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I'm feeling so stupid… I thought I had downloaded everything I needed before the end of the eShop, but apparently I did not get any N64 games because I didn't have a Pro Controller. And now that I do… I keep getting the 209600 error code. Can't access the old purchases anymore.

@Grail_Quest Agreed. I don't like it when people say we shouldn't be negative about things because of the hard work of the people involved, but there's no excuse for being rude or impolite to anyone.

@stereobread Yeah, Ron is ignoring everything he didn't touch. :/
I was really excited for this, and still kinda am, but the art style is just awful. The series definitely had its peak with 3.

I was part of the Kickstarters for Friday the 13th and Toe Jam & Earl: Back to the Groove. Does that count as pre-order?
Also, I wanted LEGO Star Wars for my birthday (April 3rd), so I chose to pre-order it to get the Luke minifig.
Oh yeah, we got the last Smash Bros as well.
All games I knew I'd like, and with bonus stuff to boot.
But yeah, it's a VERY rare case that I go for the pre-order.

If it’s LEGO, I go all the way to 100%. It’s Zelda or Mario, it ends when I beat the boss, but I take my time with it.

@Stocksy You're probably right.
You try being PC and it blows in your face. hahahahaha

@Oddball83 To be fair, every time they come up with a new TMNT show or movie, they call it a reboot…

Still trying to figure out why a movie about fictional Italian-American plumbers living in another dimension populated by princesses, dinosaurs, giant apes and assorted monsters needs LatinO representation…

No Vacation? No Catch Me If You Can? Absurd!

@Zeropulse I have the original SEGA CD game, plus on my iPhone and on my XBox. The whole going back and forth in time is just so cool.

Sonic CD, to me, is the best Sonic game I've ever played. The mechanics are awesome.
Sonic & Knuckles moved the franchise forward and managed to breathe new life in the original trilogy.
Sonic 2 was the improvement of the original.

Good ol' Larry. I'm glad I can get these games on Switch.
And I'd love to have all the classic Adventure games, be it the old Sierra Larry series or the LucasArts gems, on my handy handheld.

I basically leave it docked if I'm not using it.

I feel like they should be releasing tons of wallpapers and other digital goodies like that. I've seen some pretty pretty images today.

@Kienda That's it. I'm making a point of going simply because I want to thank them for not ruining the design.
And also, 62% on Rotten Tomatoes is way better than many big blockbusters that people are still trying to argue were good.

@The__Goomba Nope. I accessed the page, and it was in Portuguese. Entered my Nintendo info, got an error page. Tried doing it through my Facebook information and it went through, but when it tells me to choose a country, no Brazil.
Apparently, Ninty only needs Japan, North America and parts of Europe for their business. Which is a pity, because I've been a loyal fan since I was 18 (I'm now 36), and I brought up my 10 year old son on everything Nintendo. But they seem focused on phasing us out. Pity.

After reading some comments here, I had no idea there were other countries in South America besides Brazil without access to the Internet.
For the first time since the SEGA Genesis, I'm purchasing a non-Nintendo console (XOne due to Rare Replay), but I don't think I'd have gotten to the considering stage of the purchase if Ninty was doing good job with ALL its customers…

I had no idea Shattered Dimensions and Edge of Time were considered bad. I thought they were great, to me they're the best Spidey games since the old SEGA Genesis/SEGA CD games.

Now Amazing Spider-Man… I don't think it's all their fault. It was a bad source material to begin with.

I can't remember the last E3 Nintendo didn't mean anything to me. And as a Nintendo fan and Wii U owner, it truly is a sad state of affairs when I'm coming out of E3 thinking of Microsoft. I mean, they're actually making me consider getting a non-Nintendo system for the first time since the SEGA Genesis because of that Rare collection and both South Park games.

@R-Moss Yeah, I only found out about that after I had created my profile, and now I have to much info on it to erase it and start over. :/

Still, I'd rather be able to do everything the proper way, you know what I mean?

I've lost all hope we'll ever see the eShop here in Brazil.

