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@antdickens The exhaust port is at the top of the console - should be fine.

@JaxonH hoping for another perfect 10 - exclusive to Switch!

"HURRR I think I'll wait a year or two so I can save $50 on a bundle/after a price drop."

I'm glad I have a real job and don't have to complain about a modestly priced brand new Nintendo console - something that happens like twice/decade, and is bordering on half the price of its competitors at their launches.

wow this is shameless

"If you've finished your launch titles already..."

hahahahaha

@Agent721 There are certain people, like the gaterboy, that are looking for any reason to be negative about Nintendo. It really is sad. I don't come here much but every single time I check out NL comments gaterboy and that person who always posts first are being negative.

cannot...contain..EXCITEMENT!!!!

30+ club here! Checking my Best Buy order on the reg even though they'll e-mail me when it ships.

Only bad part about my preorder is that it's being shipped...so I have no excuse to take the day off work!

The plural of Joy-Con is Joy-Con.

The plural of Joy-Con is Joy-Con. Why is this so hard?

When are American journalists going to get that the plural of Joy-Con is Joy-Con?

can anyone explain what kind of game this is? never played bomberman before but from the ads it looks like it's multiplayer only? or is there a single player/campaign mode?

There are very few games about which I care less than this one.

Can someone explain how, as I've seen stated here a few times, it's the colored joy con that 'scream nintendo' when the NES, SNES, and N64 all had grey controllers? The only console that has had wacky-colored controllers is the Gamecube.

"Nintendo's decision to eskew optical media..."

Think you meant "eschew"...

@Shigmin Haha yes! I was hoping I wasn't the only one who noticed that!

@rjejr why can you spell every word but Nintendo?

@edhe "and with his blue tunic, the protagonist looks a bit like Skyward Sword Link too."

Link has a blue tunic at the beginning of Wind Waker...

I'm going to say I don't care about graphics because hipster

Maybe it's a Nintendo Phone powered by Android OS and launching with its own mobile Zelda game!

@Great_Gonzalez If Mario isn't too iconic to be reduced to phone "fodder," then neither is Zelda.

man, what a home run this would be if they'd just add the analog support

Everyone should go read today's blog post from the creator of AM2R: http://metroid2remake.blogspot.com/2016/08/the-future-of-am2r.html

I would look at their waiting until now a different way:

#1: It wouldn't have made sense to order him to stop when all he was doing was developing the remake. To my knowledge, there's nothing illegal about a private individual doing something like that for private use. So it only makes sense to have to do this when the thing is actually being distributed.

#2: By waiting until now, they've allowed the game to get out and become available to many, many people. If you look hard enough, I'm sure you'll continue to be able to find it. If they had canned it earlier, it never would've seen the light of day.

Try not to judge Nintendo so harshly. It seems like to me their decision has allowed for an everybody-wins scenario because 1) the dude finished his project, 2) Nintendo get to protect their IP, and 3) the game was actually out there and people got to experience it.

Excuse my ignorance but if we get one of these non-XL 3DS bundles in NA, we can get Japanese plates on eBay and they'll fit, right?

Z-ring? It's a bracelet...

I don't see why everyone is so hung up on "owning" things. If you pay $12 to go see a movie in the theater, you're paying for the 2-hour experience. If you pay $50 or $60 for even just 10 hours of gameplay experience, the expense ratio is the exact same. Of course, most Nintendo games are going to net you many more than 10 hours, and the value proposition is even higher than going to the movies because you will own access to your game for at least the generation if not longer (i.e. since you can download it you may be able to play it for as long as you have a functioning console).

the verb of prophecy is "prophesy"

Emerging from the shadows? nojustno

nm to my previous comment...need to read further

is this in the same vein as Trials for Xbox/PlayStation?

"a little pricier at ¥4,800 (about ¥)" ?

@HollywoodHogan seriously! "The devil is in the details" would've been fine!

Not familiar with "roguelike" as a genre...Going to look it up!

@HawkeyeWii thank goodness Yooka-Laylee is on the horizon!!

yep....I had a ton of coins and spent them all on digital games I would've much rather purchased with cash...but all we got in NA was a simple cop-out of digital games instead of cool stuff like this. Why does Nintendo hate us?

@NintyMan Dude, I know the game has been out for a while, but watch the spoilers! I just started playing through the game and didn't know that about Dark Mario

@Ralizah pretty sure Devil's Third is also digital-only in NA

@Moon Yeah, or at least "(Score Pending)" in the title would've been nice

@spamineggs Twisted Dreams has been on the Wii U eShop for 2 years...

I don't recognize a single one of those songs :-/

@RantingThespian please call Nintendo Support and tell them! They called me back for more info twice and each time they said that they were not aware of this happening to other people. They need to know about this problem before they start pushing out more large Wii games to download.

What I really wanted in NA along with lack of faceplates is THE SAME BORING SELECTION OF BLACK AND RED. Could we at least get some new colors?!?

"opportunists" (and even "scalpers") is way too kind

@SkullKid there aren't going to be any at your local gamestop. These preorders were never in-store preorders. Gamestop was just taking orders for systems that they would ship directly to your home. Anyone who hasn't pre-ordered this is not going to get one (unless they buy from the scalpers, which I refuse to do).

I was in Gamestop less than two hours after these were announced (took an extended lunch break!) and I missed out on getting a pre-order. Very upset and wish Nintendo would show that they care about true fans who have to choose between being taken advantage of and missing out on really neat items like these.

@Bass_X0 That may be but do you think it could be patched? If they're going to release a lot of these games it could be a big problem if I'm not the only one who can't store them on an external hdd

HELP! I'm experiencing a bug with Super Mario Galaxy 2. I downloaded it to an external hard drive. When I launch it, I just get a black screen for 2-3 minutes and then the Wii U turns off and restarts to the home screen.

When I move the game to the system hard drive it works fine. It only causes this problem when it's on the external HDD. I called Nintendo Support and they were not aware of others having this problem. Their next tier of support is going to "look into it" and get back in touch with me in a few days. Has anyone else run into this??

"..which pegs this (unsurprisingly) as a budget retail release."

I haven't been following this game much so can someone clarify this for me? Why is Rainbow Curse unsurprisingly a budget release?

thought it said "I've got the runs"

This is awesome! In for Pikmin 3!