James

Smash Bros. is rubbish. Sorry to be so blunt, but it is.

OK, now that cat's out of the bag I can tell you: I'm going to oversee the next Super Smash Bros. game and actually make it fun. You heard it here first!

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Hi guys,

Thanks for all your kind words and congratulations. I'm really touched that so many of you have enjoyed my work over the years, and that you're all so happy here at Nintendo Life.

Just wanted to answer some recurring questions:

1) No, I won't send you free stuff.
2) No, I won't leak Nintendo secrets.
3) Ask James will finish this Friday. I don't think Nintendo would be happy if an employee ran an all-questions-answered video series on a Nintendo fan forum!
4) I absolutely hope to be a member of the community after I leave, but see answers 2 and 4 for more.

My last day is Friday so I will still be around for news and question-answering for a while longer! If anyone wants to keep in touch the best way is to follow me on Twitter

@NINTENDOFACE No chance. I have loads left

@WolfRamHeart Of course! Badtz-Maru is amazing. I also like Choco Cat.

@CowLaunch Yep.

I just got the pun in this tagline. Phil, you're great.

@BulbasaurusRex Actually my favourite electric mouse is the Technosqueek from Sonic & Knuckles but shhh...

@onlyaman Tell me more!

@Yosher The only info I have is from Nintendo UK and Panini UK. Best contacting Panini in your country

@TheHermit We still have our review up very soon. Watch this space!

@3DSNoobieNerd We will see

@3dbrains That's all the info I have atm but my guess would be Mario Kart 7 and Super Mario-related stamps, graphics and sounds.

One of the most impressive tech demos I've seen. Really, really cool.

@WesFX I very much doubt Corbie had a hard time playing this game, he's our shoot 'em up master!

We don't try to document every aspect of a game in our reviews, so inevitably there may be times reviews don't cover everything you'd like to know. I'm glad you're enjoying the game though!

@Nintenbro It's not inaccessible, it's available worldwide, as the article states. I think the QR code is EU only, though.

We cannot possibly list all the Wii games with great soundtracks so we just picked a few, and tried not to give too many obvious ones. Great track choices here though, some real stunners.

@Luigivaldo Good spot! Have inserted that link into the story now. Nearly $20 off is a great saving!

@domdom87 Chinese region coding I believe, so won't play JP games from what I understand.

@3dbrains You might need to send/receive or close your 3DS and wait for the app to update. At first I had no colours, then my app found new letters via SpotPass and then colours worked. Bit of patience will get your colours, no need to shout about it

@ymmas626 We don't know. When we know, it'll be news, promise!

@Gustoff no game required, just this app.

I've changed the title to say UK but I see some European countries have it too. If you can download it please let me know which country you're in!

@SRArter Yeah but the English site is down at the moment so I can't access it

@TheDreamingHawk Both set to arrive in the next few weeks

Import time.

@shinesprite You don't, Nintendo does

@cod45 It won't work for Swapnote, it is currently only for Europe.

RE: everyone asking about a European release — Gamebridge so far has only confirmed the software for North America. No comment on an EU release.

@Capt_N This is straight-up DSiWare and won't play any differently on 3DS than it does on DSi. No enhancements for 3DS.

@WiiLovePeace Yes, other people will need Petit Computer to play the games, this isn't a full-on SDK.

@edhe I believe you can write your own tunes but not sure how; the Out Run video clearly has a tune from the game in it, so I presume you can make your own fairly easily!

@BenAV You saw someone has made OutRun with it, right?

Everybody should like this game because it's ace.

@PikminMonster I think my favourite is "it's nice to want things".

Have a medal.

A fun maths game.

Take the number of 3DS sales for the past six months.
Subtract the sales of every other console.
The number you're left with is 350,467 — just 3,000 short of Vita's sales over the same period.

@BulbasaurusRex I wrote that news myself so yes, I'm aware of that However NIGORO has received offers from publishers, and last week PEGI re-rated La-Mulana for WiiWare, which says to me it'll still make it eventually.

@BulbasaurusRex La-Mulana is coming, apparently. Allegedly.

@TheAdza Because none of those franchises sell, I'm afraid. Total War and Football Manager are solid sellers and I honestly believe the only money in those old Saturn/DC franchises is from digital rereleases, not new entries.

Which is my way of asking SEGA "I can download Skies of Arcadia Legends on Wii U, yes?"

@WesFX Sure. It's not very good.

@Retro_on_theGo He hasn't started yet...

All being well I will be there on the Sunday. Come say hi!

He's the guy you need to suck up to if you want more VC games, yes

@stratocastx n-Space said it's out on 5th July which is next week

You guys make me so proud.

@Wheels2050 I wasn't joking at all!

I grew up with an Atari ST. I remember when floppy disks were around and 1MB of RAM was a lot.

Yes, I'm old.

Buy both

@6ch6ris6 DSiWare as far as I'm aware.

@Yasume I haven't heard back from Tanukii yet, will update when I know more

Coming to PAL apparently. Hoorah!

Yeah I pretty much understand that