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I wonder where are all those analysts that claimed the dedicated gaming handheld business was doomed to sink u der the competition with smartphones?

It was a great 3DS show. My only criticism is that I agree with Nintendo the 3DS is doing great and, because of that, I would concentrate my marketing efforts on the Wii U. I hope they are saving the best to E3.

I'll probably buy a 3DS XL just to play it.

Considering that Sony and Microsoft are probably unveiling their next consoles at 2013 E3, I can only expect Nintendo is cooking a few bombastic reveals to keep the pressure on the competition.

Despite the uninspired level design, I kind of liked The Conduit as there weren't many quality shooters by the time it was released. In the other hand, I hated the artistic direction and humorous tone of Conduit 2. Considering, many HD shooters will be ported to the Wii U, I guess HVS will have a hard time to sell a sequel.

As the controller has a camera, they could also implement some sort of head tracking to show lateral view in the TV screen. Anyway, this game seems to be a great alternative to Forza or Gran Turismo in a Nintendo console.

Sounds plausible but I am almost sure it is a hoax. At this point, only Nintendo would have a cost estimative of all parts and I doubt they would let it leak.

I wonder if Capcom knows how many of the action oriented public is looking for a Resident Evil games. The problem with HD games is that the high development costs turns all publishers very adverse of taking risks. Perhaps I would be better served if Capcom moved the series permanently to handhelds.

Tactical Ogre would be a great fit, but then Nintendo own Intelligent Systems could bring Advance Wars and Fire Emblem to Wii U.

He offered no insight or crontructive criticism. He was just rude.

I know his game, Fez, is attracting some good previews but I lost my interest on it. I definitely have better things to do than giving money to people such as Mr. Fish.

I brought a 3DS just to play Fire Emblem, among other Nintendo games. However, I am much more interested in the Vita distribution mode. The convinience of not swapping discs or cartridges is precious while I have far more games than space to storage them and I am sick of physical media becoming defective after a while.

I liked the performance and I was really impressed with the arrangment. I didn't liked the video though. The ruins are cool and the twins are very pretty but the director could do better with such good elements.

One of the reasons why I brought a 3DS. If Reggie passes in this one, I might shift for an European 3DS (and perhaps a Wii U) next time I go to the UK.

Excellent! Hopefully, it will sell well and later NOA will be sorry for not releasing it in the same way Sony public said about Demon's Souls.

I am glad they decided to go without 3D or HD. Because of the small screen, there is no reason to go 720p, as a lower resolution will provide enough density to satisfy most costumers. Regarding 3D, I never cared but it seems to be a fad anyway, considering it is not doing so well at the movies nowadays. They need to keep the cost down and concentrate to support two controllers per console. That will be more useful.

So they will not rebrand last year Tiger as a new one. Nothing was really lost here.

It is a good service, the software works nicely but the selection is average to good only. Still, it is very worthy of the price. I have been using it for a few months in Brazil and I'll recommend it to my brother who lives in the UK.

Totally expected. I always guess it will be released in between September and November 2012.

I am interested. However, it is likely I will mainly play it online. Considering it is a long game, I wonder if the AI will take the place of any dropped player in an online match.

Many of the so called survival horror games don't strike me as real horror but rather as action games with horror themes. As such, I find difficult to regard a great game, such as Resident Evil 4 as true horror. The first chapter on the village is creepy but it soon becomes cheesy and I find difficult to take it seriously.

Still, there are some good horror games in Nintendo consoles. The panel already highlighted Gamecube's Eternal Darkness and I would add the excellent Wii's Silent Hill: Shattered Memories.

I believe Nintendo also don't have many developers with expertise in online mode, after all, they haven't released many games with it. Their team is probably spread all over 3DS and Wii U projects and thus it would take too much time to take care of StarFox 64 3D, while Nintendo knew they have to release as many titles as possible.

I hope they are hiring more help as developing games with HD graphics and online mode demands a lot of work Nintendo and usual rate of releases will not feasable without a large staff.

