ZachBeacon

Anyone know how to get this to work on a PC?

It's insane it doesn't work on the Switch.

I like that they're essentially the same cover drawn in wildly different styles.

The NA cover looks like it was drawn by someone who had the Japanese cover described to them in detail but never actually saw it.

It was very forward thinking of Nintendo to make a controller for three-armed future-mutants.

Zelda 2 (and only Zelda 2) is an RPG

How long are they going to force people to beg for Persona 5?

This is getting into Nintendo and Earthbound 3 territory.

Don't they only do this to game the system because it's impossible to discover smaller titles on the eshop unless they're brand new or massively discounted?

What if Nintendo just made the eshop suck less?

Ringabel from Bravely Default.

@ShadJV

Look, I never thought they were going to go completely by the polls because I doubt they'd put Boaty McBoatface or whatever in Smash. Up until I found out how long it takes to make a new character, I did think that they'd at least consider the more serious popular nominees and I imagine most of those were owned by Nintendo (look at how nuts people are going over Waluigi and he could probably just be done as a reskin), associated with Nintendo consoles, or associated with licensed characters already in the game.

Also, while I can see where licensing may be an issue, I don't get why Goku is constantly listed as one of the crazy troll options. He's a lot less out of place in a colorful chaotic cartoon fighting game than Solid Snake... or Bayonetta.

Rather not think about Shrek though. Wario is already one too many characters with fart-based attacks.

@Sabrewing

Bayonetta was the only one they claimed had anything to do with the vote and the phrasing* was odd enough that it's obvious that she wasn't the actual winner. Also they've also said it takes about a year to program characters so they were clearly going to put her in anyway.

(Though I guess you could argue that she's so broken because she was a rush job that wasn't properly balanced)

There is some speculation that some of the later DLC Mii costumes were among the actual winners.

*"Winner in European region". Not worldwide. Not Japan or America (their two biggest markets).

Edit: Not talking about Ultimate. I was talking about 4... because that's what they said the ballot was for.

Oh, so votes are meaningless like the Smash Bros thing or the 2000 and 2016 Presidential Elections?

Good to know.

@Moroboshi876 TWEWY price seems to be a placeholder. Everywhere else shows it as $49.99 now. Amazon even shows it at Fifty bucks now. Unfortunately they show that as the discounted price rather than the base price so my peorder is still $47.99 (20% off $59.99) and not $39.99 like it should be. They're probably unlikely to fix this since they just nixed the 20% Prime discount altogether this week.

"Yoshi's Flipping Island?"

Typical Nintendo censorship.

Is there a rewind feature on preorders because it doesn't seem to be in stock anywhere?

Played a few levels of Sonic before remembering touch d pad controls are terrible and Sonic was never fun anyway.

Just like they learned from the shortages of the switch.

And amibo.

And various games.

And the Wii.

And the original NES

I have to admire the kid's ingenuity.

Also this thing has nearly as many games as an actual Switch

Wow, that long wait for "support code 804-6200" on Android sure was worth it.

The game keeps freezing. I can't even get through the intro to Chapter 2

I think I'll wait to see if Nintendo actually supports this thing. It took ages for the Wii U to build up a decent games library and it looks like the switch doesn't have backwards compatibility to fall back on. Even if this thing is worth it, there's no guarantee we'll be able to get one; just look at the recent Amibo and NES Classic shortages

The Wii U failed because...

1) Bad marketing. Most of us thought this was a Wii add-on before it came out. A lot of people still thought that for far to long after.

2) No third party support.

3) Very little first party support. Smash Bros was announced years before it came out. We're still waiting for the new Zelda. No real Animal Crossing game. No Metriod.

(At least MK8, Splatoon, and Pikman 3 all got same great updates)

The initial price didn't help either. I don't care about specs; i have a hard time telling Sony and Microsoft's current and last gen products apart anyway. I just want to play games. However if you're making a technically inferior machine then you should set the price lower.

A kid named Eevee knows they can grow up to be whatever they want.

Joking aside, I'm not sure how this is news. Names tie into fads all the time. Just a few months ago I heard certain names were making a comeback because of Hamilton.

Anyone know how to get the Steamworld theme? I had an error while downloading and, while i was able to redownload the game, i can't find the theme anywhere

How do you play this version? I tried starting a new file but I can still only play as SK.

Haven't been able to visit eshop since update. It isn't like Nintendo to make things less stable

Can you please stop teasing us with headlines about games we will never get to see?

