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Ghosts isn't bad. I have never seen over 800 folks playing at any given time online. Barely on average 600 really. 300 or so on team death match, the other on domination. then nickels and dimes to the other modes. Enough to find matches easily enough on the main modes but never ever enough to play cranked or hardcore mode. Extinction mode is decent but not reliably getting a 4
Person team every time.

@Axed84
Agreed. I am five years platinum in a row. I own all of these except Donkey Kong returns 3D....which I own the Wii version. Great game and had great reviews...but.. Eh.. Rather let down. Most of the time I like sending the cool exclusive prizes to my brother as his birthday is around the time I receive the physical ones in the mail.

Day one buy

Well that sucks. Really wish they did much better. But that was kinda of a tough break porting to just the wii ware. I bought RCR:DX right away. Would have bought wii ware but I held out for that instead.

Sweet! Day one buy

@wayneyrob22 short on games? Have you looked at the eShop? Or say....anything recent articles showing top 10 to own; 10 reasons to buy a Wii U now. I personally own Mario/Luigi U. Game & Wario, Nintendo Land, ZombiU, COD Ghosts, Pikmin 3, Wii Fit U, Wii Sports HD, Zelda HD, Deus EX Directors Cut, Sonic Lost Worlds (my son wanted it; surprisingly fun), Ducktales Remastered, NES Remix, ZEN Pinball (own three boards wife loves the high scores competiviness), Mighty Switch Force HD, Super Mario 3D World, and Mario Kart 8 with free Wii party U. From there I got a lot of Virtual Console games: Mega Man X, Earthbound, Ghosts n Goblins, Donkey Kong and Punch Out. Phew! I think that almost all of them. But yeah!

There is no shortage of games. Do your research!

Amazing! Love it, can't wait to buy it.

Hoping for more. I plan on buying it but probably not till the next paycheck. I will be sure to post up codes.

No more codes out there?

Is everyone loving Tomodachi Life so far?

@arsenalmario someone claimed the second one already.

Gotta buy it. Will buy it. As a kid, my brother and I would play this for days. Great memories. Now I will relive that fun with my kids.

Never thought I would ever bother with parental controls. But being a father of two boys who are proud owners of 2DSs, it is a much used tool. And yes; the new email function will be something I will start using immediately. Thanks Nintendo; that was a spot on idea. Now can we link games to accounts and not systems??

I own all of the winners! And runner ups!(Minus HarmoKnight)

Love this game! Really hope this encourages more iOS developers to consider bringing their IP's over to the 3DS.

Excellent read on the comments. Loved the article and the content presented. All the discussions on here are great and I think ultimately promoting Nintendo.

I get a lot of people admitting to me that thee Wii U is a great system and a great buy. But just don't take the plunge because they wanted to wait and see what the other systems have to offer. Oh and knowing that so far, no BF4 means no buy.

Bought it for my boys. One copy, and 1 3DS XL LMITED ZELDA edition, 1 3DS and 2 2DSs in my household= FUN for everyone. (one of the 3DS's has a hinge broken, will turn that in soon for repairs). So much fun with this. Haven't played a Mario Party game since Mario Party 2.

@MrGawain
and get tired of innovation, Then start embracing micro-transactions, and wait-to-play gameplay...and willing to shovel through all the shovel ware..

@2Sang
The blue pulse of doom will crush the ps4, sad to say.

WOOWOWOWOWOWOOW 10!

But,,,, sadly.. sniff.. The 2DS is sadly AWOL.

Pokémon X and Y present and accounted for in Europe Installation PX

@PinkSpider I lol'd.

I alone know of 5 people that will be buying a wii U; due to playing it in my house. They also noted the great digital offerings and the great idea of buying a external hard drive versus paying premium costs for internal hard drive space you probably would not fill up anyways.

Buying a pair of these for my boys. Then maybe then my 3DS XL will stop disappearing on me.

Then; conduct the "flight of stairs" test. Where upon it is dropped down a flight of stairs.