I would love a redesign with dual analogs, a bigger screen without 3D, and a significantly better battery life. However, I don't believe this will happen as Nintendo would have to admit that the basic concept of the 3DS was flawed and they would loose a lot of confidence from customers and investors.

When SEGA launched the Dreamcast already hurt by the poor performance of the Saturn. Nintendo is suffering a set back after the best years in sales ever. It is a completely different situation.

Being a platform holder is too advantagous, as it gives Nintendo the power to plan its own future and, furthermore, additional cash by taking 11% in any retail sale and 30% in any digital sale. The 3DS will probably do fine, but it will never came even close to the DS, as the casual market moved to iOS. Nintendo will probably will retain profitability even in a reduced portable gaming market. Even in this scenario, it wouldn't be smart to release its franchises in another platform as it would cheapen and reduce the appeal to its own platforms.

A new model with a significant price cut is a good move. However, they should change the box in such way to avoid confusion with the earlier model.

At least Wii only owners were spared of the crappyness of MW2's single player campaign. I will rent this one.

It is a matter of audience. I find 3D platformers more interesting than 2D ones. I have no problem playing them, in fact, I am a much better Galaxy player than a Super Mario Bros. player. That said, a lot of people have trouble playing in a 3D environment through the 2D representation of a TV set and using the kind of controllers we have. As the Wii an the DS reached a wider audience than the hardcore, it became obvious that 2D platformers were more accessible. I have a few friends that have a lot of fun dying in NSMBW (that was basically what they were doing) but couldn't even orient themselves in Galaxy. It seems that Nintendo is finally getting the idea.

So a Sony subdisiary keeps the parent company tradition of trashing the competitors' products. Why this was posted as news?

Well, did Nintendo had a choice? The casual market is moving to cheaper software and the even easier interface found in iOS's gadgets. In other to keep relevant, they introduced an unique 3D experience in the 3DS and now a novel tablet/TV experience in the Wii U. I don't think they should be worried with Microsoft and Sony regarding the casual market but rather with Apple, as it shouldn't be difficult to offer a similar gameplay with the iPad and Apple TV.

As they are loosing the casual market, they are trying to get a better hold on the hardcore. Nintendo is counting in their old fans (us) as well as some new converts recruited from the casual market during the Wii/DS era. To appeal to this market they need third party support, reason why the new controller sports the regular number and positioning of buttons of more traditional devices. It is well established that most hardcore third party developers are uncapable of thinking outside their limited view and provides adequate controllers to anything they are not used.

Will it work? I don't have faith in most of the third party developers to really use the Wii U controller in any meanifull way as I believe it is a very traditional industry with very little space to inovation, despite the fact it is considered a creative medium. As such, I don't think the Wii U will appeal to the hardcore market outside Nintendo fans. The big question is how much of the casual market captured by Wii will be retained by the new console. I don't know the answer but a compeling marketing support and meaniful software will be necessary at launch. We will have to wait and see.

It will work like the PC. Each publisher will be reponsible for its own online structure. Nintendo may opt for a centralizing registering server or may even left this to each publisher. It might works nicely.

@waltzElf: these games may not big sellers but that is not the point. Nintendo's image is what is at stake here. If this camapign gets a little more of publicity it may become a PR's hell. The problem is that Nintendo explicity told last E3 they were going after the core audience. By refusing to releasing these games, they are contradicting their message and thus harming their own plans.

I don't expect much of Pandora Tower but I think NOA could keep face by releasing only one of the three games.

It seem that Nintendo is carrying outl its master plan of alienate their hardcore fans before releasing Wii U, which should get them back again. I don't understand why they are doing it, but it is pretty obvious that this is the plan.

Right now I only think of abadomning Nintendo and spending my money elsewhere. Tomorrow I'll probably think otherwise but it is becaming harder and harder to be a Nintendo fan as they systematically show little interest in please their customers.

Why exactly DoA deserved a lesser grade than SSFIV? For what I read it seems that the button/touch scheme and frame rate are better and both games seem pretty even in terms of features.

