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@rjejr Completely forgot about Sony's event this evening - nicely done Nintendo!

Animal Crossing in November, Mario in December. Where does that leave Fire Emblem?

I'm thinking unveiling through Direct, followed by a Treehouse press event where they show off the games and some console features. Kind of like a Nintendo-centric E3.

Metroid Prime Hunters: 6,810 units
Metroid Prime 3: 13,143 units
Other M: 36,164 units

To say the UK's relationship with Metroid is weird is an understatement.

@Phil_Kavadias Given that most of these kinds of Directs were presented by the local hosts (apart from bigger segments), it didn't feel too weird. E3, on the other hand...

One thing that is clear is that the portable part of the NX probably won't be released until next Christmas based on that Direct.

@MrGawain Wii U discs have the same amount of space as single-layer Blu-ray discs (25GB), just as early PS3 discs did. IIRC, PS4 games only use dual-layer discs (50GB) with the rest downloading from the internet.

@MrGawain Well, with Wii U discs, they already have a Blu-ray style medium. Nintendo's typically avoided having to pay licensing fees by producing their own disc format.

Now we just need some info on the Fire Emblem game.

@Pokefanmum82 The only real differences are that the 3DS version appears to be easier, has a few new features and doesn't look as nice.

@SmashbrosFtw1306 The 3DS wouldn't be able to run either Splatoon or XCX. It'd probably struggle to play 3D World as well.

Considering you can't even play all of the Wii U made courses on this one, plus there isn't the full range of content to make courses, this isn't really worth the money unless you're desperate to play the game. I'll stick with the better version.

@MrPuzzlez Next Level Games are a Canadian team.

@Yorumi 66 isn't good, but it's not poor either - it's average.

@Yorumi Where is it reviewing poorly? 27 of the 37 critic reviews on Metacritic are average-to-great (60+). Given the number of negative user reviews on Metacritic are from people who actually admit they haven't played the game, you can count those out.

If this is true then the Eurogamer report would be false - it wouldn't make sense to have the only 'Share' button on a detachable controller because then only one player can use it when the sides are taken off of the screen.

Considering Human Revolution was ported to the Wii U by Straight Right and not Eidos, it's not outside the realm of possibility that Mankind Divided will come to the NX. Only Square Enix can give a definite answer.

@AlphaJaguar Hell, imagine if they unveiled it last night...!

It makes sense that they used Mario, not just because of the impact he (and Nintendo) has had on Japanese culture, but because he's in the official Olympic video games. That's why it's weird that we didn't also see Sanic.

@ThanosReXXX Well 'it's in the game'!

Gravity Falls? Yay!
Guardians of the Galaxy? Boo.

The NX rumours are incredibly interesting though: two separate, different devices that both sides are sure is the NX - for all we know, they both are.

@Yorumi Read again: 'you are acting', not 'you have said'. Key differences here.

@Yorumi Talk about not answering the question.

The point is that you are acting as though 'real Metroid' sells by the bucketloads and Nintendo is somehow being idiotic in not making another 'real Metroid' game. The reality is that the last game you and others might consider 'real Metroid' (which, in itself, is ridiculous as only the game's creator can determine what that game truly is - anyone can have their own interpretation, but it doesn't mean they're right) sold only 1.81m from 2007 to last month. To put that into perspective: Mario Party 10, considered the worst Mario Party game, sold as many copies in just over a year; Splatoon, a new IP on a dead console, has sold nearly as many copies as the Prime trilogy combined in just over a year.

By your reckoning, the Prime trilogy must not be 'real Metroid' otherwise all of these Metroid fans would surely have voted with their wallets and purchased the games, rather than send the message that they didn't want that version of Metroid.

@Yorumi So the Prime trilogy wasn't real Metroid then?

@Luna_110 Hell, Splatoon sold better than each of the Metroid Prime games despite being on a console with a smaller install base than either of them.

@Olmectron It confirms Dragon Quest X, not XI.

@ThanosReXXX I can understand them not divulging their sources - for both job security (for the source) and to avoid being blacklisted - but at least some physical evidence of what the source has said would be nice.

The thing is, given what Iwata has said in the past, it looks a lot more likely that the NX is two separate devices using the same operating system and scaling down games to fit those devices - similar to what the PS4 Neo and Project Scorpio are doing.

@MrGawain I know the feeling - the next game I'm looking forward to is Mass Effect Andromeda and that doesn't even have a release date!

@MJInnocent I think their issue is more with it being written in paragraphs rather than as a table. Right, @manu0?

@ThanosReXXX Just to emphasise this point, because it's been bugging me since Eurogamer released their article:
'What we mean by integrating platforms is not integrating handhelds devices and home consoles to make only one machine. What we are aiming at is to integrate the architecture to form a common basis for software development so that we can make software assets more transferrable, and operating systems and their build-in applications more portable, regardless of form factor or performance of each platform.'

The problem with the Eurogamer article is that it basically says the NX is only 1 device which, as we know from reports last year, isn't true.

@shaneoh It was, and September is Earth Wind & Fire, but I'm guessing it's cheaper to do a cover.

@Tsurii You don't know What is Love...? 'Baby don't hurt me, don't hurt me'... Or even September? 'Love was changing the minds of pretenders'...

The difference is this is more for collectors, whereas the NES Classic Mini is just a cheap nostalgia item - a stocking filler designed to get people who want to play more than those 30 games to buy a 3DS or Wii U/NX and buy games on the Virtual Console.

In times like this, I always think of Iwata: '[it] is true that there are some Internet sites and certain media who have written stories about Nintendo as if they were official when, in reality, they did not come from any official sources such as interviews or announcements, nor were they confirmed by the company'.

@A01 The bars on the far-left and far-right look like sensors, similar to those on the GamePad and Wii Remotes.

@The__Goomba Maybe, as long as Nintendo gives them a fixed budget so they don't waste another $1m on something ridiculous like billboards.

@SLIGEACH_EIRE It lasted from Friday morning to yesterday morning - that was more suited to Europe than anywhere else.

@The_Dude_Abides Production is stopping in 2018.

@Sakura It looks like cards visit and figures probably move in.

Man, I was just robbing - I mean, helping to collect fruit.... in my town last night because of this stupid heat.

Not really - red shells keep stopping me on A roads.

@Piersen So ancient. Such ruin.

@OorWullie Not just that: if the NX is indeed announced in September, Nintendo could very well end up dominating gaming news for months.

@Kirk Given the subtitle 'Nintendo Classic Mini', there's clearly a series of these coming up in the next few years.

@RainbowGazelle For people who want to play these games and don't own a Wii U or 3DS? Like the millions of people playing Pokemon GO who haven't bought a Pokemon game in years?

@Anti-Matter This is my NEXt.

Downloading now - gonna grab my bike and ride through Kalos later. Wait: this doesn't teleport you? Fine, I'll take the stupid bus then...!

@Uzuki I think Nintendo are also producing the accessory, but that's about as far as their involvement in this app goes.

@gatorboi352 DeNA partnered with Nintendo, not Niantic.

No surprise really - Ingress was just as popular.