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Wondered how the Wii U was so low but in the source thet say "with the average hours gamers spend playing per week to determine overall energy costs". Given the Wii U draws more power than the Switch (34 Watts vs16-18 Watts in gameplay), I can only imagine a much lower play-time per console must be lowering that figure?

I really want this game to be good, the zen chill of Snap would be just ideal right now!

Mario Kart 8 Deluxe is a trooper, has it ever left the top ten since launch?

Ah GAME Loughborough in the late 90s/early 2000’s! Family is from there and my sister and I were children there at that time (and got quite a few overpriced N64 games there too!), although I can’t remember if Lego Racers (with that natty box) was from there or edgy independent Voodoo Consoles towards the bingo hall. That GAME is still in the same unit (or it was pre-covid, not been able to visit since then)!

Good, it was so annoying that Bioshock games needed downloading. Makes putting the cart in a faff, might as well have got them digital! (Especially as games like Witcher 3 managed to fit on a cart)

Looks nice and my OG model is getting on a bit...sod's law if I do get one the Pro model will come out soon after haha!

Similar to @Late above, wasn’t going to get this as I played it to death on the WiiU...but hat new bit looks fun! Maaaybe just not £50 of fun, but then again...

Such a hollow move. LucasArts were great, but because they were a talented studio making things. Even later as a publisher they were involved in the business of making games and understood what they were backing and who to give projects to.
This is a splash screen Disney is putting before games they farm out. Not that they can't be good (Fallen Order was pretty good!), but it has nothing to do with the legacy of LucasFilms Games/LucasArts they want to make people nostalgic for: no new internal studio or anything. Just cynical marketing.

I never cease to be amazed by what people can do in this game: be it incredible engine stuttering trick shots like this or just discovering you can feed squirrels acorns!

Personally I’m hugely impressed by Rise’s looks and performance. Demos a bit bare bones, but have hogh hopes for the full game!

A bit complex for me, but a testament to the enduring quality of this game (and other perennial classics) that people play for so long and find all these glitches.

Great article! Gavin Lane’s entires (vivid Sonic blasting on cousins mega drive , pouring over the unmatched, and unofficial, N64 Magazine articles about Zelda; settling into Banjo) were remarkably close to my own childhood memories! But all were a pleasure to read.

Merry Christmas one and all!

@dcstud they’re adding Hornblower to Britbox New Years Eve for what it’s worth; but as you say is all on YouTube! Don’t think My Family is on it I’m afraid....seems a bit useless given that getting those shows outside the UK is the point of the service!

Is isn’t just nostalgia that makes me prefer the Western Zelda boxes! I love the art itself, and on a poster or in a book it’s superior. But I love the mystic, minimal styles of just the name, font, game specific sword/shield/details against a start backdrop. It stands out and looks classy among other game boxes, evokes a real sense of mystery and adventure I don’t get from the artwork.

@dcstud thanks, yeah I love the TV show, got bought it years ago on DVD, and Robert Lindsey is a top actor. Actually finally read some of the book during lockdown 1; been tempted to get Assassin’s Creed 4 as a result!

Probably messing about in Smash with “SEFF-EE-ROTH!” and continuing to do Christmas things in ACNH. I’m trying out Doom Eternal on Xbox One with the last month of my Game Pass, might grab the Switch one later if I like it (gyro and portable are big selling points for me!)

Like Gavin I’ve got Episode 1 Racer sat waiting, but between Mario Kart 8 online with newly Switch-owning friends, seeing ACNH town in the snow and doing bits on Age of Calamity, I think my free time is sewn up!

Glover was an insteresting idea and a good game at the time: I remember it been a step above dross like Gex 64 but it wasn't as good as the (many) classics of the era (Mario, Banjo, Rocket...).
My biggest memory of it was my glitched cartridge (PAL).
You could play up to world 3 (pirates?) fine, but once you finished it the game would delete your save. So had to use cheats to see the back half of the game!
As others have said the core conecpt was very interesting and unique at the time; but might not have aged brilliantly.

Hahaha, can’t believe Patcher is still doing the ol’ Nintendo-whining circuit! He’s been an “analyst” for decades, and has spent almost all of those years deriding Nintendo and their decisions to an almost fanboy-ish degree. Given the massive growth in Nintendo stocks since he started slating them years ago, the big question is how does he still have an analyst job?!

Playing the Overwatch trial period that’s on right now (pretty tasty in handheld mode!). Also a bit of Mario All Stars and Animal Crossing, but that’s par for the course right now!

