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I've had my PS4 and Switch since their respective launches...so yeah, I think he has a point.

Okay...well, I doubt it'll hold the Switch version back much given how well HWL replicated and even IMPROVED on the original. But honestly, I wanna triple-dip and get Hyrule Warriors Ultimate on Switch too. Hope they can make that happen at some point, with new BotW content added.

Nintendo are the undisputed kings of packing big games into smaller file sizes...it tends to feel like most other companies don't even TRY anymore, feeling no remorse for eating up ABSURD amounts of storage on PS4, Xbone, and PC. A game this massive and ambitious on any other platform would easily be three times the size...and you'd have to install it on the hard drive to play.

Is it actually coming to America this time? I'm not finding any listings for it in my region...

@Spoony_Tech I assume you mean "in your own region." Feeling excluded from a Nintendo release is nothing new for me...although I'll admit this feels like a new low. sigh

I came to this site seeking this news post as soon as the server started giving me trouble at 5am. Dammit, we did NOT need this yet!

This is strange to me, because I've made the VAST majority of my egg progress in a car without even particularly trying...but bikers are having trouble? So weird.

Stop trying to sabotage people with Instinct, Alex.

@SuperCharlie78 That wasn't "Question of the Day," that was "Everybody Answers." That event may yet continue as well.

"Everyone moves at once" means you CAN'T all be in the same damn car. That alone has me intrigued.

I still enjoy Miitomo, but it definitely requires a handful of like-minded friends to get the most out of. I log on, chat up a few friends, have a laugh, and earn my Platinum coins for the day. This was never meant to be a program that people played for hours on end, but it's easy to enjoy for a few minutes a day.

Looks higher quality than a lot of the official plushes I see in stores. And I call it now: Rowlet will indeed get an official plush that isn't as good as this.

This right here...this is fantastic, and if they're hoping to increase sales with this, I'd say it's gonna work. I'm seriously contemplating this now, as is a friend I already play PS4 Minecraft online with.

Note: They actually did NOT land in America today, just PAL regions from the look of it. Article's a bit misleading there. We do have the bunny badges, though.

Also, I recommend this page to see what's out in Japan: http://imgur.com/a/wcl7W

I played Culdcept Saga on Xbox 360...boy, was THAT ever the wrong system for this kind of game! It was pretty cool and I'd totally buy a new entry in the series if they do wind up localizing it.

Gee...remember when they said paid DLC for Animal Crossing would be a terrible idea? And now we have a free-to-start game coming, seemingly the absolute antithesis of the previous claim. How three years can change a company...

I wish the American release of the game would come Directly to me.

@ChessboardMan As I understand it, Finding Teddy and Finding Teddy 2 play completely differently, and are just story linked. They probably felt that it would be easier to sell this game to console players without making it look like a sequel to something they didn't get. The sequel is far more popular than the first game, I think...so it makes sense.

@NewAdvent It's suspicious simply because publishers don't usually directly respond to rumors like that. When they do, it automatically lends credence to them.

@TourianTourist Hmm...well, I think it's based on this part of the tweet: "so you can be like 'It's useless to hide yourself!' Time is money… so use it well." If it's useless to hide themselves and time is money, that has to mean you can take care of the Poes without waiting around. I mean...this was my #1 greatest issue with TP and the one thing I always said NEEDED to be fixed in an HD rerelease, and I can't have been alone, so I think Nintendo knew well enough to do somethin about it, eh?

@MegaWatts Ugh...yeah, the localization of that one was a bit cheap. Cut out Japanese songs for no good reason, too. sigh

@MegaWatts N64 on Wii U DOES have Restore Points, yes.

And yes, the controller pak was mostly used as a way to help third parties get cheaper game carts to improve developer support. I really hope they can get that worked out or we'll have even less chance of some real gems like Goemon's Great Adventure hitting VC.

GameStop is actually out of stock, so that link is kind of useless. The day Bayonetta was announced for Smash, I went to a local independent game store and grabbed two copies of the bundle...one for me, one for a friend. Yeah, they were still charging $60, but the thing has gotten hard enough to find lately that this was preferable to online sales taking advantage of collectibility. I'm happy with the decision I made, but I also think it's nice that Nintendo at least has the sense to offer any sort of reprint for the Smash release. And you can always get game 1 on the eShop if it comes to it...although I certainly prefer my discs.

It's about damn time! Of course, that's one game out of way too many we're waiting for, but it's also the earliest release (not counting Mario's Super Picross, as if THAT will ever actually come). Figures NoA would put it out solo...but hey, it's progress...such as it is.

Drill Dozer? Don't you DARE add this one to the absurdly long list of "not crossing the Atlantic" games, NoA!

Forget half the VC Europe got today, it's still NONE of what they got last week, which are far more important releases (at least to me, and probably lots of other people)!

@Bass_X0 So pessimistic! I mean...yeah, it's probably deserved because Nintendo may very well be too stupid to take the free money from the free preexisting fan translation, but I think there's enough negativity going on around here for Christmas Eve as it is without piling that on.

@Grumblevolcano Thank you for being a good an empathetic person instead of of reveling in the reversal of fortunes or even merely being indifferent. After all, we're all Nintendo fans here and every branch is still part of one company at the end of the day...we'd all like to be treated fairly and help support the company we love...but sometimes, they do NOT make it easy.

