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@Milton_Burle This is actually a 2.5D puzzle platformer.

I really liked this title!

@Yorumi @Pod It's hillarious that noone (after countless posts, and with many people who reads both Nintendo's and Rapp's tweets) on NeoGAF for sure can say what her second job is. But 2 individuals on Nintendolife knows the nature of it, and knows that she used her official twitter account for it...?

@Sticker No, it's not.

@Mahe Yes, I'm enjoying TP:HD a lot! I beat the game 2 days ago, and now I just walking around collecting/discovering the remaining stuff and having fun. Today, I've spent lots of time just fishing and playing "Rollgoal" (which is brilliant on the Gamepad) at the fishing hole. When I've found all the stamps, I'll probably translate all the hylian texts that are found in the game.

I've played this game since the release. Excellent puzzle game that gets really tricky after a while!

@godslayer1975 Please learn to at least start sentences with a capital letter. End the sentences with a period dot, and without a space before it. Try to not use words like "lol" in just about every sentence. Small changes like that make texts easier to read, and they might also make the impression that you're older than 10. Thanks!

@doll What does Japanese culture has to do with anything? The rules for Miiverse content are for every country AFAIK.

@c1pher_c0mplet And you seem to conveniently forgotten that Earthbound is a PEGI 12 game, while online sharing in SMM is controlled by the Miiverse code of conduct.

@Ryu_Niiyama Luigi would be really fun to see!

@Kilroy I agree with starting at Sector 3.1 would be a nice idea for a hard mode. However that would be a really hard mode, since you would not have any pickups or credits saved at that point. The way I see the two first planet systems is to collect as much as possible (since later on, it becomes more and more about survival).

I find it strange that there was no mentioning by Aonuma that a Wiimote implementation would result in the player having the Wiimote in the left hand (for standard mode)? The map is a nonsense argument, since the Pro Controller is supported.

@Dezzy How is that a non-reason? They lay off about all their former staff 2 years ago, and only a small core is left. What proof do you see that there will be a more financially manageable future for indie developers?

@Ryu_Niiyama It's not a twinstick shooter. It's quite different, and more old-school than that.

@Chandlero Yes, I've found it extremely addicting! It even moved me from playing TP:HD. Pure fun!

Bought this today and played it for a bit. It's very seldom eShop releases have such polish and big attention to details. Sure, it's not a big game, but nevertheless...

@Chandlero Yes, the Gamepad mirrors the TV.

@conman2012 Lego City: Undercover is a single player game. It uses both the Gamepad and the TV (in great ways, make sure to have the Gamepad audio turned on). However, everything about that game is fantastic, except the loading times when a new world is loading. It's by far the best LEGO game.

@Humphries90 Is Star Ghost good? I'll probably get it, even if it merely becomes a Davide Wise jukebox.

@NinjaAceTrainer 8 player online. 4 player local.

@DiscoGentleman @MitchVogel @JaxonH There's a company called Abstraction Games, that are specialists porting GameMaker natively to the Wii U using their own technology "GameBaker".

@MarioPhD FWIW, the PC version isn't the same game at all. The PC version just scrolls on the same screen.

Very interesting article!
Sportsball for Europe, please?

@sjfhsduk Did you forget that the Wii U was at 100k a week not just long ago? And compare to the Splatoon figures for the last week, which is 3 times higher than the hardware sales (which is WAY different to any other weeks since the Splatoon bundle was released). The Wii U shortages has been going on for some time now.

@rjejr Apparently, according to some JP retailers, they are not expecting a new HW supply until late February or early March. But perhaps Nintendo are currently saving remaining HW units for the Pokken release? I don't know. The CPU factory mentioned was Mitsumi's. It's all very strange.

@DESS-M-8 So, when were you expecting the Wii U system shortage to come in JP?

@GLA The system figures will be the same or less in March if Nintendo continue to have problem delivering systems.

Apparently, it's a CPU production issue. And the Wii U shortage is expected to last for several weeks now.

Well, the Wii U harwdare shortages in JP has been an issue for some weeks now, and now there are virtually no Wii U systems anywhere left to sell. The sales figures reflects that.

These sections are for complaints. If the game would run at 60 fps, the "why isn't it 30fps like the original?" crowd would be here instead.

With all the videos that has been released of TP:HD so far without lots of people objecting to the frame rate makes this comment section kind of silly. People see a number, then they starts to complain.

@Yorumi Please give some examples on some graphics hardware that does not have performance issues with full screen HD alpha blending.

