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Does the Master Sword one make any sounds? Looks like there's a speaker on top. The fire bar one is very nifty. :]

Very happy with all of that. :]

Eh? Looks pretty cool, however I doubt this will be successful. Games on tablets and mobile phones are all about short bursts of instant play, and digital purchasing of course. I can't see many people going out of their way to visit a physical store to buy real-life toys to supplement their throwaway mobile game (not saying this is a throwaway game, just that the general public sees mobile games as such - quick, cheap entertainment to pass a few spare minutes).

Also... I've played EBA endlessly, but I don't see any resemblance to this new game or its figures. Am I missing something...?

Lol, obviously fake. Apart from the strict time limit which only allowed players very specific periods of time with the demo before the next people in line took their turns, the whole thing was being very closely monitored and guided by Nintendo reps. There's absolutely zero chance any 'hacker' would be able to hook anything up to the consoles in question, let alone access menus, change settings or whatever.

This is so fake it's not even funny.

@Socar Very true, and I'm sure the final game will have more music, however they did explicitly discuss the lack of music and their focus on ambient sounds in its stead, during the Treehouse demos... :/

It all looked gorgeously fun. The one thing I hated was the terrible lack of music. :/ While I can appreciate ambient sounds, during the videos I've seen it really struck me how much I missed the music.

Especially considering music had always been one of the strongest points of all Zelda games, and how big a role it has always played...

After ALBW's marvelous soundtrack I had such grandiose expectations and hopes. T_T

Ha, I have that same shirt as Reggie is wearing in the pic @ the very end of the video. X'D

Lol, they're very much the same character just seen from different angles and in different poses. XD
It'd be way cooler of Nintendo opted for Zelda or any other female of the giant cast of characters to be playable instead of Link being female shoehorned in.

Omg HYPE!

Gah I'd be all over that! Darksiders 2 was exquisite, its few technical hiccups aside.

Gah. Every time a new Harvest Moon (the real ones from before) was announced, I planned on getting it, but never did before another sequel was announced. Then it changed to Story of Seasons and I've been meaning to get that... Now there's yet ANOTHER sequel announced! XD So many installments.

To be fair, Ubisoft are also the guys who had the then-very-hotly-anticipated Rayman Legends finished and ready to ship for Wii U, then delayed it for months and months to port it to Playstation and Xbox and release it simultaneously.

Then they proceeded to release games on Playstation/Xbox while the Wii U got the same games months and months later.

So logical.

I had no idea they were making a sequel... I was under the impression that the original flopped.

That's great! :] I'll definitely pick some up.

How very random. Goonies? XD

It's pretty clear that Nintendo aren't interested in 3rd party games. Seems like they've just given up. I wonder if they really believe they can sustain whatever NX is with the merging of their handheld and home console teams, all by themselves. :/

This is the milked-dry fake Harvest Moon franchise, so not interested. I'll take Story of Seasons over it.

Reeeeeeaaaally high time Nintendo unveiled something, anything. The complete lack of any noteworthy news at all is boring. Just rumours and more rumours. They're completely losing relevance, instead of at least trying to remain relevant, only continuing to keep digging themselves deeper and deeper into the dark hole they're in. D:

Is this the first officially confirmed 3rd party NX game? Or has Dragon Quest been officially confirmed already?

Screw them. XD They're pirating the game, none of them have any right to complain about anything.

I wish Nintendo would give us info about NX and its games already. :/ So much uninteresting non-news these days.

Lol. They should be glad they're FINALLY, after 20 years, getting the games in Chinese.

Why are they releasing this legendary edition with two copies of all 10 volumes..?

What's the point in owning/buying something twice?

Whoa, really well done!

No pics?

Cool - but too pricey for me. :/

Wow that's long. How's that going to work during an event with literally thousands of people...? Are you going to have to wait in line for 2 days to play once? XD

Anyway, I'm excited! Any word on whether they'll release some trailers in addition to the demos? Surely yes?

Um, and it would be the most surprising thing of the year to me if Nintendo released an eShop demo... XD

Well, it's boring ad heck and there's literally nothing to do. It's just a character in an empty room talking to himself and occasionally others. Oh and you can swap clothes, yes. I got bored of it quickly, there's just no point to it and I'd rather spend my time on fun things.

Lol. It's blatantly obvious they ripped most of it from the GameBoy Zelda games, and then made their own (very small) alterations. Why can't they just make it entirely and distinctly their own? Why always copy others? :/

Oh that's right, it's of course easier to take something existing and well-thought-out, instead of making it yourself from scratch.

How are they ever going to support 2 systems at the same time? They can't. I thought that was the whole point of NX, to have their home console and handheld development combined so they can pool their resources and put out more games. Which they need. Badly. :/

edit Oh so apparently it's a false rumour? Thank goodness.

A magical teddybear coming alive and befriending kids? I'm reminded of the movie Ted.

