Frank-The-Tank

Come on guys, nothing about the Joycon in the Grip controller? I wanted to know how that feels.

I'm not paying for PS Plus and Nintendo online. And Nintendo will not win out of the two.

Nintendo: you can't isolate yourself from the rest of the gaming world and then expect to be able to charge for online.

Thank you for giving Australian (AEDT) times!

But that's exactly how I thought it would work.

An extra fan allows you to run at a higher performance. A fan running in handheld mode would drain the battery too much. It's the obvious mode of enhancing performance with the dock, at a low cost.

@CharlieSmile Link's a male character, established for 30 years. You know Samus is female right? Can you imagine me wanting the world to change her to male because I'M male? It would be absolutely ridiculous, just like you're being.

Every time someone lists the brilliant games on WiiU without mentioning Pikmin 3, an angel loses it's wings.

I pity the 5 million fools who own a WiiU but not Mario Kart 8

I've watched so much gameplay footage I literally know the entire Plateau off-by-heart and I've never even played the game.

I mistakenly read "The NX reveal window is apparently summer 2018".

And I wasn't even surprised.

Seems the colours are still significantly less vibrant than the original. Why can't nintendo sort that out?

If they don't reveal it soon I'm going to buy a bloody ps4 so I have something to play over the holidays. If they reveal it soon I can hold out, but bugger holding out for an unknown.

You know, a mousepad is actually a perfect metaphor for how I feel about this game.

I enjoy NintendoLife's commentary on this phenomenon, and it's nice to hear some positive news about Nintendo.

Personally I think the technology feels out of place. The game seeks to immerse you in nature, and bringing up a digital grid pattern to use the Sheika Slate really breaks that immersion. It reminds you you're still using technology to play the game. The technology motif is ugly when juxtaposed with a serene natural setting.

Can you imagine if Nintendo's console was at least as powerful as Sony's and Microsoft's? It would get all the same 3rd party support (because porting would be so easy) and it would DESTROY in terms of exclusives. Noone can compete with Nintendo's exclusives. This is all you need to do in the console market; just be the best, whether by an inch or a mile. The ps4 is only slightly better than the Xbone, but that "slightly" is enough to make it your choice, so Sony dominates the generation. Imagine that, with Nintendo's exclusives. It would be a flawless victory.

The gamepad is the best controller of all time. As long it's treated as an added convenience, rather than a central design element, it's absolutely brilliant. Asymmetric multiplayer, off-tv play, strategic enhancement and streamlining (Pikmin 3, Splatoon, Zelda maps), quick internet browsing, artpad & miiverse drawings. It's the perfect controller. The failure of the WiiU is in no way the fault of the gamepad. Nintendo would do well to keep it for the NX. I, for one, hope they do.

I find the lack of music very worrying. Music has always been such an important part of Zelda games. So far it seems that music has been entirely omitted in favour of ambient sound and small, disjointed jingles. I didn't hear a single cohesive piece of music. The battle 'music' sounds more like you're having a thumb wrestle in a hotel lobby.

Why would anyone get an NX at this point anyway? After how much Nintendo has done over their core audience on Wii and WiiU you'd have to have Stockholm syndrome.

@Frank-The-Tank - profanity is against the community rules. Please refrain. Thanks muchly

So the big incentive game to buy an NX will be on Wii U, and everyone with a Wii U will be too pissed off to do the upgrade. Meanwhile, everyone else already has a ps4 or Xbox One. How is Nintendo so bad at this?
I'm done with them. I bought a WiiU for Zelda and the WiiU now isn't getting a single exclusive Zelda game. F*ck em, you can only treat your core audience so bad.

It's an up-res and a texture pack. And the lighting looks seriously worse. Look at around 3:00-3:05 how the light streams through the trees in the old games, but not in the remake. The lighting in the remake is awful by comparison. I thought the lighting really set the mood in twiLIGHT princess....
Also, notice at 9:20 how the water no longer reacts to Link? Yuck. So amateur.

People need to understand that the text in Zelda causes the player (and reader) to create their own images of the characters, just as people do when reading books. It actually draws the player's consciousness more completely into the world, and creates a deeper interaction. This is why they have it, it has nothing to do with old school and new school. It's not nintendo being 'behind the times', it's nintendo understanding the mind of a gamer. I hope to god I never hear voice acting in Zelda, ESPECIALLY for Link.

Given that 2015 is likely going to go without us getting so much as a name for Zelda U, I propose we refer to it henceforth as "Zelda U: Electric Boogaloo"

So it'll be out of sync with the console cycle, Nintendo will again miss 3rd party games that go to Playstation and Xbox, and WiiU owners will get left in the dust without a single dedicated WiiU Zelda title for their support. If this happens I am done with Nintendo for good. They should be putting all their efforts into supporting their core audience that's stood by them with the WiiU, for the whole console term, instead of giving up and shafting them.

Call me crazy, but I much prefer the n64's characteristic graphics style. It gave me very unsettling feelings to see Mario Kart 64 looking as if it was a Playstation game.

I ended up really disliking this game. The final puzzle, where you have to count hidden symbols, is easily the worst, most unenjoyable puzzle I have ever played in a game.

Can anyone explain to me why they decided to withhold content and release it like this?

Another example of Nintendo's recent culture alienating longterm fans, who have stuck around with the assurance of a high quality that was always synonymous with Nintendo. The old Nintendo would never have supported such a cheap knock-off. This is almost counterfeit. And that music is properly offensive.

E3 isn't about practical awareness of near-term releases, it's about hype, about getting people to talk to each other excitedly about your system and its games. This excitement drives hardware sales, people wait till E3 to choose which console to buy. How can they not understand this?? And now nobody is talking excitedly about getting a WiiU. Are they just idiots?

Reggie sounds like a politician, and not a good one at that. How does his point about only showcasing near-term games make sense when they showed Zelda LAST year, but not THIS year? And last year they expected it to be over a year away, that didn't matter, they showed us anyway. And we were happy regardless of the wait. The notion that they thought zelda fans would have been disappointed if they showed something rather than nothing... I just really cant understand this stupidity at all.

Sadly, Nintendo has lost me now. As a student who can only afford one console, it looks like I made a mistake sticking with Nintendo. The fact that they are willing to dedicate their resources to the likes of Mario Tennis and AC: Amiibo Festival but not Metroid Prime just seems to show that Nintendo is more interested in pushing out quick shovelware akin to the Wii days than catering to the it's longterm supporters, who are keeping them afloat with the WiiU. Ignoring your core franchises when you have essentially zero third-party support is just unfathomably stupid. Not to mention that core supporters who stuck with the WiiU are now getting a gimped lifetime due to Nintendos own incapacity to market their system. This is a cycle that I am not willing to be a part of anymore.