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love my 3ds, wish it was a little bigger and ergonomic around the edges though...

thanks jon, my order remains.

oh the touch controls totally unbalance the online and/or make it way easier? might have to cancel my order in that case :/

thanks for the fair review...the less than great score doesn't discourage me from getting it one bit. in fact, all the people being very pragmatic about not buying this/not copping it on day one make me want it even more! sure to be fun and potentially very amusing online. hard to properly judge the online mode before the game is actually out i'd of thought.

meh, i want to see X reimagined for 3DS/Wii-U as opposed to the GX incarnation. imagine X with 16/32 player online races, super smooth HD graphics while maintaining the original art direction and gameplay. would be amazing.

great idea, but can nintendo come to terms with digital price trend for older titles. old GB games on the VC are for the most part overpriced. i'd pay a fiver and probably not much more for a DS download on demand.

give me HD nintendo now!

UK price likely to be closer to £300 than £200 methinks. £250 would be just about right, any more and it's gonna run a lot including games and extra accessories etc...too much for most.

bring on e3!

actually the external drive thing could be a GREAT thing if it allows people to hack the console sooner, screw region restrictions.

its not quite like the one in the picture ;/

they can easily make more money from 1st party digital downloads. no overheads aside from servers etc, minimal compared to a retail distribution. price needs to reflect this somewhat...value has to be considered by both the producer and consumer.

looks just like the purple GBC too.

very nice the best colour so far. the previous purple one shown looked better though...less dark and more shiny. will have to see some real life pics of the one going to retail to get a better idea ;0

i think the main issues have been raised already and there indeed some issues. it'll be interesting to see what nintendo's solution is.

games 10gb or more and internal/external storage dilemma...

• large in-built internal storage means the console would need to cost sufficiently more to compensate. it'd be needing hundreds of gigabtyes to be a viable all in one solution, so pretty much a desktop drive.
• external storage options would be good, but what? USB3.0 based portable drives would probably be the ticket (the ones that don't need their own power). nintendo would be smart to brand one as an official add-on, like 1tb or something. would come in around $100 at current market prices. no rip offs here, just a very fair prices hard drive to entice people to use the download service, which ultimately makes them more money.

alternatively you could have SDXC support, although buying multiple smaller cards at 32gb a pop would be the best value right now. and if downloads aren't going to be at a reduced price, where's the money going to come from to be buying all this extra flash based storage.

i'm planning to buy discs unless nintendo solution to storage is efficient enough in price and performance. i can't see how its possible without extra investment. a small drive that needs upgrading like the wii's internal memory isn't going to wash it.

will keep buying boxed, physical copies unless download versions are sold at a good enough discount. and they probably won't be...

i mean how big is a 3ds cart to store?

awesome remixes. i also loved PW Resort, got it for 6.99 and easily one of my top 3DS titles, very fun

@Crafton exactly. where is the circle pad pro patch for existing game to use the shoulder buttons, should be simple rly...at the least that mario kart patch could introduce CPP support for it :0

no more NSMB style games please...even if its online and all that jazz. they don't have the charm of the true 2d mario games or sense of adventure in the 3d titles. a spiritual successor to mario 64 would be my top choice. a 3d mario title with plenty of level variety, would be lovely in HD.

i'm not in the mood for another side scrolling 2d mario with 3d polygon models, please no. anything fully 3d will be great in HD, or a proper 2D mario game could kick too, tho that's unlikely.

basically mario 64 but with some new mechanics and in HD. doesn't need to be on a tropical island or in space, different themed levels and a nice overworld would be all good.

there hasn't actually been a graphically superior 2D Zelda on a handheld yet. the GBA lttp release had inferior graphics and sound to the SNES original. i'd love something as rich and colourful, without touch screen controls, without the nonsense. just pure zelda 2d goodness.

big mouthful. nom nom nom.

either an expanded port or all out new game based on the style would be amazing!!!!

lttp is my favourite zelda title and my fondest memories from the SNES, along with mario world

very well produced videos....great watch for all i'd imagine!

@SomeBitTripFan everything is possible. i think a zelda HD revamp is extremely likely, quite possibly the most recent skyward sword, seeing as you can use the wii remote still. tbh i'd be less excited for that than an older title, ideally wind waker or TP...with new controls. unless they added some new content too.
and still waiting on a god damn F-ZERO title. so many possibilities with this new controller, it'll be great for racing games where you could select weapons and stuff. imagine a mario kart where you got to collect multiple weapons and select options for them on the fly on the touch pad, deep strategy.

i think RPG mode was always been in the handheld versions partly cause they were very cut down presentation wise compared with the full 3d console versions. because this is more akin to the console versions i don't see it as a big deal...the online modes and leaderboards will easily make up for it with hardcore gameplay!

nintendo is going HD! no amount of sony and xbox trolls can make this prospect any less tantalising!!!
time to get those pennies together. they will have some really far along titles to show at e3 and i suspect some HD revamps of older titles coming for the download/online service.

