cornishlee

@booopn @KeeperBvK
Agreed, this review failed to live up to NL's usual high standards. Sure, it's an old game but it's not old to everyone - it deserves to be reviewed with that in mind.

I've just learned from this article that my most anticipated Wii U game of the summer was released on time on other platforms. Not a good way to start the weekend.

Bayonetta 2 is playable? That's the best news in a while. Dare I hope it may still ship in 2013?

@MasterGraveheart
Just you.

@Sony_70
Crytek don't publish their own games, so it's not their decision what comes to the Wii U and what doesn't. Good news though.

As everyone else has stated, the eShop makes numbers of physical discs available somewhat moot. No doubt Nintendo will have been tracking sales figures of their other releases this summer to see what's working.

Its childish, super-hero, vibe does seem very Japan friendly, which might be symptomatic of some of the negative reviews in the West.

I might look. There must be a limit to how many times I can play DS2.

I'm amazed at the strength of opinion expressed here.

I'm also a little curious. I can't say I've checked every commenter's profile (assuming they're correct anyway) but it seems that most people decrying the advert are not British. Why not make allowances for different cultures?

One of the better adverts I've seen (for anything) in recent years. I'm not saying I'd urge friends to go and watch it but then that's not what adverts are for. It amused me a little and told me I could get AAA, indie and classic games on the eShop. I have a Wii U and I know that already but if I didn't, and I wasn't a NL reader, I might not.

Shame, I'd have picked this up.

Interesting that you got past the buzy-ness of it all - that and the super-hero plotting were/are my main concerns. Sorry, it may not be a fashionable thing to admit, but I've never really been into the US comicbook/superhero thing.

Not sure if it was Capcom, since most of their games were for Nintendo systems back then, but my favourite Disney game was The Lucky Dime Caper. I'd love to see a remaster of that.

Don't think we'll be seeing that over here then. Really though, it would be nice if publishers took a long, hard look at software sales over the first twelve months of the Wii U and said "well, I guess ports of old releases don't sell well".

@RetrogamerFan
Thanks, I'm taking the day off work and am absolutely knackered after picking my girlfriend up from the airport at 2am. A little Duck Tales could be just what I need! For some reason I'd assumed it updated at midnight, but there you go.

@KongFu Not according to the interview yesterday.

Anyone know when the eShop updates? I've been logging in and trying to download all day.

Thanks for reminding us that Strider isn't coming to Wii U. Until that's fixed I don't see much point in asking for other remakes.

I actually gave Prime Trilogy to my little brother for Christmas the year it came out. Later that year he traded in his Wii and all his games. So, I've never played it.

I'm not a driving game fan but I have to admit that that's a (worryingly) good price for a Wii U retail release.

I'll look for reviews but, just one week after Duck Tales, I won't be buying it straight away. Six months without buying a game and now the release schedule is starting to pick up.

Edge published an article similar in tone to this a few weeks ago. The PS4 indie publicity, and the way that it has been unquestioningly lapped up, has irked somewhat when Nintendo and the Wii U get so little credit.

Like Micro Machines, you say? You've got my attention.

@b23cdq Ah, OK, yes, that makes sense now. Reading it with a hangover probably didn't help either, sorry. They definitely get worse as you get older.

@b23cdq Not sure why you directed that at me.

@b23cdq Not sure why you directed that at me.

Am I the only one disappointed by that Direct? I was really looking forward to buying a new Platinum action title later this month. Now, I just don't know. It looked like a children's cartoon, complete with corny American superhero dialogue. I may download the demo, I may not.

To those saying NMH3, so far as I'm aware, this has nothing to do with Platinum.

Excellent speculation already. I'll back those saying this is unrelated to W101 - no reason not to have it in the Direct otherwise.

I don't own a tablet, I haven't played a game on a mobile phone since Snake and I don't understand the purpose of Facebook. I guess that makes me a luddite.

Oh, and "most gamers would perhaps get one new title every few weeks" - has that really changed? I'm aghast - how can people afford that in the current climate? I've bought an average of one game every two months this year - including eshop purchases. Partly, that's because little has released for the Wii U but also, any more than that and I think my girlfriend would kill me.

@seronja Couldn't have put it better myself.

That's a good interview, thanks for the link. I'm excited about the Platinum/Nintendo relationship - Bayonetta 2 and Wonderful 101 are probably my two most anticipated Wii U games.

That interview, and especially the quote everyone else has already mentioned, kind of made me sad that Nintendo didn't buy Vigil though.

I'd certainly pick up Elder Scrolls if it came to Wii U. I suspect that the 'hardware issues' are just the familiar smokescreen - it sounds like they may look at it again if the install base increases.

When did the 'S' get inserted into 'CEST' and what does it stand for, anyone know? I always thought it was just CET - Central European Time - and I've been travelling and working across Europe for 13 years now.

@Shworange They did that at launch but had to withdraw the advert after the UK ASA decided it was misleading.

I like Rufus Hound but I've never heard of Celebrity Juice. It doesn't sound like something I'd be interested in though.

As for the ad - nice to see the 'new console' label at the end.

Much as I'd like to see unannounced games (who wouldn't) I'm not sure there's anything left for Nintendo to announce - all my eggs are in the third party basket. That said, I'll tune in for more W101 details and I'll be keeping my fingers crossed for a Wii Fit U release date, finally.

That music. Urgh. Am I really that old? Oh well, Duck Tales next week.

What happened to that survey they did last year?

I didn't answer the last question - I have a Wii U but, for the first time since buying it last year, I'm actually beginning to regret my purchase. There's no way I can afford another system, so I'm stuck with what I have but I'm beginning to think I should have got a PS.

When Nintendo first announced the Wii U they were very vocal about wanting to reclaim the 'core' video game audience and acknowledged that they hadn't delivered the right experiences for this market on the Wii - that got my hopes up that they were courting the big third party publishers. For a variety of reasons, I think they did that but that it didn't work.

The decision to launch with third party games only (NSMBU and Nintendoland aside) meant that there was no reason for anybody who already had a PS360 to buy a Wii U. That those games were often delayed, inferior ports exacerbated that situation by suggesting that the console wasn't on a par with the others. An idiot could have predicted that software and hardware sales would suffer off of that basis, and they have. Now, those poor figures can be used by industry analysts to allocate resources for developing and releasing software - figures which are, as ever, divorced from context.

I'll echo the sentiments of disgust at continually having to beg. Would I be interested though? Yes, very much so.

Funky Barn price reduction when Harvest Moon appears. Coincidence?

That sounds like a poor excuse to me. If they had to divert resources and the product wasn't ready then delay the release, simple.

@1337man1233 No, just since February. There hasn't been much for the U since then!

Brittany? Really?

@Yorumi Maybe eventually. No way I can afford two games in one month. My partner may justifiably kill me.

This or Duck Tales? Either way, I might be about to buy my first game in six months...

Wish they'd bought Vigil.

Really? It's already out on other platforms and we still don't have an official communication? Now I'm annoyed instead of just frustrated.

Well, nice to have a date. Any more news on D&D?

I've played Trine 2 through a couple of times not. If they can keep matching that and bring it to the Wii U then great.