JebbyDeringer

1) These games won't make enough money (though it doesn't hurt to try) The games are already made so as long as it doesn't cost more to localize than they make on the game it would be doing their fans a favor.
2) There are ways to play these games if you are desperate enough.

Fire Iwata and Reggie, hire people with open minds.

I remember playing this game when it came out, I never liked the graphics.

This was no Mario Kart clone. It wasn't just a Kart game it was an adventure game + a Kart game. I preferred it just because there was so much more to it. It was a serious challenge. Even after you beat the game 100% there was then a reversed mode and another silver coin challenge. Mario Kart was good for pure racing/multiplayer but Diddy Kong was a fleshed out experience taking as long as some RPG's to beat.

DKR was to Mario Kart what Banjo Kazooie was to Mario 64.

I hate Mii's they look horrible. The cartoon look is fine I just hate the body shapes and low res painted on face.

I'm not going to say anything because it definitely won't be nice.

No issue there. I hate micro transaction games. The Facebook games are complete garbage.

Yeah this is definitely one of the best Zelda games. The colour palette is severely limited but it's still good

@billy-beauts: Zelda for the Wii U is just a demo, Nintendo did the same thing when the Gamecube was announced then they went on to make Wind Waker which was nothing like the demo and had many people disappointed.

"Is it absolutely perfect from a technical perspective? Not quite, but it is close to gaming perfection"

This line says it all. A 10/10 is impossible given your conclusion. Still I liked the review. The graphics look great though it's a shame about the sound, I wasn't impressed with the sound all that much when the game came out.

By pretty much they mean that the Wii U is pretty much an Xbox 360 that already runs Crysis 2. I'm willing to bet they haven't even touched Nintendo dev hardware at this point.

I just can't wait to see what that controller will be capable of (on the PC).

I feel Zelda games in general are very solid and what they do is done well (for the most part). In some ways though it's like pop music. The game appeals to a large audience. I grew up playing Zelda games from the beginning and the world's have been very small and almost claustrophobic. There is also a great deal of linearity to the games. There are some sidequests, heart containers and such, you can play out of order but it requires getting items from temples first.

On the one hand I'd love to see the Zelda mold broken. Introduce more towns, more swords, armor and boots, hidden places and items not required to the completion of the game, maybe some sort of leveling up system, I'd also love to be able to jump on command rather than as a context sensitive button.

On the other hand Twilight Princess had a lot of almost useless items. The slingshot was replaced by the bow early on in the game despite staying in your inventory, other items I rarely used.

While OOT was a great game I was always a bigger fan of Link to the Past. Despite some of the great features 3D brought to the game the world in LTTP was a lot more interesting.

It looks much better in 2D (though granted I haven't seen it in "3D 3D"). I'm not a big fan of 3D over 2D unless the gameplay benefits from it significantly, or the graphics are clean and detailed.

Here the graphics are blocky, there is plenty of aliasing and the texture detail is really low.

If Super Mario Galaxy 2 isn't hardcore I'm not sure what is. That game gets hard especially if you want to complete it. It's accessible to kids, sure, but it demands serious skill/brain power to complete. I'd recommend it to kids because they'll have fun and it will also increase their dexterity ten fold.

It seems that the definition of hardcore gaming are games that appeal to an immature audience that can't see the weak game through all the blood, boobs, and bullets.

I've never understood these people who feel they need to throw out all their old games if backwards compatibility isn't there. Keep your old console, buy a new one. Or...Gamecube prices have been in the toilet for quite a while now. Last I checked EB Games was clearing them out with a controller for $9.99, they are probably all gone now. I have 4 Gamecube consoles, 4 Wavebirds, 4 other controllers, and all the other cables.

I'm not sure using a stylus while holding that massive thing would be practical at all. I like the accuracy of a stylus but capacitive is much more useful for speed. Sure capacitive can be super sensitive but I find that a positive. Resistive makes it easy to miss a press and have to do it twice (I hate those debit machines that have touch screen interfaces). For what Nintendo plans to do I'm sure it will work fine but the swipes & gestures you can do with capacitive are leagues better than presses.

While the Wii's thunder has really died over the past year the system was still a huge financial success. Talking about hardcore gamers is a bit silly because the Wii's market was so much bigger than the Xbox & PS3. Nintendo will never be able to compete for the same market, it's obvious they don't really want to be on the same playing field. That said they do need to appeal to hardcore gamers this time around because I doubt that non/retired gamers will be ready for another gaming console.

Very interesting but I really hope 1080p includes Wii games. I'd love to keep playing Wii games but in 1080p (or at least 720p) where they will look much much cleaner.

I dislike how Mii's look so I could do without. I'd rather just play as Mario but for multiplayer it makes sense.

The Spice Orange Gamecube was actually made for me, unfortunately they forgot to release it in North America.

I dont like transparent but i think colour options would be great. White is still popular but definitely far passed its prime. I don't like silver because that usually involves painted plastic, i prefer plastic to be dyed. I also prefer matte over glossy.

Oh and sorry 3DS, I'm not a big fan of two-tone either.

Tempting but...I've got too many gadgets.

Ubisoft has gone downhill. They used to make some really great games. Also it's a good thing they added "Renegade" to the Driver series. It makes it sound tough. We'd all be considered wimps otherwise.

Call me when they add a jump button.

Well Ocarina wasn't a constant 20fps but it dropped there frequently. Fighting Gannondorf it dropped much much lower when he did his attack.

