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Here's the thing. Adult gamers with lives and another console won't buy this long term. It's too expensive and too easily scratched for kids, and it's too much of a Wii U 1.5 to really matter now. Next year, when the steam has blown away, it'll be just as much of a paperweight as the Wii was. Smash hit, stock shortages, not quite proper launch title Zelda? Sound familiar? Unfortunately, there isn't that same buzz worthy system seller. Zelda's big, but Zelda isn't going to go all GTAV and push 20 to 30 million copies. It's limited in its appeal and it's only selling because nothing else is remotely worth buying a console over.

40$ and they covered Cammy? Wow. Capcom might as well go the way of Legends 3 and cancel themselves.
Seriously mad that Capcom has buried it's best properties with all their Nintendo-esque bs.

All I'm saying is Nintendo needs to stop acting like waiting for old games is a reason to buy this. This is one Zelda I can pass on without hesitation, and Zelda seems to be the only real game releasing before fall. Why FIFA was even mentioned is just empty pandering from a British website that pretends anything glittering and from EA is golden. You'll see the 2015 physics engine and downscaled graphics and online and remember 'Right! This is Nintendo! How was I excited for this?'

Expensive for what's on offer.
Cheaply made.
Outdated.
Poor game selection.
Poor battery life.
Terrible storage.
Visually unattractive.
If this does better than Wii U, I'd almost be shocked.
It'll be sad for gamers who waited 4 years for capable hardware, only to unwrap this dud.
Thanks Nintendo, but I've had a more powerful, transportable gaming laptop for 6 years that still destroys this Fisher Price for adults mockery.

Don't use my new mobile for anything besides work, but I'd be interested in Bomberman '94. Great game, always entertaining.

I just thought that number was a strange figure for a game all about murder, death, and killing.

187 thousand copies.
187, police call for homicide.
Incidentally, the call letters are MDK, murder death kill.
Random question, is anyone else hoping for an MDK 3 someday?

@Cantisque Netflix is a wonderful family or friends service. Pay a fraction of the ridiculously low 10$ a month (cable and satellite costs are astronomical in comparison) and reap the benefits. I pay 2$ monthly. It's always harder by yourself. And because of Netflix's multi account setup, it's not really comparable.

@Yorumi defending Steam, for having vastly superior customer service vs Nintendo, Microsoft, and Sony, huh?
Hmm, let's see.
The former is a glorified OS creator (that only modified Linux) that pretends to be a developer, instead outsourcing both ideas and manufacturing to external 3rd party companies.
Their pricing is dirt cheap because PC devs are morons who don't seem to give a care if they make or lose money, because 'digitally stored content being unknowingly reproduced and redistributed isn't theft'.
Their reliance on Steam OS means the hardware they 'officially' licence is severely handicapped, and unable to run 70% of all worthwhile games, unless those systems are heavily modded and additional licences purchased. Bearing in mind their most recent hack exposed and affected more accounts than every PSN and Live attack combined.
The former is a software provider whose developmental assets are a 50th of any of the latter 3.
I'd bring up iTunes, but most of Apple's users are iPhone users. On contracts. Paying money for a network service. That costs, often, 40$ monthly. In comparison, your complaints are blunted and ill contrived. I don't pay for my cell, but you seem like the type to pay for yours.
So let me ask you this, is a 25th of one's annual cell phone contract truly not worth the alternative loss of privacy, freedom, and social life?
On second thought, don't answer that.
Just think about it.
I think you'd do well to have more than one thought in your head.
We realize, everyone here, that the Wii U flopped and Nintendo's contingency plan is a subscription service to recoup any unforeseen cost or loss.
I just wanted to rant about PC gamers who defend Steam and ignore the hack.

