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@Andyjm
Zavvi do have an unfortunate habit of making up release dates, presumably to get pre-orders - it won't hit Europe in July if the NA release isn't until August!

@NodesforNoids
Now that would be an awesome game. I'm addicted to Lego City so a new open world superheroes game would be amazing

@Superslick40
There's no point in releasing a second gamepad until there is a release of a game which requires 2+ pads. I doubt anyone is developing such a game as it is too risky and likely to flop.

@KonsumKasse
No Club Nintendo scheme at all really sucks for you - I thought you were included,

I think the rest of us should be grateful that we have any reward scheme!!

You can see the different Club Nintendos at http://www.nintendo.com/countryselector
Looks like AU has the least stuff, but NoE isn't much better!! If only we were offered the Nintendo t-shirt (and more) that America gets!!!

@fudgewhizzle

As it plugs into a wii controller I would have though so - however if noone replies with a definate 'yes', drop an email to Nintendo via the website - they are good at replying quickly.

@hydeks
yup,but we don't have anywhere near as good a scheme as in the US - we never get the option of buying games with stars like you do with coins (unless you count being able to only buy a points card that works with wii & dsi rather than with WiiU and 3DS!)

Mushroom kingdom figure is a good one to get, plus it comes in a neat coin block box.
Game & watch ball is a boring game but great as a collectors item. The new notebooks arent bad- just received one of two i've ordered.
I bought a connector to use SNES controller with my Wii but found I didn't then use it.

When I bought my 3ds 2 years ago I asked Nintendo why we received points for dsiware but not if you used a 3ds. They said they would be introducing it 'shortly'. It took a while but cat least we can now get stars for all those games we have bought. Well done NoE

Nintendo is advertising Luigi's Mansion on TV, yet I've not seen a single Lego advert. If they won't promote the game then it won't get the high sales it deserves (although it did make 'Game of the Week' on that Challenge TV games programme this week).

After becoming massively addicted to Lego City Undercover I might miss the open-world aspect of Batman2 (but will probably still get it anyway!)

I do wonder whether Microsoft & Sony have infiltrated the Nintendo management team as it seems intent on doing as much as it can to make the WiiU a failure!

P.S. Where is Scribblenauts? (I've given up waiting for Pikmin 3 yet again)

Although Gearbox should take alot of blame for this shambles, Sega as publisher should have had better controls over a developer. They should also have not published the game on any format when it was clearly sub-standard, the fact they did publish on 360/3 shows that they care nothing about quality control and everything about quick profit.

As for their disclaimer, they may aswell put "these are the graphics which we could have given the game, but we couldnt be bothered"

I cannot understand why, if the game is finished, Sega don't just say so. They can always release the game on eshop download only, thus avoiding the costs in publishing & distribution. If tiny developers such as Tomorrow Corporation can publish on eshop (and make money) then it cannot cost much.

At least then we can get a copy of the game and see how stinky (or not) it is!

I clocked up over 1,000 hours playing Dual Strike and a few hundred with the last one. I just hope they are already developing another in the series (WiiU would be a great addition to a 3DS version too!)

After the misleading (to say the least) comments by Gearbox re: Aliens, I'm now really wary of any developer/publisher claiming just how brilliant their game will be. I really hope it is as good as the developer says.....if so count me in to buy a copy.

@LuigiMan200
You can get insurance for any console - and getting it separately is usually much cheaper than store ripoff insurance. Just Google 'console insurance' (or something similar). Just looking for a minute I found accidental damge for £3.99 per month - you might get it even cheaper if you search properly.
Hope this helps!

I really love this game, despite being useless at racing games! I just hope the sales are a success for Criterion (they deserve it for such a great version), plus it will also mean its more likely we'll get DLC. I don't miss analogue acceleration (I tend to race full on anyway!).

This game is great whether you want to play a long session, or even if you just want to play a short game. Either way, it should be a must-buy for every WiiU owner.