Apparently giving away company information while insinuating that your consumers are ignorant will get you fired. Who knew?

On a more serious note, NoA is a pretty secretive branch of an already secretive company and I can't imagine this will help things.

Does Pandora's Tower have gamepad support? Is that why its twice as expensive as the other three Wii VC games in NA?

Where are all these restocks people keep talking about? Every time I go to the store, I only see the same old commons.

@Aromaiden

@rjejr covered it. Disc-locked content is annoying but it is sadly the way the industry is heading. The ridiculous part is that, even if you want to pay to unlock content, you can't because you can't buy the fugures

The demo was fun but I'm not buying the game unless I know I can get the Amiibo. Its bad enough they lock content behind figures you have to pay extra for but they aren't even trying to keep up with demand. This is ridiculous.

"slow trickle"... really wish we could edit these.

So Microsoft can flip a switch and give people access to their purchases from the previous generation but Nintendo - the company that has been making games longest – can’t manage more than a show trickle even among the VC games that have already been emulated on the original Wii?

“Please understand, this thing we’ve been doing forever is suddenly just too difficult”.

Also, WHAT “new development”? We’re over half way into the year with only Splatoon to show for it. New development is so slow that most of the titles shown at this year’s E3 were revealed LAST year…and they probable won’t show up until next year.

Mixed feelings

On the one hand I’m happy they aren’t locking content behind figures you can’t get.

On the other hand, the Zelda characters are among the few that you actually CAN get and I’d like to be able to do more with them. Link and Toon Link are among the most useful Amiibo and they still really don’t do that much.

Hope this works better than the music app

Its so "easy" to use.

1) Download app
2) Hunt around for free tracks
3) Get sent to Pokemon website FAQs that don't say how to get free tracks
4) Restart app
5) Find free tracks
6) Attempt to download music
7) App dies
8) Repeat 4-7
9) Delete App.

At least Square remembered DQ exists

Also, “We Need to Talk About amiibo” sounds like something said by the spouse of someone who just paid a scalper $80 each for a bunch $13 figures.

I like the idea of Amiibo and have several of the commons (and Toad) but I think I’m done buying games that tie content to figures that I can’t get.

I enjoyed the Splatoon testfire but I’m not buying the game if I can’t get the squid-related missions.

I was looking forward to the new Fire Emblem but, after being introduced to the series with Awakening, I hate the idea of not having Lucina.

@linforcer

Sorry, I meant to type “the one that looks like a giant stag beetle”.

Wow, I actually won the mega stone this time. Now if they’d only give us another shot at the other megas…and Pinsar.

Nintendo has been really bad lately about keeping up with demand for physical products. I don’t have a lot of faith that they’ll do any better with cards than they have with New 3DS systems or gamecube adapters.

If they’re removing the figure aspect then they ought to just sell DLC keys that would unlock content in multiple 3ds and Wii U games at once. Of course that would require a unified account system and Nintendo is really reluctant to catch up with their competitors on that front.

Even if the can make enough cards, how are they going to be sold? In packs? Then you run into the rarity problem all over again because we all know more Marios than Marth’s will be made. Individually? Then the stores that didn’t order enough Villagers … still won’t order enough Villagers. That’s assuming stores stock these at all; I’m sure theft is a bigger problem for small items like cards than slightly larger items like toys in bulky packaging.

Have some codes...

A0705B0H26APWS5Q
A0719TY40PP3T1YQ

Just wondering: does it come with Ambassador games or is it yet another case of Nintendo's poor branding?

That explains why I couldn't get into NoA's CN last night

So much for eshop Must Haves

If the Must Haves thing is just a spotlight and not a sale then the smart thing would have been to feature them in December when people were deciding how to earn Deluxe Digital points.

January doesn't do anyone any good including NoA.

Nothing for me. I just bought Shovel Knight as part of the Deluxe Digital thing because it was starting to look like the only way I could get a discount from NoA.

@MadAdam81 You haven't heard all the coverage where people get banned from online play for 100+ years or systems getting bricked?

Went with N64 for mostly nostalgia reasons. Gamecube was okay too, I missed Wii entirely, and 3DS/Wii U has way too many bugs for a game that came out that late,

So its free on a PC, free on a laptop, free on a tablet, free on a phone, but they want you to pay to use the “free” Wii U app and you STILL don’t get dubs? Pass.