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Time to lower the prices by about $10 bucks then!

There's a showing in Minneapolis?

YESSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS

Time to go cut down some grass and smash some pots.

@gojiguy - Noitu Love 2 wasn't forgotten, it's right here http://store.steampowered.com/app/207530/

Because Zelda is a core game and core gamers have fled to places where they're treated (relatively) decently?

Can we please skip to the part where Nintendo starts making games third-party. This stuff is getting old.

I wish they would just make it look like they're trying, for god's sake. How am I supposed to get excited when it looks like a DS game, still?

At the rate these rumours are appearing, they'll be telling us it has a new name, plays PS3 games and can make toast.

Well, if rumors are true, that makes one next-gen system that can play PS3 games.

I would post the advertisement for this game, but I don't think it is family-friendly, work-friendly, or indeed human-mind-friendly in any way.

So in some small way they won a marketing battle because I could equate that ad with this game.

It MUST be nice to WRITE press releases. Where ELSE do you get to capitalize RANDOM words in the middle of SENTENCES for the sole purpose of making SURE people see those TRADEMARKS. I guess those little trademark symbols aren't good enough these days.

Guys I head Metroid Dread is coming out too see here's the boxart

CAN'T BLEEPING WAIT

Ugh why you Nintenduds hatin' on some Apple products, I payed way too much for you to put them down for reals, kay

Yeah, well, that's just like your opinion, man.

It should be about choice, so that neither side of the argument has any cause to complain.

Fo sho.

It may sound like I'm making up overly specific excuses

You are, and this discussion isn't going anywhere, so I think I'd just like to drop it if it's all the same to you.

I did miscount the number of Metroid games, so I'll give you that.

@TrueWiiMaster: There have been 5 brand-new main-series Mario games, 4 brand-new Legend of Zelda games, 4 brand-new Metroid games, 5 brand-new Pokemon games, and 4 brand-new Kirby games between the years of 2006-2011. That's cutting close to a game a year right there. If you're just counting Wii by itself then you're cutting Nintendo's output in half, and I don't believe that's fair. This isn't even counting all the remakes of games Nintendo has made.

It takes Nintendo longer to do it, but how is that a good thing? When you boil it down, it's the same thing. Sony and Microsoft see what sells the most and they make more of it. Nintendo sees what sells the most and they make more of it.

Whether it be the 7, soon to be 8, Call of Duty's, the 3 Gears of Wars, or 4 Halo's, they tend to put out more and more of the same. The only major 1st party game to do anything like that on Wii was Mario Galaxy, and it only had one sequel.

Metroid Prime 3?
New Super Mario Bros. Wii?
The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess?
The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword?
Mario Kart Wii?

... do you want me to go on?

I'm one of those weirdos that finds downloading something much more satisfying than buying a physical copy.

It makes me wonder if Wii games will still be made by enthusiastic old-school developers in the year 2027. I mean, somebody will be nostalgic about waggling their arm like crazy, right?

That looks like the ultimate Game Boy. Too bad it's tethered to a console.

As long as this means we get Vocaloid Fighter at some point. I'd love to pound the s**t out of chibi Len with my Miku-chan.

I need details. I'm not passing judgment on a title and one picture.

I'm never getting over MML3. It's not just that they cancelled it, but how astoundingly bad they handled cancelling it, that will never let me get over it.

POKEPARK WII 3?!

I love it. Those borders just make the game for me (I have no idea why, I'm just weird). I just don't know what Game Gear games are any good D:

_{so it's good you guys are reviewing them all}

My guess is it starts with the phrase "Xeno".

I love the way it looks. It's deliciously frantic but doesn't rely on power shots to make it that way (at least that's what it looks like). Power shots got so old because of the animations every single damn time. x___x

I really wish they could get a special item mode in there too, along with an RPG mode ... and ... Camelot I love you please make it happen <3

Well awesome. My Wii wasn't dead on Skyward Sword's arrival like I figured.

Hope I can scrounge up enough money for a pre-order so I can show Nintendo what's what in my little way.

