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@Averagewriter Well it is not word for word. Clearly they used a thesaurus. Not sure the word "vital" means what they think it means though.

"Even on the time of free up, " (even on the time of release, lol)

"purchase their video games from third birthday celebration builders in Japan"

best line: "You sent the sheep through the dimensional fork? You have betrayed mankind"

I loved this game, am stuck on one of the story levels though. I imagine I could easily look up the solution but I prefer to just try it now and again.

I kind of want the physical cards now.

I believe this is a song she created for the game, and not just a cover of a song from the game

Internet reaction seems pretty positive so far, so I guess it is just normal for a short drop when something new and slightly unknown is announced.
One thing I liked about the trailer was how actually real it felt, like when the controllers docked and undocked, it showed a little bit of a jiggle, looked very real and the game footage looked mostly genuine.
I hope to see it bounce back up once third parties start announcing games. I hope with this reveal we will hear more from them now that they don't have to be so secretive.

They need to just scrap their UK site, and start again. I suggest putting the store into my.nintendo.com.
It is just so messy, full of old pages, links everywhere which take you to places which don't seem like the same site at all.
They definitely need to at least seperate the "shop" into its own section where you dont randomly bounce back and forth between things.
I clicked on "view all wiiU games" and ended up on sort of news search page??

This game was amazing, when I found it on an emulator, I played it tons. I have no idea why.

Why the review suddenly? I was kind of hoping it meant that this was on the official virtual console.

I just want the european release of that pictionaryish game, been out in the US for ages now. Would be great for xmas family time.

I have had a pre-download for at least one game I got from the eshop, can't remember which one it was though. I can't see why they wouldn't offer pre-downloads for a game this huge.

This sounds exactly like the drawing game in Wario (which is by far the best thing about that game). We have played that tons, but it is nice to have a proper version with better word lists and options. I don't like the ability to use colors (so many things are so easy to draw just by using color) but I guess we can just agree to just use black.

@gcunit There is mario monopoly, also zelda monopoly, and worse of all Zelda Yahtzee, which is just some colored dice and a box which looks like a chest.... also lots of nintendo clothes, plush toys, figures, remote control cars.

just to play it on the gamepad only this is totally worth it.

VR hasn't taken off. People are talking about it, but how long was occulus rift out there and bought by facebook and nothing has happend? I think the hololens stuff from microsoft is much more where we should be headed in terms of "VR".

VR is still the kind of thing you try for a bit, and then take off and relax and play normally because it is still mostly giant and clunky.

Pretty sure the dialog between hungrybox and reggie was entirely planned. Doesn't really explain how bad reggie was at smash though

I think slowly unlocking the game content is brilliant. If it was all thrown at us at once, the people who played it tons would get bored just as quickly anyway. What it does (which is especially important in an online 4v4 game) is to keep interest going in players to keep playing week after week for those who just play now and then, keeping the numbers up so you can always find players.

It also means you get to learn and play on the levels quicker, getting better instead of being overwhelmed with too much at once. Not as if the extra content costs money or anything.

I look forward to the splatfest.

I am happy it has no voice chat. This is similar to the fact that you cant talk to your opponents in hearthstone. Emotes are bad enough I love that I can join games with other people and just enjoy myself, even if sometimes the other players do stupid things.

Can we skip the squid news thing now? Rather than bashing A? I logged on just before the level change, and got the news twice in a row before I could do anything!

I want them all, but I guess I have to buy the american ones, as in europe the squid only comes with the game, and I dont buy physical copies anymore.

Given that xenoblade is new 3ds only, not having some sort of bundle seems really odd. I hope we get an XL version in europe. I will probably get those faceplates even without owning a small new 3ds

3DS 2 would have been the best. Apparantly consumers only understand numbers which go up.

I guess we will get a video like this done by the voice actors of those characters. I guess that is one reason this isn't just a normal direct, and kept to japanese only.

I hope we get a game bundle like this. I want the extra stuff, but I don't need a third WiiU

Maybe the Shulk Amiibo will unlock a shulk costume for the main character.

Having defined rules is much better than the vague rules about whether a random company will shut you down or not. Many companies will simply turn a blind eye to it, but without predefined rules you cant really tell when someone will jump on you.

I would liken this situation to reading a book out loud on youtube. If I sat and watched someone read an entire book, It certainly wouldnt lead me to go and buy that book.

Games are a bit different since the act of playing a game is part of the enjoyment, but Nintendo allowing people to make money off their games at all is better than simply shutting them down. And yes if youtubers are making money off showing Nintendos games, then, Nintendo has a right to revenue.

Youtubers whining about it are just doing so for attention really. (with articles like this)

@DefHalan Yeah, I agree this game is going to have a install to hard disk option for key data files. They imply that people with the disc version should choose to use the optimisation, which suggests it has to be something the user can do, which means saying yes when it asks to install to the HD. Installing key resource files which are used often to disk would speed it up reads a lot.

