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Who the heck would wanna play Donkey Kong or any other NES game with one button, and the D-pad on the right-hand side?

Didn't Nintendo already attempt to embrace the concept of virtual reality with the Virtual Boy? Not sure they may bother with double-dipping back into it, especially since the Nintendo 3DS and its auto-stereoscopic 3D screen is doing well enough.

I thought the development of the Nintendo 64 version of Mother 3 had a long complicated history behind it, and it wasn't the end of the 64 era which really ended its initial development as it was already on the verge apparently.

Too bad for a lot of cancelled games in the end though, but I'm presently still rather waiting for the Nintendo 64 games that did come out, but have yet to be re-released on Virtual Console.

Can anyone explain to me why Activision aren't releasing any of their retail games on the Nintendo eShop for either Nintendo 3DS or Wii U?

Why aren't Netflix's services not officially available where I am right now? Groan

I wonder. When online-enabled Nintendo DS games eventually hit the Wii U Virtual Console, how will Nintendo be able to support those games' online features with Nintendo Network replacing the Wi-Fi Connection service?

Let's hope the same can be said for the Wii U someday. In the meantime, happy anniversary, Nintendo 3DS!

I currently live in the United Arab Emirates, where North American Nintendo games are often never re-stocked after initial shipment for titles with unpopular demand. I am so glad I managed to pick up the game the same week it appeared on shelves, as there weren't many copies of it that time either.

The outlet I usually buy from also once had one last, factory-new copy of Metroid Prime: Trilogy in 2011. It was displayed there for months apparently, as nobody seems to appreciate its value around here. I doubt they were even aware how rare this package was. Sucks for them, I guess - I eventually managed to get my hands on it, paying only the standard price for any NTSC Wii game sold locally!

Oddly, I never seen any local retailer selling NTSC copies of the other two "Operation Rainfall" titles. Thankfully, I managed to get both of them off Amazon since they have more prints available, and I got them for a great discount price too!

Did you guys know that Nintendo originally intended The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time to be a first-person action-adventure game?

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I did play the Sega version before, and I do own the Nintendo version, but I would have more preferred the Nintendo version simply because it had better cut-scenes, better music (and audio overall), and was definitely far more faithful to the source material.

I mean, even in the film, Aladdin used more wit and parkour-like stunts to get by, and very little of the film depicted him actually using a sword. In fact, I only recall him using a sword haphazardly simply to distract the giant cobra being Jafar for a while.

I personally am never finding any of these Pokémon albums on our local version of iTunes where we can purchase stuff using an actual credit/debit card, and getting pre-paid cards for the U.S. store is relatively expensive!

Japan and their robotics!

Isn't ConQuest Nintendo's officially licensed distributor for the Czech Republic itself as well?

Official website: http://www.nintendods.cz

I don't think Polish will become another official Nintendo language very soon, although Nintendo did recently introduce Russian into their language rosters after NOE officially branched into Russian territory not too long ago.

Sure is an awesome piece of fanimation. Although, some of the available characters appeared obscurely and for split-seconds, so I could not spot them all the first time. Still is a great piece of work though.

Omigosh! That epic trailer music! Filled me with feels...

I wasn't sure about this title before, but now I'm hooked into getting it eventually! (I would have gotten it as soon as launched, but currently out of funds. We'll see in March anyway.)

What's with Activision and not releasing ANY of their retail games via the Nintendo eShop on either the Nintendo 3DS or Wii U?

Am I the only one who is stunned by the fact that New Super Mario Bros. 2 is suddenly back on the top twenty list?

Doesn't anyone recall that the North American Club Nintendo did also once indeed give away a Mario hat as a reward? Albeit the reward was only eligible to those who achieved a Platinum status in the 2008-2009 Club Nintendo year.

I personally have been keen on getting this game, but I dunno if I would be able to eventually.

Despite being a re-imagining, wasn't this game the only entry in the Silent Hill series (by far) to ever make it on a Nintendo platform?

Oh no! The network issues popping up in the homeland market with Pokémon Bank - this is Flipnote Studio 3D all over again!

Didn't Rosalina first appear as a secret character in Mario Kart Wii?

I never bought any software from my "local" version of the Nintendo eShop, so I do not plan on changing the regions on my Nintendo Network ID anytime soon. However, is it still possible to temporarily switch regions in the System Settings without having to access the eShop? I just need to do that merely so my Mii could be identified as a "local resident" whenever I get StreetPassed by someone.

I dunno. As gross as it sounds, I personally might actually attempt to try this out anyway.