Tales of Rock the Hedgehog

An ailing robotics expert named Dr. Wright builds himself a robot hedgehog to be his pet in his last few years on Earth. But after his old friend Dr. Robotnik turns rogue and captures all the robot pets in the world to power his organic creations, Dr. Wright objects and turns his robot hedgehog into the greatest blue warrior the world has ever known: Mega Sonic, the Blue Bomblur! Traverse a sprawling world with 80+ hours of gameplay and defeat enemies with the enticing fighting system known as the Mega Sonic Linear Motion Battle System or MSLMBS for short. Team up with seven of the most annoying and tacked-on characters ever to race your way through a story filled with plot twists you see a mile away. Just don't go too fast, or you might speed off the screen and find yourself glitching the f**k out caught in one of Robotnik's dangerous traps!

Releasing in 2013.

RPG mode would make it even more of a must-buy ... I can only imagine what it would be like to get the full Mario Tennis experience without having to buy both the console and handheld version. Either way I still want it day one. I freaking love Mario Tennis. o___o

METAL GEAR?!

I think I would like the top-down view. I always get killed because I can't see around corners in MGS. Scratch that ... I just always get killed. But this might be less bad and more good!

_{but does one of the characters look like Sean Connery ... this is the biggest issue}

METAL GEAR!?

I agree it needs more female characters. How else do you make money on DLC? No $5 bikini costumes if it's all guys...

Well ... horrible thoughts now.

You should be able to get Power Stars when you do stuff so you can save the Princess!

... And that's where Nintendo comes in, because I can't think of anything family-friendly after that.

THE REVOLUTION BEGINS

After his press conference declaring his superiority over all people, Reggie will sweep across North America with his army of vicious, battle-hardened soldiers created from the very essence of our love and devotion to Nintendo turned sour. His troops will then move to every continent, engulfing the world in war and destroying all vestiges of the hope and wonder that is Nintendo. For he is the Antimoto, the dark antithesis to our Lord Shigeru Miyamoto, and the end times draw near...

_{that also works if they just rename the Wii U the "Revolution" which is what they should have named the Wii in the first place aksdhaslkahsuf}

I don't see any pictures of giant mechs, tentacle monsters, or schoolgirls in sailor outfits. Are you sure this is iSpot Japan?

But Pokemon black and white weren't that popular to begin with

wat

https://www.nintendolife.com/news/2011/03/pokemon_black_and_white_catches_a_million_trainers_on_launch_day

http://andriasang.com/comt9e/pokemon_black_white_sales/

It's called a road
It's called a Rainbow Road
It is a road that you go
It's a road that you go when you diiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiie

_{yeah i got the caption and got the song stuck in my head, thanks James}

Super Mario 3D Land has some stiff competition in Peggle and Magnetic Billiards. Are these really the six best handheld games to come out last year?

IT BUUUURRRNNNNSSS

Is that ... is that Sonic participating in a speedwalking contest?

I just ... don't even.

Tasty!

I played Fire Emblem before there was a casual option. is shot

If it makes it easier for people on the fence to pick it up and gets more people to play it, thereby increasing the likelihood of the games being localized, then I'm all for it. Then again we never did get New Mystery of the Emblem, so I'm kind of skeptical... just bring the damn game over, NoA.

MINIGOLF

i like minigolf, this looks pretty, i think i will pick this up

Oh no, an article on NL that doesn't specifically cater to the ravenous needs of boys~

Those who whine are deepest in the closet. ^__^

_{besides in the end, it doesn't matter if they're all men or women, Mr. Brutus wrote them all so it's really him you're crushing on}

Am I the only one who noticed the girls before the Mario Kart 7 logo?

...Yes? Kay ... I'll just stand in this corner over here then.

Dear lord, was that a Sonichu reference in there? D:

Tingle's was definitely my favorite, I can totally see him writing a profile like that lol. Mega Man's was fantastic too.

It is new, therefore I must hate it.

@FluttershyGuy: I'd really like to know who's the male in the Yoshi/Birdo relationship. o__o

It's Samus and Ridley, haven't you guys been paying attention? They're together forever. Even death can't tear them apart. It's ... it's so beautiful ...

For example, jumping: Maru will continue to rise in the air as long as you hold down the A button, meaning he essentially flies. He can even leave the screen.

wat

Platforming games - now with 100% less platforming involved!

That was mesmerizing. It looked so effortless that I was thinking hey I could do that, and then you realize there's no way in hell. o__o