For once, The Uk one by far. The stare off looks good, and the logo and b&w colouring is stylish.

Love these videos as the eShop is a very big tent these days. I’d say most of the games in this part two are more well known (I knew most of them at least), but the quality is very high from what I’ve played!
Fast RMX makes me wish Nintendo would give those devs (Shinen) the F-Zero licence. They have the look and speed down pat; but while an interesting difference the colour swapping really makes it feel different to F-Zero. It feels like track layouts are simpler as a result than FZero’s so that it doesn’t overwhelm the player (as reacting to the colours and positioning for strips/pickups you need at speed is exceedingly challenging on its on). While it’s a fun mechanic, I do yearn for a pure F-Zero style game!

Great idea for an article/video, but would have been nice for it to feature the UK prices for each as well. (And I’d say Euro too for those readers/viewers!)

@MidnightLaces why you being such a jerk about a frigging app feature? It’s clearly a helpful feature (typing faster on external device, doubly so if you are docked); and like people have said repeatedly to you, great for reaching reactions that aren’t in the wheel.
It isn’t a “game-changer” by any means, but it is useful to many, hence why loads of people use it! Why doesn’t it bother you so much that it exists?

Really nicely put together, and I’m sure the indie devs appreciated such professional exposure! I’d but you for more of these (perhaps with less games, was a bit overwhelming after the Partner Direct earlier that day haha!)

Oh, nearly missed this, think I've entered in time! I do really enjoy these promotion Nintendo UK do with you guys, shame it's a limited draw, but can't complain when it's free!

Boo Hoo. I can't upload Frozen on Youtube with a recommendation voice over by me an get away with it, can I? 70% is the majority of the money, when the Youtuber hasn't created the majority of the content on screen.
Don't listen to his bleating. He makes millions and anything to even slow that will get this sort of reaction. If he thinks it's wrong, go to court: you've got the cash!

Hmmm, Ebay scalping is pretty bad, but because of the scalpers I actually have 2 Majora's Mask New 3DS XL's on my card. It's for me and a friend (who has paid me back) as he didn't have internet access on the day they went on sale. I'm terrified the order will be messed with now, and if I'd had any inclination of this we would have worked something out to order his separately. (Plus I often buy 2 of something to pass to a friend or sibling as a present and have one for me.)

While I'm up for scalping reducing methods, I think they need to be upfront about it. I know scalpers will still get around it sometimes, but hurting legit customers is just unfair.

Dump.
(2/10)

Hurrah codes! No sharing, sorry commenters, I have buddies I'd like to play with. Just a correction for the main article:
The demo ISN'T limited to 30 tries, it is unlimited.

I remember N64 Magazine describing games as having "a real Buck Bumble of a fog bank".

Old man of the hills Wil "FuSoYa" Overton?! His art rocks, loved Worldy Bloke, and that Nintendo mashup for the final Nintendo Gamer...ah, I miss Super Play/N64/NGC/NGamer/Nintendo Gamer!

@Ony No, it's a branch of a larger company making an announcement. Why do you have to turn this into imagined Euro bashing by Nintendo UK or NintendoLife?
Anyway, I would hope it one day hooks up to free On Demand services like iPlayer etc if possible. (but I have to say I wouldn't hold my breath on the BBC making an iPlayer app, given the UK sales figures.)

Trying to stir things much?
Every few weeks this site has some shoddy, incorrect journalism that they refuse to correct, or a really pointless stirring piece like this that makes me really disappointed that it's the only big Nintendo site on the net. This was the case with Wii U Karaoke before when you covered it, but now ninty might get provoked, it's flagged up particularly. That's a tabloid way of covering things.
Perhaps it should have parental controls enabled on the songs in question, but that's it. Parents should watch what their children do online. It isn't everyone job to toss away what they enjoy doing just because some people don't care enough to monitor these things. It isn't hard.

Didn't you have to buy the spade and bow in Link's Awakening? (I suppose you could steal them...THIEF!)

"If you treat every individual Pikmin as a "bit" of data, that means the game's file size accommodates 31,600 of the little creatures."
In actual computer "bits", its 32967000000!
...we're gonna need a bigger Onion...

@rayword45 They really can brick your system, many companies have done such a thing before. You agree not to use unofficial devices upon starting the 3DS, with it "breaking" software-wise a noted possible side-effect.

"Today has finally come." Bet there were a few chuckles in the NamcoBandai PR office before they wrote that!