Although, what I find confusing is why GAME thinks gamers need whole course meals during their their play sessions. Wouldn't that be inconvenient during intense gameplay throughs?

This makes its North American release in February 2014 so misplaced!

That certainly explains why the North American release of Xenoblade Chronicles seemed like a lazy port of the European localisation, and the fact Nintendo of America only printed a relatively limited amount of copies for the game, which consequently caused the game to be so rare to acquire nowadays, even online. In a relatively short amount of time too!

I personally already figured this when both US and UK Nintendo Direct Minis showed off identical cases for the physical version of the software, so no surprise here. In addition, being exclusive to the Louvre in Paris, how else would tourists owning North American Nintendo 3DS hardware would be able to use this guide if they get the physical Game Card?

This shows Nintendo are not particularly picky about region-locking, but rather picky about the technical and legal issues of games being sold locally or otherwise. Here's to a future without borders for Nintendo games in general.

This game was released on Steam a few days ago, but Steam has already pulled it out from sale about many hours earlier due to continuous complaints about how broken the game is, and people demanding their money back.

I wouldn't say this game is a huge loss for Wii U, and it was also planned to be released on PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 which neither even got, but isn't it suspicious that neither developer nor publisher seem to have released any press statements about the game's current development? It's a shame that cricket games in general are very unpopular in the United States, although this game's home console versions weren't even being planned to be released in North America anyway.

I wonder, will the Nintendo Network ID work in vice-versa? In other words, if a Nintendo 3DS owner who doesn't own a Wii U right now registers for a NNID account, and when they later get a Wii U, will that same NNID they registered on the Nintendo 3DS work for the Wii U?

@Bliquid I really doubt that might be technically possible since the Nintendo 3DS was not designed with full NNID support in mind, unlike the Wii U. As far as I can tell, you will only need the NNID for the Nintendo eShop and Miiverse access at this stage. Everything else is business as usual.

You cannot believe how I personally am excited. I always loved the idea of Miiverse ever since it came to Wii U. I am not a Wii U owner yet (trying to work on that part), but in the least now I can get into Miiverse! The jealousy of being unable to check all of its content as a guest browser on the web version of Miiverse!

I bet the new YouTube support for the Nintendo 3DS will actually increase the relativity of bringing in more 3D content to YouTube's services itself, especially since the value of the Nintendo 3DS signature auto-stereoscopic features are being more realised nowadays. This is encouraging, and the possibilities are potentially great! People wouldn't bother with 3D if there isn't much of an audience for it, but if 3D support with Nintendo 3DS becomes grand, there will be an explosion of new 3D videos coming to YouTube to be watched by a growing Nintendo 3DS audience.

Think about it: How many people you know own a Nintendo 3DS, and how many people do you know actually own a powerful, expensive 3D TV or computer screen?

Mahjong? Doesn't this game have Chinese roots though?

I shouldn't be too surprised that Nintendo are still making traditional games, albeit as business on a small scale. I recall actually being an owner of an authentic, Nintendo-branded play card set! (No, not Hanafuda, but actual western play cards with all the well-known symbols ♠ ♥ ♦ ♣ .)

Oh no! Despite having iTunes Music in our region now, this collection is one of the albums that is not officially available to us! What a real shame, as I was personally so looking forward to getting this collection legitimately.

Not saying this is necessarily a good thing, but I'm feeling a lot better now to learn that I'm not alone in regards of local commercial and consumer recognition of Nintendo's products, and being a Nintendo fan in the midst of an emerging market. Whilst there are a lot of similarities in regards to Nintendo's situation in here in the United Arab Emirates, I cannot stay lack of stock is one of the problems though, but the full story is rather more complicated than that, in which explaining it would require an article in itself. Nintendo's official local distributors thankfully still exist, and there is a significant retail demand for Nintendo's products to warrant continuing selling their products as long as they deem. Thank goodness for that, but I'm personally still unsatisfied about it, and not to mention there is quite a lack of background information. I wish someone would write a similar article about being a Nintendo fan where I reside momentarily.

I am fearing for the future of the Nintendo game players that live in territories outside any of Nintendo's official jurisdictions, which should include myself.

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I really doubt it is likely a casual buyer taking home a Wii Mini would plan to purchase so many games for it overtime. Without online, there wouldn't even be much to download and hog out the Wii Mini's limited flash memory. Besides, many of Nintendo's own games may take only one or two blocks worth of save memory. Not to mention Nintendo took care many of their games remain quite as enjoyable offline, especially for those families sitting in the same room and sharing the fun. Anyone on Nintendo Life wanna play New Super Mario Bros. Wii with me? Oh wait... I cannot play that game online at all, can't I?

