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@tsukipon So I guess you've not been around for the Tomodachi Life articles, before the comment section for LGBTQ articles got closed by default? Believe me, as sad as it is, this is nothing.

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@JaxonH "People make lifestyle choices and that's their business."

It's 2015 and people still make that argument. The own sexuality is not "a lifestyle choice".

"Which is why I say there should be an option to turn it off because although you may find it hard to believe this kind of thing is still offensive to some people."

Having to deal with black people is offensive to some people. Let's ban all black people from all media. /s

After reading that comment section... I'll just go back to Neogaf. Where people would get blocked for writing such disgusting and hateful comments and moderators have a job that goes beyond filtering curse words.

@JaxonH: Gay people are surrounded by straight people all the time in all kinds of media, as well as the real world. Someone gay has to play as straight in those kind of games very often and you make a big fuss over an OPTIONAL same-sex marriage with ONE character? Really? Do you realize how silly, selfish and insensible that sounds?

@Kirk I just have to force myself to not think about the amount of money I already spent on amiibo, lol.

@Kirk Honestly, I wish I had never started it at all. Now I have to collect them all thanks to my OCD. My poor wallet.

@TeeJay "So then why do Reggie and the Smash Bros announcer both say "YO-shi"? Official Nintendo people and basically, well, everyone else pronounces them this way, as far as I know the UK and just the UK alone pronounce it as "YAW-shi"."

You're wrong. Japan, the whole of Europe (not onyl the UK), Yoshi himself (!) and basically everyone else except the US pronounce his name exactly as in the video above. And that's including official Nintendo people from those countries. I'm from Germany and I've never heard someone pronounce his name in the way you do.

@MikeW: In Europe it costs 20€ ($22,50), while all other amiibo costs 15€ ($17). (Yes, amiibo are hilariously expensive in Europe in general)

@TeeJay The correct pronunciation of Yoshi is like in the video above.

Am I the only one who thinks kids at that age shouldn't have their own phone? Should I have ever kids, they won't get a phone until they are 12 or 13 and it will only be a smartphone, if they are no other options on the market anymore. It's bad enough that after just a few years even most adults are addicted to be online and connected all the time at the expense of social behaviour and interactions. Don't really want my kids to grow up that way.

@WitherMcBoss You can earn up to 12, if you're on the winning side you get the double amount of what you earned, so up to 24.

@Shiryu If I remember correctly, you get up to 5 points per game based on your individual performance and if your team won. The total amounts of points you earned over those 24 hours will be transferred to up to 12 Super Sea Snails. If your "team" (dogs/ cats) won the Splatfest those are doubled, so 24 is the maximum you can earn.

@Savino @Kaihaku The reason the original Star Fox isn't available on VC is, because of the Super FX chip. It's not a emulation problem, it's a licensing issue. That's also the reason we never got the original Yoshi's Island, but only the GBA remake.

@garthvader The reason the 3DS underperformed was because of the price and the weak launch line-up. The reason the Wii U is a flop is because the product is unappealing and confusing. The original price of the Nintendo 3DS was raised before the release, because the reception was so great. When Nintendo dropped the price they adjusted to the weak sales and only made a minor loss per unit. The Wii U was already sold at a loss when it released. There was and is no guarantee it would have performed better with a lower price point. The only thing certain is, that Nintendo would've lost way more money per unit. If you consider the 3DS only took of the shelves AFTER Mario Kart 7 has been released, that Mario Kart 8 didn't sell many systems and that the majority of 3DS systems have been sold in Japan (a country that has abandoned the home console market), it's pretty clear a price reduction wouldn't have moved many additional systems. In the end you buy a home console because you want great games. The Wii U has already one of the strongest first party line-ups of any Nintendo console. If that is not enough to you, because you want third party-support, a better price wouldn't have convinced you. Just think of the Gamecube. Not long after release, the price of it has been reduced to 99€/$. It still sold abysmally.

@hobthebob Even then that is not necessarily the truth. They have a history of lying about stuff that just hasn't been announced yet.

We know this for a long time, lol.

@aaronsullivan I can imagine the real reason why you have to wait longer has probably something to do with the yarn yoshi amiibo and their on-going sock issues.