Is this an actual Nintendo-developed game?

Saw some videos of the pack on YouTube, it looks very cool, and much, much more elaborate than I'd have expected.

Still, I've never played Minecraft and don't think I ever will. I just don't get the appeal, at all. It looks awkward and weird as heck to me, not fun at all. But I'm glad Nintendo finally got in on this, a NX version is now inevitable I think, and we'll probably be seeing other packs on it too, such as Zelda and possibly Metroid.

So basically, the thing everyone not only wants but -needs- from Nintendo is an overall industry-standard design, in terms of horsepower, system architecture, online features etc.

Unfortunately that's something Nintendo, in my opinion, will never provide. Ever. Doesn't matter how many developers and other people claim they need it, Nintendo firmly marches to the sound of its own drum.

Maybe they'll oblige on a few points, but if so, there are guaranteed to be other important aspects they'll simply ignore for no reason at all, or which they'll implement their own unoptimized workaround version of, causing development headaches for devs everywhere. :/

Does anyone seriously care about this, like, at all?

Lovely, can't wait so find out and see more of the game!

Although I am somewhat getting the impression that they're going a bit overboard with the Banjo-Kazooie tributes... It sounds like almost a carbon copy of everything that made Banjo-Kazooie, well... Banjo-Kazooie, only with new characters.

From the animal duo themselves and their moves to the transformations, the jiggies being replaced by pagies... It all just feels a bit too blatantly overdone, and and I just really really hope they put enough effort into making this its own thing, instead of 'that Banjo-Kazooie-like game by the Banjo-Kazooie creators' just to please fans of the old games.

Heck, even that pic at the top of the characters underwater, reaching for that pagy (pagie?) is a carbon copy of a piece of B-K artwork. :/ (sorry dunno how to embed a pic here)

http://vignette4.wikia.nocookie.net/banjokazooie/images/7/7a/PromotionalPoster9.jpg/revision/latest?cb=20100425073503

That aside, it looks excellent so far!

Nintendolife, why are you promoting, and linking to, an illegal game..? :/

While I understand and can appreciate the point the devs of this are trying to make, I cannot understand why they couldn't just do it with an original game of their own.

Actually, I can... Because that'd be actual honest effort, and it's easier to take advantage of (hugely popular) stuff that already exists. :/

None for Wii U?

Saw this on YouTube yesterday - it's crazily awesome!

Pixels 2? And 3 and 4.

Neat! But! What do you do with these cards? Just collect them, or can you use them to play a game?

This might be cool, but you just know scalpers are going to sell rare cards for a fortune on eBay...

Ha, nice one with the Mario Sunshine song at the beginning. :]

What's the point of saving replays if they automatically get deleted every time there's an update (which is often)? :/

I've never come close to completing any of the New SMB games... I got the first one for DS back in the day, but I never cared about it, though I really tried to like it.

Skipped all the others, except for U, which I got for free in that free game promotion Nintendo had going on a few years ago. Never played anything beyond the 1st level in that one though. Oh, and I played quite a bit of the Wii one at a friend's place.

They're just incredibly bland and generic to me, from the visuals to the music and just the general vibe. Doesn't help that all the 'New' games are basically the same, apart from output resolution. :/

I'm thinking Splatoon to be a very likely candidate for a first movie. Especially considering the plethora of merchandise and attention it's been getting lately, and the fact that it just lends itself very well to a CGI interpretation. The game basically already looks kind of like a Pixar/DreamWorks animated film.

What. That's crazy! Did they recreate every single level in clay..?

The subtle wording of not a 'pure' replacement of of the Wii U to me makes it sound like it's going to do exactly that - replace the Wii U. It'll feature at least one port of a Wii U game (Zelda) already, so there's that.

We won't know until Nintendo themselves unveil NX - and maybe not even then... I wouldn't be surprised if they never officially announced any specs.

Then again, underpowered hardware and custom-made chips and such are exactly what made Wii U such a bother to develop for, for 3rd parties. :/

@SanderEvers Just because it hasn't happened before, doesn't mean it won't happen now - at all.
Besides, Diamond & Pearl are next in line, there's no way a new ground-up mainline Pokémon game for NX is going to come out anytime soon after Sun & Moon are released - development of these games takes a long time, especially the more powerful the system they're on.

And they won't go years without releases, so D/P remakes make a lot of sense.

Sort of off-topic; I'm thinking we'll be seeing Pokémon Diamond and Pearl remakes in 2017. Maybe on NX too - would make sense.

Skylanders sales have been down last year compared to before, right? This year probably isn't going to be being better for them, really. I can see them quitting after 2017, maybe even as early as after this year, if sales are sufficiently lacking.

amiibo should be fine, I guess, at least for a while. Although I've seen them discounted to 6-7 Euros here in a LOT of places, where they were around 16 Euros before. That can't be a good sign...

... No pics?