Moderators, PLEASE give@rjejr a forum of his own, where he can discuss all the Nintendo sales issues on auto-repeat.

@Peach64 I think Toby can take that financial risk pretty well by himself. Undertale has sold more than 1 million copies on Steam, without any big price reductions.

BTW, there are at least one other company that has shown interest to port Undertale to Wii U as well (one which has direct experience with Gamemaker to Wii U ports).

@Windy It's nonsense. Good Wii U indies that get good momentum sell. Renegade Kid is mainly a 3DS developer, and the Wii U game of his simply can't compete with other Wii U indies like Affordable Space Adventures, FAST Racing NEO, Runbow, Teslagrad, Shovel Knight, Stealth Inc. 2, SteamWorld Dig, Guacamelee, and many many more.

FWIW, I guess Toby should talk to the guy that ported Freedom Planet/Knytt Underground/etc. He's using his custom tools to port games. I guess Curve Studios only make ports when they can distribute as well.

@RupeeClock The Miiverse stamps looks very well in style graphically with the remaining part of the game. Like dark red rupees.

@GLA @JustinH She has pretty much the same info that Liam Robertson and ShockingAlberto have. She was the first that revealed that Pimin 3 was a planned Wii U launch title. She revealed in 2011 that the Smash 4 team was an new team, compared to the original Smash development team. She revealed pre-E3 2011 that the Wii U wouldn't have a HDD. And so on.

@joey302 Who the hell are you?

@6ch6ris6 The new handheld is called NX.

Well, you don't NEED to use the D-pad (I agree it's clunky). Much better to just tap the icon for the item on the touchscreen. Moving with the sticks and tapping on the touchscreen is the best approach IMO.

Fun game.

This is expected and has been like this for many years. Nintendo dominates the Holidays sales in Japan, while Sony dominates the first months of the start of the year. I don't know why this even is a news article.

@Kimite Nintendo products in the Scandinavian countries are handled by Bergsala.

690,000 players in a regional Splatfest is insane.

@Bolt_Strike FWIW, a 3DS game would need something like a 2% attach rate to get 1 million sales by now.

@liljmoore Xenoblade X would sell 2M copies after being out in the West for less than 2 months? Why would it sell better and faster than both Splatoon and MK8?

@Not-Another-Ad Smash U didn't sell 1 million during the current fiscal year.

@DarkCoolEdge Not during the fiscal year that started in April 2015.

There's also Mario Party 10 at 1.65M, but since that released one week before the fiscal year started (and didn't sell 1M during this fiscal year) it's not counted.

@Octane The gameplay value of the Splatoon amiibo content is really nothing, specially compared to what the online multiplayer offers.

@Gorlokk New iteration of a Splatoon game could be a single player game, a party game, or something else. They have now established a universe and some mechanics that they could expand in any direction. The best design decision they made was not be a part of the Mushroom kingdom.

I don't get why so many thinks that any new content will be paid DLC. In Japan in particular, any focus on Splatoon will boost the sales of the game even more, and Nintendo knows this. Adding more free content could mean an additional 1M Splatoon copies sold WW.

@mantisghost @Ashthearcher Why would you need to pay for the concert? The concert was a part of the Splatoon Koshien Finals event.

@Ventilator Great! Norwegian developers are about on par with Finland (Trine, Trine 2, The Swapper) I believe.
But still a bit remaining to the Swedish Wii U indie titles (Minecraft, SteamWorld Dig, BADLAND: GOTY Edition, Gunman Clive HD Collection, Human Resource Machine, Ittle Dew, Knytt Underground, Little Inferno, Stick it to the Man!, Year Walk).
If we count the Danish development as well (Affordable Space Adventure and Spin the Bottle), the Nordic lineup of Wii U indie games is pretty impressive!

Gamestop employees googled the Internet for "new Nintendo console". Found lots of articles about "NX" on NintendoLife. Published survey. NintendoLife reports the survey as "news".

@BulkSlash How would a game that is in the localization being delayed? Because they found some Japanese words that they didn't understand?

@MajinSoul The first unlocked maps where in the disc version of the game. There weren't unfinished.

This wasn't early access. It was a way to secure a stable user base for the game. The easiest maps were released at launch, while the ones that required good technical skills by the player came later.

@sillygostly In what way is this similar to 3D World? 3D World isn't full 3D design, or even a game that displays from the character's view. And FWIW, indies and Nintendo 1st party games never compete in the same price range.
This is a game that competes with Mario 64 on the Wii U VC.