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Can someone confirm for me... If Etrian Odyssey 2 and 3 are normal DS (not region locked DSi) carts? My girlfriend loves the first one and would love me forever if I imported 2 and 3 for her birthday

I used to work in the Nintendo UK customer support centre until not too long ago, it was the best job I have ever had and probably ever will. Once I was on a call helping with Ocarina of Time for 3 and a half hours!...we sent them a copy of the guide in the end. So many good times

I am all for Nintendo trying new things with the series. I'm hoping for a new four swords with multiple gamepad support.

I think I can honestly say that I have helped more people get online with their Nintendo consoles then anyone else in the world! I really am not exaggerating when I say this either...long story

Well written review, quite pessimistic and nit-picky. I wasn't expecting a score of 8 after reading it! This one is on my Xmas list and if it doesn't show up, it'll be bought soon after. I'm finding it difficult to split my spare time between my 3DS and WiiU..hard life hehe

I really don't see what all the fuss is about. Firstly this will change in the future and secondly if your console breaks you have a warranty and if you return to Nintendo for repairs or replacement your account is transferred to another console anyway! Oh yeah and if you have any sense at all you should have home contents insurance if the console is stolen.

It'd have to be Afterburner for me, seems a perfect fit for 3D. Space Harrier is a good choice to start with too. 3D aside i would love me some retro Phantasy Star on the go!

The trend for slightly later ports is only because the dev kits wouldn't have been in developers hands long enough yet and ports are a cheap and easy way to get titles out there making them the all-important money. From all the info out there it seems really quite easy to get a game made on the Wii U. This really could be the best Nintendo platform yet!

These videos are great but they do feel too manufactured, I prefer watching yuriofwind on youtube. His gaming mysteries videos are great

@ueI
It depends on which region you are from, in Europe (where this site is based) strikers charged came out before Pokemon battle revolution

I wish someone would explain to me why they would use the pro controller when the GamePad is there to be used... Surely a pro controller would only be used for second player asymmetrical gaming? The pro controller has nothing that the pad doesn't offer so whats the point?

I have a feeling that Mario Kart for the Wii U will be done by this dream team. Nintendo need to be acquiring more like them so that they can increase their output whilst still maintaining the quality. I would however love to see what they could do with Zelda

I'd be happy with Lightning returns - FF13 but i'm one of the strange few who actually quite enjoyed 13/13-2

@19Robb92 No you won't that's what this article confirms

@SilverSeraph
The 3DS does play DSiWare...well apart from about 8 titles to my knowledge anyway

Surely every one of us should have seen this coming, we know the Wii U plays Wii titles including VC/WiiWare in Wii mode which like the Wii going into Gamecube mode means that in this mode it IS a Wii unlike offerings from Sony and Microsoft who only emulate backwards compatibility. The up side is 100% compatibility and the downside is that getting another controller working with that would be very tricky to engineer same goes for upscaling. Besides I like the fact that I can still use my SNES classic controllers

@allav866
Its a good job you have two screens then really

What you all need to remember is that that 8.3m forecast is divided across six different models of the console. There are three regions each with two different versions and the balance of those may not be perfectly 'in tune' with demand. If each model of the console was built in equal proportion then that is just under 1.4m consoles available of the model available to you which isn't that many in the grand scheme of things really.

Oh and I too hope that no one got hurt.

@Hardy83
It's really easy to re-download games, just go to 'titles you have already downloaded' I have made tons of purchases and have my ambassidor games and it only takes a few seconds.

I have every intention of every first party Wii U game I buy being downloaded provided the most I pay is about £5 more than retail. Booting games from SD or external HDD having them all ready to go is the only reason I soft modded one of my Wii consoles and i'm willing to pay a small premium for doing that legitimately. I have yet to do this with my 3DS as and handheld could quite easily get lost or stolen in comparison to a home console and if the wireless were to break the whole lot is trapped on that console...unless that is that Nintendo do make an account based solution.

@cyrus_zuo
Sorry to break this to you but you cannot play VC or original Wii games on the Gamepad. The console switches to 'Wii mode' displaying on the TV only fingers crossed that they patch that later.

I really don't like that people do this, I just think that if you want something so much pre-order! If not wait until you can get it even if it's frustrating. Besides as soon as it's sold on doesn't make the console pre-owned therefore not in warranty?

They have shown the main menu already. It's called Miiverse, we already know its the first thing you see when the console it switched on. All the games are shown there and load from there. Besides multi-game disk-free demo Wii consoles had an almost identical menu shown on the TV and this is nothing different.