@manu0 @FragRed Also keep in mind, that Tanabe only said IF they would starting right now, the game wouldn't be on Wii U. That doesn't mean they aren't already working on it.

@SMW It's packaged with the game, so there shouldn't be a problem.

At least in Germany they started restocking rare amiibo, such as Little Mac, Wii Fit Trainer, Villager (all three available right now on amazon.de), Robin, Lucina, Ness, Meta Knight, Cherizard, Cpt. Falcon, Wario, Pac Man etc. So, it's getting better.

@Megapokepaul Why would French retailers talk to their French customers in English? That's ridiculous.

@TwilightAngel They do. Germany got recently restocks of Meta Knight (which was available on amazon for a few days), Lucina, Robin, Ness, Captain Falcon, Zelda and Luigi (Super Mario Collection). Some of those were only available for a very short time at retailers, so your best solution is, to order your figurines in some random online-shop, wait a few weeks/ months and you will likely get it. At least here it works this way.

@Bass_X0 No, there is a reason the franchise is calles "Metroid" and not Samus. There is more to the world of Metroid than just Samus. There are also games like Yoshi's Woolly World, which are part of the Mario universe, but without Mario in it.

Every Animal Crossing Fan who picked "Not for me" or "Don't Want" for Happy Home Designer should really, REALLY watch the Treehouse Live stuff they showed!

@LunaticPandora why?

@Technosphile Sony is delivering...
in 2017 and beyond.

@Captain_Gonru Why would that be a problem? You only need to answer a few questions and get your ratings for all kind of regions immediately after that. It's also free.

@Peach64 Playtonic actually had all the funding in place before they even announced the game. The reason they decided to put up a Kickstarter is, because of an overwhelming fan reaction and to make a better, more ambitious game.

You can use every amiibo with this game. Check the NoE website. It's there for a few days already.

Oh look, another 3DS game that is announced for a North American release, but not for an European. Bless the world.

@Trikeboy You are aware this launches in two weeks in Europe and shortly after that in Japan, right?

@ThomasBW84
"As a result the old-fashioned approach with PAL ratings agencies of assessing physical copies of games will no longer be necessary."

PEGI doesn't want physical copies of games, but DVDs with video material of the game. The USK on the other hand is completely satisfied with downloads for a long time now.

@Great_Gonzalez We usually have to wait longer, but it's rare these days we have to miss out on something completely, that is released in the US. It probably will be an eShop-only release here, but I'm confident we'll get it.

@Tsurii897 You only can use one NNID per 3DS and don't change that later on.

@90sRetroGaming You're right about Brain Age DS, but that one was a gift from Nintendo. I don't think they would ever do that to something you paid for. There would be a public outcry, no one would buy on the eShop anymore and at least in Europe they are not even allowed to do that. I'm also pretty confident, that everyone who downloaded Brain Age in time, will be able to re-download and update it, as soon as the final version of the game will be in the eShop. Kinda like 3DS ambassadors were able to update the NES games as soon as the official release arrived.^^

@Chaoz Well, I get your point. I'm collecting amiibos because of the figurines and don't care too much about their content in games. But Nintendo has to lock small tidbits behind amiibos to make it worthwhile for others. And I don't think these would have been within the games, if not for amiibo. The extra challenges are annoying by the way. You basically have to play almost each level four times to unlock everything, which is a chore. They would have been criticized for stretching the single-player mode artificially, if it had been in the regular game. It's good to learn using the rollers and chargers as weapons, but it's pretty obvious those missions have been designed with the Splattershot in mind. Also, the best mini-game is clearly the one with the jumping squid, which is there for everyone and with all the gear that is already in the game (and that will be available in the future because of free DLC), does it really matter that three costumes are amiibo exclusive?

I'll admit, that it's nice you can use the one rhythm mini-game to play every song of the game, though.

@90sRetroGaming Are you sure it has been delisted? Because it's not in Europe. Anyway, even if you are right, it still can be re-downloaded from the eShop, if you bought it previously. You paid for it, so there should be no problem. Even on the Wii you could re-download all delisted games, as long as you owned the license.

Keep in mind, this is not going to be a real Harvest Moon game, y'all.