Either way, the complete exclusion of 3D and the "single screen" should have some effect on the battery life. At least I would imagine it would. OH! *forgot about the MONO sound. That should factor into it as well.

Amazing!

Yay! Now to scrape up some loose cash to buy it on retail. Seems like it would be a huge download hit to my meager SD card.

I grew up with Nintendo and now my boys are growing up with Nintendo. After buying the Wii U and seeing all the great things Nintendo is doing right with it. I have sworn off other consoles entirely. THIS is THE console of choice for all my games from here out. After using te gamepad, I just can't see myself playing without it ever again.

Not in the eShop yet; gosh darn it!

I tired it out last night. Found myself having an incredible amount of fun with it. I set up the map so my 4 year old son had to walk from this ice cream shop I went to as a kid; then had him walk for about 10 blocks to get to the house I grew up in. It was fun, as I pointed out places to him and their meanings to me.

Then I took a "jog" through his mother's small home town. Visiting her dad's place and then "jogging" to his work pretty far away to the coke-cola factory. I acthually build up a good sweat "jogging" in place. I thin I was "jogging" for maybe 40 minutes. My wife was having a blast directing me through her old home town.

@Robottiimu2000
http://youtu.be/87ra6qKzXDA
hahaha! reminds me of the Simpsons sarcasm detector.

Sounds about right to me. Cloud use and servers cost bank. But I think the underlining context is this: Will Nintendo fans pay a subscription? If they do. What is next? This is clearly a test of the waters for Nintendo.

So no Pip-boy 3000 on my gamepad??

Shut up and take my money, Mojang! Make minecraft U a reality!

So.. Wait. No 2DS charger cradle? I don't see any induction points anywhere on it. (Destructiod had several pictures on it) I figured the charging cradle made things even more kid friendly.

Must do everything in my power to ensure boys do not see these toys. Wallet would not survive it this holiday!

A hands on preview!

http://www.destructoid.com/nintendo-2ds-i-really-like-this-bread-slice-of-a-system-261044.phtml?nav=mobile&mode=mobile

@3Daniel
I read on Destructiod; who have had HANDS ON, that it is in fact very comfortable in big hands and small. They are singing all sorts of praises for it.

I intend on buying two of these for Christmas for my two boys. And loading it with Digital goodness.

@unrandomsam
It is crazy to think both those systems you mentioned (Sega Nomad/turbo express) were beaten by the monochrome gameboy pocket and color. Better systems beaten by honestly an inferior system.

@Rafie gasp! Upon reading your comment; I came to a realization! The vita and wii U are in a similar situation! What Sells systems is not ports and third party! It is the exclusive only found there experience. The 3DS success story wasn't all about third party support! It was that unique gameplay experiences that could only be found on the Nintendo system. We don't need ports on the Wii U and it saying "we have that game too". No. Nintendo has it right. Exclusive games, exclusive Nintendo franchises and that always fun innovative Nintendo style.

Excellenent. I absolutly enjoy my Wii U. My family has never played games together as much as it does now thanks to Nintendo. From the wife to my year old son. There is truly fun for the whole family. Currently we play Game & Wario almost everyday before bed. I do not see myself needing a PS4 or Xbone this generation of consoles.

Awesome series! Loved Bowser Inside story, and I really enjoy the battle system. It is a plus change to the old "just pressing A, until the battle is over" gameplay. Come the end of the month, I will definitly pick this up. Although my SD card is filled almost all the way to top.

Sweetness! Man, I just bought pikman 3! Gotta go format a hard drive and up my memory space for this. Or would a 16GB SD card be enough?

@MrSRArter agreed!

Still waiting on my Deus Ex...

!!!! I want Doom BFG on my Wii U! Ugh. I was so tempted to buy this on Steam or PS3 when it came out. BUT restrained myself.. Now I read this and well... I think I will wait and hope that maybe it will come out next year.

The first thing I thought when I read this was like something along the lines of old retro games with spiffy new graphics.