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I'm surprised that Rare didn't make a follow up that was just co op and battle modes with you and your friends or you vs the computer. It sounds like Rare wasn't inspired to do another Bond game with a campaign based on a movie--but nobody played Bond for the campaign mode, it was fun but not the reason why the game was insanely popular.

@JLoverde
It looks so wrong! That's part of what floors me about it. But I guess @mjc0961 says it's right on with the parameters.

90% of my WiiU gaming is digital only. I prefer the content to be streamlined rather than read in portions from a disc (noisy, slow).
I think if Nintendo stops using discs and move to a storage card/cartridge; then they could keep physical sales while getting rid of the disc drive on the new console. I mean if we're not ready to be all digital yet, could we at least move on from disc drives?

@CrazyRiverOtter
Congrats on beating the game. I've done that jump before but it's not something I do all the time when I play. I'm just super shocked to see him do it over and over sometimes from one pipe with a plant fully extended to another. You got to admit that's pretty filthy.

kind of makes my head hurt watching him jump over the plants in the green tube while they're fully extended... and doing it over and over

I've never played Wild Gunman, but I've always wanted to since I was a kid, because of this movie. So I'm pretty darn happy about this.

oh man, I need some glasses, for a moment I thought the headline was DRAGON QUEST MONSTERS: JOKER 3 WILL CONTAIN OVER 500 BREASTS FOR YOUR BOYFRIEND

I haven't played Twilight Princess or Skyward Sword, so I've been waiting for something like this to happen because it costs too much to get these games on disc.

@3MonthBeef

I said Q3 not E3. I think NX is coming by the third or fourth quarter of next year's business cycle. Chances are Star Fox won't be a NX game, but in my opinion if they're already delaying it for a couple months then why not delay it for a few months more and put it out on a better system. All I'm saying is that if Zelda is getting this treatment then why not Star Fox?

Star Fox will be released q3 2016 on NX. just sayin'

I think that pc's are going to end consoles in ten years. Eventually google and apple are going to be able to bring quality games into the tablets and laptops of gamers because these devices are getting more and more robust and wifi is changing everything about home entertainment. I think that micro and sony will eventually back out of hardware and I think that nintendo will eventually be the remaining gaming console provider because as what Microsoft has recently said nintendo is more of a toy. Nintendo will be able to hold a solid consumer base of kids and families and dedicated gamers like us who love nintendo's culture of gaming.

Surely Andross is behind this...

I can't wait for the NX; but if it can't handle being a true next gen console then I'm buying a xbox and I'll look back to the wiiu as the brief time I came back to nintendo

I think it's great that Nintendo is open to hiring someone outside the company to run it. The industry and market is changing so much, that they need someone who will embrace the app and internet gaming as well as push for hardware that the West can get behind.

@Dogorilla
I'm hoping that Reggie takes on the PR that Iwata did.

The wii board was kinda--meh

I really like DK and DK Jr. Mega Man, I was hoping would have looked like he would on NES but it's a nice touch anyway. I wish there was a store you could buy these within the game like you would in Mario vs Donkey Kong, but at least they're letting us unlock these characters instead of forcing us to buy amiibos. Pack Man was lookin pretty sweet

@abbyhitter

I'd love to hear Mario talk in complete thoughts/sentences. I'm hoping they greenlight an animated Mario movie. I know they've been flirting with the idea.

Methinks that Charles and Robin Williams are long lost brothers

What's your bricker breaker Rodger Dodger this is Big Daddy south bound in the Yellow Truck Rubber Duck, what's the eta of the atv from Big Bear, ready to crash the chicken coop oh niner gonna uncover the wagon let the chubby plumber get his mustache dirty with his box breakin coin collectin' beanstalk climbing mushroom eatin' flying like a squirrel making the kiddies happy--ten four over out

My favorite Link would really help the play-ability of my not so favorite Zelda game. oHh yeaUh

I like the mobile WiiU unit--looks like something Dr. Mario brought in, 'here we go!'

I'm a huge fan of the wii and wii u version of Mario Brothers I really like the mechanics and visually it's a wonderful cross between Mario 3 and the SNES Mario Brothers. Each game has their ups and downs (especially the classics). But I'm fairly certain that I will be playing with the Mario 3 filter the most on Mario Maker

reg-gie reg-gie reg-gie reg-gie...

@Sir_JBizzle

Lemmings was so much fun!

noice

Oh yeah, NintendoLife, I saw your headline under the headline: 'tripping on sunshine' I see what you did there...

I never got to play this one. I've been hoping for either a HD remake or a VC entry.

Bring on Shovel Knight costume for Mario Kart.

@IrishGamer97

I thought the Boston bomber's Uncle put it across right two years ago, "What I think, what’s behind it — being losers, not being able to settle themselves."

A few years ago the Obama administration put domestic terrorism ahead of all other credible threats to the homeland. There are a lot of people here in the states who are hateful, who amplify it through the internet and buy weapons to compensate for being a loser.

To me, being a loser in this context can stretch from being a person who is incapable of living an inspired and healthy life to those who feel alienated and are economic losers like the gunman in Paris this last week. The point is, is that we don't look out for one another like we should.