I'm still hoping I would get my hands on a copy of Red Steel 2 eventually. I still find them on the shelves apparently. Could an awesome game really have been that ignored during its early days? I wonder what are chances I got into finding a brand new copy of the first Red Steel game.

Not sure why so many people are so riled up about the Wii Mini in a very negative light. Sure, for those experienced gamers already familiar with the original console the Mini may not make sense for them to own, but think about the many super-late adopting people out there who are still on the fence in getting the Wii console from the beginning. This will be pretty attractive to them considering the price goes just under the $100 range.

Besides, for those of you who still care about the Wii software, the Wii Mini is assurance that Nintendo will keep a stock available as they keep re-printing their best-selling Wii games, especially for those who missed some of those titles the first time around. I personally am looking forward to seeing a North American Nintendo Selects re-release for WarioWare: Smooth Moves and Donkey Kong Jungle Beat. (The latter which I even missed during the days of the Nintendo GameCube! You might argue that there is always eBay, but I really prefer getting my games all-factory new regardless.) The best part about this is that Wii games are also playable on the Wii U.

This piece of news really taunts me personally, for Nintendo Video is totally useless when you're living outside North America. Even Nintendo's own content are not uploaded.

The jealousy; the rage!

The quirks of new generation parenting will most definitely include video game pop-culture. The world of consumer video games may be a few decades old, but gaming kids also grow up, build their careers, and start new families during that very same time-period, assuming they never given up playing "childish things" over the years. When enthusiasts marry each other and become parents, they are more than likely to share their enthusiasm with their offspring.

In any case, I notice the art style is more based on Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door than the original one.

The jealousy of resident North American Nintendo fans having their own local celebs! That is, when the Japanese celebs are back at home, they still have someone, and his body's always ready!

Judging from the comments on Facebook, it seems the decision is upsetting far more people than Nintendo Life visitors. Little Orbit is really emphasising on the "lack of retailer support" behind such decisions, and oddly they are publishing Monster High: 13 Wishes exclusively on all current Nintendo platforms. In addition, it seems odd they would cancel the Wii version in itself, which still has a large enough active audience even if the platform fell out of "serious gamer" radars in the past few years.

I always felt that small game publishers, especially who are notable for having a heavily licenced games library in their portfolio, were deemed to be very unreliable.

Those Super Famicom A B X Y buttons don't seem or even feel right, and I should know since I own a PAL version Super Nintendo Entertainment System.

I wonder whatever happened to a statement Nintendo made not a very long time ago about using the Wii's twilight years as a motion to officially expand into developing markets with the Wii as a "budget home console" after it has served its prime in the bigger video gaming markets. I really hope they didn't just rule against that due to the rise of mobile gaming and stuff.

I personally don't have a lot of childhood memories in regards to Sonic the Hedgehog animations. In fact, for the most part, I managed to watch all these shows in the later years, so they don't have a lot of meaning to me as other people. I was a much more avid follower of Archie Comics' series than the animations, and I still collect the comics to this very day!

With that said, doesn't the animated short based on Sonic Unleashed count? Doesn't anybody here remember the silly shenanigans of Night of the Werehog? It should fit the bill, as this is October, and Halloween is coming up!

Lorule, huh? Nintendo sure are pulling out the puns in regards to these English names. On the other hand, there is something about this concept of dual-worlds that is similar to how the Twilight Realm was perceived in Twilight Princess, but then the precursor from the original A Link to the Past comes to mind. I'm interested in how the powers of the downward Triforce of Lorule differ to the familiar upward Triforce of Hyrule.

Additionally, the princess of Lorule is called Hilda, huh? Hilda and Zelda... these are like the names of both the Archie Comics character Sabrina Spellman's maternal aunts, which by the way are appearing in a brand new animated show that is debuting on Hub Network in the United States.

Here's hoping that there are no difficulties in getting my very recent pre-order from my local retailer. Pokémon was once really hot when it made its debut, and now it seems that old hype is back again! "Gotta catch 'em all" indeed!

I dunno about you guys, but where I live right now (in the U.A.E. to be precise), our local gaming retailer actually were selling U.S. copies of this game a little earlier than anticipated, and often U.S. Nintendo games tend take a few days to be available after the official release date. I wish I took a picture proving this when I found them on shelves on October 1st.