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@antdickens
Talk about a circular argument.
If the second circle pad was included in the 3DS XL, there would be a much larger base who owned systems with a second control stick, hence more games would be made that utilized it.
A very small number of games support the Circle pad pro BECAUSE it requires an Add on, not the other way around.

I had 10,000 stars. Who wants to give me another 5000 for the last one?

Is it true they removed the mission mode from the PS2/Xbox version? (And so probably drastically reduced the number of unlockable costumes?)

I haven't looked too hard because I don't want to spoil the plot for myself, but if they have done so, that's a pretty big downside, because the haunted mansion mode is downright boring.

The original 3DS went a little below trade price +VAT at launch for a while, even from online retailers (Including amazon uk), so I wouldn't give up hope quite yet on £170 being the limit, but I wouldn't expect it to go much further down.

There are a few key points Reggie has missed out on here.We want to be surprised, which means that we need some big NEW game announcements that haven't been spoiled by internet leaks. Titles that we already knew were in existance from previous E3's, like... everything in Nintendos show this year, barring Nintendo Land, aren't going to stir up the crowd in to roaring applause.

Second, you need to end on a high note with a major franchise. Compared to the best ending of a Nintendo E3 presentation in 2004, Nintendo Land, a minigame compilation, just won't cut it. Essentially, if Reggie wants us to be amazed and have a real positive reaction, we want this to happen again

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6pB647PE-80

I'm just not excited for 2D Mario games any more. Whereas with Galaxy 1/2, you were bound to be getting a new experience every single star! Yeah, a few came back and were reused towards the end, but that was the extent of rehashing.

This is essentially going to be the 4th New Super Mario Bros. level pack, and only the first two really brought anything new (NSMB had it easy being the first real 2D mario game in a long time, and NSMBWii had the excellent multiplayer), and I could not care less at this point.

It's a shame nintendo games take forever to price drop, I'd get this as a Budget Title.

That pricing for mutant mudds.Ouch.

Well, thats not getting a download right away from me. I really hate the way we get screwed on price conversion (How does $9 = £8.10!?!?!?). It should be about £5.75 to be the same price as america!

"It might just happen"?

What the hell camelot? I saw your cliffhanger ending to dark dawn, and that's only worth a MAYBE?

@Madgear
It's not happening. No console has ever supported two generations prior of media. I can only assume you won't ever be buying a console again then, since the PS4 certainly won't support PS2 discs, the Xbox 720 won't support Original Xbox games, the 3DS doesn't support GBA games and the Vita doesn't support PSP UMD games.

@LordOtakWiiU

They're not "increasing content by 2". Letting you have your download titles on every machine you own that you bought from nintendo would be meeting industry standards.
If I want to , I can install my steam games on every PC I own.
If I want to, I could install any iOS games I owned on an ipad, iphone and any other Apple device that supported it.
If I want to, I can install any Xbox live games I bought to multiple machines (As long as I'm signed into my Live account on that new machine).

Nintendo NOT offering this service allowing you to access your download titles on all the machines you own is just nintendo being stupidly backwards again.

Nice article title. I would also have accepted Pikmin 3 trailer is plucking awesome.

Anyway, calling it now, the 4 people you play as are Olimars family and he's gone missing.

I hope not given I just bought my siblings 3DS consoles for their birthdays. Not that I didn't realise the possibility was there, but still...

Is there any news on whether Wii U games will also support the current Classic Controller (Pro)?
It'd suck if I had to buy 3 more Controllers instead of using the ones I currently have, when they're almost identical in function.

I retract any previous comments I have about what I wanted most in a redesign.

What I want most is the power button moved because when I'm playing Kid Icarus uprising (or any game where I have to use the stylus for a long period) my ring finger relaxes and sometimes finds it way to sitting on top of the power button.... where the game promptly quits.

Curse my comfortable position

Stocking- AND overcharging! Yep, GAME is back to normal alright...

And then people can completely ignore it, and 2 days later complain that nintendo never makes new characters!

Hooray!

@REvolverlink @Joshers744
The North american link is right there at the bottom of the Article... (It's only for NA at the moment)/

Well, thats a significant drop in interest from me. I hate GAMEs price gouging on titles at the best of times. Them having an exclusive = £35 for all time, and I wouldn't even pay that much for the very best nintendo 1st party games, so Heroes of Ruin is probably going to get a miss from me now.

@James

I can't help but think the game would suffer for having to try and use a huge Tablet at the same time as looking at the screen. It would seem much harder to try and pay attention to two screens so far apart.

On the other hand, it would allow for some amazing multiplayer in the battles...

@ThumperUK
For a start, it's not 6000 worldwide. From what we've been leaked it's 6000 for North America alone. There is a seperate count for Europe (Another 3000, counted completely seperate from the NA count) and another for Japan, and probably more for other regions.

The developer not being able to choose the game price is disgusting on Nintendos part. That, combined with the fact that the Nintendo NEVER has sales is pretty much a death sentence for any game that gets released on Wiiware now.
https://www.nintendolife.com/news/2009/04/wiiware_sales_targets_more_details_emerge

Coming 2015 in america complete with a gamebreaking glitch.

Coming to Europe at the point where the Sun burns out all of it's hydrogen (If it doesn't get delayed)

And now I found out that I left my code for The last story in it's box which is currently ~100 miles away. Please let these last until the end of next week...

While I'm sure rhythm thief is a great game (and loved the demo), it's come at a bad time, I bought several games in the massive GAME/gamestation sale recently, and it's hard to justify buying another full price title when I have a huge stack of games to get through first.

