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Anyone else having trouble connecting to the eShop?

@JaxonH out of curiosity, what happened to your Gamepad?

Fifteen bucks is real steep for something that looks like I Wanna Be The Guy.

How is the Wii U a "failure"? Calling it that basically removes all credibility from this article.

The Wii U has been out for one year. No one is saying its an unbridled success, but using the word "failure" is just fishing for page hits. Which NintendoLife (and, in turn, me) gave them.

So Yarn Yoshi isn't happening? Because, uh, that's it. In the Sonic game.

In other, equally relevant news:

Spaghetti is the dish that made me love Italian food

Dracula X, please

OutRunners
Virtua Fighter
Virtua Fighter 2
Laser Ghost
Alien Soldier
Planet Harriers
Star Wars Trilogy Arcade

Please, Santa

Loved Steel Diver, so it being featured in Smash Bros. is too cool.

Finally playing the game now that there's a lull in 3DS software. I'd never played the original, so to me The Last Ranger is pretty fresh. I have honestly never played anything quite like it. It is also very charming, with well-designed, likeable characters and some funny dialogue.

I do agree that a standard button setup might be best, as touchscreen controls can be inaccurate, and they are here. However the combat system is a blast once you understand exactly when to tap and swipe. A tutorial video for that would have been nice.

I'm thinking The Last Ranger is at least a 7, and perhaps an 8 if it adds some more interesting elements as the game progresses. I'd like to see the series continue, or see Dillon/Jiro in other Nintendo media; dare I say Smash Bros?

I find the 3DS version to be rough compared to even the mobile browser one, and not even close to the Wii U standard.

Needs work, but at least it's finally there.

I've convinced three people to buy a Wii U.

I, therefore, account for 4% of Wii U global sales, and deserve a raise.

Me too, which is why the 3DS and Wii U aren't as great as they should be..

HELL. YES.

OutRunners next, please!

How about GBA games instead?

Seriously, what is the holdup there?

You managed to clock the end credits in 20 minutes because you kept Continuing, you mean.

@Drobotic Wrong, we've actually hated Donkey Kong since it was announced at E3; where Nintendo was supposed to throw some knockout punches and instead danced around the ring, then refused to come out for the next round.

What is it that people like about Reggie? He is quite obviously a "yes" man who follows his marching orders from Kyoto to the letter.

Nintendo would have done better to have not even showed up at this event. That was awkward and embarrassing.

If Nintendo put a simple port of Super Mario Bros., optimized for mobile and with no other changes made, for 99 cents? I'm thinking...10, 20 million downloads probably in the first week. Nintendo is in a unique position where they could really half-donkey the whole thing because they already have the software and the people to port it.

Crash Bandicoot sucked.

I would sell my soul for one of these ports for the arcade version of OutRunners.

Paaaaathetic.

Pathetic, Nintendo.

Mario Party was always so good at destroying controllers--making control sticks flimsy, hastening button weardown, etc--that it seems crazy to me to put one on an expensive handheld.

Also, no online play is a bummer. With a game like this it could be a really different experience.

Saw this at Safeway yesterday. Tempting, but I'm not a big chicken noodle soup guy.

I'm not sure it's even going to do that well. At this point, only the most amazing, groundbreaking, visually stunning Zelda game Nintendo could possibly produce will generate real system-selling buzz.

I don't think it's a great ad, but run that 50 times a day on Nickelodeon, Disney Channel, and MTV, and maybe you'll sway some kids.

Now then, Nintendo: where are the ads you intend to run 24/7 on ESPN? I hope for your sake that that was not it.

@IceClimbers Well, if you want to include the Vita then the situation is even more dire, since the Vita has been beating the U in Japan..

And why do you think they're killing off the Wii?

Microsoft had a lot of bad press, but Nintendo has worse: apathy.

For example, I live where both Microsoft and Nintendo's US headquarters are located. The local news did a feature on the midnight launch of the PS4, then described the console war as a two-horse race. Not one mention of Nintendo. Now you may scoff at that and say its just one instance, but I think there is a great deal of that sort of general public ignorance to Nintendo's products. And that is 100% on Nintendo.

I've said it before, but if this Christmas is very bad for the U and it finds itself outsold by its four competitors, Nintendo can go ahead and panic.

As long as Capcom ends this trend of handing off beloved franchises to lousy western studios who don't understand those games anyway. Bionic Commando Rearmed was amazing, but only because Bertil Horberg is a genius.

I love Final Fight with all my heart. One of my favorite games of all time. I love Cody like he was my brother. But giving that name and those characters to some crap western studio--it was an insult to people who love Capcom's games. Capcom's REAL games.

So yes, Mr. Eshiro, please work on Final Fight Something. In Japan. And don't let anyone from anywhere else put their hands on it unless they've paid to play it.

Nintendo? Running ads on American TV?! During KEY DEMO PROGRAMMING?!?!

HELL HATH BECOME ICE

Better give a date for the new Mario Golf. I'm supposed to be playing it already.

Maybe I'll go get my picture taken on Luigi's lap.

The Internet was making fun of this a good six months ago.

DON'T CALL IT A COMEBACK
I CAME TO GET DOWN

-Satoru Iwata

It's on my Christmas list. Never played it before.

Is there a reason I haven't seen it anywhere at retail? Nobody has it. Is this another stupid Gamestop exclusive thing?

It's like Nintendo has never used the Internet.

_{Let's not use graphic examples. -Lz}

Is Ayrton Senna in this?

It's like they want it to fail. Then they can save money not porting to the U, save money not running U servers. And best of all, they can blame Nintendo for the "install base".

What a screwjob for Wii U owners. You want to support these releases because you want the system to succeed, but the vaunted third parties keep giving you perfectly good reasons to not buy.

Ironic pic this week..

007 Legends multiplayer (Wii U)
Goldeneye 007 Reloaded multiplayer (PS3)
Grand Theft Auto V (PS3)

Crazy how much better this looks now than it did at E3.

If Nintendo knew what they were doing they would make a U bundle with this in time for Christmas.

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Bought a brand new copy of NFSMWU almost day one, was irritated by all the DRM in it, then that EA guy trashed the Wii U and I was compelled to shelve it. And truthfully, that game is just the driving parts of GTA, but without all that makes GTA fun.

While we're here, whatever happened to The 90's Arcade Racer which was to be an eShop title? Haven't heard anything about that one in months.

Hey Game Freak, if you're going to patch this:

ALSO ADD THE ABILITY TO REMOVE THE ROLLER SKATES FOR THE LOVE OF GOD.

@Jukilum And I bet they still won't reach that goal!

If the Wii U has a dismal Christmas, and is outsold by all four competitors (which I believe will happen), Nintendo will begin phasing it out and begin work on Their Next Thing.

I mean, the writing is on the wall. They were wanting 10 million sales by the end of this year; yet it likely has not even moved halfway to that and we are midway through October.

007 Legends multiplayer (Wii U)
GTA V (PS3)
Luigi's Mansion 2 (3DS)

and probably POKEMON X.

Looks awesome, glad to hear this, now don't take forever getting it on my U.

Who needs GTA V on Wii U, we've got Retro City Rampage!

Outsold by the PSP?! Woof.

Why is that encouraging?