As they were reviewed by different people, I understand the standards may not be similar. As such, to include comparative perspective would be nice.

I don't get why this game gather so much flack. I really loved the game. I found the story to be engrossing and the waggling controls to be more confortable and natural than button pressing. I find it the best Zelda after Wind Waker.

It seems that people is stuck with Ocarina of Time, which is definitely a great game, and is unable to accept different takes on the series.

No HD means no patches. No patches means no unfinished games being released. I guess third party support will not get better in the new machine.

Excellent review, right to the point. I liked the reviewer concerns regarding the breath of customization as it mirrors my own thoughts. It would be much better if they also offered a limited number of pre-sets.

Also, I was curious about the ending and I watched it at You Tube. It is much worse than the review led me to think.

I found more details at www.nintendoeverything.com. The describe the game as an action rpg. As such, there is some hope I may like it.

"* Main character: Ende

• Heroine: Ceres
• No voice actor information yet
• Heavy on action
• Action RPG
• Chain is your primary weapon
• Use this weapon to capture enemies
• Also swing to grab items and trigger various gimmicks
• Simple control scheme
• Story: curse has fallen on Ceres
• Gather beast flesh to remove the curse
• Made by Ganbarion (Jump Super Stars, One Piece Unlimited Cruise)
• ¥6,800"

It doesn't seems to be my kind of game. Also, I found the textures to be rather weak for a game released by Nintendo.

Wind Waker with TP controls would be nice but I would settle for an art book that includes the famous internal document that establishes Zelda's timeline.

They should reconsider this. They are loosing the fight for attention against Super Street Fighter IV, although the Dead or Alive's four buttons attacks are much more appropriated to the 3DS than the six button scheme from the competitor.

Good article. Although I concede the writing and acting in MOM was mediocre at best, I still think it is a little better than average for videogames. It seems to me that people are complaining about it just because they didn't liked the characterization and thus criticizing too much the writers and actors.
Concerning the characterization, from the point of view of someone who only played Super Metroid and the Prime series, I welcomed the fact Samus was portrayed as a human being. In all other Metroid games I played she wasn't anything but a puppet under my control. As such, there weren't any characterization at all. I guess that people projected their own empowering fantasies on Samus and thus rejected her development as a deeper character with some weakness.

Thanks for the informative review, McIlvaine. It actually made me more interested in playing the game. Despite the camera problems, I place great value in originality and thus I think I will enjoy this game more than you did.

The reviewer never mentions it but I had the impression that this Goldeneye also features the different objectives under different difficulty modes that gave so much replayability to the original game's single player campaign.

My first contact with Just Dance was in a party. After seeing so many people having so much fun with it, I was impressed how gaming journalist were completely lost reviewing it. Now that they improved motion sensibility and added the ability of downloading songs, they surely have an even bigger winner.

It seems that it will include an online mode, which captured my attention.

I don't think the Christmas line up has as much selling power as New Super Mario Bros Wii last year. Still, it is a very strong one. I can understand Iwata-san concern if this doesn't translate in strong sales, but I think they will be fine if they keep the right expectative, i.e., good sales, but not as good as last year.

The title is somewhat misleading. It is obvious that, after spending so much money developing Cell that IBM will integrate its technology in their products. As such, the commentary has some punch power but is trivial, at best.

Just got it and love it. I spent the whole afternoon playing it and it was a blast.

I have it in my iPad. I brought it after reading excellent reviews but the fact is, it never captured my attention for more than a few minutes. Perhaps it wasn't meant to me.

Great game! The graphics are technically weak but the art direction compensate that. The sound editing is fantastic and the voice acting is very strong. The magic system is the best I've ever found in a videogame, the idea of finding and combining rules to create spell is great and well executed. However, the story is were this game really shines, especially compared to the mediocrity in the horror genre.

I've never had a problem with the controls. They are reminiscent of Resident Evil. They might not be fantastic but they are perfectly functional.