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This list must be wrong: I only count three games with the word "party" in the title. Why aren't publishers trying harder to get on board with this lucrative and booming market? Crazy.

@revanlynn Ahh I see — I've only ever played the Mega CD version so I'm not too up on his sartorial options!

@zane Thank goodness I said "I bet everything I own this will hit retail" rather than "I bet everything I own this won't hit the eShop"! That was nearly a very expensive trip to the post office!

@tat2 Did not see those lines there! Excellent spot

@NintyFan I can guarantee you pre-E3 rumours are just getting started

@Mandoble It's not a game, they're actual LEGO figures

@TheDreamingHawk Paul's Shooting Adventure 2 is listed on Nintendo.com. Not sure about Block Ball — try the Nintendo Channel or 3DS eShop

@Pastry4prez Mentioned them Tuesday morning my good man May's Club Nintendo Rewards

@MattEriks I meant "coming to Wii in the future", should have made that clearer

@ueI Sometimes I forget where I am.

@XCWarrior EU only for now as far as I know.

Everyone who asked if we'll be covering it — yes, of course! We love doing E3. Corbie's down to attend the press conference and Ant, Tom, Mike and I will all be contributing news, features, live content and media throughout the show. It's going to be awesome

@XyVoX This is something we'll have to wait and find out I'm afraid. My gut instinct is we'll see a similar split between 1080p and 720p — I'd imagine most Nintendo games will be 1080, most third-parties 720p, particularly multi-format games.

The official branding is no longer GAME — it's now Game, which makes headlines like this massively underwhelming at first glance.

@rjejr to answer your questions in order: 1) yes 2) no 3) they haven't said yet 4) no But Wii U will support external USB hard drives!

@yoshisfood2go You use the 3DS to look around the court and aim your shots, from what I can tell. It's in one of the earlier videos.

@Adam I've never heard of this "Cave Story". Is it new? I hope it comes out on every single Nintendo console ever.

@Polaris Not so — Icon Games: "Nintendo's Policies Put Jobs at Risk", for instance.

@TheNintendOtaku I can help you with that.

@CyberNature Don't get me wrong, if this came out on the same day as a new Panzer/Skies I'd buy them over this, but I'll take what I can get. JSR is coming to PSN and XBLA and there's Crimson Dragon for Kinect that's basically a new Panzer Dragoon. Both will get my money, and the second one's not even published by SEGA. (I already have Skies and every Panzer game, so no need for rereleases for me.)

Thanks for calling me gullible, though!

@ThumperUK How has Nintendo UK been "practically abolished and moved to Nintendo Europe"? Please explain.

Sonic & All-Stars Racing Transformed screenshots showing Panzer Dragoon stage and dragon! Awesome.

Vyse + Panzer Dragoon = day one buy for me.

@Some_Chords No harm done! I should be used to it by now Anyway, we were one of the first sites to get the confirmation up, so it all evens out

Midnight Purple 3DS Hits North America on 20th May.

@Some_Chords I have other things to do with my weekends!

@Gavin_Rozee I'm just double-checking that with Nintendo, there's been some confusion apparently. Will update ASAP.

@Byuu Well as long as the wireless tech actually works, that's OK! Just hope the range on them is decent

@XCWarrior A collection of five minigames takes less time to review than a game that lets you create your own puzzlers.

Wii Remote will be the same as on Wii, so will use AA batteries. Really though every semi-serious Wii owner should have a rechargeable battery kit for Wiimotes by now!

And the Wii U controller has a rechargeable internal battery, of course

@Byuu Cool, maybe it's only the smaller teams working with wired kits or they're being rolled out slowly? Makes sense you guys would get them first

@3DS Yep, devs are using wired controllers but the ones with the machine will be wireless

The truth often is.

@Gavin_Rozee Pick one Nintendo doesn't share that kind of information with my sources I'm afraid.

@Gavin_Rozee Nope

@3dbrains I have friends in the development community, that's all I can say

@3dbrains @kirk Ah I see it now. I'm told it's a sticker and won't be on the final retail version.

@3dbrains Because Ubisoft develops games on development controllers — it's a Ubisoft-created trailer, not a Nintendo one, so it's using what the company has on hand. And trust me — developers use their controllers wired. Not saying that won't be the finished cable, just saying this is a development controller and not finalised retail hardware.

@mwellert Stranger things have happened...

@Kirk For Dolphin to upscale Wii games takes a lot of hardware, probably costing more than Wii U. But they'll totally do GameCube games for download, that's a no brainer.

@3dbrains Not "new stuff" — these are development Wii U controllers and do not reflect what the finished product will look like. Dev Wii U controllers are wired; the real things are wireless

@bezerker99 Where the heck did you get that from?!

@stealth Taken from Nintendo's own statistics — checked them myself, they are correct. And you're right, DS had a slow start and didn't really take off until DS Lite, but crucially Nintendo made money on every DS sold.

All hail @ChosenOne25, the prophet of truth and sensible analysis!

@Kirk We haven't seen NSMB Wii U yet, though

@K0M1C Nintendo does good = cake photo. Nintendo does bad = crying Pikachu. Standard journalistic practice!

@Henmii I'd say giving investors a bold statement on the same day you tell them your company lost $529 million is probably a good idea!

@Chariblaze Same prompt in Europe and Australia where connection rate is around 50%.

I think Nintendo will release digital versions of retail games bit by bit in a similar situation to what we have now.

@C-Olimar 3DS prices and dates were revealed in January 2011 in events at New York and Amsterdam, two months before the machine launched

@grumblebuzzz Mr Iwata cites the example of Animal Crossing, where it'd be great to have it on your Home Menu all the time instead of switching carts. Anyway, they'll likely be cheaper to buy online — I envision online retailers like Amazon and Play getting on this bandwagon, as they're just generating 16-digit codes. I know that GAME and Gamestation in the UK have been doing something similar with PSN and XBLA for a long time with considerable success.

@grumblebuzzz There's no built-in hard drive (or at least, there wasn't one announced at E3) but it supports external USB HDDs or SD card expansions

@DeMoN-13ruce No, they're not.