@Grumblevolcano Yes, precisely that. It's really the fact that NoA insists on pretending the internet doesn't exist and we couldn't POSSIBLY be upset that people across the pond have all these games we don't. They never ask what we want, they don't even care...meanwhile, Sony actively seeks suggestions for PS2 games on PS4. sigh

Of course, it used to be the other way around...back in the pre-modern-internet days. NoE improved immensely and NoA gave up.

"Sadly this wasn't included in the European Nintendo Download details earlier in the week, but hopefully it won't be too far away."

So what? You guys are getting SMRPG AND SM64DS, so I don't wanna hear your complaining. Galaxy is great and all, but it's not what I was excited for and it still feels like a consolation prize in this situation.

@sketchturner I'm afraid you'll be pulling a Rip Van Winkle on that at this rate, man. :/

Well, this was OBVIOUSLY the only right way to handle this release. Which of course means I half expected Nintendo to screw it up and have been pleasantly surprised. I'm sure that whenever it gets around to releasing here, we'll get the levels also because it just makes even less sense than NoA normally does otherwise.

And lazy ports like this are EXACTLY why third-party games don't sell on Nintendo consoles. :/

Pfft...amiibo aren't rated by the ESRB! Silly Nintendo.

Who wanted a new version of TP? I did! Looking forward to that one for real. And amiibo Festival is actually good IMO. People say Nintendo's Christmas lineup sucks this year, but it's still way more interesting to me than the other guys' overall.

Oh look, Game Boy VC games. EAT IT, NATSUME!

I'm a VC-Reviews alum...you've come so far since then. Still the #1 go-to place for reviews of EVERY downloadable Nintendo release.

Huh...didn't know about the hire-a-hero thing 'cause I haven't played in a bit. But I'm totally working on collecting the whole set anyway so it hardly matters. Yeah, it's a lot when I'm already doing amiibo and I almost didn't...but Dimensions is what pushed me over into getting Best Buy Gamer Club Unlocked and I've been LOVING the game, so it's worth it IMO.

I saw the update a few days ago but didn't even notice the likeness. Weird.

@Bass_X0 Wait...really? Do you have any evidence of this besides that quote from Natsume, because I don't really trust them after their statement about NES/SNES games on Wii U turned out to be bogus.

@MrPuzzlez Yeah...but if they're spending so much producing VC games that a SUPERB title like Drill Dozer wouldn't be profitable, they're doing it wrong anyway. I know Nintendo cares about quality control and that's admirable, but they take things WAY TOO FAR with Virtual Console, re-building emulators and play testing every title individually.

"Initially we thought this was actually its GBA predecessor before realising it was a follow-up with an exceptionally lazy title."

Me too, guys. I checked Nintendo's website last night to see what would be releasing and at first I was like "but that's already been released!" Had to scroll down to see the tiny difference in title.

Also...while I suppose this is better than NO VC like Europe got this week, it's hardly what most people want. Where in the bloody hell is Zero Mission already? Or Drill Dozer...been waiting for that for a while too, but at least it's not out overseas yet either AFAIK.

@NandN3DS: I guess not, 'cause my point is more or less that. Very rarely does anything else on these releases catch my interest.

Umm...but Natsume is the same company that said Nintendo was "moving on" from NES and SNES on Wii U, and THAT'S not entirely true based on recent releases. Don't think I can entirely trust them, sorry.

To clarify, I don't think that means we should waste energy expecting that next big wave of games week after week...just that I don't think Natsume deserves to be taken as FINAL word on the matter given their track record.

ONE of Europe's FOUR VC games this week...screw you, NoA.

Hot damn, FOUR VC games AND a Wii title all in ONE week? NoE is spoiling you guys something FIERCE!

Holy crap, I missed the previous article about this game somehow and had no idea it was coming. PLEASE localize this Nintendo, I LOVED Picross 3D!

I KNEW it was too much to hope we wouldn't have an unnecessary wait for StarTropics. sigh

This is the man who openly stated he wasn't allowed to talk video games on his Escapist video series "No Right Answer" after being hired at Nintendo. I have NO IDEA why he thought he could get away with this podcast. But he did, and he was wrong...and I for one feel bad for him because the Treehouse must've been an AMAZING job to lose for something like this. Yes, he brought it on himself, but I don't think that precludes any amount of sympathy.

Garfield has fallen SO far since Caught in the Act on Genesis. sigh

Apparantly, Arin Hanson got banned just for using the username "Egofaptor" (apologies if that's too dirty to post here...I'm honestly not sure). I question why Nintendo couldn't have simply helped him change the name instead of banning him like that straight up.

Anyway, I've seen a few posts of obviously bad nature on Miiverse, but not all that many. But I also don't use Miiverse all that much, so I dunno how bad the problem really is. While this measure seems ill thought out and harsh, if it's as bad as they say, I understand WHY they'd do it. Not sure what the alternatives are.

I was sold on Triforce Heroes and Paper Jam and completely fail to see what all the complaining is about...well, except for those who wanted real Animal Crossing instead of a board game. That I get, even though I think AC is better on handhelds anyway.