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All I want is a Nintendo console that competes on level with the other two consoles with online play and horsepower so they can get all the third party companies back on board. If they can pull off that and have the Nintendo charm lathered on with their strong first party games I'd be so happy.

I think they missed the boat a bit not making a Kirby in his mech amiibo. I'd be all over that.

What baffles me is people are complaining about extremely easy to get absolutely free coins that give you access to 2 games for free and outfits that people would likely pay real money for.

I don't get it.

Good, that was a terrible controller. No buttons and looked horribly uncomfortable to hold, not to mention the garbage looking sticks.

No buttons = no buy.

No face buttons? I'm out if that's true as I hate touch gaming for the most part.

@Raptor78 I wonder if, as it gets rolling, we will see something like once you play a game online you register it even if it's physical and you get points?

Love this idea and not sure how anyone cannot. It's basically purchasing and achievements getting you discounts and free games.

Kinect like features which is just a terrible idea for a console. Motion controls and the ilk were a fad that have died. Please don't go backwards hoping to be "innovative". I just want a poweful system that has the features competitors do, but with that Nintendo flair. Is that too much to ask?

As time goes on its becoming nearly impossible to keep things under wraps it seems. The rarity is the game announcement that doesn't leak more than the one that does.

Very underwhelming.

Ubisoft and Nintendo exclusives? I'll believe it, not even when it's announced, but when it's released.

Wow, I'm kind of confused why they choose to go the direct format with that instead of just dropping a trailer.

I don't agree, they don't have to be innovative they just have to be there. Have the new shiny console that plays fantastic Nintendo games and does everything the other two consoles do so Nintendo can actually compete.

I'll buy anything Mistwalker sells. Lost Odyssey is one of my favorite RPGs of recent gens.

Man I want to keep that shirt.

Man I hope this is all true. I've got my whole salt shaker ready though.

@Einherjar Fair enough. We can agree to disagree. For the record I don't think bikinis are over the top in a volleyball game and I'm far from easily offended. I watch and enjoy anime so I've seen all the panty shots, heaving breasts, and uncomfortably sexed up young looking girls you can shake a stick at. The petting minigame would have been utterly pointless, but I thought it was far more dumb than offensive.

Either way thanks for the polite and well worded debate. You are a clearly an intelligent individual and I enjoyed speaking with you.

@Einherjar If this stuff wasn't removed the backlash to it would be far greater than any upset fans about the content removed. The original is still out there, this is simply localization. Some stuff that flies in Japan just doesn't here, dating SIM content simply isn't popular and that homophobic anime trope cutscene would play terribly to the media. Neither of them were needed and don't have any real impact to the game.

You keep saying we don't need to look at what is cut, but that simply isn't true. In order to gauge a reaction we need to know what a person is reacting to in the first place. This stuff doesn't exist in a void and I think it's fair to say that this is a case where the outrage over what is removed is far exaggerated when you consider what was removed.

Just like with Xenoblade people were upset because they took out some outfits for a scantily clad underage character. This is something that is no big deal in Japan. Here it would be considered perverse and taboo by a large majority. The boob slider being removed was odd, but again it's such a small thing it's like being upset that not all the hair options made it over here.

The loud minority that is upset about this are exactly that: a minority. My original point was there was no debacle surrounding FE, certainly nothing they need to recover from.

@Einherjar I stand by my previous statement. The minigame and the terrible subplot that were cut is what people were upset about. The kind of person who would really say I'm not playing this game because I can't pet my digital characters while they coo at me didn't want to play Fire Emblem. FE is a strategy game, not a dating sim, so that's a very weird place to draw a line in the sand. That is why it's such a nontroversy. If we had a situation where it was a hardcore Mature game and that revolves around violence and they cut out all blood I could see people being upset about this. If this was dating SIM and they removed that part I could see people getting upset. This though? Really? It never belonged in the game in the first place and it's very good they took it out. We are getting a better version of this game because of its removal.

@LinkSword Artificially making a stage difficult so that an individual in order to beat it has to ram their head over and over into it in order to beat it is not intuitive. I guarantee if I was inclined I could play that stage over and over again and eventually beat it. The article itself talks about making a stage so hard he is trolling himself so I don't think I'm off point saying that the point of the stage is making a really hard level and not necessarily a balanced or well designed one.

@SaKo Yeah, I'm curious to know as well. That's zool though, at least once an article he will find a way to say he hates what Nintendo is doing and saying he's basically done, but continue posting in the next article how horrible everything they do is.

@Einherjar Fire Emblem debacle? Hopefully we aren't talking about the pet my waifu mode that was taken out? If anyone cancelled their preorder based on that they weren't interested in playing the game in the first place. Also, a few loud internet complainers does not a debacle make. From every press preview it looks like the game is going to be a critical homerun and will likely repeat or improve upon Awakening's success.

@LinkSword First you have no idea whether I could beat it or not. Second, I didn't mean to insinuate that it wasn't well made, but it is irritating that all people seem to want to highlight are either auto run stages or stupid hard levels that aren't anything a real game designer would make. That's because games, especially Mario games, are about more than neiner neiner you can't beat my ridicously hard stage.

Worst part going to be giving the shirt back.

