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@Damo Sry but the ships you get access to when you pay are better than the ones you have access to as a free player. Alone the possible crew slots are enough to make this point.

With players of the same skill level the one that pays will win most of the time. And that is what P2W is all about.

The holy grail of F2P at the moment is dota 2. A game i do not like to play but it does everything right when it comes to F2P.
Another game that does everything right is Path of Exile.

Sry but this game is a light version of P2W. Without spending money you will not have access to the better subs.
One could argue it is a unlimited trial version but it was launched qas a F2P game so i call it P2W. It is not the worst kind tho since one purchase get you to equal footing.

Would love to buy those games on a disc. Please Nintendo get this out in Europe too.

I still think that Rayman would have sold more on WiiU than all sales for the game combined if the game would have been released in February. There was so much hype for this game.

Well the game will sell much worse than it could have. Not that it would have sold that stellar anyway.

Just put it into the eShop in Europe if a physical release is too costly.
And lable it as english only so you do not have to translate it for every language. People will still buy it.

Now show us FAST

Nintendo should let them use the F-Zero franchise and give them some funding.
F-Zero: Fast Racing Neo does not even sound so bad.

With Nintendo's new stance on licensing Lego Zelda might be possible in the future.
Both Zelda and Mario would fit Lego really well.

This game is now pretty much 6 months late to save the WiiU.
I doubt it will have the effect on system sales we wish it could have.

TBH while i like thegamepad i think it use is very limited.
Off Screen and Inventory/Maps are nice to have but games would be just as good without them. As an optional controller if Nintendo requests every game to have Off Screen Play it would be nice to have.

It would not surprise me at all.
Sad day for those that would like to buy it on WiiU.

Well EA then show it. Bring a small game like Mirror's Edge 2 to WiiU. JnR are well recieved on WiiU so that might even work out pretty well on the system.

Wave Race or Advanced Wars would be instant buys for me.
Pokémon Fighters is interesting but all the others i pretty much do not care about.

I really do not get why they axed the online multiplayer.
Do Devs not understand that players will not buy their games if they get the feeling they get shfted?

I wish they would just remove the button from my menu.

For me its MK8 and Hyrule Warriors.

Shibata is so cool. If Iwata ever steps down i hope he gets the job.

Day 1 Buy.

Now thats a good ad.

Nintendo still does not understand the internet.
People want to add friends in social networks. It is not rocket sience.

The WiiU is pretty much finished. I doubt Mario Kart alone will sell the system. Perhaps a hefty price cut could change something alongside Mario Kart.
I think we will see the WiiU go into Life Support early 2015.

Neither is the eShop working for me nor can i update the Mii Lobby. Kinda annoying.

25 Million is what i would have guessed as well.
But i would have waited until after the 3d World and Kart 8 numbers were in to make a final judgement call.
The numbers after those two releases will show us how the U will sell in the long run.

@SanderEver
I agree with you.

@Nintendolife
Stop giving EA space on your website.

Don't say upgrade Nintendo ... say it is a new console.
Man how hard can it be to make this point as clear as you can get.

Tbh i hate the new mega picross. This will pretty much be the first picross game i will not finish. Only 6 mega picross to go but they suck so much that i do not want to continue any more.

Until Nintendo finally reches the 21st century i will no longer buy any of their products. Only exception i will make is Mario Kart 8 because that is the main reason i got a WiiU.

Tennis controls are too wonky. That and the lag made Bowling the far superior game. And do not tell me i got a bad internet connection.

The laggy online part and the unreliable controls made me skip this one. Bowling is great tho

I am very disappointed by Tennis. The lag is very noticeable. And the controls seem very wonky. My Mii just does not do what i tell it to do. Do a backhand swing ... nope it just stays on forhand even tho there i sno point for that,
Well thats 10€ saved.

And here we go again. Well we knew about it yesterday already and it makes me sad to see Nintendo do this.
Well everyone has to decide for themself on how they will react to Nintendo's actions. I made my choice and withdraw my unconditional support for Nintendo.
From now on every Ninteno produtc i am interested in buying will be subject to close examination if i really want it or if it is even worth buying.
Prior to yesterday i was blindly buying Nintendo products. This has stopped.

@cmk8 it is on engadget already and i bet frome there it will spread to other websites as well. will perhaps not reach main stream media but internet media will all cover it.

