I actually kind of hope the 2D team is working on a Zelda 2 style game for 3DS.

Cool concept but better graphics, and being less overly hard and cryptic as well as a more fleshed out leveling and equipment systems would do wonders for Zelda 2/a spiritual sequel.

Of course they would.

They made an erotic pachinko machine for castlevania after all.

****nami gonna ****.

VC and making a actual new bomber man for switch are the only good things they have done in forever.

It's been over a month since we got a new VC game on 3DS...

Why is the 3DS version not coming over? Surely the effort is minimal?

All I know is that I need the Alm/Celica 2 pack and BOTW Zelda. And the MH Stories Amiibo(except for that stupid looking felyne) if we ever get that....

And Female Corrin if they ever release her...(let alone the already announced male Corrin)

Maybe the guardian.

@Firelork this,

We just got several notable games in the last few months(Yoshi, Pokémon, Mario Maker etc.) plus some smaller stuff(dragon ball fusions, dragon quest VIII) and we have...

Ever Oasis
Pikmin
Mario Sports Superstars
Fire Emblem Warriors
Fire Emblem Echoes: Shadows of Valentia
Yokai Watch 2/3(depending on region)
Lady Layton
Blaster Master Zero
RPG Maker FES
Runbow Deluxe
Story of Seasons Trio of towns
Monster Hunter Double Cross
Untitled Shin Megami Tensei Game
Etrian Odyssey V
Boxboy 3

A handful of these technically aren't confirmed for localization...but every Etrian odyssey(even the spinoffs) have come west, pretty much every Megaten game since the PS2 era has come ever, MH has done over 3 million copies in the west on 3DS(1.6 million 4U, About 900K for Gen and about 600K+ for 3U) so double cross seems likely too.

I probably missed a few and there are plenty to of indie games and other possible localizations told(DQM Joker 3, DQXI, Alliance Alive puzzles and dragons X etc)

"We expect to earn a larger profit for the year"

Stocks plummet

"Releases a GACHA game*

Stocks shoot for the heavens

Investors drive me crazy. We already knew the game was coming. Investors never seem informed about what is going on. Even when something that was blindlinigly obvious happens stocks shoot up or down.

@Nintendofan83 3+ months? The game has been out for just over 2 months and the period of sales for the game covered here (from its release on November 18th to December 31st) isn't even a full month and a half.

It did this much in roughly a month and a half. I am pretty sure this would be one of the single fastest selling single platform games of all time. Like top 5 fast.

Just want to point out that Sun and Moon sold in a month and a half what XY did In in two and a half years.

It's going to be the best selling Pokemon game since diamond/pearl. Might even outsell gold and silver(at 23 million.)

The Wii U version did most its sales(1.37 million as of March 31st 2016) in the west,

Regardless this is more than the Wii U version did.

Eshop is going to have a pretty good launch.

Especially considering the 3DS eshop didn't even exist at launch and...don't even remember Wii U eshop at launch but I am sure it was underwhelming.

@LegendOfPokemon

They announced a main series fire emblem for 2018 as well though,

@Spoony_Tech

I mean we really can't go "oh man evil Nintendo being a jerk to third parties" based in this one tweet. Relationships go two ways.

They did get Bethseda on board after all and they never even done anything for Nintendo before.

"ARMS is he only new IP Nintendo showed off"

1,2 switch doesn't count?

Yeah this really isn't much of an issue. Unless you do a huge amount of traveling away from your home you will always be able to charge it before it runs out without it getting in the way of your gaming. Just dock it before you go to bed.

The real issue is charging 70$ for a pro controller. That is about twice what a reasonable price would be. It doesn't have any special gimmicks. At least the joycons have IR, HD rumble and motion controls. I can get charging that much for a pair of those because they have some tech that might cost a bit in them. I will just buy a cheap third party knockoff of the pro controller or wait for a half off Black Friday sale or something if I need a pro controller.

Of course 3DS will survive for longer. The install base is still buying a lot of games in Japan and it was up SIX MONTHS STRAIGHT year on year in America and just had its single biggest software sales month in America ever in November

We already have this games incoming with the year having barely even started

Pikmin
Mario Sports Superstars
Ever Oasis
Yoshi and Poochy's Wooly World
Story of Seasons Trio of Towns
Etrian Odyssey V(we all know it will happen. Every game has come over.)
Dragon Quest VIII
Lady Layton
Snack World
Yokai Watch 2(Europe. America probably getting Yokai watch 3)
Runbow Deluxe
New untitled Shin Megami Tensei game
Blaster Master Zero
Shovel Knight: Specter of vengeance(it's basically a prequel and being treated like its own release. I think it's worthy of its own slot in a list)
Etc.

And dozens of indie games incoming. Plus plenty of localizations with a good chance of happening too like Miitopia. Alliance Alive, Monster Hunter Double Cross etc.