Meanwhile, we're still waiting for access to the eShop down here in Brazil.

Still waiting for the eShop to be made available to Brazilian players. This is so frustrating… If the online news community that has access to Nintendo figureheads could get to the bottom of this, it'd be truly appreciated.

It's a bummer that they didn't port all the playsets over.

Every time I read something like "all be playable, and each will have a different skill. Players will need to pick the right penguin to solve each puzzle and overcome each enemy." about a game, I think of The Lost Vikings and get suckered in.

@ricklongo Good point. That issue is just one of many recent decisions by our government to make us not spend money abroad. I bet they would outright ban it if they thought they could get away with it, so ridiculous it's become recently.

@xj0462 There are Mega Drives (Genesis) and Master Systems being sold with, like 50 games preinstalled, but they're from TecToy, which is the company that represented SEGA back then. I had no idea it was still considered a SEGA production thing.

@xj0462 What do you mean? SEGA had its day in the 80s and 90s. In fact, I had a Master System and then a SEGA Genesis and a SEGA CD, choosing those over the systems that were our version of the NES and SuperNES probably because their marketing was more aggressive. I only turned to Nintendo on the N64. And by then SEGA was pretty much dead.

@RCMADIAX That IS weird. I know there are ways to go around it, but I just wish they'd get on with it. Although I do fear that, when they do, they're just gonna charge online the same price stores ask for a retail game.
I mean, right now the console is going for the equivalent of 830 dollars, a game oscillates between 80 and 90 dollars, a Wii Remote is around 45, and don't even get me started on accessories like the Disney Infinity items…

I'd love to hear from Nintendo why Brazil STILL does not have access to the Nintendo eShop. Yes, everything Nintendo down here is an import, which means everything Nintendo is way more expensive than Sony or M$. But still, there WAS an official Wii U launch last year, so what gives?
Just another item on the list of things that Nintendo apparently doesn't get or doesn't care. I'm Nintendo for life, but the company REALLY makes it difficult sometimes.

I'd be insanely happy if Nintendo simply allowed the eShop here in Brazil. :/

The only thing that interests me outside Nintendo right now is Kingdom Hearts. Anything else I can get on Steam. It's hard enough for a Brazilian to tend to one system with our insane prices and taxes. I'd need a second job to get two.

Yeah, I'd definitely put LEGO City higher. Such a clever, fun game. I also miss LEGO Marvel there, but I guess that's just the fanboy in me talking? And I'd also like to mention that our family really gets a kick out of Wii Party parties.

As long as the figures work for the sequel and it includes Marvel/Star Wars, I'm happy. Because there was something in IGN yesterday about Disney developing separate Infinity editions for Marvel and Star Wars, and that would NOT be nice.

@Heiki Yeah, I found out about that after I created my account. So if I change it now, I'm gonna lose my screen name and stats. I'm thinking about creating one for the wife to go around that issue.

We as consumers really can only "accept it". All we can do is ask and then hang our hands in sadness. Nintendo is the one who needs to work harder to change developers' minds. Offer incentives, I don't know.

And even then… I'm from Brazil. The Wii U was finally launched officially down here in November, and we STILL have no access to the eShop. So maybe needs to not make it so difficult for developers to get their stuff out there to a wide audience?

@RancidVomit86 It's not only the gaming market, I'll tell you that.

@Savino Microsoft is not recognizing anything. They have already set up shop due to their computer side of business, so it's easier for them to "lose money" with games when they can make up for it with the computer stuff. Nintendo already said they wanted to build systems here but bureaucracy and taxes pretty much killed that deal. Get your head out of the sand.