@Chrysanthemum
Knowing NoE 200 Japanese points would probably be a few thousand European points! Its unlikely they'll bother to introduce something like that to the Europe CN site though, we seem to get nothing but notepads and postit notes!

Although I love Nintendo at its best, I have to agree with most of the points in this well-worded article. Is anyone sending this up to Nintendo bigwigs?? Someone needs to make sure they realise how disappointed some of its most loyal fans are. Yeah, the 3DS was a shambles in the first year, but Nintendo should have learnt from it, not repeat it a year later. When was the last time anyone saw a TV advert? Consoles won't shift without a marketing spend.

Oh, and where is Pikmin 3 !! (and Scribblenauts!) Perhaps they are moving the development onto the WiiUMe ?

Finally, I'm angry with Royal Mail, yet again they've failed to deliver a next-day item......today my copy of Lego Undercover is MIA ......GRRRR.

Just received an email from Amazon saying my Lego game has been dispatched.....roll on tomorrow!!

SO long as they've removed the game-breaking glitch if you die in the nursery basement (and ideally the one breaking the game if ou try to shortcut from the Thames waterside via the sewer tunnel) then I'll be happy.

Only 3 more days to wait for Europe! Has anyone else bought the Lego 60007 Police Chase set yet? You get codes to open a couple of vehicles & secret missions. Best of all is you get a Chase figure, police jeep & motorbike, plus a robber & sports car (and spike traps!) & price wasn't extortionate for a Lego kit. I'm a kid again!!!

good start for Monster Hunter.

It would be a shame if Need for Speed doesn't sell well this week, despite Game refusing to stock any in store. Same for Lego next week, WiiU owners are starved of games (and any ads for them!)

So, Randy Pitchfork says Demerge did an "amazing job".

I think Gearbox will not be trusted ever again after all the cow-mess they quoted prior to Aliens being reviewed. Although wouldn't it be ironic if the WiiU version ended up being the only decent version? (not that we are likely to see it)

Does anyone outside Nintendo and Nintendolife users know it even exists? Nintendo needs to get its act together - along with no marketing for the Mini, I've seen no adverts for Monster Hunter, Luigi's Mansion or Lego City.

Its policy of no marketing is a major factor in current sales failures - I've seen more ads for the dreadful Aliens (plus countless other xbox & ps3 games) in the past few months than for any wiiu or 3ds.
Today i noticed Game has all but removed WiiU from its store space - they haven't even bothered getting Need for Speed in stock.

Come on Nintendo, insert a rocket and do something! Anything!!

1. WiiU sales are dire ATM and discounts are needed.

2. HMV is in administration and there has been no agreement with any company to find a buyer. Administrators have been able to secure new DVDs etc but hardware is more difficult to acquire due to suppliers requiring guarantees or payment in advance. They obviously have alot of consoles to shift - while they are in Admin then they have to sell enough to keep going each week, even if this means selling at a large loss. Most people know of HMV issues and are unwilling to spend a large purchase as warranties are sometimes problematic. Plus of course the WiiU is dead until promised games arrive. No launch of Scribblenauts or Aliens hardly makes someone decide to buy!

Thank you Nintendo for treating the rest of Europe the ability to be an adult in the daytime & evening! Was frustrating not to be able to even view AC3 download contents.

Vita sales is just a fluke and won't be maintained. What should be a worry to Nintendo is the dreadful sales figure for WiiU. Beaten by even the old PSP??

Pikmin 3 (originally for the Gamecube/Wii), was due to be a WiiU launch title, then delayed to launch within the 'launch window' This window ends on 31st March. I do wish Nintendo would stop messing about with Pikmin cartoons, animations for a system transfer, and just launch the game on the WiiU. We are crying out for it (especially as we are starved of games atm). Some sort of release this year (or decade) would be nice!

I don't want any more announcements about WiiU games, I just would like some decent games to be released for the system. I just pray that Lego City is as good as it looks - only a couple of weeks to go now!

I don't understand why EA cannot release it on the wiiu shop? That way their publishing costs would be minimal, we would get the game, and EA won't have to give profits to those nasty retailers!

