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@BigBluePanda were you there for the Pokemon Go Plus wars of just two weeks ago? Some things never change...

@RoboDuck exactly. No one should ever own anything that costs more than $2. Live in fear forever!

Sooo I never play while driving, but with the Plus on my steering wheel, i can keep my thumb on the button.

In 30 minutes, I caught 25 pokemon, and 15 got away.
I normally catch that many in 3 hours of playing.

It took 40 balls. Catching a caterpie and a magikarp has taken me 7-8 balls, since the first always flies straight up into the air, 3 bounce off their head, then they break out 3 times.

I've caught 3 dratini, a squirtle, and a bulbasaur on the first try with this thing.

Worth
every
penny

Absolutely loving mine. i REALLY like it. just a few positives-

• it can detect and capture pokemon farther than they appear on the map-I've captured twice as many pokemon, half of which i couldnt even see yet
  my capture rate on the first ball is about 4x higher than before- but, they run away slightly faster. overall i'd say i'm capturing them about the same, but its faster. So, a net improvement
• collecting items at a spot used to be touch it, wait for it to zoom in, spin spin spin. now its a button press, and instant. Takes 1/4 of the time
• i didnt play while driving, but if i was at a red light or stop sign and knew there was a spot, i'd try to open app, grab spot, spin spin spin. Now its a simple button press on my steering wheel, where i stuck the pin.

@HyrulianOfHyrule "Virtual console" is a feature on the 3DS and Wii U that let you play old games. I think you just want to say the words "video games" to be more clear in the future

@Tendogamerxxx are you able to use them in facebook messenger at all, by linking it to iMessage somehow? I never use the iMessage at all, just facebook messenger

@Lynox ah thats right! the American eshop announcement only goes out a few hours before the sales go live, i forget the UK one is 4 days ahead of time.

@BensonUii @Kyoto the nintendo website and NintendoLife don't show the discount for me. Can either of you tell me how much the game is now? LEvel-5 game sales are very rare, I hope the eShop version goes on sale here in the US as well!

@nf_2 i work and live on the water, and dratini spawn every couple days for me. Still took me from the day it launched til last week to get a dratini.

Still waiting to evolve my charmelion...

@UmbreonsPapa a year after it came out, local game stores had the system for under a buck and the games for a quarter. Some of those games are now still only $5-10, but the system often goes for 80. I should have bought 100...

@KrakenSoup releasing games woulda been nice. i got my wii u at launch for like 260, while the PS4 was still 600. Its been about 50 years since then, and i cant wait to play the Wii U

fire emblem
Mother 3
Fzero
Metroid
or 20 other titles...

@Simbabbad five seconds on google showed me the dozens of articles from major sources claiming the 3DS was absolutely going to fail. 2010, 2011, even as late as 2013 all spoke of the complete and total failure the 3DS was going to be. Remember when it came out for $250, only a few thousand were sold, and people assumed Nintendo was about to close up? Only for them to drop the 3DS down to $160 and create the Ambassador program? Even Nintendo was certain they were failing.

https://www.google.com/webhp?sourceid=chrome-instant&ion=1&espv=2&ie=UTF-8#q=3ds%20going%20to%20fail

@Clownshoes ...playing a mobile exercise game at home on your pc, while complaining that the people who dominate the gyms "have no lives".
Maybe they're better at the social exercise game because they're gasp exercising socially?!

That's why the game's servers just crashed 6000 times over this morning...

@rjejr the tilt sensor determines if its vertical or horizontal- thats a simple on/off switch. The gyro determines 360x360 ish degrees of angle! The other one you're describing is a face proximity sensor, which basically just fires a light beam to your face and registers how close any object is. That one is also pretty basic- its what automatic supermarket doors have used for decades. The gyro sensor is apparently, much more difficult, and expensive to make.

Who knew!
I'm an app developer with 2 dozen tablets and smartphones, and i had to google some of this

@rjejr Someone was rambling that "all androids have a gyro sensor, except maybe the very first gen 6 years ago".

I checked 22 Android phones at BestBuy. 16 didnt have gyro sensors.

I will say that the game is a lot of fun without the camera- you still see the Pokemon running around, he's just on basic cartoon grass. Now, if you play a lot at home, a $200 iPad mini, any generation, or a $249 iPad air all have gyro sensors. Not really worth it if you never use iPads, but if ya do, there you go!

I think maybe twice a year during a snowstorm have I walked less than 10km in a day. Even just cooking dinner is about 1/3 of a km walking around the kitchen back and forth!

@Lord_Redwood its a free game, so downloading it early isnt illegal. Itd be another thing if this took money away from someone, but I honestly debated dropping $100 on it today. Instead of losing money, the company is getting alll the money today

@Kirk you realize Nintendo didn't make this, and it was made by two completely separate companies right?

WORTH NOTING, ANDROID USERS

Nearly any phone can play the game, but the Play store will block any phone without a gyro sensor. You can sideload it as an APK, legally, (although it goes against the games terms of use!) BUT, without a gyro sensor, you will never be able to see the Pokemon in the world around you- youll just see things through camera normally, in-game, and you'll HEAR pokemon, but never see them.
You can capture Pokemon by turning off AR mode, which replaces the world around you with a generic cartoon background, like in Pokemon battles in the DS games.

Something like 70% of Android phones, and nearly ALL that cost below $200, lack a gyro sensor- My Samsung Galaxy J3 and my previous LG and HTC phones cost about $160 brand new, and none of them have gyro sensors- so, no Pokemon running around in the real world.

All iPhones have a gyro sensor.

