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@element187
Multiplayer via internet would be very cool if they could figure out something great and creative to utilize it.
I hate getting excited over a game that may never exist.

A NFC Nintendo themed world builder would be incredible! Make and customize your mushroom kingdom. Touch Samus to the game pad and you can now unlock SR-71 (or some world like that) that you build. Touch DK to the pad and you build his world. All worlds are interconnected and most importantly, you can visit friends or random people's worlds. Sign me up. The only road block would be Nintendo of course not implementing such a fantastic creation.

How freaking big is the new portal going to be?

That is really awesome. It's the 3000 year old version of a one man band

@LavaTwilight
If it races on over to the US, I'll be right with you brother.

That the price of running a successful business today unfortunately. Large companies like Nintendo become embroiled in these types of lawsuits every day. It's unfortunate, but justice usually prevails. The bad side is that it cuts dramatically into R&D budgets and innovation. I read recently that Apple's legal budget and costs have now exceeded R&D budgets on an annual basis. That is troubling for sure.

Does that mean that a new Luigi game will drop on March 18th?

If developers are ignoring the 3DS even more than the WiiU, then what's it going to take to get them on board with the WiiU? I'm assuming a large percentage of developers there are strictly phone developers. It's s sad trend when a piece of crap like flappy bird is what garners attention, and it's a disturbing trend if you like substantive games.

Little Mac really was a no brainer for the series. After he was announced you had to wonder why they didn't think to put him in several games ago. He's a friggin boxer afterall!

@Einherjar
You took the words out of my mouth with Gladiator.

Why not? My favorite baseball game of all time was basewars for NES where your players are all upgradable robots. Every time a bot gets tagged at a base, they fight each other. So awesome. Maybe Alexander the Great will be able to tackle napoleon. Or Gengis Kahn can run the ball on Stalin.
Give it a try, innovation is badly needed in the industry. I'm actually excited for this game.

I had the legacy version of the game where they changed a couple things and rereleased it like a year later. It really wasn't that bad. I remember enjoying it a lot. You could play through multiple times with different players that you could unlock. It was a large game and truly unique in its time. It was just limited by cartridge size.

Well hey. If a new installment if leisure suit Larry ever was brought to Nintendo, that horse peripheral could come in handy.

Flappy bird will come back out next month with bugs fixed and the branding :
Flappy Bird copyright Nintendo 2014. You heard it here first.

Mass effect 3 part 2. They'll be lucky to sell 10,000 copies after this.

I do like that they've been getting new stuff on the club over the last few weeks. Between the Luigi statue, 18 card game holders, xl cradles and this; it's a good move.

Oh well. I have a ton of games to play right now.

Is that marth that the beetle is carrying? I didn't realize he was announced already (or I forgot perhaps).

Nice. So basically everyone who watches the super bowl on TVii will win a jersey. Awesome!

Just get it guys. The system really is great. There's a lot of games out now. I have no regrets on buying the system.

Just get it guys. The system really is great. There's a lot of games out now. I have no regrets on buying the system.

Nice! My wife and one of my sons got a 3ds since it was last available. Now we can actually play 4 player.

Nice! I have mighty switch force! I'm getting Runner, Gianna sisters and toki tori.

GIFSoup

Did you all hear that?! Iawata said he will deliver on account based systems!

@Gerbwmu
Oh man, I'm glad I'm not alone with child game horrors. Our 18 month old got ahold of animal crossing city life, dropped it on the ground, stepped on it, and ground it into a pile of crushed Cheerios (which he just created 9 seconds earlier). Needless to say, the disk was toast.

Wow! Quick boot mode is such an awesome idea! It's such a simple idea, but it will eliminate frustration. Good job guys.

What are the yellow things the ship collects? It looks like peices of the breakfast cereal "Pops". REDUX! Sponsored by Kellogg.

Buying all of these shares on the heals of a major drop in stock price... It sounds a little insider tradery to me. It will be interesting to see what the value of their stock does after the acquisition is complete. I would laugh really hard if the very next day, they announce a major game release, causing their stock to take a huge jump in price, and earning Nintendo millions in the process.