No 3DS is not going to be alive in 2020 or anything but good lord people stop acting like 3DS dies the instant switch hits shelves. Plenty of games currently still in development, waiting for localization and a handful of devs will stick around extra long.

3DS will have a strong 2017 and at least a few solid 2018 games(and probably still a fair amount of indie stuff still too)

The amount of Megaten on 3DS is crazy.

SMT IV and Apocalypse
Devil Summoner Soul Hackers
Both devil survivor games
Persona Q
and now this unannounced Megaten game?

Dayum!

Sony does have a deal with Capcom for SFV so they made this instead because they can't do V

Uhhh it literally says in the article it's coming to Switch Rjejr...

@Solid_Stannis

The guy is passionate about his work. I feel like his comments are perfectly fine by and large. I don't see how it's "whining" to talk about how much work goes into a smash bros game. Game development is a often brutal exhausting industry that oft has cruelly long hours.

I think people are just sick of people ragging on Sakurai all the time. It gets to a disgusting degree sometimes how much people can go on and on about it.

He is by no means perfect(where is my adventure mode?) but I think you are being a bit mean spirited and perhaps petty and ignorant in your assessment of a man who you know about largely from a handful of interviews and have never met.

@Solid_Stannis I swear if your idea of a "wasted character slot' is dark pit or something....in the case of clones it's a clone or nothing basically as the dev time for a clone is vastly lower than the dev time for a completely new character.

Also "wasted character slot" better not just mean "a character I don't like"

@Zach777

Well look at this way. Sure they could have finished it over a year ago...but we would've merely gotten a few mildly different playable characters rather than 3 vastly different playable characters with a 2 highly adjusted campaigns and 1 almost completely new campaign.

Yes please!

Those 25% of reviewers are pretty dumb.

"Oh look a free game. No microtransactions and the whole game is free? Totally gonna happen!"

RCMADIAX has a competitor for worst developer on the eshop?

Is that even possible,

Everytime something good happens its "Oh my good I am gonna makes been a hundred trillion dollars" stocks shoot up and the next day "What you mean I had no idea what I was talking about and I won't have infinite riches just huge riches? Screw this!"

I hate the stock market and the fact that people put stock in it(hehehehehehe)and act like every single time stock falls it means a company is huge trouble.

20% lol.

Even this this better than those garbage sports games us Americans got though.

"Oh man 30% off a 5.99$ gameboy sports game! Whooooo"

Kirby super star on VC and 3D Kirby for 3DS or switch pls.

I mean it's pretty hard to make a worldwide live presentation at a time that will be convenient for all countries. Remember directs are prerecorded. This is live. Also YouTube and the myraid of gaming websites render this pretty much moot. Anyone who is even vaguely interested is going to here about it.

You guys have been a little too grumpy lately methinks,

Why can't NA get all these awesome vocaloid home themes (T_T)

"But everything changed when the flare nation attacked"

raises eyebrow

@wiggleronacid

Yup. Even for Pokemon I found it too difficult to suspend my disbelief over team flare. It was just so overwhelmingly stupid.

RCMADAIX needs to stop polluting eshop with his garbage,

Also as I side note I hope 3DS continues to Rob Wii U of its games.

Wii U has a lot of games that never got to shine.

Donkey Kong Tropical Freeze
Captain Toad Treasure Tracker
New Super Mario Bros U + New Super Luigi(they have the NSMBU engine running for super Mario maker after all)

And more could all work well enough on 3DS or N3DS.

@LegendOfPokemon

Porting this down from Wii U while still having the game look nice is a notable feat. It would've been very hard to keep a good framerate and lag low in multiplayer.

Besides they are adding a fair bit of new content. Pattern Editor, Poochy Run and animated shorts.

Every single Wii U to 3DS port has lost some form of content in the transition and gotten some new content as well.

I never expected a high placement in the UK. All the big hitters and holiday sales make it hard for a port to place high,

Japan is where Mario Maker 3DS is going to sell best methinks.

@123akis Oh I am in NA.

@123akis Get it Now! It's 40% off on eshop until the 5th!

Question. How many stages can be shared at once with streetpass?

Combining the dual pack as two sales(as its both versions in one package for priced roughly the same as if you bought them seperate.) puts you almost at 2.3 million.

Honestly I never would have produced much either.

I assumed it would sell a couple hundred thousand units and be forgotten in short order as just a novelty item.

I think Lego and Amiibo will continue for some time but I definitely can see skylanders dying out.

@Piersen

Yeah. Soul hackers Is just so dated. They didn't do nearly enough to improve it,

I can definitely wait for Zelda if we have 3D Mario AND Skyrim Remastered at launch.

"We're always looking for increasingly elaborate ways to Kidnap Peach"-Bowser.

What they aren't telling us is that parents will attempt to crush their children's heads between the 3DS screens when they lose.

Mario party ruins relationships.

double middle finger

The only appropriate response.

@ollietaro I think you greatly underestimate the amount of text.

The dungeon sections look like a Zelda SHMUP.

I am onboard for this.