1/5 sounds harsh but think of it as 2/10 or 20/100.

I don't know, it's hard to say. Consoles still have some benefits over other devices. The ipad pretty much is a big screen TV when you are playing it at less than half an arms length. Sound could be pushed over wireless to a stereo. The ipad screen has better colour, contrast, and viewing angles than the average persons HDTV (just lacks the resolution though still much better than the Wii). The touch controls work but are a big drawback for a lot of game genres. I can't see gaming losing tactile controls, it just wouldn't be a step forward. Motion, and touch controls are really nice in a small niche of games but the games I truly enjoy the most require a proper input. I think the technology is pretty much there though more will always be possible with a larger footprint.

The new thunderbolt ports on Mac's & eventually PC's will make external video cards much more possible making the Desktop PC obsolete for a minority of the die hard gamers.

Sonic and Mario should never have got in bed together...two different worlds.

Well MDK2 was originally Dreamcast & PC and then followed up on the PS2.

I played this game once or twice back in the mid to late 90s and was surprised how good it was. It's hard to say if it's worth the VC purchase but if you need a solid game with a strategic element this is good. It reminds me a bit of the Rainbow Six games where you have to rescue hostages only here you are shooting fires instead of terrorists.

No Nintendo wouldn't release this info but someone else with access would. It looks either fake or a concept, the design is a bit too weak to be anything close to final hardware. I kind of like the idea for multiplayer but I think it would be strange to abandon the Wii pointer. There were a lot of gimmick games but there were a few excellent uses of the waggle and such.

This makes me miss playing my Wii. I played it once in the past six months because I haven't had a house or my own TV. I bought a new TV yesterday but I may return it because it has a TN panel instead of S-IPS.

North America has much more purchasing power because we love to buy tons of stuff no matter how crappy it is (no relation to the 3DS).

My brother had this game and I lent it to someone who never gave it back. I think I still have the box...maybe.

I played it back on the PC when it was new. The graphics were stunning at the time especially considering it didn't take much power to run. I found it was pretty challenging part way in. I never completed it. It was quite original.

Gameboy or Sony people that don't want to be seen gaming in public don't want to be seen gaming in public. The device doesn't make a difference there. Besides CEO's are just floating heads in a land filled of unicorns and rainbows.

Oh now Nintendo wants more development studios...I think another option would be to headhunt developers for a new studio. There are some good small studios but there are also a lot of good developers with good ideas starting out working at bigger studios Companies like EA are pretty corporate and while not a lot of creative new ideas can come out there many young developers start there.

Great, Looks like Gameboy Colour. In fact I like that everything is tiny because Metroid II Samus was too big, I would have preferred it more like this.

I have had a headache for the last 12 or so hours though it doesn't seem to be related to the 3DS. I haven't yet played one but I still can't rule it out. It's pretty bad.

Reggie isn't a gamer he's a suit.

I agree with the best gameplay award, the gameplay is top notch in SMG2. I'm not really into Mario's music, All the Mario games have catchy music but it's really not my style, I'm more into darker music whether that's electronic or neoclassical. As for best game I highly doubt it should have been Black Ops but I just started Mass Effect 2 last weekend and it's one of the best games I've ever played. The whole package is done so well. And as much as I like Mario his games will never be immersive like that.

Mario winning the best game award is like giving the best picture award at the Academy Awards to a Pixar film. It's possible but unlikely.

Most of the Game Gear games were just ports that had to have the graphics/gameplay adapted for a less powerful system. The Sonic games were completely different from their console counterparts though and I did play them quite a lot though they definitely weren't as visually striking.

I think the blue shell should be really rare. 1 possible per race AT THE MOST but make it random. It would be a better weapon if it wasn't expected. Do the same with lightning. Green shells should be common and red much less common. In Mario Kart and Mario Kart 64 you had to be quite skilled with the banana. The blue shell was rare in Mario Kart 64 because I even forgot it was in that game.

Yes but when is Skyward Sword coming? I've played Ocarina a number of times.

NGP = Neo Geo Pocket.

I like the ideal but I'm not crazy about game branded accessories. It's not like Link uses boomerangs, swords, and shields that say "ZELDA" on them. I'd prefer it if they kept the branding off and just made it look like something that would fit in with the game. I find it worse when it's consoles and they are branded after specific games rather than a series. A Halo branded Xbox 360 would be better than one branded as Halo 3 specifically.

I kinda want to make one of these though but use a 1st party controller as the basis.

In an ideal world green would be not having any games or cases end up in landfills.

Ummm isn't it Hudson of Japan that makes pretty much all the games? Hudson is not dead just their American counterpart. We may not see their games anymore but they will still exist for those that care to look.

I wish the game was going to look the like concept art. Although it is Lego I'd love to see some more stylized less blocky graphics.

People that don't like games will buy the NGP much like the PSP.

What the? A portable system with an external keyboard? This is weird. It looks nice though.

I like JRPG's and western RPGS. JRPG's tend to be much more linear though especially in more recent years. There's nothing I hate more than an RPG where leveling up happens at predetermined intervals or there are only a certain number of enemies so no matter how many times you play the game you level at the same time.

With western RPGs I like the open worlds and sidequests but I dislike it when the leveling system is tied in with the enemies meaning all the enemies are weak when you are weak and strong when you have leveled up (Elder Scrolls Oblivion). It becomes almost pointless to level up. Racing Games often do this with car upgrades too.