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This is a fantastic article. These days, I want to just "chill and play" some games without getting stuck on the same levels over and over again. And as mentioned, who has time for this. I couldn't agree more with your point of view.

Sometimes I just want to play Mario Kart and not be bogged down by trying to get all 1st placed slots to get the gold trophies. Been there done that.

I also play Halo 5's "heroic" warzone, standard mode, the harder difficulties are just ridiculously overpowered against the player.

Great article!

Can't wait for this. So cool!

Aren't their controllers meant to go on mobile phones? The switch isn't a mobile phone so how would this apply?

And also, the switch evolved from the Wii U tablet so they came up with this concept since back then.

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OMG Alex I'm right there with ya, so thrilled and excited they added Banjo Kazooie!!!

OMG YESSSSSSS!!! Was hoping they would bring Banjo Kazooie to Smash Bros and they have, it's so Awesome!!! Can't wait!!!

Banjoy Kazooie!

Can you really call the Wii U a failure when most of the games on the Switch are Wii U system games?

The sales of the system were definitely low, however the system itself and games were great and even outstanding.

Street Fighter III New Generation! The best SF III version!
Fifa World Cup!
Donkey Kong - Finally got to the hidden world!

Oh man thats crazy. I always looked forward to reading a new article Mr. Tom Whitehead. Sorry to see ya go, but Thank You so much for the many great articles and great reads and recommendations. Great times for sure. Best wishes on your next endeavor and congratulations!

What makes the Switch attractive is its Flexibility. Flexibility between tv and handheld mode, controller options and setups. You can play with a pro controller, joy con controllers, motion control, single joy con, and touch screen. These offer multiple ways to play games and game types. Its Flexibility offers a great pick up and go option. Not just outside the home, but inside as well. I can play it upstairs, downstairs, outside on a bench in my backyard. Im not tethered to a room and that feels great.

And while many think smartphones are the new portable game market, i see the Switch as the first Tablet/Smartphone that plays full on conosole games. No tablet or smartphone in the market can do that.

Flexibility is its success.

Nintendo is actually doing something clever here, as where we previously had one console per household, this opens up the opportunity for multiple purchases in the same household, just like each family has their own iPhone or Samsung, etc. While I'm excited about the switch, my pocket book is definitely gonna take a hit. Dang it. This is definitely putting me in the hate/love it area. Hopefully it'll be worth the price!

I would have preferred a $400 price tag but with the most advanced tech available. At $300, there is bound to be a cutback somewhere. A smart phone costs from $600 to $800. $300 is more than reasonable for a piece of tech that operates like a tablet with REAL gaming power. Not simple app store games, but real games. Let's be realistic though, a lot of people complain about wanting super hi tech processors but also want to pay a low price. Essentially many want a $1000 top of the line PC, but to purchase it at $250? c'mon lets be realistic. I think the switch is more than priced right.

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Why would Nintendo want to give out information too early on an unfinished product is what we should remember. They can't give out specs for an unfinished product. Secondly, if they did, we would only find ourselves disappointed if not all promises made could be kept.

If people start believing the more powerful than an XBOX One rumors, and turns out untrue will only make it seem like the console is weak.

Sure it's nice to find out about upcoming games or hints at other things, but just remember that these things are in development and not final so why would we hear or see anything definite about them.

The NX needs to be as powerful or more than the Wii U to replace it as the new home console. While iPads and Android Tablets can mimic the home console games, they don't always match those type of caliber games. So either, we really do get a new super NX that is the next home console, or a partial dumbed down version of one. Just like the 3DS is new, but essentially runs N64 & GameCube games.

For those who skipped out on Wii U, oh well, they don't know what they missed.

Merry Christmas to all at NL! Thanks for all your up to date Nintendo news!

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Although it came out earlier than the xboxone and ps4, by the looks of it, I don't think they'd reach this many units sold anyways. 3DS will stay on top here.

Also, with development costing so much for the new consoles, and less on 3ds, I can still see the 3ds being a popular platform to develop for.

Looks like they don't want Nintendo to succeed. They don't want to help Nintendo become the standard once again.

This is cool! Would be neat!

Would the title have to change to Legend of Linkle? Adventures of Linkle?

Looks nice, but once a game starts to look "real" and "life-like", stops being fantasy like and fun to be honest. Basing game play on real world physics defeats the purpose of it being a fantasy game. I used to play "Cruisin World", nice tracks, bumping and colliding with other vehiches, jumping off ramps and you keep going...now in modern racers, everything is just boring, sure the cars look "crisp" but all the fun game play is gone.

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Oh I see...I wonder if it's also Mario Bro...instead of Mario Bros?

@BenBertoli Oh I see...I wonder if it's also Mario Bro...instead of Mario Bros?

@BenBertoli Oh I see...I wonder if it's also Mario Bro...instead of Mario Bros?