@AlexSora89 gaming is huge.
TV doesn't focus on it because the networks own music and movie interests, and obviously other TV shows. They like that kind of entertainment because people's hands are free to consume the food that their sponsors are peddling.
The most common image of gamers are the ones who eat while gaming. Mountain Dew stained shirt, nacho cheese wiped on their sweat pants.
Miyamoto might be a genius and a beloved icon, but he looks like a nerd.
Miyazaki, who's like Ghibli's Miyamoto, is the opposite. He speaks with a translator, despises most 'popular' media, dresses well and is a fairly attractive man.
Having Disney on their side doesn't hurt either.
One last thing about Nintendo approaching 'mainstream' media for attention: games on MS and Sony consoles are very cinematic, positioning themselves as an alternative to traditional entertainment. Nintendo is the exact opposite, positioning their games as a sort of companion piece, games that can be enjoyed by all types of consumers. MS wants the X1 to be a replacement device, and Sony iss moving toward streaming and a purely digital interface.
Nintendo keeps other media seperate and I think they're fine doing so. Companies should play to their strengths, something Ghibli does by relying on traditional animation and Nintendo does by relying on distinctive gaming experiences. By seperating themselves, they allow other companies to flourish, including not excluding their partners and competitors.

Mario 3D World 2: Time Switch.
With Mario travelling through different time periods to save Luigi. Prehistoric, samurai, pirates, ancient Rome. Spoiler: Peach is playable.
First online MP Mario platformer, with fully 3D arenas, like the Nintendo Land minigame with combat.

For all his antics, he's a solid producer who actually knows his way around a studio, unlike the 'self made artists' whose work comes from a studio in a box. I get that Nintendo life isn't the place to go for open minded opinions on music and life, but at tleast the editor has the sense to know Kanye West is more than just a few highly publicized incidents.
We've all watched awards shows snub our favourite games and been a bit upset. The only difference with Kanye is he has the chance to speak his mind and have people listen. I was thinking what he was saying when he interrupted Taylor 'privileged white girl' Swift.

@Baker1000 Bland and boring? As opposed to the obnoxiously bright and painfully loud shirts that 15 year old girls wear?
I think it looks classic and I'm glad it doesn't feature a giant Nintendo logo. Unlike the Nintendo Life T Alex has on, which makes him look like a billboard for the site.

The bridge scene gave me some fun Hobbit meets Xenoblade vibes, and the enemy seems ancient, yet futuristic. Almost an Atlantis of the skies, Laputa feel.
Still not too taken with the character design, the costumes are a little too Wind Waker, and the enemies are just 'there'. One of my favorite parts of games like Ocarina and TP (and ALttP and ALBW, but to a lesser extent) wereenemy bases and camps.
The desert base camps, in particular, had very meaningful enemy field placement. One of the areas western games have over Zelda is smarter foes, with camps, and loot piles. There's just something jarring about random enemies patrolling random sections of this massive world map. It's almost as if Miyamoto tries to make the fodder precisely that: mindless distractions and empty shells. Sorry if this is a bit old hat, but I'd rather see a smaller map with more genuine encounters than a gigantic map flooded with pointless battles.

@ThomasBW84 in fact, it was you yourself that made a note of Media Create's seperation, remarking PS4 Pro sold 65k units.
It has been a week though. I'm sure it's been exhausting.
I mean, a new Pokemon doesn't happen every year.
It must be Pokemon Go. It's ruined everything.

Not sure if your dates are wrong, but the Pro sold over 60k systems last chart, with the seperation this week being due to Nintendo complaining about the 3DS, LL and New 3DS and LL receiving 4 seperate listings.
Media Create themselves didn't seperate the listing.
But no, it's cool.
Assume that Sony randomly sold 90k PS4's JUST before new hardware released and tell yourselves that's logical.

