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Will they fix the game's size being 33gb on Switch? Why the hell is it so large?

Table Tennis
Archery
Air Sports

So is this guy so rich we need to hate him now?

I see someone's an Eccleston fan. He was my favorite Doctor as well, shame his run lasted only one season.

@Arcade_Tokyo Thank you!
That's a buy from me, then!

I take it there are no touchscreen controls? It's all sticks and buttons?

Hell yeah! Was hoping for a good port and this sounds like one indeed! Will be getting both

@Silly_G You're a boring old fuddy-duddy

Sounds very promising! Lots of small indie publishers can only be a good thing for gaming!

If it looks and runs well enough on Switch I'll get it there.

@SMGstudio I thought it was a brilliant video and promotion! Tried a few codes and was too late but enjoyed the video thoroughly. The narrator was hilarious!

This looks extremely cool

Annnnnd added to wishlist!

Wishlisted real hard!

I like Rebellion and enjoyed Rogue Trooper on Wii and on Switch so I'll be getting this.

My vote goes to Cities Skylines as well.
This site's review of that game was, to put it lightly, unfortunate. (And to put it less lightly, hypocritical).

Having played this for over 20 hours on Switch (undocked), this review is utter bollocks.

Especially when taking into account the inflated scores usually given by this site.

Tiny Metal is a 9 but this is a 5?

@Lizuka
Simply not true. The Wii eshop was considerably worse!

That's a huge shame. I wonder why it wasn't included.

Can anyone confirm if this version includes the Trial feature available on GC that allows you to play portions of each level in slow motion?

what's taking so long?

what? NO
this site was founded in November

Serious question: How hard would it be to just figure the amount of money each WiiWare game that hasn't crossed the minimum threshold has earned, and just give the developer their cut as an act of good will?

I mean there weren't that many WiiWare games to begin with*, so it seems reasonable to assume there are about 100-200 games that didn't make the cut?

I don't think it's a ton of work contacting a hundred or so devs via email and organizing some kind of electronic transfer. I mean Nintendo has their contact information as well as their bank account info for sure. They should also have a fairly accurate estimate on the sales of these titles, and figuring out the exact number should just be a matter of poring over some logs.

Maybe I'm missing something here, but if my assumptions aren't completely off, this is a task a single individual could accomplish in a week's work.
It would do a lot to improve Nintendo's image with indie developers, especially since their new policy seems to remove many of WiiWare's old restrictions.

*http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_WiiWare_games

I'm curious, does anyone know why this game is 36 MB on Wii U when it's 2.75 MB on Wii?

Is there any extra content that would warrant such a huge increase in file size?

I clicked this article because of a picture of a Lego man riding a T Rex skeleton..

I leave disappointed

edit: was on page 2? D'oh!

Bought this game on WiiWare yesterday after reading about the developer's commitment and care. I hope others do the same, because the game turns out to really be a joy! And you can tell by all the extras included that the person who made it really put his heart and soul into it. Maybe we should organize some kind of campaign to push sales over the threshold.

$20,000 is only 2000 sales, which isn't impossible to achieve, and I've seen similar sentiments from readers on other Nintendo websites.

@James
Any word on chances of this being decent?

@Faron thumbs up on the open world space exploration!

Speaking of Rodea, any news on that one??
I've been waiting for ages and I'm beginning to fear the worst...

okay, here's my outrageous guess. If you read previous Nintendo shareholder meeting protocols carefully, you'd know Iwata has hinted at some kind of integration between Nintendo devices and other popular consumer electronics, like smart-phones, tablets and so on.

Maybe this is an announcement of just such an add-on for the 3DS, something that would allow their devices to be relevant to a much wider user base without having to develop for a different hardware platform.

For example, they could announce an "app" of sorts that allows you to transfer limited information from your game onto your (or other people's) mobile phone, and keep it there, kind of like a "download-play" thing.

A more hardware related option I'd like to see is an official Nintendo Flash Card that would allow you to install multiple retail games on your 3DS.

An even more outrageous guess would be a headset peripheral for the 3DS for some Actual VR gameplay!
They could call it the Virtual B... I mean, the 3DSi (as in eye)

Hope this gets a demo!

played a bit of the first episode- which I got free from TellTale - and liked it! If this is a good port I just might add it to my already jam-packed purchasing schedule for this Fall.

