HarryK

@turnmebackwards
My Wii U has never crashed so far and I've finished more than a dozen games now. Might be a hardware issue?

Whoever designed this is a god. Nintendo, hire him/her!

I really like Luigi, but I'm kind of glad his year is over.

Stuff like this is nice when Nintendo is doing fine, like in the first years of Wii's life. But the Wii U needed attention so desperately, and I always had the feeling that Nintendo was using too much energy/resources (and Nintendo Direct "screentime") on Luigi stuff, when they really had more important things to do. So for the same reason "Year of Yoshi" is the last thing I want right now. Sorry :-/

They really should go BIG and declare the "Year of Nintendo" for 2014. With Mario Kart 8, Smash Bros. and their reimagined partnerships/licencing models with other companies, this could have an impact that will last. Bring back the "Big N" times!

Why not show off the unified account system and offer those games on both consoles? I don't get it.

Also, I'm totally lost why they haven't shown off N64 games or polished N64 games (just outsource it to any random company that has made one good looking game) by now. Why why why?

It's nice to have a new platform, but I already have all GBA I care for on the 3DS (which makes it even more random that nobody today can buy them).

It looks amazing. I just hope they have all the circles on the gamepad now so we don't have to jump left and right and up and down in the middle with the d-pad anymore. That was one of the only flaws the system had.

I can understand that this looks pretty boring if you don't know Xenoblade Chronicles, though. I hope everyone gets the chance to find out that it's definitely NOT.

@Senario IIRC I fought some of the toughest battles with Melia / Riki / Shulk or Melia / Riki / Sharla. I'm sure it depends on the enemy/boss, but sometimes it felt like I could go on forever with these parties.

This is great news. Stadlbauer might have done a good job like 15 years ago, but I felt they were getting lazier and lazier. I think until Nintendo took over nintendo.at they were still showing the Wii, while the Wii U was out for months.

@Splashman You know Austria is "Germany's southern neighbor" too, I hope? Your comment reads differently

I already feel sorry for everyone who backs this. To me this just screams SCAM. Not because it's a ripoff, but because I find it quite obvious that this will never get made. Not even started. I think they'll cash in the money, publish some fake screenshots and then "cancel" the project for random reasons.

I mean, they stare at 2 pictures on tablets for half a minute. Nothing moves. Can anyone find proof that "Dot studios" can actually programm games? My Google finds nothing.

Uhm... without numbers that doesn't say anything at all. Iwata should get an average every-day-loan for what he did last year (more precise: for what he didn't do). I assume 50 % of what he usually earns is still a lot, though.

@Kirk "I understand companies using the whole share method"
There's your problem - you don't.

@Emblem I can't imagine that's their goal. Buying back stocks is good for their investors. On an abstract level it's like giving them back some of their money they've invested (because it increases their share values). They do this to make investors happy. And for tax reasons, I assume.

I thought 250 has already been the normal price since they announced the 300 Dollar bundles?

In Germany you get the Premium console + Mario + Luigi for 288 Euros (equals to 288 Dollars in entertainment logic).

@ACK Sure... cause I'm the only person who would buy games they wouldn't buy otherwise. The article above got so many things right. Nintendo just has to figure out which games to put on sale and when to do it. It will drive software sales and could even create interest in the hardware (Wii U, the new Steam). Of course they should never ever throw away something like Mario Kart in a flash sale, but there are enough older games that would make sense. I'm sure Ubisoft made good money off their holiday sales.

I would have bought FOUR games yesterday that I will most likely miss out now (I don't have time for them anyway, but that's what happens to all my Steam purchases).

So Nintendo would've gotten ~ € 40 out of me that they will never see now! If they do it right, then flash sales can be a gold mine.

[Finally registered here after reading for so long, helloou!]

I keep thinking: They are trying to change so much of the old formula, that I think the next step should be Link's hearts. What if he loses a heart container every time he fights a boss? He has to take on the bad guys for some reason, like always, so he can't just sit around and do nothing. And he willingly fights and gets torn apart - graphical touches like broken gear might help showing us the weight of his journey.

It might be a bit extreme, but it would be an truly epic adventure like Shadow of the Colossus. And the game will get harder as you progress, not easier as it is the case at the moment. (Heart pieces might still prevent Link from getting too weak.)