I'm beginning to think that Japan is a mind altering drug

To anyone who's never been to the EMP--GO. It's freakin' sweet. If you're remotely a fan of the genius that was Jimi Hendrix you owe it to yourself to check it out. Plus it's right underneath the Space Needle :v:

There's also a Sci Fi museum inside and you can see the original Captain Kirk's chair buried under the tribbles

@Captain_Gonru
Shhhh, it's my favorite NES Mario game, too.

It's pretty hard these days to get fired in a corporate environment; people who act in a way deemed inappropriate are usually suspended for a period of time. Like some of you have mentioned, he wasn't giving out secrets, he was just keeping it real. I think it's shameful that they would kick a guy like this to the curb especially if he was visual and engaging to the primary consumers.

That was so weird!!!!! People got too much time on their hands, although the production was pretty impressive for what it was.

Red Steel 2 came out a while ago, but I think the genre of Samarai western is a winner--just not Zelda

OMG, I completely forgot about the Super Gameboy. I loved that thing and how it colored my gameboy games.
Yesterday I was also reminded of Mario Paint when I was listening to the soundracks in Smash. SNES was so cool!!

It's a summer popcorn movie, people. Get over yourselves

I don't know why people are blaming this lousy week on Iwata's passing--there have been so many lackluster sad download weeks while he was alive... If anything this is just keeping up tradition.

I kept recieving these bottles from Windwaker saying 'RIP Iwata' and I thought it was a cruel joke at first but bottle after bottle began showing up in the game. So I took a picture of flowers at Link's island oasis and I thanked him within the game--what an unique and beautiful tribute to honor someone within a digital world they helped create. Just beautiful.

Mario Tennis 64... really? There's so many other better versions of it including the newest one coming out this year. I don't understand why they don't release F-Zero or Pilotwings 64. Those games are unique in their style and gameplay, kinda essential to the era imo, and probably would sell more.

This is exactly the kind of game I've been waiting for on the WIIU, I'm not much for RPG's but give me an open world and a mech and it's on like Donkey Kong.

I'm looking forward to the gamepad controls, and the graphics style doesn't bother me, it's just that in the demo you're fighting in a city with no people in it...

This game is special to me. I only played it a couple times in the late nineties. A part of me wants to buy it, a part of me wants to keep it as memory--righteous gaming of what stood as the last pillar of my innocence. What in the world does that mean!? IDK, I'm just the dude with the Grateful Dead profile pic. XD

@DThrow_UAir

Well, I'm glad it works for you.

edit: i hope that I didn't come across snarky--I really mean it. I never played gamecube; I don't get it. But if it works for you it works for me

Not sure why people love the cube controller so much, especially to shell out 40 bucks for a controller that works best for just one game. Although I'm certain people will want to eat it up considering the fatter design and wireless feature. I wish some third party company would have made a righteous gamepad... rabble rabble rabble rabble rabble

@Senario

Agree to disagree on the gamecube controller; I understand the popularity, just not my thing. Hopefully, Nintendo will keep the Pro Controller as the go-to, considering it's modern and plays their retro games very well, and also because it would be a drag to ask us owners to buy yet another controller. Idk, hopefully all controllers will be applicable.

In terms of architecture, you and I both understand that in order for Nintendo to be in the home console business they have to have a system that can easily accommodate ports of third party blockbusters--the reason why we're talking NX in 2015.

But dude, really, the gamepad is brilliant. I understand if it's not the gamepad that some gamers wanted, but for the price of the system, the gamepad is more than a gimick. the Arkham games with it are fantastic and immersive, and being able to play console games off tv is super sexy. I really hope the NX will have a newer and improved gamepad, possibly one that downloads complete games to turn the gamepad into a fully mobile gaming device--how sweet would that be, right?

Have a good one, dude

I'd like to get a new 3ds for the remastered version, but I'm not sure what the status of the 3ds will be a year from now. I guess I'll have to buy the wiiu vc, if I buy it...

I want the NX to be on par with the PS4 in terms of processing and being able to port games easy. My fear is how they're going to pull off backwards compatibility, also as a digital gamer--how are they going to keep me as a customer and respect the content I purchased? Oh E3 a year from now, why do I have to wait? hahaha

@sWiTcHeRoO

I'm sorry, but a year from now there won't be any sexy new Wii U games. I'm a little annoyed as you are because I got my Wii U a year ago.

A new console that is on the same architecture as Micro and Sony will solve the third party situation giving us more and more awesome hyper real games to play. Arkham Knight Armored Edition, anyone? haha Nintendo will fix the situation, and If you can't afford a NX there's still plenty of gaming to do on your WiiU.

The reason why the WiiU game library is sparse is because Nintendo wanted third parties to fill that gap for them--that didn't happen and that is exactly why we're talking NX right now.

This will be fun! Hope they keep motion controls.

@Stu13

I used to feel that way about vinyl until I got into high def digital music. Go to HDtracks online and download Paul McCartney's 'band on the run' unlimited (uncompressed) and get it in 24 bit 96khz it is unbelievable, you don't get the surface noise of a vinyl and all you hear is every nuance of the master tape. The future is awesome.

I have almost entirely digital library for my Wii U. I love it--everything runs smoother. The games i have on disc, I experience laggy frame issues from time to time. In five/ten years I guarantee you that all gaming devices will be digital without disc drives. I don't worry about losing the games I've already purchased because I don't intend to get rid of my wiiu, also in the future I expect an account based service where my games will carry over anyway.