Samurai_Goroh

@Azooooz You don't want Mega Man, Sonic and Pac-man, then?
Rayman as a fighter would be terrific, bring it on!

Twilight Princess for me, I like Ocarina too but TP is a better Ocarina than Ocarina itself.

Rising Star... the little publisher that could. Thanks to them, I could play Muramasa: The Demon Blade and No more Heroes 1 & 2 on my PAL Wii and on proper English. May the next 10 years be even better.

@rjejr They should at the very least have a warning in the front cover: "Wii Remote Plus required" like the N64 games that required the Expansion Pack did. It's not that explicit at all for the uninformed consumer, who might see the box art and think that at the very least his old (non-Plus) Wiimotes will work.

The disc version should have been bundled with a Wii remote plus. I would buy it in a heartbeat if that were the case. And believe it or not there are many Wii U owners without a remote plus.

I have the Master System version on Wii, but the arcade version is so much better it looks like a totally different game,

I'll buy the game, and it's not even my usual cup of tea, but from what was shown everything seems so comical, a dudebro shooter infused with some oddball humor.. I dig it.

Hoping you can hit Fi with the ball and chain thing from Twilight Princess...

Pokémon TCG alone makes this a stellar week for 3DS. I have the original cartridge and still play it on this day and age. It is super addicting, one of the best PKMN spin-offs ever. Everyone should buy it, so we just might get the Japan-only TCG 2 for VC at last.

@Smooty Wii actually had a very high attach rate. Like 8.5 or something. Not low at all. So your point doesn't stand. And no, piracy doesn't make a console successful. It sure didn't make it for the Dreamcast, which has got to be the easiest console to hack I've ever encountered.

Bayonetta 2 Special Edition with the first game included will be my nº1 priority this Christmas. That being said I want to get Smash and Project CARS (we need a racing game like this on Wii U!), but only if my wallet allows. A big IF at this point.

It' a solid marketing effort, and the children are one of Nintendo's key demographic. But I hope they put more effort marketing the Wii U too.

@baba_944 These kind of people only look for short term profits, if one day they ever took majority control of the company they would burn it to ground in a matter of months. They are the same that want Nintendo to make Android/iOS games. One thing I like about the Iwata administration, it that he listens more to his costumers than to the shareholders. With him, Nintendo is all about games. Want to maximize the profit, make the best game possible. Not many big businesses do that.

Sonic the Hedgehog 2 for the Mega Drive is the best game of the blue hedgehog in my humble opinion. Still, I don't fancy these HD upgrades, the original is still a thing of beauty, why bother?

@IceClimbers I'm guessing a delay till holiday season '15 ... This is Nintendo, upending the tea table.

Doesn't anybody remember Wave Race on the N64? Kawasaki product placement back in 1996. So nothing new for Nintendo, I'm confident they know not to push it over the reasonable boundaries.

Meanwhile in Europe....

I just assumed that Bayonetta 1 & 2 would be included in the same Wii U disc, provided 25 GB are enough. You're telling me that the first will be digital? How large is the first game, I might not have enough space on my Wii U?!

People are still buying Wii games? How much do they expect to sell on a discontinued console?

They should have released Nintendo World Cup instead of this.

Speech recognition is bloody awful. Doesn't like my accent. Still a cool give away if only for sudoku puzzles.
Now, when are the real DS games going to come?

I want a Twitch app on Wii U, come on...

Like most, I am hoping for some local split-screen mode and Wii Remote + Nunchuck, Pro controller support. A single player campaign would be the icing on the cake but that I could do without. I get that this is a multiplayer focused game, but I don't want it to be online only.
It's funny because traditionally Nintendo skips the online modes in favour of local multiplayer, here they did the exact opposite and we're asking for local.

The problem with Transformed it's that it is filled with atrocious bugs. Yes, they had the right ideas, characters, good track design, drifting and flipping are neat, and it's very addictive to play, when things work.
When they do not, you get frame-rate drops, wonky physics when you go to a spot you're not supposed to and at least on Wii U complete console freezes. It could be the Mario Kart killer but it lacks polish. Unforgivable. Better luck next time (and I do hope we get a Transformed 2). Mario Kart 8 may not reinvent the franchise but it is a very polished piece of software that never disappoints.

If only that 32 GB White made it out of Japan, that's what I would get. I had to settle on a 32 GB Black, since 8 GB is just ludicrous.
Still would be nice to see more colours, though.

I didn't play that much online on Wii, to be honest. Brawl's matchmaking was awful. And the lag was always there. I got butchered every time in Dr.Mario & Germ Buster, shame on me. Mario Strikers Charged is probably my fondest memory of the Nintendo Wi-Fi Connection. A new Strikers would be welcome on Wii U. The Nintendo Network is a huge leap forward for Nintendo.

^Mario Kart Wii is already a "Nintendo Selects" game, mate.

@Hy8ogen I don't think I have contradicted myself, no. The people of Taiwan do not wish to be ruled by Beijing, they want and so far have managed for decades to coexist peacefully and live in a democratic society, unlike China. You seem to adhere closely by the Beijing official position. I will not pursue this matter further, we're not here to discuss politics. But I'm just curious, what is your stance on Tibet by the way?

Taiwan is an independent country in my books. It is separate from China de facto, has it's own government, currency and president. But China will never recognise it as a de jure sovereign nation. Up to the 1970's, Taiwan even had a seat on the UN. Many countries keep close diplomatic ties with Taiwan but have to tread carefully not to upset China.
The name is not mentioned to stir political issues, it is mentioned because there are 23 million people living there that want nothing to do with Beijing.