@Yosher they're both there..
AC3 and 4 were both better on Wii U than PS360, Human Revolution was fantastic, and Darksiders 2 was infinitely more enjoyable with Gamepad integration.
Most Wanted U was terrible without analog triggers, Hyrule Warriors is one of the worst Warriors games ever made and XBX is a overly censored, bloated, ugly chore.
Tekken Tag 2 was Pokken with better characters, a bigger roster, and deeper gameplay.
It's sad that Nintendo pushes 3D platformers like Mario and Zelda and still can't fix their camera's to work better in corners. Wind Waker, in particular, has alot of platforming, a facet that is frustrating when the camera pulls close to Link, greatly obscuring the character's positioning. When using the grappling hook during timed segments, or leaping across watery passages with a flaming torch, the camera quickly becomes insufferable.
In both Zelda remasters, offering a tweak to the camera controls would have helped immensely.
Most of the rest (not previously addressed) are fantastic, but Star Fox is still atrocious, and 'core' fans will NEVER stop complaining about Color Splash. Then again, most commenters missed the Page 2 button (or can't read) so their tastes are clearly based on expectation and perception. Which probably explains Pokemon's success.
Which is why everyone can have an opinion, but not everyone can be a gaming journalist.
I might offend some, but I've been reviewing games since 2004, so I'll continue speaking my mind until I'm banned from every such site, or am embraced by the gaming community. Or make it rich and finance new Sega hardware.

15.34 is just Japan though. With 10 million in Japan alone, you're talking greater than 1:2 for the install base. It'd be interesting. I would love for Bandai Namco to be involved with modelling for a Switch Eclipse. Their character work in Pokken was excellent.

That 2DS Sun bundle is clearly not the 'United States' bundle. Unless Trump's going PEGI.
Probably the most aesthetically pleasing 2DS I've seen (the Famicom buttons help with that).
I'm kind of intrigued by the Ltd. Edition New XL they have. Not as beautiful as my Metal Slime Vita, but it's nice enough.

Galaxy was fantastic, and that Switch Mario could be Galaxy 3, regardless, it's still Charles Martinet doing the voice. So he's clearly got at least 1 unreleased title.

People are talking about Nintendo this holiday season. Not as a mobile developer, but as a console manufacturer. Considering the VC pricees and collectibility of this system, this is the best product Nintendo was going to offer this season.
And now, people will hear about Switch, which is just 4 months out. With demand for Nintendo apparently skyrocketting, what unassuming consumer wouldn't become interested in an exciting new electronic gadget?

Just think, in 3 years, Nintendo will be releasing more phone games annually than handheld or console games.
Then the only Switch you'll hear is Nintendo systems switching off.

The 3D is still a chore, the button placement is idiotic, the nub is useless, the 'boost' that games receive is negligible, and having to remove the battery door to access the Micro SD card is damaging to the door itself, but if anyone wants to throw money away now (than save for Switch), go right ahead.

Including the terms 'Black Friday Shoppers' and 'while supplies last', I'm surprised anyone commenting is under the impression this is permanent.
I don't want to call anyone stupid, but I'm tempted. Really, really tempted.
Like right around the launch of Sun and Moon, they're going to press the killswitch? Again, very, very tempted.

Ahh yes, F Zero X.
Aka, the low point of the most overrated Nintendo series.
On the actual worst console Nintendo has ever designed.
Cartridge based? Poorly supported? Underpowered? Incredibly difficult to develop for? Oh and it's ugly as sin with the worst controller design Nintendo ever considered.
Everything was cheaply made to offset the price of the cartridges, which were bulky and (storage wise) vastly inadequate to the discs Sony and Sega (and Panasonic and Atari) were using for years.
This is coming from a gamer who knows the Gamecube is the best system they've ever made, despite not getting the games Sony paid to ensure exclusivity. And yet they still messed up with the media and the decision not to include internal storage.
You can all go off and say the SNES was the greatest, but Sega lost most of that fight because of their decision to Americanize, a choice that all but pushed companies like Squaresoft, Konami, and Tecmo to Nintendo.
Not having these garbage games on Switch will be much less damaging than not having their better, deeper, more interesting follow-ups from the Gamecube.
Star Fox on GC was still trash though, they should have let that one die.