day 1 because i've owned every nintendo console since the SNES on day 1 :3 and never been dissapointed.

nintendo will have some goodies lined up (new and upgraded rereleases) for launch and the nintendo network will be fully live. also, first runs of consoles are more likely to contain hardware exploits and the like. these days paying full price is as much about paying to play first.

software and to a lesser extent hardware is dropping in price more than ever after a period of time. but this is irrelevant to a lot of day 1 people.

seems very reasonable, $300 retail launch, which will likely mean £250 in UK (where I am). i really don't think this thing will have the horsepower to do all the nice graphical stuff at 1080p...we'll see. i'll be more than happy if it natively renders at similar resolutions to current gen but looks quite a bit better.

day 1 regardless! next question is what software is on for launch ;]

can't wait for online competition! for me, that's what this game will be about and the reason for day 1 purchase

day 1 pick up here! cant wait for online. UK dwellers might want to check out tesco's pre-order with a 15% code running at the moment bringing it to just under £28, lowest price atm.

to 1080 or not to 1080, that is the question. i have a feeling it may render closer to 720 and do its own upscaling/wrapping for higher resolutions. having to render everything at 1080p would probably be detrimental to the graphics overall. it takes a ton more power to get things going at 1080...thoughts?

and the experience thing...a lot more important ;D

really like mine, but d-pad and battery life are both very poor indeed.

if it's able to render everything at 1080p natively that'll take a lot more power than the 360 and probably the ps3 too. the graphics at that resolution might not be a huge leap from the current generation, maybe that's what this guy means. but it'll be very crisp and plenty detailed.

oh its gon!!! i used to use this lil guy in tekken 3 all the time, was a great character actually. i wonder if he farts in this too.

@MrHeli they'll be gone soon too. check out most of the prices on their website...as if they're deliberately hitting the RRP and highest possible price in most cases. pathetic.

i'd love a nicely coloured wii-u, all depends if there are nice alternatives. but white is perfectly fine and i won't be waiting any longer than day one whatever happens...

anyone play the munchables on wii? great game there and looks like some munching going down here as well.

not sad, buy all my games online. nothing really charming about the high high street prices. hope there's some good closing down bargains, may check them out if i'm in town.

on the plus side, they've had new black wii's for £49.99 and PS3's for £99.99 recently. their demise is imminent, should have kept more cash for a rainy day. rip-off stores anyway IMO, particularly GAME.

sounds like this 'analyst' has a terrible track record. not even worth reporting on, aside from to laugh at.

i hope their cash reserves are well diversified into other currencies and even gold. BOJ are still printing yen like it's gone out of fashion and fast running out of ink. one of most troublesome economies along with US and UK for hyperinflation risk.

hell no. i downloaded the wii version just for a laugh. be surprised if there's much of a market for this on 3ds eshop.

why so much love for DK64...i felt it was inferior to Banjo on a lot of levels. similar formula but just spread thin over an excessively long game. amazing graphics for a N64 title though! loved all those fluorescent lighting effects and the mini games.

@grimbldoo i think it's fair to assume they will do a lot more polygons and effects @ 1080p, but the new xbox might be graphically quite a bit closer to the Wii-U than most people thought. especially if it's launching with a high price tag and the xblox is dropping within 12 months of it.

i think the wii-u has the potential to be a huge home run...kids, casual audience and once again the more core gaming audience. whether they can nail the online network will be important there. personally i think i will be very happy with a wii-u and PC (and 3ds) for all my gaming needs in the next several years.

new xbox and ps4 will blow the wii-u out of the water graphically, but is that detail really significant in the scheme of things? just means the people that buy games and games machines based on how good the graphics look will be all over them. doesn't effect me in the least.

the wii-u will still have gorgeous HD nintendo games, not to mention the new controller innovations. day 1 buy for me regardless of the price. microsoft and sony will copy the controller concept, perhaps a dual shock 4 for sony, which will still be fundamentally the same as the PS1 analogue pad.

lmao, a wild flying turd appeared!

i like the middle one, but american hooters girls have them beat!!!

but japanese make the best videogames :3

great game!

i could care less for a formal 'achievement' system like the xbox, i always found it was kind of corny. i'll assign my own value to achieving or doing certain things in a game, i don't need a pop-up with an arbitrary amount of points popping up at random moments. hell, maybe the game will even reward me all by itself...120 stars on SM64...seeing Yoshi on the roof...worth it all by itself.

there's completing a game fully, collecting everything. but a lot of achievements are totally random, things i'd never normally do and only gain importance through the self-validating system. maybe i'm a purist and people love the achievements, but i'd rather be competitive and completionist in a normal sense.

absolutely brilliant game but i feel it was quite a bit easier than the N64 iteration, which remains my favourite.

still, some of the best multiplayer times were had with this on the GC, along with SSBM, Wario Ware, Mario Strikers. great times!