Which also means download users will be fine. (I plan to get digital and a boxed version though, which I hope comes with something awesome)

wow, I didn't think the game was that far along. They haven't really showed much of anything (which I guess is good for spoilery reasons). If Zelda is aimed at christmas, I would prefer to see this in the summer!

well you cut the packaging, so you might aswell take it out anyway, since you have broken it already.

I was hoping they would do this, but wasnt expecting them to actually do it.

At least for me Curtain Call is the perfect game for downloading since it is the kind of thing you want to randomly play along with a regular game.
I expect the digital sales to be pretty decent.

Surprised hyrule warriors managed number 3. It is actually a really fun game, definitely not Zelda, but a lot of stuff Zelda fans will enjoy. I love playing as Shiek..

remember the WiiU version will have Amiibo support, and I presume a different single player experience. I will get both versions, but I want the WiiU version much more (after playing the demo, I want a proper controller)

If anyone does have a spare EU code my email is: [email protected]

wow. Wish I had clicked on this article sooner, didn't expect to see codes being given away =) Would love an EU one if anyone cares =)

Some people will do anything for money, and the codes will be useless in a week. Sort of good publicity for nintendo though.

I read that as "we have no games to launch in january in europe, so we push this back to then to make it look like we do have games in january"

If it is anything like the drawing game in Warioware then I will love this game. (it is by far the best thing in that, and is a hidden gem for local multiplayer)

I predict, stores selling out of them, except Wii Fit Trainer. There will be walls and walls of her left

@DarrelltheJ heh. Yes I meant Lucina.I liked Robin, just not happy about Lucina.

Robin looks a lot different, and the tome mechanic could be interesting.

Robin is ok, but if we had to have more Fire Emblem characters, then more variety would be nice, such as a pegasus rider or something. Not just another swordsperson with blue hair. I can barely tell them all apart as it is.

I still hold out hope for Shulk. Not sure how many characters we will get in total.

Really hope for Shulk. This would make my excitement for the new Smash go through the roof. Really wouldn't care to see Rayman in it.

Is a shame about the WiiU. If the main console version is on 360/ps3, there is no reason it should not be on the WiiU also. There are more WiiU users than Xbox One (I cant imagine many people getting this on Xbox one), and plenty of more people getting WiiUs because of mario kart 8.

Dunno how far along the game is, but not releasing this on WiiU seems just like a bad business decision. It seems entirely Activisions fault. It doesn't even need to be a good game, just a random licensed game on a console where skylanders/disney infinity exist will make you money.

Also remember all those Wii owners are upgrading to Nintendo's new White Playstation 4

Where did these numbers come from? It must have been some sort of survey I guess? The Wii sold so many, so it is highly likely that someone buying a console owned a Wii.

The statistic is more like "people who filled out this form, who bought a ps4, also had a wii"

It might be possible this could be one of the first games to use 2 gamepads. Also perhaps it might support wii-mote+nunchuck instead of the game pad for other players (can use the motion sensor in the wii-remote). I suspect it will also support normal dual analog controls.

If playing local co-op, I can easily see the guy with the gamepad being the "commander" and teleporting people and giving out status reports of the map.

Xenoblade needs to be upscaled. There was a fan project to actually update the textures and such for HD in the dolphin emulator. What I played of it, it looked amazing. I really hope they are working on updating it for HD, I would buy 10 copies

@TruenoGT Chalk and Cheese are nothing alike. It just means that two things couldn't be more different. In the case used above, he means that the graphics of DKC looked so much better than current graphics, it wasn't even a comparison.

With the ps3 and 360 versions not delayed, it makes no sense to delay the WiiU version, it would certainly require hardly any more effort to port than those. The content of the game has nothing to do with console specific programming. I am pretty confident the game is cancelled.

Only releasing for the WiiU will overall be good. Now when parents try to get it for the WiiU, they will realise they need to upgrade to a WiiU, ps4, xboxOne, and obviously one of them is the cheapest

@TDS_Computer

If the engine is working on the WiiU already, then there is still very little effort involved in making more content work, unless the DLC requires changes to the engine.

If I create a new unity game, then that game will work on platforms that support Unity. (there is of course the chance of platform bugs and such in the engine). If I then add a new level to that game, it certainly should work on the platforms it worked before with almost no effort.

They have the game engine. Does it really take more than a button click to release the game on the WiiU lol? I am sure it needs QA afterwards, but whatever. Not that I own the game or care at all

This looks like a very early build of the game. Graphics are clearly early, and they just wanted to show something of what it being worked on now.

The english version of the TV show is supposed to be coming out next year. I started playing this and reasonably enjoyed it, but am unsure if I want to continue since I would like to see the new series. The cut scenes are really short and confusing, but I guess they are spoilers for the show. I was kind of hoping it was just an original side story rather than just following the plot of the new series.

They added an option to let people disable using their nintendo network ID outside of Nintendo hardware. It could be something they might do if they added a unified account system.

I mean if they added a unified account system, nothing on the WiiU would change in the system update, it would just need website support and a 3ds update.

I think that a unified account system will come next year though.