Shworange

@ACK
Amen brother.

I have a 10 year old son, a five year old son, four 3DS', a gameboy advance, a gameboy, 2 iPhones, one iPod and and iPad. At this moment, my 5 year old is playing a 3ds, and my 10 year old is playing the gameboy advance. Our iPad hasn't been touched in weeks. It all depends on the family. For that donkey to make such an ignorant statement is folly. He can't make statements based on his own living room and transpose that onto everyone else. There's plenty of room for it all.

I've taken mine everywhere I normally get hits. The Minnesota Zoo and the Mall of America are always good for a few. It's impossible to say whether I'm getting real hits or relayed ones.

Myamoto has spoken before about a new IP in the works. Seeing as Nabbit is appearing all over in recent Mario games and now a version of him in Zelda, is he going to be the new ip?

I'm all for viral stunts, but this was lame... Try harder next time guys

To ease the perceived sting of a whole five bucks a year, why not sell a cheap Pokemon plush for 10 bucks. It will come with a code good for a year access to the Pokemon bank. Boom! You're getting a physical item along with the digital one. Everyone's happy. Except for me, I'm indifferent to the whole situation.

I can't friggin wait! It looks amazing! My kids haven't had a chance to play this game. I used to play it when my first child was born. We'd be up late at night because he just wouldn't sleep. I'd turn on that game and lull him to sleep with the music of Link sailing on the ocean. Pretty awesome.

The game looks great, but 2.5million is asking way the hell too much.

Bad name, not enough games and most importantly, not enough television marketing! They like making viral stunts and whatnot, but you need to kill tv viewers with ads. That is the key.

Great story!

@meppi
Amen!

Why doesn't Wii U integrate partial downloads or texture map downloads like the other systems? I'm sure this would help, an it would seem ridiculous that it just cannot perform that task. What's the point of getting a two terrabite hard drive if I can't try to fill it up?

eBay here I come!

You lucky Europeans. I wish NA release date was this upcoming week. I'll be on vacation from work and would very much like to play it while I'm off. Oh well, I patiently await its arrival and will get caught up on a couple of other games I've been meaning to complete.

@GamerZack7
Cool thanks.

Follow up question. The game comes with a new portal obviously. Can we use the new portal for Wii U with skylanders giants?

A lot of us were very excited for Heroes if Ruin. Then it can out... Too short, too rushed, no promotion and very weak graphics hindered the game.

Will you be able to use giants on this game as well?

I was going to buy pikmin 3, but decided to hold off and get this first. I have to support these guys!

Gotta catch em all: Cheatermon!

I still dig it out from time to time to best the Streetpass records. Other than that I feel like I've played the hell out of it. I beat the game with all shiny stars and my Streetpass record stands at a maxed out 30,000 coins. I have only 650,000ish coins. I really don't see the need to get to one million.

I would love the same treatment given to tiny toons next if licenses permit. That was another platformers that was incredible.

@yoshisaredragon
You really are being silly. Nothing I said was remotely disrespectful towards him. However instead of backing away from your ridiculous statement, you keep on backtracking and doing laps on your inane point.

@yoshisaredragon
Chill out. I wasn't putting words in his mouth. I'm taking an active interest in the game. Don't try to stir up drama that otherwise wouldn't be there.

@yoshisaredragon
Why can't I?

@DestinyMan
I hope you're right. He sounds tired though.

@rlopez1996
I dont know... heres what he said. "Every time, you know, I try to the point where I think I can't go on any longer. For example, I think pretty much the limit when it comes to creating characters for a Smash Bros. is about 20, counting those from older games."
20, counting characters used in older games. That sounds like only 20 to me, unless he miss-spoke. Heres who's confirmed for sure so far: 1) Wii fit trainer 2) Luigi 3) Villager 4) Mega Man 5) Samus 6) Link 7) Mario 8) Bowser 9) Kirby 10) Pit 11) Pikachu 12) Captain Olimar 13) Donkey Kong 14) Fox

If 20 is the correct number, there is 6 still unannounced. I would just assume peach and Zelda will be playable, or else another round of "Nintendo is sexist" talk will resume. That's four slots left. Thoughts? I'm still guessing Pacman will drop in.

So... There will be 20 characters to play as?...

So, is it a plaza skin or a separate and useless app?

A good start but keep going. Show item selection in the game pad. Show seamless interface. Show someone switching to the gamepad to play while tv watching. Keep it coming.

37 percent of all hardware sales then was pulled in by Wii. That's crazy. Also, four billion games?! Not many companies can say they sold billions of units of non disposable products. That's amazing.

Anyone remember talk of "three pillars" to support games and business. There was a lot of talk about what the third pillar would be. Who knows.

For real! This was one of my favorite games!!!! I'm freaking out!!!!

I always loved the odd world style. I'll buy the heck out of these!

I bet if you enter the Konami code at the title screen, this pops up.

Oh god. Could you imagine a Mario game with dumbed down controls like a Mario infinite runner? My blood just ran cold.

I played and beat it back in the early 90s. The game has literally zero replayability. Once you know the ending, there's no point to go through the hassle again. You get a code from one of the last books you find. Once you know the code, you can beat the game. If you start the game over from scratch, yet you still remember the sequence code, you can beat the game in under 10 seconds. It may be fun to revisit Arkham city after beating the batman game. It may be enjoyable to peak into the mushroom kingdom after beating a Mario game. It is lame and wildly unsatisfying to revisit Myst.

Nightmare before Christmas here I come

So cool!

Good business move for activision. Become an independent company shortly before you release a game that will net you millions and get you going on the right track again. It can suck to have a parent company. Especially when they are in financial straights.

"It's a marathon not a sprint"

Yea, but so far the marathon has been run by a one legged, obese runner. Hopefully we can strap a running blade to that guy and get him some slim fast post haste.

I like the fluid snake motion they give her. It may not be true to comics, but seeing her in action makes the character seem perfectly fit for a woman. I can't wait to play this on my WiiU

This game looks really great!

Pfft! His art sucks! He kept using the same snake over and over again! Take an art class kid!!!

Just kidding. That reminds me of mazes I would make on graph paper. It would lead to one of four exits on the edge of the page. You pick one and flip the page over to find out if you made it out or fell into a trap. Good times.

Anyone read Japanese to translate the background characters?

Just think, if the WiiU came out in 2010, skyward sword would have been in HD!

The only problem I see with this happens when (for instance) you and a family member walk into a McDonald's. One of you may get a new Streetpass. The other will get nothing. Presumably I just streetpassed my friend. I will get the new Streetpass and he will get nothing since he all ready streetpassed me and the Streetpass clock hasn't reset yet.

Between Animal Crossing New Leaf and Earthbound, how the heck will I ever have time for real life?

I agree with him in that it's not easy for the masses to click with why a game pad is great. When we have people over, they always ask about it. Two hours later, they get it and love it. I love when functional, creative uses for the game pad are employed by developers. With that said, when showing the system to new users, they love simply having inventories on the gamepad, or streaming full games to it as well! All of this needs to be highlighted in advertising, but for whatever reason Nintendo just doesn't bother featuring the benefits on ads. A big miss for sure.

Sweet! I love it

Nevermind. I just searched eBay and one figure is selling for 14 bucks. The rest is going for over 25 dollars. Club Nintendo it is then.