Cammy makes every game she's in a better game. That being said, not her best outing.

Some people buy phones outright, but not all. Plans and contracts are still preferred by most end users, particularly when that deal ends with a new phone.
You had my interest until the part about 12 to 18 month cycles.
Texting, calling, instant access to social media.
The NX won't have these things.
Nintendo has shortchanged gamers with media options for 4 generations now.
Tons of things need to change for Nintendo before gamers would ever invest in their devices the way they invest in iPhones.

@diwdiws so that's why the Shield flopped, and why both Sony and Microsoft picked AMD, right?
You talk PC gaming like console gaming is exactly the same, but it's not.
Nvidia makes GPUs.AMD is better rounded. Your opinion is slated in one area, like a master class elitist. Instead of looking at the bigger picture, where AMD's influence runs deeper than Nvidia's.

Remember that Neo and Scorpio will probably both release before NX, meaning the X2 won't even be in the same league. Again.
Even the Gamecube did better than the Wii U, and the 3DS was a resounding failure compared to the DS, also standing as a low point in Nintendo's history.

Yeah, Nintendo is done if this is true.
What a waste, especially going with Nvidia.
AMD has left them in the dust, and that's where gaming has left Nintendo.
I'd have been excited, if it weren't just another GBA with a crappier gimmick.
Detachable controllers? I might just jump on the VR train if this is what Nintendo thinks is going to work.

@SetupDisk are you ridiculous or what?
Right now, Rive might have done well on PS4, due to the 'drought' (clearly coming from late adopters used to picking up a ton of games just before new hardware is announced), but in September?
As in, in the middle of the biggest influx of new content all year?
I'd have picked this up in July or August (maybe), but not in September.
My big indie is the next game from thatgamecompany, but if you think there's nothing on PS4, watch your Wii U collect dust all you want.

@ArcadeLove traditional gaming may be dying (although the PS4 is selling faster every single month than the PS3, XOne and PC are building momentum, Pokemon Go is a phenom, and VR is exceeding expectations on every platform), but your grammar is already dead and buried.
Nintendo handicapped the Wii U and has excluded all but the biggest developers from concrete NX information and SDKs.
They don't want to be copied, like they were with Wii, but consumer trust isn't something they can afford to gamble away.
12 months from now, things might be different for the big N, but Pokemon Go has only bought Nintendo more time, not more certainty.

@OorWullie the license holder for the TG16 wasn't the same as the one who put R-Type on other systems, so unfortunately, it comes at a premium.
Much better than other, more popular versions, but it is a licensing issue. Nintendo chose to force gamers to pay for that extra fee, hence the increase.

Clearly, Pokemon Go was all Pokemon Co. and Niantic. If Nintendo would have had their way, it would have been exclusive to Samsung or the 6 Plus iPhones.
They wouldn't know a great idea if they weren't handed to them on silver platters.
Even then, they'd be grumbling that what glitters wasn't golden.

Kinda tired of being that guy but hey, why not?
Who, in the next month is going to find enough enjoyment with this cheap, plastic Metroid knockoff that they'd actually be willing to pay for it or even play it in 6 weeks?
You know it's bad when the Other M haters stop complaining about that steaming pile.
It's like the new Zelda. For me it looks awesome cause I hated Skyward Sword. Not as much as 'grappling' with the camera in the Wind Waker, or the slight delay when scrolling in Zelda 2, but pretty close.
Unfortunately for Nintendo, this is somehow worse than Other M, and even free, isn't worth freeing up space to download.
Sorry about the fact it took rebooting a 20 year old franchise to make you relevant again Nintendo, but you've lost touch with the only audience that still gives two clumps of kitty litter.

I'll wait for Hyper Light Drifter, thanks.