How is this a smart move. If they are afraid of legal consequences they should have never released such a app. Nintendo has no idea how the internet works and proves it day in and day out.
From what i read in the announcement it seems they were surprised that people would share their FC online in forums. Come on how blind of the world do you have to be to be surprised about that.
And if people want to trade such offensive materials they will do it either way. No matter if Swap Note is active or not. Now they will just use email or facebook or whatever else.
And you can access most of that from the 3DS browser. So the should discontinue the browser as well right? Would be such a smart move.

Well it pretty much sets Nintendo firmly in the Kiddy Company corner and there is no way to get them out of there for a few years.
People that were thinking about going back to Nintendo will not come back now because their old views got proven once more.

You could not recieve any messages unless both parties agreed to add their FCs. At that point it becomes the perents responsibility. Or do you think FB will shut down because some idiots send bad pictures around.
There are way easier ways to get those pics than SwapNote.

Have to agree that Nintendo made a move here that makes it very hard for someone to fight the Kiddy image. Was just a knee jerk reaction from them.
Have to call them idiots as well.

Hmm i am thinking about Revelations on the 3DS.
If you do not own Mercenaries on the 3DS you should pick it up. Great fun.

The only 3rd Party Publishers worth supporting right now seem to be Ubisoft, Activision and Sega.

3rd Party Devs are pretty much begging me not to buy their games. Well i am glad i can comply most of the time.

For me it will be Bowling + Golf + Tennis and if they ever add Wii Sports Resort Sports i will pick up Archery as well.

Nintendo should really rebrand the Wii U to Wii 2.

Well Doom 3 was a poopiedoodledoodoopoop game. No idea if the BFG edition changed that.
Based on my experience with Doom 3 i am not even touching the BFG edition tho.

Region Locking serves multiple purposes.
1. Support local retailers
2. Ensure Games that get released to a certain market are localised
3. Different pricing in different regions.

Now i think we as gamers do not really care where we buy our games from. But Nintendo does. If the local retailers don't sell your games because noone buys them then they won't sell your hardware. There is not enough profit in the hardware for retailers hardware.
Some games that got localised would have never got a translation into at least english if it were not for region locking. Unless Nintendo, Sony or Microsoft would pay for it. The profit is again not big enough to warrent a translation if some of the possible consumers already imported the game.
Pricing in countries like India and Brazil would not be as low as it is right now. The people there would suffer much higher prices compared to what they pay now.

For me only point 2 is relevent since i live in a rich country and can afford video games. But i can see the ther side of the coin as well.
As a compromise i would like to see the European, Australian and North American Regions getting combined into one region.

Nintendo really has to wake up. They are harming themself with these duck moves. The youtube thing was just the same. More and more people will just turn their back on them because on these stupid moves. Nintendo really has no idea what is happening at the moment.
Embrace the web culture perhaps even sponsor it. In the end you will geain more that way then trying to destroy it.

This might be the first Sonic game i will buy. Looks really interesting.

One of the best games ever made and my favorite GC game. I even think it still looks really good by todays standards.
This was the reason i picked up a GC at launch. Loved the N64 predecessor but did not like its sequel because of the levels on foot.
If this game ever ends up in the Virtual Console it will be a day 1 buy for me.

The only game i will miss from all the upcomming EA titles is Mirror's Edge 2.
I could get that on the PC but i refuse to buy games that require Origin after i had some hands on with it while playing BF3.
I still hope the WiiU will get a good boost over the holidays and after MK8 is released. I gues that could entice them to bring these games (or in my case just ME2) to the WiiU.

Without MK8 i doubt the WiiU will sell as much as they anticipate.

@Frapp Wish i could buy that from germany. But everytime i try to connect to the uk store i am getting redirected to the german store and that one does not sell console games.

Ok ME3 released over 8 months later and NFS nearly 5 moths later. Fifa 13 or should we say Fifa 11 that does not even run smooth and Madden is pretty much the same deal as Fifa.

Why would you expect good sales from any of those titles? While ME3 and NFS are great games that were released way too late. Both sport titles are poop ports and gamers are not that dumb to buy those in masses.

I just got my WiiU and i am considering buying NFS but it is hard to justify paying 60€ retail if i could get the game on PC for 10€.

The WiiU did not need yet another 2D/3D JnR. There are way too many of these being announced lately.
What the WiiU neded was something jaw dropping like Metroid Prime. I am not saything they should have made another Metroid Prime but something equally awesome. Right now there is only X that fits that category.