The RPG mode was the best part of the GBA Mario sports games, I hope it's included (though I have lost hope, like some of the posters of the above comments), otherwise, I'm not that interested .

I seriously doubt they're adding anything. If they were, I'm certain they would have mentioned it.

@James
Have them? Sure. Have them on the wii virtual console when you could get all the megadrive games for the price of one wii download? Not so much.

@shingi_70
Xenoblade is a take on Western games?

Nothing to see here guys, Shingi_70 is either stupid or trolling.

I like physical releases as much as the next guy, but there are some huge advantages to download titles. Europe has already seen a good argument for Full retail downloads in the form of Tales of the Abyss. That game was virtually impossible to find for over a month, and buyable copies were all ridiculously overpriced.

@B-Ray97
The console groupings are as follows
For 3DS
3DS download software, 3DS Virtual Console, 3DS Demo, DSiware

For Wii
Virtual Console, Wiiware, Wiiware Demo.

@TrueWiiMaster

And what do you mean by "mockery of American history" and "insulting the founding fathers"?

[incoming assassins creed 2 spoilers]

Tell me exactly what makes them special in a fictional narrative that has already gone as far as to say World War 2 was a Hoax set up by the templars, or that has made the Pope of all people a templar.

I'd be very surprised if at least one of the founding fathers wasn't a templar.

I really didn't enjoy the demo, so I think I'm going to be giving MGS a miss.

It's probably a good game, I just really couldn't stand the controls (even with a circle pad pro)

Confirming the rumours of fire emblem DLC in japan? Uh... Thomas, did you miss the Nintendo Direct videos last week confirming it as well as the fact that the first batch would be free for a while to promote the service?

Boy, GAME must be in trouble. I could even get that they might not be able to stock it in stores, but outright cancelling online preorders at the point where they could have taken the money from the preorders and made profit?

Yeah, I think nintendo must have refused to give them the limited editions...

@Maggots

Are you seriously blaming the game developers for not having their own games on shelves? I mean REALLY? You need to go mad at Gamestop/whatever other store you're refering to, because they're the ones who decide what goes on shelves. If it was up to the developer, OF COURSE they would have Ace combat out, I can't think of a single developer who doesn't want to sell as many copies as humanly possible of every game they make, which does indeed require them to be on shelves for sale.

@Stipey

I can't tell if you're kidding or not, GAME are the absolute WORST retailer in the country for pricing. They don't offer anything remotely competitive in the way of pricing, and they CANNOT rely on selling ridiculous amounts of anything regardless of pricing. That kind of idiotic thinking is what has gotten GAME in the huge trouble they are now. They don't bother pricing to match others: People don't buy games from them, and I for one am glad people finally realised that they can get the games at much better price points elsewhere.

It's ridiculous that Xenoblade isn't in this anywhere. Easily the best wii game of 2011. Yes, even over skyward sword.

Woah seriously? I wasn't expecting this so out of nowhere.

This is the game that got me excited for the eShop in the first place! I'll be buying this the first chance I get!

@HugoSmits
"Any formula you can come up with will have an effect on the world"

As a maths (in a few months) postgraduate, challenge accepted.

@Scarhino89

It's not a case of wanting to or not, Atlus doesn't have the means to release games in Europe. Someone else has to pick up the rights to publish them in Europe, because currently, Atlus can't,

@Polkadotchocobo

But you COULD always grind out levels to make fire emblem games easy. Whether it be by sacred stones free map, using arenas, or abusing boss characters.

No-one ever forced anyone to do them before, no-ones going to force you to now.

I haven't voted. Any Game of the year list for 2011 without xenoblade isn't worth voting for.

I have to say, £1.20 is far more than I'd pay for a single song.

If they were £0.60 each, with all 8 bundled for say...£4.20, they'd have my attention.

£1.20 each is an instant no though.

To be honest, I hope it doesn't make it through the NOE lotcheck if it's still got glitches in that lock out a large portion of the -not story mode- content.

I'm no longer worried about zeldas art style: If it plays like Skyward sword, being ridiculously linear, and replacing actual puzzles with which way do I swing the sword now, as well as keeping every interesting character of note in one single room (the bazaar), I give up. I hope it's more like wind waker (barring the horrible ocean/sky in skyward sword filler parts) or pretty much any of the other 3d zeldas.

I'd buy kid icarus...but I'm still hoping nintendo hasn't completely screwed me out of the free one I should have gotten for registering Mario kart 7 and Mario land 3d at christmas.

I'll be buying this, for sure. Day one? Maybe not, but I reckon it's gonna be a buy once its price reaches £15 (though 3ds games seem to be going slower than I'd like at price dropping)

I saw the "Europe" tag and then looked up slightly and saw mutant mudds, then I looked even further up and became disappointed. Darn.

Edit: haha,you appear to have noticed it too just as I posted my comment.

It's always good when coming up to a new console launch, we get a bunch of numbers pulled out of someones rear end.

What does "twice as powerful" even mean?

@Link79.

Ok, so Sega did a bad job.

Look at street fighter 4 3d. Look at Monster hunter Tri 3G. Both full ports of console games.

The ports worth buying are the ones that don't sacrifice anything, and even add extras, not the other way around.

There is absolutely no excuse for not having local multiplayer.

I was waiting for the 3ds version, the idea of having it portable put me off a console version, but now the idea of not having multiplayer put me off the 3ds version.

Wanna know why you keep losing sales ubisoft? I can give you a hint...