@Octane Got to say I agree here. With Smash pricing and the Fire Emblem 3 games shenanigans plus map packs Nintendo isn't exactly Mother Theresa here.

I hate that there is such a focus on teh super l337 stages and not on well crafted stages.

I'm really hoping we get this in the States. Sounds amazing.

@Mando44646 This was Pokemon Company, not Nintendo.

Is anyone surprised at this point? It's due in months and we still know next to nothing. You'd think theyd already have had a new Direct featuring a game as big as this. I hope whatever delays are used to turn an ok game into a great addition to the Wii U library.

It really is better on mobile, which is the primary way I view your site.

Great job guys.

@Bryon15 Your Pokemon are akin to pets. They didn't moan or make suggestive comments when you petted them and most healthy same people assign no sexuality to their Pokemon so that really was like a virtual pet. These are virtual people. I'd think the difference is obvious.

A week when I'm broke. Figures. Still happy these will be out soon.

@Moon Many Native Americans are offended by this kind of thing the same as they are by the over the top Indian chief in something like Peter Pan or the mascot of popular football teams. Depending on how the individual acted while having this costume on it would be the same as having a black class who was a stereotype.

We don't generally find it offensive because Native Americans are a dying race and there aren't enough true survivors of the tribes left that most of us don't feel the need to censor this kind of thing.

@Octane I hope so. I love my Wii U and I'll be happy to see it kept well stocked. U have a PS4 as well so I'll never have a shortage of games regardless.

@Octane True, nobody doubts Zelda U will be a GOTY experience. I hope Star Fox is stellar, we've just seen no proof of such. We know Pokken is going to be good as it's already out in arcades and apparently loved enough to be in fighting tourneys.

Still we knew about Splatoon already by 2015 same with Mario Maker and Xenoblade as they were announced E3 prior to release. We have nothing announced past Star Fox. My argument is that they are seriously ramping down likely for the NX. Why else give nobody faith in a Wii U lineup past April?

@Octane I can see myself coming off like that, but I love Splatoon, Super Mario Maker and Xenoblade and play them on a regular basis. I can't see any of the games you mention rising to same level of hype as the biggest among them, StarFox, was universally panned even by Nintendo's biggest fans. Splatoon and Mario Maker were the opposite everyone who played them loved them right away.

Even so I don't think they can afford to limp along another year.

@patbacknitro17 They've just as often failed though when trying something crazy. Virtual Boy anyone? EReader? Power Glove?

The Wii was a fluke of the time and casuals have moved on. I just don't see them making something radically different. Of course I could be wildly wrong.

@Octane Out of those you have the FE crossover which looks like a bizarre crossover game that even people who played it don't know what it is, incredibly niche either way. Then we have a remake, what looks to be a flop with Star Fox, a rumored Paper Mario (which may not even happen), Pokken Tournament (which even with Pokemon seems niche) and a Zelda game, if it ever comes out.

That's not promising when you have absolutely 0 third party support.

@patbacknitro17 They've changed their tune since then though. Plus if it was a hybrid that statement would be true still as it would be a follow up to both. They could totally be Obi Wan-ing this. I just don't see what else it could be as nobody wants anything besides those things from them.

@patbacknitro17 The newest thing that was said was president of Nintendo saying it's not a Wii or Wii U successor that it's something different. That doesn't mean not a console. He also says it will appeal to their consumer base which certainly isn't cell gaming.

@Mario-Man-Child Sounds logical, but I'm really hoping you are wrong. If Star Fox Zero (which by every account isn't looking good), Zelda U and a possible Paper Mario is all they have lined up its going to be a rough year. Really I think their absolute best bet is to get a new console out this year, one that isn't woefully underpowered and is easy to develop for. They need third party support and need it yesterday. They make some of the best games in the business, but when you only have 3 or 4 of those a year that isn't good.

Love your forum name btw.

@Mario-Man-Child I would be surprised if nothing comes out this year. We have nothing on the AWII u front and the system is ready to be out to pasture. Even with the jam packed early half for 3DS those numbers are on decline also. Nintendo would be very foolish if they didn't do something and soon. We know that dev kits are already in hand and have been for quite a while now and they wouldn't be if we weren't looking at a release till next year.

It'll be Smash U with all DLC and benefiting from whatever new features the NX has. Maybe they will toss in a new character or two as well. No way is it a new Smash. Makes sense to me.

@Soren. My thoughts exactly.

@Hy8ogen I read it again and I'm confused. Said just what I thought it did. You are going to cancel preorder and buy game used so Nintendo can't get your money because a petting minigame was removed. I stand by my original comment. This minigame has nothing to do with the genre and shouldn't have been included anyway. Play a dating sim if it's so important to you.

@Hy8ogen So you can't rub your stylus on a digital character soliciting remarks from them so you are cancelling? You clearly weren't very interested to begin with then. Silly me, I thought we loved FE because of the strategic gameplay.

That option was stupid. I'm glad it's gone.

@SetupDisk I apologize, I had no idea of Canadian prices being so high. I was refrencing US pricing.

@amiiboacid Well they marketed it like a remaster, it's even called remastered. Either way port or not that was no worse than this. At least this is a generation (honestly 2) apart.