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Nintendo does what Appledon't. Yay, Nintendo!

Dragon Quest X will hopefully make it to the West. I'm not holding my breath, though.

I might have to buy Donkey Kong Jr. Math just to experience it. My Wii's disc drive is dead and I have points sitting around doing nothing. I should buy Donkey Kong Jr. Math and be happy I can still play awesome downloadable games like this.

I actually liked the Barrel of Monkeys toy as a kid (where you build a chain of monkeys by holding on to only the top of the chain).

Bring the wara wara, Nintendo!

@Rapadash6: That's exactly what I'm thinking. It's worrisome that Nintendo seems to have nothing further to say about the Wii U before launch. There's still time, but it's growing shorter.

Like others above, I don't buy EA games. As long as Nintendo doesn't make any exclusive deals with EA, I'm fine with whatever they want to do. I'll just ignore it.

I think it's a very good ad. But then I despise 99% of advertising so maybe I have "bad" taste in ads. This is my kind of ad.

The last ad campaign I can remember really, really liking was the Volkswagen "It's time to unpimp the auto" ads. When I was fast-forwarding through ads on the DVR I'd spot one of those and back up and watch it. Then rewind and watch it again. And again.

Pachter is the clown prince of insane Nintendo speculation. No one should try to dethrone him. Failing at such an endeavor is humiliating (second only to succeeding).

The third paragraph of this IGN article has a Nintendo statement confirming the headset requirement:

http://www.ign.com/articles/2012/10/18/wii-us-baffling-voice-chat-solution-revealed

Probably 99.9% of it (wild guess). I'm saying I think the CVG article is wrong (and therefore indirectly the Nintendo Life article). Sorry if I wasn't clear.

I know CVG says the factory was in Japan, but I think the fires were at factories in China, not Japan. Someone correct me if I'm wrong. Here's a link to an article I found searching Google News:

http://www.securityinfowatch.com/news/10782066/japanese-companies-become-protest-targets-in-china

I'm very interested in retail downloads for the Wii U because my Wii's disc drive has died after four years of heavy use (whereas I can still play WiiWare and VC games). But I agree the games need to be tied to an account in case your system is stolen (it happens). You should be able to revoke access to the games on the stolen system and grant access to your new console.

US time zones:

7 am EDT
6 am CDT
5 am MDT
4 am PDT

You have tunnel vision in those mascot suits. May have seen you but probably didn't see your arm. Listening to the commentary tracks on DVDs, they talk about stunt people or extras dressed up in crazy monster suits and how they are almost completely blind and helpless (ironic since they are supposed to be scary, deadly monsters).

I read on NeoGAF that the frame rate is 30 f/s for all the consoles because of the dynamic water (takes a lot of resources). I agree with the person who posted that he'd rather have 60 f/s than dynamic water.

I'm looking forward to Pinball Arcade. I'm a bit worried there's no mention of it in the launch window. Hope it hasn't been canceled.

https://www.nintendolife.com/news/2012/05/pinball_arcade_coming_to_3ds_and_wii_u

And who could forget Animales de la Muerte? Why didn't that make the list?

Descent (from Interplay) never made it.

Less than two months until launch. Hey, no problem! We'll let the QA testers write the networking code while they aren't busy testing. There are 24 hours in a day, after all.

I kinda get the feeling that NFC, in general, is an answer waiting for a question (or a solution waiting for a problem).

White? 8 GB? Core? No.

Mulburk! Where have you been all my life?!

This video is hilarious. Mwahahahaha!

Glad I pre-ordered from Best Buy yesterday before they started selling out their first allotment. Phew.

I hope there will be some good online games for Nintendo Lifers to play together on the Wii U (like they're currently playing Mario Kart on the 3DS). Dragon Quest X would be cool (if the monthly fee is reasonable and the game is released in the west).

I'm thinking The Wonderful 101, Pikmin, Scribblenauts, Epic Mickey, and Toki Tori. I'm curious about Warriors Orochi. IGN gave the PS3 version an 8.5, saying it was great. Anyone have any opinions about it? It's classified as "Action" but does it also have some RPG elements? I'm a sucker for anything which even remotely resembles an RPG. Big Xenoblade fan here. (Would also probably be a Last Story fan if my Wii's disc drive hadn't died before the game was released. Looking forward to picking it up when I get the Wii U.)

I pre-ordered the black model from Best Buy's web site today (with free store pickup) and I feel great. Now I just have to wait. And wait. And wait. Sigh.

The correct time for US Pacific (PDT) is 12 midnight (for the Nintendo Direct in Japan). It's 1:00 am for US Mountain (MDT). The US mainland has four time zones (Eastern, Central, Mountain, Pacific), not three.

"Quantities will be very limited"

Not again! Shoot me now. Please. Thanks.