@Rogue76 i think i got about 70-80 games on club nintendo- at least once a month, through the life of the program. then on its final days, when you could get full 3DS retail games for free, i got 4-5 for friends and family.

Maybe that's why they had to cut back a bit!

@muhep those have been up for months. They only listed the new ones

Guess I'll take a week or two off work for this one!

@A01 Skyward Sword sold 3.4 million copies, and 122,000,000 people owned a wii.

12,000,000 people own a Wii U, so 1/10th of the possible audience.

Here's hoping the NX does really well! Like...........15x better than the Wii U well.

@Totaldude911 ahh okay. but the portions icons are named koholint or what not? That makes more sense. The areas looked like the same areas to me

@Mega_Yarn_Poochy son of farts! now i dont know which to get. i might just get two of the 3DS one hmm

I've barely touched Hyrule Warriors, and don't own it. but, i love love love link's awakening. Is Adventure mode just the 8 bit graphics and map? Or do you then enter it and battle it in full 3D? The video made it ...less obvious.

@RealPoketendoNL I always wish the names of the attacks were on teh bottom screen, and the top screen was just the characters in the map. Holding L or R and having half the top screen covered in text really broke the immersion of being a pokemon for me...

@Kid_Sickarus eShop cards, however, have to stay competitive. I've picked them up for $5 for a $10 on a real sale, and $5 for a $20 eShop card by abusing a trade in offer.

@Kid_Sickarus Or its like buying games that will never be lost, broken, or damaged. $110 copy of Xenoblade Wii fell to the floor, and chipped? Welp, guess you're out $110.
$20 download of Xenoblade 3DS got deleted or SD card stolen? Meh, just redownload it from the cloud or copy paste your last SD card backup. Takes 2 minutes, all save files restored.
Buying physical is like opening your wallet and saying "man i hope this disk doesn't get bumped too hard or dropped or looked at funny, or my niece doesnt step on it, cuz if so i'll be back here tomorrow buying it again!"

@Moon yeah its weird to spend $40 to get a $10 discount. If only you got a $40 game with those $40...

oh wait

Close friends went to NYC for their anniversary recently, and were happy to finally make it into the Nintendo store they've always wanted to see.

Their anniversary was also the Pokemon 20 year anniversary.
The line to enter the store was 8 hours long.
Maybe next year...

@DefHalan I have both of those on the 3DS, which i kinda prefer.

I do love snuggle truck, plants vs zombies 2, and punch quest, however

@DefHalan yeah, but people also expect mobile games to suck. The only good ones I've ever played- professor layton, world ends with you, xcom, and 1-2 others- were all about $15.

I know free to start typically makes more money in the long run, but i can't help but feel like selling this for $10 would bring in about 1,000,000,000 on the first day alone...

@Henmii if you drop an eShop card, you've lost it forever. Likewise, if you scratch it too hard, and can't read a number, it can be difficult to replace the card. With paypal or a credit card, you deny the charge if anything bad happens, and its refunded in seconds. In this case, you also save like $100. There's old fashioned, and then there's just being paranoid. Embrace the mid 1940s! Use your credit!

I kinda assumed it already had been . Its a perfect fit!

@abbyhitter all humble bundles are for charity, i guess the writer assumed we knew.

@Henmii it takes literally 15 seconds and benefits a children's hospital. That's uh...quite a powerful bout of laziness you have there. I get that you already have eshop credit you want to use, but you can either buy the games for $130 on the eshop with eshop credit, or donate $10 to the children's hospital right now with any payment source and get a dozen games for free. Not really a hard sale here

@SildanXr There's a new humble bundle 2-3 times a week! Although this is only the second Nintendo one

I'll have to double check the current prices of all of these games. If they're down to $20 on the shop, sure

@Retro_on_theGo 100% of the proceeds go to the charity if you click the "where my money goes" option. That also makes it tax deductible, which gets you a whole... $4 back at the end of the year. about.

@kyuubikid213 yup! It was $9 an hour ago now i think its 9.40? But its does say "More games coming soon!
More games will be added to this bundle next Tuesday at 11:00 a.m. Pacific time!

If you pay more than the average price when you purchase the bundle, you'll automatically receive the additional games once they're revealed!"

@kyuubikid213 you get the added games additionally, and the average might go up. Your best bet is to buy now and get the added games next week

@bezerker99 I know right! Its only a dozen games for the cost of two cheeseburgers, and a charitable donation at the same time. But we lose out on a 10% code for a game that we'd be spending at least $40 on ?! Well never mind then

@Retro_on_theGo I mean, kinda. You're paying $13 for a dozen games. If you threw every one of the other games in the trash, then yeah, you spent $13. If you count the retail price of all the games and combine them, you pay -$50 or so for the last two.

@Retro_on_theGo Consistently cheaper how? You pay $4 to get both of them. I've never seen Darksiders under $2.

Remember, Amazon Prime users! When you do 3-5 day free shipping, you get a $1 Digital Goods credit. I pay my phone bill, buy most clothes, birthday gifts, tools for the house from Amazon- so often, as many as 2-3 purchases a week. That's $3 in Digital Credits today alone.
Digital Credits are good on eShop download codes on Amazon. I paid $5 for Mario 3D World last week, and might pick up A Link to the Past for $1 next week.

@holygeez03 i have 2! each barely 3 mm long, i cant even see it when looking at the wii u.

@Yorumi thats why i prefer digital. Earthbound is $300 used on ebay. Chrono Trigger, USED, 20 years ago, adjusted for inflation hit $155 at FYE and kb toys. Picked up both of em for $4 on the eshop.