I pre-ordered the PAL version and am waiting for it to arrive. Frankly, no matter what NoA decides to do about this, i find their attitude repugnant.
Wii owners should never be "tested" to see if there is demand for good games, no matter the genre. Not by Capcom or EA, definitely not by NoA!

Cool interview! I like this guy's way of thinking. Hopefully there will be demos of Kyotokei and 3D Pixel racing on WiiWare (especially the latter which I still want to love despite the review it got here...)

better than the US name which was too similar to DKCR IMO

About Damn time!!
was honestly beginning to worry about this one...

Hell yeah!!
This is a smart move because it creates a better environment for JRPGs on Wii in anticipation for the ultimate JRPG that is DQX!
Is there a link to a press release?

looks like punch out and strikers for me
I hope US gets WarioWare somewhere down the line too

Ahhh the Wii. It doesn't have great graphics because graphics don't matter. It doesn't have great online because online doesn't matter. It doesn't have great games because great games don't matter. Why don't you go outside and read a book?

this message brought to you by Nintendo of America

@Tsuchinoko
Best Buy and other retailers are already offering it for $199 so you can buy one this week and pay $1.50 for each game... not a bad deal IMO.
If you are really money grubbingly cheap, you can also try to buy it with price protection (which Best Buy offer among others) for a 30$ refund when the time comes...

@CowLaunch
you can do what I am considering to do, which is pay a friend or someone I trust in the US to buy one for me before the 12th, unpack the 3DS, connect to the eshop and download something free, and then pack it back up and send it my way...

I too hope it's decent... There's not much else to play on Wii in terms of flight games. Sky Crawlers unfortunately bombed at retail, and Legendo have also said they don't plan on finishing the Pearl Harbor Trilogy on wiiware...
sigh

@9 Yes they do... they just sent this one out to die..

This is one of the things I hate the most about Nintendo...
Failure to communicate, well, just about anything properly.

Remember when Iwata said Miyamoto was planning for something special for Zelda's anniversary? Most of us thought it would have to do with games...

Remember when they said multiple times this year that Wii still had many awesome games coming — some before E3?

Remember the statement "we're making Pikmin" back on 2008?

The developers needed to focus on recreating just one thing from their mind - a good game.

You guys are funny with your "precision" arguments. Keyboard/Mouse, WiiMote, Move and even dual analog are WAY more accurate than an actual rifle, and much MUCH more comfortable to use

haven't we known this for some time?
why issue a statement now?

wake me up when they get to "Successfully Learning Complex Analysis"

@SanderEvers @skywake
Skyward Sword looks AMAZING but it has nothing to do with Zelda's 25th anniversary... It just happens to be releasing on the same year. It's not like we wouldn't be getting it anyway, exactly as it is. And it's not like there is some special pre-order bonus or something to make it stand out as a special Zelda release. As I already said, it would have been bundled with a remote anyway as the game is motion-plus exclusive. The only difference I can see is the color of the remote, which for me personally is in no way exciting and not really unique either.

The point of a 'special celebration' is to do something out of the ordinary. Concerts qualify, porting over Four Swords for free qualifies. This does not.
Once again let me emphasize that Skyword Sword looks AMAZING and I am pre-ordering it.

3DS owners get Oot 3D and Lttp, DSi (and 3DS) owners get FREE FOUR SWORDS (!!) and Wii owners get nothing!

Skyward Sword was scheduled to release this year anyway, after god knows how many delays, and it was always going to be bundled with a motion plus for those that don't have one, so I'm not buying that whole special golden remote stuff.

Nintendo could have quite easily released a complete compilation of every single home-console Zelda on one disc for Wii if they wanted to. WW and TP (GC version) are no more than 1.5 gigs each, so that leaves a whole 1.6 gigs for Zelda 1, 2, LttP, OoT, Master Quest and MM which should altogether take up maybe 10% of that. If Nintendo really wanted to they could have filled up that extra space with content not seen in the west, as well as a behind the scenes "making-of" documentary, soundtracks and artwork... all on a single layered disc!

The cost of porting the games to Wii would be next to nothing, and they could've easily sold the thing for $30-$40 and make a ton of profit!
I guess they figured they had enough green for one Zelda anniversary already.... their loss entirely.