@BenBertoli Oh I see...I wonder if it's also Mario Bro...instead of Mario Bros?

Where's the "s" in Luigi's Mansion?

Also glad they keep it to 1 per customer...we don't need anybody trying to scalp these.

what a relief...lol!

This is still way better than waiting in line outside a store for over an hour...to tell you they only have 5 available and other non-sense.

you have to refresh the page a few times

@Giygas_95 Splinter Cell BL is a good game, def pick it up.

Even my daughter then 7 years old would say, dad...for our next vacation, I want to go to Japan...to meet Mr. Iwata. were sad that this will never happen.

I already have plenty of games that I still need to catch up on, this "soft" E3 is actually a good thing as it'll allow for more of that catch up time.

Feliz Navidad Amigos at Nintendolife! Thanks for all the great articles and reviews!

Here's something that breaks the magic: too many annual Assassin's creed games. Once the ship sailed on the Ezio story, everything just lost it's magic.

I get that they don't like it because it's a "real" car, but who cares, it's free and looks like one of those power wheels that four year old's drive anyway.

He should be worried about how people will react to their $60 game having micro-transaction dlc. At $60, all dlc should be free. If I pay 99 cents for a cheap mobile game, then I would expect it to have micro-transaction dlc.

One of my fave's...I still have a blast with it!

Presentation with Robot Chicken was great! TreeHouse streaming was fantastic!

I'm sure the others will follow suit and try to claim it as their own. Just like with xbox "avatars", and playstation all-stars, etc.

This is way better than the traditional conference. The regular conferences are just too overly scripted and are more of a cheesy sales pitch now from some guys at the top of the podiums telling us to buy their games.

This Treehouse approach is great, actually giving players a glimpse into the game content and letting us become more engaged.

But E3 still sucks for 1) Not letting the public attend anymore, and 2) Every game mentioned is delayed...(until the next E3...and even then add another few seaons). Don't show me something that is still 1-2 years away from release. If E3 is during early summer, the latest releases we should see are for content from now until the "winter" holiday release.

The Wii U is already at a cheap price.

If you're being a cheapskate and are waiting for a "price cut" to buy a Wii U, you have no business buying and playing video games.

@XFsWorld Ya know...they always do this, "releasing in spring" - one day before the Summer month. At least it will be a fun summer.

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What they should do is allow for multiple wii-pad use. It could be used a lot better in search and destroy type games with other players, poker games, football games.

I think they were afraid it would canobilize the 3ds if they did so.

Besides that I like the game pad, they should continue using it.

I would love to see it used for a battlefield type game where you can instruct your troops on where to concentrate the battle and move your scouts around etc. I would love to see it used for Star Wars Battlefront. If I were piloting a starship, I could easily use the wii-pad for the interior cockpit controls.

You can't just quit during the "hard" times, that would be irresponsible.

Plus he's like the only CEO that actually plays and uses the products he sells. That is very important to the creative process in the development for gaming systems.

They always say 'spring' and then push it back to an E3 announcement and then drop the ball that it won't be coming out till next winter or some other time. They always do this, i'm starting not to like E3 cause of this. They always use the event to prolong a game release, and then only to announce at the event that it will again be released "later".

The problem I see with PS4 and X1 is that the gameplay is overall the same. Gran Turismo 6-10 and Forza 5-10 are going to be about 98% I would say. Look at all NBA, NFL, NHL sports games, it's the same overall. I'm betting in a year from now, Playstation and Xbox will yet again cherry pick all the best Nintendo features, put it on their systems, and then people will call it "innovative". Since back in the day they have copied everything from the joystick on the controller and triggers to having avatars.

I'm honestly disappointed in the next gen so far with the twins, I had heard that they were supposed to produce images and graphics as good as James Cameron's Avatar movie. So far all I really see, is a higher capacity for less image compression. It's like watching the same movie on Blu-ray vs DVD. Sure it looks more slightly crisp on blu-ray, but it's still the same movie. Therefore the graphics, like on AC4, are the same on both new and legacy systems, the new systems simply offer it with less image compression. It's like saving a jpeg image at 80% vs 70% compression, the gap is not that huge a leap really.

I would say the real major improvement will be on producing better physics and particle effects, which is fine and all, but thats like saying I am going to the movies not to watch the actual movie, just the big explosions. It's losing focus on actual gameplay. That is going to make these systems stagnant.

More memory allows for players online as well, but whether I am playing with 8 people vs 16 people, it's hard to tell the difference between 8 vs 16 players at a certain point.

And with all that memory and processing power not being entirely focused on generating the game on screen, is disapointing as well. It's operating separate multiple os systems that honestly not all people will be using.

Overall though, its about games and gameplay, were it not for Nintendo, I would be worried about the road that PS4 and X1 are taking games toward.