The only real opening to the series is this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uBXvVaU7sfo

@ikki5 It's not a paid demo. It's a tool to create art, while the full version is a learning software.

From the August direct:
"As we mentioned last time, this is software utilizing features from the upcoming Wii U version of Art Academy. With it you can post screenshots of the images you create [...]. We are also developing an Art Academy title for Wii U, which includes in depth Art lessons."

I don't see the "more improved" part you mentioned.

Also, from the E3 Direct:
"A new installment of the Art Academy series is in development for Wii U, but we are not yet close to completing this software. On the other hand, we noticed what is happening on Miiverse and decided it was worthwile to provide a new DRAWING TOOL, by taking some features from the new game and release it in advance as a special version, JUST for Miiverse ARTISTS [aka people who already can draw]. This new software allows users to post drawings to Miiverse [and nothing else], using aspects of this new Art Academy title. This DRAWING TOOL will be available [yada yada yada...]"

@ikki5 Because you bought a tool that is a small part of another program. The "coming soon" stuff is referring to the full version of Art Academy. It might seem misleading, if you didn't inform yourself, but they made that clear from the beginning.

@Einherjar I could answer to that in detail, but why should I? As already pointed out, my "conspiracy theory" (which many people actually believed in, btw) was proven true, because there was no download for the newly released content. It is already on disc. There wasn't even a small download to unlock it.

And what kind of work would it be for Nintendo to give access to already developed content that is on disc? Please, think.

EDIT: Btw, two of the four already revealed "DLC" maps are also in the single player! So of course they are done. :rolleyes:

EDIT2: Another reason why I actually think that ALL new content is already on disc (with the exception of the August update, which will probably handled by the servers, only) is, because otherwise, people without disk space couldn't play the game anymore due to the map switching system.

@Einherjar

Nintendo made perfectly clear, they intend to release 9 new maps, new weapons, new gear and new modes in small updates over the summer and all of this would FINISH in the big August update. It's not surprising at all we got new stuff today. In fact, I was surprised there was no mention of it in the weekly eShop update as I figured they'd unlock stuff every week on Thursday. People were stupid to jumping to the conclusion Nintendo would release a half-assed product, because they needed more time. If one of them had actually thought about this for just one moment, they'd noticed this makes perfectly sense for an online multiplayer shooter, that is a new IP on a system with a very small userbase. There was no way to tell beforehand how well the game would sell. So in case only a small percentage of a very small group of Wii U-owners would buy it, they had to make sure these play it as long as possible. And I was right. There was no download. All the new Splatoon stuff was just there at the time Nintendo said it would be. So it's on disc after all.

@DiscoGentleman

Dude, we are talking about an online multiplayer game, that is a new IP and is released on a system with barely any userbase. This IS a logical explanation and it also explains why there was only one online mode at release and no map choice. It's more logical than to think Nintendo would suddenly turn a 180 on their design philosophy and release an unfinished product. Oh, and look. It it also what happened. The time they said the new stuff would be available came and it was all just there. There was no update, all was already on disc! Guess I'm a logical person after all, lol.

@Shambo It's a worldwide update.

@bro2dragons You can still download Sketchpad and get the full game discounted later. Also, it's only a guess, but I would be really surprised, if Sketchpad and the full game will be listed separately. It probably won't be more than an update.

@ikki5 "What annoys me is you buy sketchpad and for the last year and a half or so, they've had "coming soon" on a lot of things and well... it looks like we have to pay more..."

It was always known, that Sketchpad is only a limited tool, they took out of the full game. Did you honestly expect to get the full experience for $4? Lol.

@AyeHaley It's a bit of a hassle, but why don't you just buy two of the Splatoon Limited Editions and sell one copy of the game?

@DiscoGentleman @Einherjar
"exactly. It makes no sense to lock the content, only to reveal it about 4 days after release."

It does. Nintendo intends to offer new content every few days/ every week until August in order to keep the interest of the small Wi U userbase for a longer period of time. I wouldn't be surprised, if everything but the big August update is already on disc. Many of the DLC weapons and maps are known for a very long time.

@Chaoz What's wrong with the Splatoon amiibo?

When they announced this, I figured it would be a free to play game and only the amiibo cards would cost something. Apparently not, lol.