Witcher 3.
Skyrim.
Grand Theft Auto V.
3 of the biggest, most important games, and all 3 are a reason why linear, sandbox free Zelda is no longer an option. Not in 2017.
It isn't that Nintendo can't pull off traditional Zelda. It's that the very genre they helped create has left them far behind.
Zelda, in no uncertain terms, must change or die. And with interest in Mario and Nintendo consoles dwindling, it is time to evolve and compete.
With the glaring exception of the entirely obnoxious Pokemon Go, there is no bright spot for the rest of this calendar year. Talk about Moon and Sun. Talk about Colour Splash. Nintendo has found their proverbial Dark Age, and 2 years was too long to react to their shortcomings.
They've dug a hole, and as much as I'd prefer it not to be a grave, I no longer have faith they don't absolutely deserve it. I'm eagerly anticipating them going software only.

It would be alot lighter and slimmer, after getting rid of the battery door and traditional compartment.
This makes me want Sony to partner with Square and do a PS Mini with all the classic RPGs. Now that Enix would be along for the ride, you'd get all the DQs, FFs, Star Oceans, not to mention all the hidden gems.

Ivoted for the GBA. But only because they could redo the first GBA with a sharper, bigger backlit screen. Built in games is a feature best served on a handheld. I'm not going to invest in an NES or SNES Classic with a Wii and 200$ of VC games in my living room. Particularly when the controller is going to be wired into the system.

@Kirk maybe Nintendo would have taken Sony's lead, if the Vita TV hadn't crashed and burned so spectacularly.
In my local-ish game store, it went from 120 to 90, 90 to 70, 70 to 60 in 4 months.

Sell a 3DS game for 40, and you'd have to sell 500,000 copies to make 20 million.

So then Nintendo technically earns 20% from sales.
A hundred million dollars (which isn't really that much, given the projected global draw), and Nintendo has 20,000,000$ from this one game.
Without the investment of a drawn out HD dev cycle.

I'm in Canada and I still can't fathom how this Zelda is retailing for 15$ cheaper than Paper Mario Colour Splash.
75$ for Zelda is still steep, considering that's more than I paid 7 months ago for Arkham Knight and Witcher 3 combined.
But 90$ for Colour Splash? It's bad enough Atlus is charging 70$ for 3DS games.

@Ed_Fairway How does this not evoke Ghibli? The opening lines EXACTLY describe the story of Laputa, and there's even a weird Tales of Earthsea reference with a Sparrowhawk look alike. The visuals and the gameplay don't match the Ghibli comparison, then again, that was never stated in the article.
It looks like another reason to anticipate Ni No Kuni 2.
I hope this game improves significantly and can provide hours of entertainment nonetheless.

@CB85 he's saying he doesn't see Zelda selling Wii Us, but that it will sell NXs.
It was worded a little strangely, but it is Pachter.
For what it's worth, and based on the release window, I think he's spot on.
Were the Wii U version to ship for this holiday season, it would sell way more systems.
Now, if the rumored price cut to 179$ USD, with the Zelda bundle, is in fact coming, then Zelda could be what Nintendo needs to clear stock. They do still need to clear around 2 million units before NX's launch, so I'll be waiting to see whether our distro even invests in NX stock.

@KO-Cub periods.
Please use them.
Unless you prefer your self-important ramblings to continually bore, exhaust, and frustrate those you're holding discussion with.

Posting opinion as fact.
Thanks Nintendo Life readers.
This is why making people on a site like this upset is fun.
Expectation is a burden of nostalgia, which is why Nintendo dies a slow death.
But please, continue with your broad, sweeping generalizations and rose-tinted commentary.

Capcom.
Megaman XX.
It is time.

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It wouldn't be as bad if the game measured up to the hype surrounding the Kickstarter.
Oh wait, Deep Silver. Right.
These guys couldn't promote a light hearted 2D game if Dead Island were in the title.
They're a one track, one hit wonder and Inafune will be buried beneath his failings.
All the more reason for Capcom to drop Megaman XX and blow this turd out of the water.