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Dunno why people preorder anything from them anyway. Even if you do get reward points, the cost of their games are crazy.

Breath of the Wild on Switch is £59.99 at GAME. But ShopTo and Amazon are able to sell it for more than £10 less.

Makes me think GAME buy from distributors at a higher cost possibly. They had issues with distributors in the past: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-17336697

@bouncer0304 they went for option 1.

Why couldn't they make the controllers wireless? Wireless isn't an expensive thing to implement these days.

After owning a Dreamcast on Day One and them scrapping it so soon, that's when I lost my trust in SEGA.

Others have said Dreamcast 2. As much as I'd love them to bring a new console out, I doubt it will happen. It would have to be as powerful and feature rich as the Xbone/PS4 to even be recognised by more than old SEGA fans these days.

Surely in the time it took to transport that Happy Meal to your office then take 5 mins to fully unbox it, all the food was cold.

I got myself one of these on my lunch break and they only had the Mario figure and not mushroom

Wow those graphics look so crap. Not much to drool over here.

That cat hardly even has a face! LOL

Sounds to me like iLife are plagiarizing Apple with their name.

What happens if someone calls your phone while you play a game?

ERRR... YEAH.... THAT!!!

Mine got delivered the other day. Nintendo seemed to ship them early when I was expecting them to ship it late so they don't break their own launch date.

Alex Kidd in Miracle World next please. First game I ever played back on the Master System. Would love to replay this in 3D.

Need for Speed Most Wanted on Wii U actually happens to be on my 'Most Wanted' games to buy list, but have quite a lot of games still to play so will be buying it soon. Shame about Rivals tbh, but I have an Xbox 360 to buy it on if I'm desperate.

Wouldn't mind seeing this. Bought Retro City Rampage on Wii this year, so wouldn't mind having it on 3DS when it comes out too.

Personally, now RTC is confirmed on 3DS I think it would be better suited to the handheld anyway.

Looks cool, but surely not much more skill involved apart from holding down the accelerate button?

Shame the Nintendo 3Shop app doesn't open near as fast as the iPhone app store.

Wish Nintendo done something about that so you didn't have to sit and wait for the silly jingle to stop playing before you can browse.

A Japanese touch I'm sure.

It's about time Nintendo sorted this out... how embarrassing.

@diavu well if that's your negative opinion on the series then hopefully Frontier will listen and release a demo too to hopefully convince otherwise (if this is an improvement)?

The title of this post makes no sense. Ni no Kuni has seen a western release on the PS3.

If I had the time, I'd create another infographic. There's loads missed off there.

I'd like to see Twitter and Facebook integration to Miiverse.

Nintendo have said on many occasions that social networking has helped boost awareness of their games so if I were to create a post or drawing in Miiverse and it would also optionally posted to my Facebook friends it would gain awareness of Miiverse features.

If Miiverse IS coming to PC/smartphones then this would be perfect as Miiverse content can easily be hyperlinked to from the social network webpage you posted to.

Looks really good. Been following Two Tribes along the way over the course of it's development.

Rather than building a whole theme park which I consider is probably a risky business venture why not work with a park like Thorpe Park and open a Nintendo area of rides?

At Alton Towers there is a Sonic the Hedgehog ride called Spinball Whizzer. Nintendo could do something similar without fear of delving into something they have no experience of.

If Death Inc didn't reach it's target this definately won't.
From what I remember from the 'Mega Drive Years', ECCO the dolphin was incredibly s*** and boring.

@Jamouse as well as the Wii getting a tick for Gamecube games, Wii also gets a tick for having a BBC iPlayer app which the Wii U doesn't have.

I know it's not Nintendo's fault they are selling the Wii U at less than trade price but having spent £340 for a Wii U and ZombiU 4 months ago, I feel robbed and sad.

Would be really nice if Nintendo gave a free game to early adopters.

I play 'this crap' on the Wii U.

Would actually buy Nano Assault EX or The Cave if I won. If I got the top prize then add Need for Speed Most Wanted to that

Will definately try the Chasing Aurora demo and if I like, will buy.

Hydroventure/Fluidity Spin Cycle and NightSky are also tempting from the previous weeks.

If it's an 'emergency', why are they waiting 4 days to do this maintenance?

Would be cool if the Pro controller worked on Mac too and not just PC.

Tempted to buy this. Always thought because of the low price that it wasn't actually that good.

Downloaded this evening and ended up giving in to the KONG mode. Me and my girlfriend thought the game will hilarious.

Wouldn't it be great if Rockstar announced GTA V on Wii U, and because of it delayed all versions until 2014. Touché.

Not sure really. I completed Wind Waker on the GC and as much as I'd like buy this to play in HD, $60 seems a bit steep.

@Smitherenez agreed!

It's silly really, Nintendo should have thought of this when writing the Wii U Software.

Even the 'Wii U Mode' is stupid. You should just able to put a Wii game in the slot and it comes up as a game to play on the Wii U's own dashboard.

Franky, games for the Wii U are a rip off. I was in GAME the other day and a game cost £54.99!!!

Yet again nothing for the Wii U... so disappointing.

Glad Nintendo are realising the potential of smartphones (and tablets too maybe).

Being a long Nintendo fan, I'm a fan of their games more than consoles so I'd actually welcome Nintendo games becoming officially available on smartphones or tablets.

Animal Crossing on a iPad with retina display... imagine that?! One can dream

No Wii U? WTF? At least put the Virtual Console on the Wii U eShop as well.

Entered, but no email through just yet so hoping I got in on time.

I'm not downloading ANY 'Full Retail' games from the eShop until they sort out this Nintendo ID out. Too paranoid my 3DS will break or get stolen resulting in £££'s of games disappearing too.

@MrWalkieTalkie yeah I agree. Sounds a bit disappointing but I reckon once we play it we won't want to put the game down.

Despite how 'bizarre' the GameCube one is, it's my favourite.

Oh no, he won't get laid by his girlfriend for a WHOLE month... oh wait, girlfriend, what?!

When is the UK actually going to get Club Nintendo downloadable games like this? Feeling really let down by Nintendo of Europe/UK not giving us this.

@Stratostar looks a bit outdated and doesn't really have much info though. American only?

Here's a challenge guys. If you're an indie developer and want to develop a game for Wii U where do you go and signup? I googled and got nothing, no wonder why Apple/Android have so many apps as they are clear and easy to find out how.

Not sure why Nintendo didn't show us their dashboard on their last big Wii U announcement or at E3 2012? It's not like it's something they need to hide.
Microsoft love to show off their Xbox dashboard updates as an example.

Good interview but get the feeling Howard Phillips is really stuck in the past isn't he. 'NES the best gaming system of all time' and the 'original Zelda best Ninty game ever'... it's as if he didn't play on any Nintendo post-NES and I've been gaming since the 80's from the NES.