The price for games is not that unfair. You can actually get good deals if you look around. But the price for the systems is insane, and 80% of the blame goes to our greedy government and its taxes.
We also have to take into account that, right now, if you create a Nintendo profile stating you're from Brazil, you have no access to the eShop. Hopefully that'll change once the system is actually sold here. And one can only hope that, by the time Christmas blows through, those prices will drop a bit.
By the way, I commented a few weeks ago about the supposed prices for Disney Infinity and its figures? They're confirmed. Right now, the start kit is going for 145 dollars, the play sets go for 80 dollars, the three figure set is 70 dollars (and apparently only the sidekicks one is available), each figure is 35 bucks and the power disc pack goes for 15 dollars.
That's why the government fights for a higher exchange rate. They want to help the export market and try to curb international sales, since even with the dollar rates at 2+ to 1, it's sometime cheaper to import products.

@Savino Yes, probably because it was simpler to unlock and pirate games for the PS/PS2 and the original Xbox than it was for the N64 and the Cube. That's why Nintendo originally cut its deal with Gradiente and went home. Not to mention that most gamers down here only care about FPS and soccer games…

The Wii U isn't selling in Brazil because all units here are imported from the US and suffer greatly with our stupid taxes. Games end costing the equivalent of 80 dollars or more. And the fact that you can't even access the eStore unless you say you're from the US doesn't help matters at all.

I believe the hidden gem of the N64 era was Conker's Bad Fur Day. What a funny and entertaining game that was. Too bad it'll never come home.

Nintendo doesn't have an official presence in Brazil. It used to, up until the 90s, through a company called Gradiente. We never had the NES or the SNES, but we had Gradiente's versions of those consoles. We could only use games bought here in Brazil, because our system was PAL-M. Game Boys were imported and released through Gradiente with the boxes and manuals in Portuguese, and for those we could buy games in the US during travels. Gradiente and Nintendo parted ways sometime during the N64 era, I believe. Nintendo said there was too much piracy and too many taxes down here, and Gradiente folded soon afterwards. From the GameCube on, everything is imported. There's an "official" import company that localizes manuals and labels, but that's about it. There's no customer support in place. Our taxes are indeed insane. Video games fall under the same tax bracket as games of chance and those video gambling machines for some weird government reason, and add to that the way dollar exchange rates are going, and it's pretty easy to find a Wii U for sale down here, but they charge what amounts to US$ 740, with games going for around 85 bucks. If we find a game for 70 bucks, it's "a steal". :/ And I also posted on the Disney Infinity review thread about how much the rumored costs of the game and the figures will be here.

@EpicGamer Thank you for your answers!

@DarkEdi They haven't come out here in Brazil yet, but you may consider yourself very lucky. Our takes are INSANE and exchange rates aren't helping right now. Check out OUR supposed prices, which I've already converted to dollars based on the current rates: US$ 130 for the Starter Set, which will have Portuguese dubbing, don't know if you'll be able to change it back to English like many other games that come out down here. US$ 75 for a Play Set. US$ 35 for a single figure, US$ 70 for a three-pack. And US$ 15 for the Power Disc packs.

I can't wait. Got a couple of questions, maybe the reviewer knows the answers to them.

1) On multiplayer online, is it multi-plataform or (in our case) Wii U only?

2) Every time I want to use an item, I have to place it on the portal? Meaning, every time I want to go through a play set, use a character or a certain land scheme on toy box, the matching real-life peace has to be in place?

3) Connected to the question above, how does the game work "locking" stuff to your system? Meaning: power discs come in blind packs, so we're bound to have repeats that can be traded with other fans. But is there anything discouraging me from getting half of the figures and a neighbor the other half, than using them all in one system?

Amazon was out of many sets and figures this week. I SERIOUSLY doubt this is a flop.

I can't wait to get mine. Friends are going to the US in September, so I may finally get my Wii U, and this is definitely gonna be my first purchase. I'm not really a creative person, but I LOVE Disney. Plus, my 7 year old is totally hooked into Minecraft, so I can only imagine the kind of stuff he'll build in Infinity.

One question: will I on the Wii U be able to play multiplayer online with a 360 player?

@efaulk84 Really? I didn't know that! I'm not in the US, so I just figured they were all over the place like they used to years ago.

It seems weird that they'd give this to Toys R Us and not keep it to their own Disney Stores. I mean, I'm sure the parks will have plenty of exclusive figures and discs, but still…