I think Nintendo have Sumo to thank for the viability of this SEGA-Ninty cross-over deal.
In SAASR:T, they made a game that really used the Wii U (looked nicer, handled great, 5-player and off-screen play), and by all accounts they got some stunning sales as a result. Despite the massive gulf in userbase, they managed to sell as many on Wii U (it was a little over quarter of a million on all home formats at one point, I recall an article saying) as on the other 2 consoles, which had a much larger install base. I would guess the 3DS one trounced the Vita version too.
Maybe I'm wrong, but I reckon if I was at SEGA, those figure combined with the mass exodus of Western devs would lead me to seeing major untapped potential in the Wii U audience going forward, especially with Ninty helping to push the product! Who knows what they might do together next?

@AceTrainerAndy By saying you will bad-mouth Ninty products if they don't let you make money of let's playing, doesn't that somewhat imply that the actual quality of the product and games doesn't matter to you? Should they have trusted your advice to "buy a WiiU" in the first place? Can you not accept that people might like and want to play on something you aren't making money off? I can understand your frustration, but it sounds like you are throwing your actual opinion out of the window and letting the money talk for you here.

I guess it's due to it been out of office hours, but since there's several of us down here pointing out the mis-information in the piece, I hope it's updated in the morning to reflect what the Guardian survey actually says.

These comments show that the article content has skewed people's view of the facts, so for the sake of journalist integrity, the data presented should be updated in the article, or the content justified (particularly the "trying to insinuate that family-friendly Nintendo titles are somehow harbingers of senseless violence" line). Come on NL!

After what @Peach64 said I got home and watched it...
You really need to look at the linked article and re-consider what you've put here. "However, by trying to insinuate that family-friendly Nintendo titles are somehow harbingers of senseless violence".
Where does that occur?
The video there also makes a point of highlighting the LACK of violence in Nintendo's sport games compared to the generic label applied, otherwise the games there are just the top 50 sellers of the year, in which Nintendo feature heavily.
I feel this is an incorrectly reported story: the last line makes sense, but the rest is off. Nowhere does "The Guardian" say anything about it's opinion of the violence in the games, and the selection is based on (probably poor, but regardless) sales data of the top 50 games and the labels the ERSB has attached to them. it is a gathering of facts. If I have misread this or missed a link to an opinion piece, please correct me!
But at the moment there's a screen of hoo-har and Guardian-bashing about something that isn't even the case, and just reading the above text (and not the link) is what has caused it.

@Incognito_D @Peach64 I'm glad I'm not alone! I thought it might be in the video (at work, so can't watch it) and made it clear I didn't see that bit, but it would be a massive disappointment if all these commenters hadn't read it before writing long diatribes on how it proves the evils of the press...

To be fair, the chart linked doesn't seem to indicate the games are violent or that games generally cause violence. I can't watch the video (so correct me if I'm wrong), but I think saying they "called out" Nintendo games for violent content is probably exaggerating it a tad to make an issue out of it.

Also: "Source: VGChartz" OLOLOLOLOLOLOL! The figure there are tosh, especially for Europe. Really, a proper paper like The Grauniad should know better!

Really irritated me how America-centric this has been. They've had dozens of showing, while the whole of Europe has only had a couple, wish the organises would show a little love to the Europeans.

I'll play the challenge mode, but I'll wait and see what reviews and Miiverse say on the title itself. I'm hoping for great things, but I'm worried that the multi-platform changes might remove some of the WiiU-catered feel and impact the design for the worst (I personally loved the Murphy levels).

@Peach64 Agreed. I hope they'll be great, but only time can tell. Also, that statement couldn't be more PR-y if it tried!

Wish this wasn't sold out everywhere at the murment, wanna get in on the Hunting!

When did gamers start caring about stocks and sales so much? Why is every games sites comment section so obsessed with the WiiU performance in shops? Sure, a successful machine could mean more games, but I've had some of my best gaming years on the N64 and Gamecube, commercial flops compared to rivals.
I love the WiiU. The console feels amazing to use, the features are lovely, the online shops are lovely, there's no nasty DRM-lockout-preowned-bonsense, the games are original (or just ultimately polished versions of great titles), and Nintendo have made all the right noises when it comes to new games and updates (in seriously exciting and earnest broadcasts).
I'm looking forward to the next year with relish. If it's selling or not, Nintendo is doing what I personally want out of gaming, and I'm ready for a awesome ride. Anyone who's in this for the sheer, unadulterated fun of it all is welcome to join!