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@DBailey

It's out in Japan in two weeks so you'll have to stay off the internet entirely to avoid being spoiled before October.

I can see this ending well...

@Link41x

It's out in Japan a whole month earlier so...

@ThomasBW84

Looking at it's current state I say it's highly likely a Q1/Q2 2015 release.

I need Hyrule Warriors, Bayonetta 1+2, Smash Bros and the GCN adapter and then I'm all set.

Captain Toad and Project Cars go on the Christmas wishlist.

Plus a breakdown by country:

Interpret's blog had a bit more to say about amiibo's market potential.

New entrants such as Nintendo Amiibo and Lego Fusion introduce new platforms, IP, and business models, and will provide a boost to the market. “We tested interest in an extensive list of current and potential smart toy brands and even prior to the Amiibo announcement, smart toys based on Nintendo characters were among the most desired smart toys in the US, Europe, and Brazil,” said Jason Coston, Research Manager at Interpret.

http://www.interpretllc.com/number-of-kids-interested-in-smart-toys-tops-72-million-2/

Well that was hilariously awkward.

You mean the cat wasn't included?! What a rip-off.

Honestly I've never been a big fan of the "official" Zelda timeline, mostly because the "failure" timeline explaining ALttP and onward is such bullcrap.

So this can easily be canon in my own made-up Zelda timeline.

Hope an EU release isn't far behind. Been looking forward to this.

@Sakura

It's how many Wii U's have been sold to customers as of March 31st 2014.

I'm going to assume the remaining 18% consists mostly of the NSMBU bundle since here in Sweden it sold out almost as fast as the MK8 bundle.

I've completely missed that Steel Diver would have an update so I can't say I'm disappointed.

If this ever comes to EU I'll totally pick it for the NintendoLife tournaments.

@123akis

No, it means that each share is valued at 11,855 yen as of today.

Edit: Darn, beaten.

Looking at that graph I'm honestly surprised to see that the stock value never went all the way back down to where it was at E3 time last year, even after the financial report hit.

@Kaze_Memaryu

Wii U can do native 1080p, Wind Waker HD & Rayman Legends are examples of that. Nintendo probably had a 1080p target for MK8 but wouldn't sacrifice the game's high visual fidelity nor it's frame-rate (the latter more so) to achieve that goal with the hardware at hand.

Microsoft would've never been able to do proper 4K gaming with XBO since that would require far more expensive graphics components than what the market would allow.

I did some research and a guy on NeoGaf claims that this little hiccup seems to be caused by a fault with computer A.I, and wouldn't happen in time trial mode or 12-player online races. And since the 'duplicate frame' happens in a repeated pattern it's pretty much a bug and not performance-based (whether or not to patch it is up to Nintendo).

Sounds like something that can be easily fixed in a patch if it ends up bothering people (which 99% of the time it won't).

And I'll happily take 59 FPS over 30 FPS in a racing game any day (looking at you Driveclub/The Crew).

@GuruOfGreatness
The red case is NA only. In Europe it's the standard blue case.

Profane Bomberman? Sounds familiar...

NSFW linky

@FragRed

Apparently there were a lot of executive meddling behind the scenes (DC comics setting tough restrictions on how the developers portray Superman being one of the major culprits). The lead producer behind the game claims that a huge chunk of the game was scrapped/re-done to meet the demands being put on them.

@Daemonite

The game wouldn't even exist if Nintendo hadn't stepped in.

@WebHead

Renegade Kid still wants to make Cult County, but it'll probably have to be put on hiatus until they find an alternate source of funding.

http://www.polygon.com/2014/5/3/5678648/cult-county-presses-ahead-despite-kickstarter-failure

@Peach64

3DS XL wasn't revealed at E3 though. It was revealed two weeks after.

If it's coming to Wii U it won't be made official until a only a few months before release (Black Ops II was made official during the Wii U conference in New York, Nintendo confirmed Ghosts sometime in August) and will probably be ported by Treyarch, unless they've gotten rid of their Wii U team or something.

Kevin Spacey tho. <3

I'll download Mario Golf and Etrian Odyssey demos and considers Child of Light if it turns out any good.

I honestly expected a MK8 bundle to have been announced by now, but better late than never I suppose.

@Goginho

Seeing how Nintendo buried us with MK8 info yesterday wouldn't that be a bit overkill?

Oh...

OH...

OH MY GOD....

That song is so catchy it's hypnotizing.

The Spanish go nuts over football. I remember being in Spain when they won the 2012 Euro Cup final and it was complete chaos in the streets.

@bbve
What?

Europe got Wonderful 101 before the U.S. The video in the article is from last year.

@AirElephant
Plus Japan has very strict building codes to ensure that buildings in major cities are earthquake-proof.

@Kiz3000
It was a day late last week so I wouldn't take that as a sign.

I tried out Oculus Rift at a local convention last week and while it's an impressive piece of tech, I feel it needs some fine tuning before they release it to the public. There's still some steps needed to be taken before VR can be fully embraced I think.

@Mytee

Where'd you get the idea they were stopping Spotpass from? That doesn't even exist on the original Wii or DS (unless you mean WiiConnect24 but that's been defunct for almost a year).

I have a feeling the existing MKWii servers are going to be re-tooled for MK8.

Interesting to see PS4 and Wii U having equal launch sales in Japan. PS4 has MGSV coming out in less than a month so it's going to hold a bit better in the long run.

In any case Xbox One is bound to perform far worse than either of them in that region.

@Buduski
Sometime in early summer, perhaps close to or around Mario Kart 8's release.

@Guybrush20X6

You can use USB-powered ones as long as you have a Y-cable.

"NPD analyst Liam Callahan also suggests that many download purchases can be relatively spontaneous, rather than planned ahead of time."

Digital storefronts requiring much less time and effort to locate and access than physical ones probably plays a part in that.

@DanMan82

Digital sales records are difficult to account for unless the publishers themselves release them.

@kyuubikid213

Quick, cheap and easy sell. That's the gist of it.

Cool. I'll consider it if it turns out better than it's portable counterparts.

I'll be downloading TF midnight, and I'm tempted to buy Weapon Shop as well.

Brian Blessed > Everything

@Artwark

Nintendo like every other tech business doesn't manufacture their hardware components all on their own. I don't know where you got that idea from.