Just to echo what other people have already said...that is a hideous trophy. And I need an NES controller like I need another hole in my head.

I've been shopping for e-books a lot lately since I bought a tablet (Nexus 7) and it's amazing how many grammatical errors (grammos?) and typos there are in publisher book descriptions. You'd think publishers would have editors to review everything before it goes public. But they just don't seem to care.

They are infinitely better than Jedward. Infinitely. I'd say Nintendo is getting better at this. Team them up with Nonspecific Action Figure and they'll conquer the universe.

For those who've forgotten the awesomeness that was Jedward:

Thanks for making my day, Nintendo Life. I laughed so hard at the subtitle of this review. Heck, I just started laughing again.

Oh, geez. Yup, that's it. Thanks, @FluttershyGuy.

I bought the Frogger game and I think it's fun. You have to unlock the Castlevania skin by completing challenge levels. You have to enter a code to unlock the Contra skin (don't know how you get the code yet).

I want to see puns on the NoE web sites. If I don't see them I'm going to assume he's being held hostage.

I don't think XSEED has announced a release date yet. I think the dates retailers are using are just placeholders. I could be wrong, of course.

We've already got two e-readers in the family (Kindle and B&N Nook). Being able to watch Amazon Prime Instant Video on the TV is the main thing we'll be interested to try. Can't do that with our AppleTV.

We'll be lucky to get black and white. And we might not even get that. Other bundles? My magic 8 ball says no.

Absolutely no way is the Pro controller or Wiimotechuk coming packed in. No way. Not happening. Nope.

My gut feeling is $299 for the capability I've seen. I'd have been willing to pay more for a more powerful console but most people want consoles to be cheap (first and foremost). So, performance-wise, we're getting what the majority are willing to pay for.

I'm willing to pay $0 for white. Black or no sale.

During this E3 I got the crazy urge to replay Animal Crossing: City Folk. I deleted my save file years ago so I'm starting fresh with a new town.

I'm also playing a little Fortune Street.

The only part of E3 which can't be done on the web is the hands-on demos. Everything else can be done better and cheaper on the web, IMHO.

It will be interesting to see if Microsoft and Sony keep their secrets until next E3. If they announce on the web instead, that will really say something about E3.

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The party is over. I wonder if the people who pre-ordered will really get their orders (when the console is actually released, of course).

So it's July for Europe and "holiday 2012" for the States. OK. Europe can be the guinea pigs. The lab rats. OK, I'm jealous. I admit it.

Really looking forward to Pinball Arcade on the Wii U. I've played the wheels off Pinball Hall of Fame (Williams and Gottlieb) on the Wii.

I wish there were some way to bring back the old Pro Pinball tables by Cunning Developments (published by Empire Interactive): The Web, Timeshock!, Big Race USA, and Fantastic Journey. They were original games (not based on real-world tables) but they were realistic pinball, not "fantasy" pinball. My favorite was Timeshock! but I enjoyed them all.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pro_Pinball

Parental controls are hopeless. 99.9% of parents rely on their kids to set up electronics. Nintendo knows this. And 99.9% of parents who miraculously manage to set up parental controls will forget the password and therefore there has to be a way to reset the parental controls. Nintendo and kids both know this.

So the existence of parental controls will not change anything. Parental controls exist so companies can say they have them ("check that box"). But they never assume they'll actually be used effectively. Certainly not Nintendo.

Monitoring racism, sexism, profanity, intimidation, and illegal activities hour after hour, day after day, month after month, year after year. And Nintendo has to do this around the world in how many different languages? I suppose there is a strong marketing incentive behind this. Nintendo said Miiverse will show Miis congregating around games which the console owner doesn't necessarily own. So casual gamers will be alerted to the existence of games they might not otherwise have learned about (since they don't shop for games, don't surf gaming web sites or forums, etc.).

Edit: I just now finished listening to the podcast where the marketing angle was discussed. So, yeah, I'm late to the party on that one.

If messages among friends are instant, no problem. But if messages among friends are delayed, this is going to be a completely useless feature because people will have to use phones or laptops for instant communication instead.

The best place to get answers when you are stuck in a game is a FAQ or guide on a site like GameFAQs (yes, I know the forums can be a zoo...I'm talking about FAQs and guides). Using public messages on Miiverse will be a waste of time. The most helpful answer you could give to someone on Miiverse is to refer them to a resource on the web.

In summary:

Instant messaging among friends: cool.
Delayed public messaging: a novelty without much practical value.

I'll definitely wait for Black. The launch-window games aren't targeted at me, anyway. I'm one of those weirdos who likes games like Xenoblade, Rune Factory, Harvest Moon, Little King's Story, Fishing Resort, Geometry Wars: Galaxies, A Boy and His Blob. Games which sells thousands of copies, not millions.