend mode just like the customizations so you can still buy and enjoy Smash all the same.

We will see, personally i hope they keep options open for games. As much as i like the gamepad i love being able to use the Pro controller aswell.

@Action51 One of the best games ever!!! I'm so upset i lost all my UMC on my old PC for both Freedom Forces .
The community for this game was amazing, X-men, transformers, thundercats, Matrix... you name it someone made models, skins, missions, arenas and special effects and you could import them into the awesome mechanics and settings in this game. The story and characters were also very well made, the devs decided to do City of heroes/villians instead of another sequel though unfortunatly.

Freedom Force X Valkria Chronicles made buy Miya & Intelligent Systems sounds like it will be awesome to me.

@Diddy_kong I think Nintendo understand this that's why this are additional extras for bonus modes and not vital components like Infinity and Skylanders. Nintendo fans are very vocal so i'm so if Nintendo overstep the mark somewhere there will be a poopoodoodoocacapoopledoopledoggiedoopstorm anyway lol.

Personally i'm going to get a few due to the workmanship of the models, i'm not to bothered about in game interaction at this point so i may not even take some out their cases.
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@Kirk I think you are out of touch with Nintendo not the other way around, take a good look at everything Nintendo has done in the last ten years (or even longer). They are catering for those who love Nintendo for being Nintendo they don't care about "most gamers", they have realized the PC,Sony & MS loyalists will either have Nintendo machines as a second console or not at all.

To that end they are creating games/experiences you can't find elsewhere and not replicating popular games. They are going for their niche and expanding when and where it suits them into new area's.

You need to look at what they are actually doing and decide if its for you. If not you need to move on and stop clinging to false hopes of what you want Nintendo to be.

For me i love each company/platforms for their own strengths, MS is for big budget western titles, Sony for big budget Japanese titles and no region lock for Japanese titles that never make it west. Nintendo is for creative, imaginative and straight up fun Japanese titles. And well my PC is for wrpgs, RTS,TBS and god sims etc.

@Action51 Guy is a troll just ignore him, every topic he is hating or spreading lies and misguided nonsense.

Good start, lets see how the rest of 2014 plays out for the Wii U.

"As a team we've been a little divided over the approach of zooming out and showing the workings of the broadcast between segments, showing the camera operators and technicians rushing around between sets. "

I actually love this as i know if this was any other company the 60-90sec breaks would be filled with non relevant adverts and i HATE adverts.

@Gravedigga13 Good points and pretty much what happened with the PS3, its only now at the end of its life have we finally had a flood of RPGS and still have P5 to look forward to.

Luckily Nintendo have 2 (3?) 1st party dev groups that specialize in RPGS that could contribute. The chances of RPGS in general this gen across all systems is going to be very low outside of indie, eshop/psn/xbox titles, ports and remakes. But at this point i'll take what i can get where ever its coming from.

Its her best Zelda game so she may just have been representing. That said a new/old 3DS Zelda early next year whould raise hype for Zelda Wii U in fall.