Looks like I'll be buying an external hard drive this weekend.

What if they tried a few touch control games on ios that they currently are not making money on? What about Phantom Hourglass? Improve the graphics a bit and release via mobile as a trial to test the waters and keep investors happy. The game already made its money. NES super Mario bros requires real buttons and is still making them money on Nintendo platforms.

I guess it's kind of a waiting game for those of us not employed by Nintendo. Either they will figure out a great solution to this problem, or they will be forced to publish games on tablets, phones and other consoles. It's frusterating to all of us on the outside because we all love the company and want for it to do very well. There really is no other company around that I continually root for. To just wait and have faith that they'll innovate their way out of it, kind of sucks, but There's nothing else I can really do I suppose. Regardless, I'm sure we can all agree that Nintendo needs to make some major changes to claw their way back to profitability. Pachter is right about one thing. Unless they acknowledge there's a problem, this major problem will not and cannot be remedied.

Ordered a link and an animal crossing one. I love the bullet bill cover.

@Tra_Venous
You answered my question too. Thanks.

So, most copies are sold in the first week? It looks like for all the games that a large amount was sold the first week and not much of any were sold a full year late.

It's definitely disheartening to hear. It shows that Nintendo really has to get better at cooperation and assistance. Waiting a week between communications is rediculous. As he pointed out, Nintendo will make fantastic first party games that will sell systems. That is true, but if Nintendo wants 3rd party support, it must show developers how it's done. Immediate feedback to questions and available developers to assisst important 3rd party developers and immediately necessary. If they can't fix that broken aspect of their business model, when the next system is released in 2017 (or so), the new developers meeting will be attended only by lonely cricket chirps.

@GearsOfWarU
Well said. I can't get into FPS' right now. I need fun gaming experiences. Not that a great FPS won't come along, but another COD clone just won't due. My kids and I have also been playing a lot of NES Remix. It's awesome to watch them get excited for the old games. As a result, they're playing the NES Zelda and super Mario bros and just eating it up. Four player SMB3DW is on all the time, and my five year old loves excitebike. Crazy times. I much prefer that over a pleading child trying in vain to get me to allow him to play GTAV. (Maybe I get today's award for acronym usage?).

About 2/3rds of the way through the December 9th podcast episode of the Joe Rogan Experience, Brian Redban asked Cliff what he liked better, Xbox one or PS4. He fired back, "Actually, I'm really into Nintendo right now. The new Mario is awesome and the new Zelda is amazing". It was a short little quote, but it's nice to see high profile names enjoying what we all know here is great.

Oh, wait... USA too? Awesome!

Bla bla bla... UK only... Bla bla bla...

Looks pretty cool. I'll have to crack open my wallet again.

Sounds like tee time starts at 8:15am.

I'm assuming not much in the way of ground breaking material with this one. I have a feeling they're experimenting quite heavily behind the scenes. E3 this year should bring some new stuff.

Awesome! Glad I waited and didn't purchase mega man X! You will be mine in about two hours.

I wondered what happened to this title. I remember thinking it looked great when the first trailer came out quite a long time ago. Hopefully the wait was worth it.

So if it adds NNID support to Streetpass, could we possibly see Streetpass info show up in our WiiU? Eg, a new play coin system or more likely WiiU competition and ghost data

Does anybody know what specifically makes it rated M?

I'm sure that is true. It does kind of sound jerkish towards fans though.

Eventually we all run out of 1ups. Very sad. I watched the super Mario super show as a kid. It was great. I bought a couple seasons for my kids and they love em! The show was just silly and light hearted. It's nice to come home from work and one of my kids are now playing an episode. To be heralded through my door to "Do the Mario" is refreshing. Thanks Danny and Captain Lou!

I don't get why people remain unconvinced! Even if it's only used for inventory selection, it's fantastic! Try playing the GameCube version of windwaker after playing through the WiiU version. Removing the necessity to pause the game to remap items or check the map is huge on its own! I can't wait for a WiiU Metroid where the map and inventory will just be there at all times.