I find it sad that people on a Nintendo website are so uninformed about the different models of Wii, of all people. GCN compatible Wii consoles were discontinued back in 2011 in favour of the "Family Edition" model. Both this second model and the Wii Mini cannot play GCN games nor use it's peripherals.
So, I think the chance of finding a brand new Wii compatible with CCN pretty thin at this point in 2014. Which brings us to the next point, those 28,000 people would be better served with an Wii U and Nintendo should convey that message more efficiently.

We need a Daisy orange Wii Remote now to pair up with the Luigi one.

This should be a more common practice for Nintendo across the 3DS and Wii U. Time to get "Nintendo Selects" back in full force. And yes, on Europe too.

I'll be getting Golden Sun for sure. As for Maximum Velocity, it is my least favourite F-Zero game. GP Legend outdoes it in every way on the Advance and the SNES original is still the best "Mode 7" racer. So, no thanks.

I think that if Nintendo included same-sex marriage in the game, it wouldn't be able to get an E/ 3+ rating. And I think that's the only reason they choose not to. They want their game to target the largest audience they can. And children are a very important audience for them.
Nintendo is just a company trying to make the best decision for it's business. In the 90's it meant blood and gore-free games on the SNES to keep it family-friendly. In 2014, it means not being thrown in the middle of a social and political debate it has nothing to do with.
I am not homophobic, by the way. But I am against gay marriage. And ironically, I live in a country where it is already legal for some years. But, also a country where I still can stand for my opinions.

It's not a Smash game without "Falcon Punch", I hope Captain Falcon gets confirmed soon. And we need Ness too.

Sales tax is 23% in Portugal... Lucky Japanese, I don't think a 3% tax increase will make much difference for them.
And Wii U sales are up... again. Nice to see slow but steady growth.

Have already GP Legend for my SP, it's great, much better than Maximum Velocity. But, boy, would I love to see Climax release on VC!

1 million over two years and three platforms (Wii, Wii U and PC) doesn't sound too good. Granted, I have no idea how much Square can squeeze from the loyal one million customers on a monthly basis, but I think it's safe to say that by turning Dragon Quest into a paid MMO, they shot themselves in the foot. They could have so much more sales worldwide if they just followed the recipe laid out by DQ IX on the DS, how hard could that be? Shooting themselves is all Square has being doing of lately.

This make me want Sonic Lost World. Gotta find it cheap, though.

Quake III Arena is to this date my favourite first-person shooter. I played on the PC and on Dreamcast, and let's just say that I wasn't a fan of the DC controller for shooters, but the PC version was obviously ace. I never played the older games, but if it ever got a VC release (are we even getting N64 anytime soon?), I'd probably dip in.

@cracked376 Nintendo Land is on the eShop, the EU one at least...

I thought of this a few weeks earlier when I went to a store with a Wii U demo kiosk and tried demos of 3D World and Wind Waker. If they produced said demos for kiosks, what's stopping them from making them available on eShop for everyone who already has the system to try at the comfort of their homes?

I don't know how a piece of technology is supposed to be "sexy". Humans beings can be sexy, machines...err.. I'm not quite there yet Peter.

Never heard of any of them, good marketing plan Nintendo.

Nintendo buildings always have that charm of soviet design by commitee architecture. Which is to say, they're rather dull.

After the failure of the Virtual Boy, I don't see Nintendo keen to explore this path. Some people don't even like to wear spectacles for 3D. For the majority of people, the idea of a VR headset is terribly unappealing, and well... certainly a lonely gaming experience. Add to that the prohibitive costs of the technology and I couldn't certainly see this straying farther from Nintendo's philosophy than it does.
With Virtual Boy, Nintendo was actually more interested in stereoscopic 3D than virtual reality. If the focus was VR, Virtual Boy would have much more games in 1st person other than Teleroboxer. VR was the hype du jour in the 1990's, but the technology was not really there to do it. With 3DS, they finally got the right technology to fulfil their vision. And without glasses!

@JaxonH I'm not hating on US gamers, mind you. All is cool, bro. I'm just saying, you people complain because of some limited editions you don't get, while we were deprived of masterpieces like Earthbound. Isn't that a little bit worse? Now, were being treated a little bit better by NoE, and that was overdue. NA hasn't been missing out on any games and that what matter's most. Even Xenoblade,The Last Story and Pandora's Tower were still released over there, you just had to wait a bit longer. Meanwhile, I never got ExciteBots on Wii, which is still fairly recent. It's not a matter of coveting my neighbours, it was a game announced for a global audience that I legitimately expected to see released in PAL regions.

@JaxonH Sonic Boom will also be released in Europe and Oceania, dude. When they talk about appealing to western audiences it's pretty much everyone in the world but Asia and Africa.
And as far as European gamers go, historically Europe was always getting the short end of the stick. We never got Super Mario RPG and Earthbound on SNES, we got the N64 on 1997, the GameCube on 2002, we played the slower-paced 50 Hz versions of everything on every console up to the Dreamcast... so maybe it's fate delivering overdue retribution?

@Rafie The Wii U stills struggles much more in Europe despite these kind of actions by NoE. US is by far the best market for Nintendo. But, I feel Reggie ought to get the boot sooner or later.

@MAB Until Nintendo develops a borrowing system similar to Steam, I'll refrain from purchasing their games in digital form. I have friends already with a Wii U and we like to be able to borrow games from one another.