I presume that by not including wifi in this version (it made more sense not to include in Canada) that Nintendo will be switching off Wii internet access at some point & sooner rather than later.

@Nintenjoe64 - 30 too old? Never. I'm another decade older and still want the Chase McCain figure!

I'm getting ever more impatient after each article, I just hope that it sells in large numbers - it deserves huge success and will hopefully help lead to an end in WiiU-bashing!

This game cannot come soon enough, both for gamers and the WiiU in general! I just hope it is as good as it looks to be, and won't be another Aliens-type shambling disappointment!!

All Nintendo needs to do is to bother with doing any sort of advertising & promotion for the console. I've seen endless adverts for Aliens Colonial Marines yet none for the WiiU in the last month. Nintendo seems to have become ever more arrogant in thinking people will just spend £300 on a console simply because it has the Nintendo name for it.

We keep hearing about how cash-rich Nintendo is, why is it not investing in bigger development studios to bring out more games (or buying up some great existing ones which have recently gone bankrupt). It has a massive catalogue of gaming legends but very few games (where is Metroid, proper Mario, Kirby, Yoshi, Luigi, et al??).

Lets face it, what other company would have Pikmin 3 in development since the gamecube era!!! nintendo needs a rocket placing somewhere, and quick!!

Nintendoland and Kid Icarus not included but a rehash of LittleBoringPlanet on a system no-one wants is included?

All this does it prove that Bafta should stick to TV & Film and even those choices are more than a little dodgy. Remember TOWIE received a Bafta!!

Who at Ubisoft has business sense? WiiU owners are crying out for new games so would have bought Legends en masse. By September however, we'll all be too busy playing Lego Undercover, Pikmin, Zelda, Mario Kart et al to bother with Rayman. It would have made business sense to release Rayman on the WiiU now and the other platforms when ready in September(ish).

I've been pretty disappointed with both these - only having small puzzles limits any real challenge, and the Micross ones were also pretty boring (as the main article says many lf the sub-puzzles are just a line to complete).

I'd pay twice the price for a decent version 1.3 with some larger puzzles and more of them.

I really hope this game ends up being as good as I hope it will be! Brilliant news that this is a WiiU exclusive too - hopefully high sales will result in more exclusives & 'proper' ports to the console..

An AR game like this would be wonderful! Imagine being able to play Mario World with an augmented background.

I'd pay for some download content which unlocked these 300,000 into the game!! Better still, make sure ZombiU2 happens with 300,000 zombies from game 1 to beat to re-death!

Exactly the same thing happens when you buy a game on the 3DS versus buying it on my old DSi.....it seems Nintendo is intent on punishing gamers who upgrade to their latest machines. I did email Nintendo UK and got a fobbing-off email back from them in reply.

Yet again UK/Europe misses out on all the good stuff! I can't remember the last time NoE even bothered offering anything new to the catalogue.

Would also like to buy one for my treasured VB, but not at $100 !!

It isn't a perfect game (few even come close), but many fans like myself love that a mature game has been produced. It is a survival horror filling the gap left by Resident Evil's shift towards fps blandness that US press seem to be obsessed with. We are grateful that Ubisoft and Grunier developed this game.

He just needs to do a sequel that we are all desperate to hear confirm, and hopefully give us a sequel that is even better! Personally I'd love a section being stuck in the Gherkin or the Shard (plus maybe the London Eye?, Westminster cathedral, a Parliament full of zombie MP's) ETC ETC !!

Scribblenauts yeah, Rayman meh!

I do wish people would stop calling this moron an 'analyst' (though perhaps just the first two syllables). Anyone who can call a company who sold several million consoles just last month "irrelevant" clearly does not know analysis from a banana.

Just wish Nintendo Europe would offer this instead of the usual stuff they leave us with.

Jerky cut-scenes would never bother me as I always skip these where possible as it is rare that any are vital to the game (they are usually just an excuse to show off graphics to those who care more about graphics than gameplay).