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@ToadFan

When you think about it Tecmo-Koei would be such a great fit for Atlus and would round the companies output out a lot.

@Humphries90

Eww no. Honestly I mostly want to see Microsoft buy them just for the meltdowns, but no console Holder should own Atlus and the only one likely to do so is Microsoft at this point.

-Sony has been shuttering studios recently. Plus Yoshida already publicly commented on it.
-Nintendo just really isn't the aquire happy type and they have the most to lose and gain.
-Microsoft founded a Japanese studio and they could see this as a way to expand the Osaka efforts.

If anyone will pick Atlus up its going to be Gung-ho or Square enix.

This is the time Nintendo, buy out Index's Stake of Atkus before Sony or Microsoft does. Honestly I don't care who buys Atlus as long as all the IPs stay together and the company lives on.

But Its probably going to be Bacmo, Squeenix, sega, or Capcom.

Hmm I have a 360 and I'll probably pick up a PS4 or an Xbone this year. Obviously this sucks for Nintendo Only dudes and sales come up so they can re-support the Wii U.

Pretty sure Layton isn't that popular in Japan anymore and is aimed at a older audience. Inazuma Eleven is stupidly popular and is why everything Level-5 makes these days have an anime related to it.

Plus that Plane I pretty dope.

Aw Man Vegas Stakes is awesome.

@Assassinated

lol I thought the same thing as well.

@pntjr

They hold the current license for star wars related video games, but the Zen Pinball tablet was licensed months ago. Also i'm not sure if the EA lisence covers pinball (diigtal or otherwise) as well. Activsion has most of the Marvel game lisences but Zen Pinball still came out with the Marvel tables.

Hope this game adhere's to the classic Googly eyes design approach 90s rare had.

Such a big update this week.

Was hoping for Battalion Wars myself. The game would work great with the gamepad.

I'm really not bothered by this as I look at it differently than DLC made for a game. These are whole new games instead of content for pre-existing games, while its true that Find Mii II and more puzzle pieces are free those weren't probably worth much.

These games however are made from non Nintendo teams and a price tag of $5 each makes sense for these small mii heavy games.

The delays haven't helped in the face of dwindling third party support. Nintendo really needs to up its manpower and open up or aquire more studios and bolster their software support.

@Spectator

Well the game wouldn't even be made with out Microsoft. IT was announced to years ago as collaboration for various well known Japaneses devs to make kinect games. Think something like the Guild series from Level 5.

@Spectator

Crimson Dragon is owned by microsoft sadly. Maybe if the game does well Sega will bring back Panzeer Dragoon.

A good day for indie platformers.

@MadAussieBloke

Irrc the Vita/PS3 have done really well in terms of indie sales. The retro city rampage guy said the PlayStation version moved a ton of units.

Also you keep puting up this narrative of microsoft/Playstation gamers not liking that stuff when both systems have games that prove you wrong and more diverse console lineups.

@Cyberbotv2

They haven't corned it (that would be nigh impossible) but they have been the most aggressive out of the big three when it comes to indie support. By proxy Nintendo's web framework and self publishing should at the very least make it a viable contender for most developers.

Take oddworld New 'n Tasty. It was first shown off at the PS4 confrere as a PlayStation first title but the next day we saw the game announced for Wii U. Even Toki Tori 2 apparently has a PS4/Vita port in the works. A Lot of kickstarters already have had Wii U/3DS/Vita as systems and I expect PS4 to be the fourth system.

The indie sizzle reel was one of my favorite parts of the Nintendo direct. I still feel it should have been a larger part of the show , and had more tangible content like Sony had at the PS4 event.

It was a toss up between X and Mario Kart 8. Went with X due to the epic taile.r

Nice. This game is shaping up nicely and doesnt have me feel that bad about no Fzero.

Probably my favorite game of the direct. The music and the art have me ready to play this. I'm gussing its going to have a multiplayer mode as well.

@Bluezealand

So has sony? That's not even covering the Pub Fund and incubation programs. why do you think Vita and PS4 have been getting major indie support.

@NINTENBOY

Eh I'd say Sony is still killing Nintendo as far as indie support goes. Call me when Nintendo lets an indie guy on stage to talk.

Plus T-shirts

Still Its pretty crazy how far Nintendo has come with indies and the eshop since the wiiware/dsiware days.

I'm guessing a Price drop and either phasing out the Basic bundle or reconfiguring it. Always thought the delxue should have came with a HDD versus the basic.

Nintendo is going to ave to bring in the face of two new consoles and I'm hoping we get some nice announcements. Really hope to see X there, as well as DQX announcement,

Switch it up.

There was a ducktales 2?

Was hoping you guys would have asked more about the treasure game coming out for 3DS.

What nintendo platforms (the WIi U at least) loses in major AAA support it makes up for with dedicated inde devs like RK.

I'm guessing when the kickstarter comes back were going to see it done a more reasonable budget as well as a few more platforms. (I'm guessing PS4/Vita/Xone)

If its a game console through and through and gets less games than a glorified cable box then does it really does what it does well.

Probably won't happen between the three zelda games.Hey nintendo maybe pull a sakurai for all your top devs.

Eh the article is still a bit flawed since this was a litmus test to see if Journos just post anything without posting rumor or confrimeing.

From Inba's twitter

I was also talking with @PG_JP and he mentioned something I want to share. Media (not just western, in Japan as well) who copy/paste tweets and say they are news aren’t doing any sort of journalism. They are just doing the same thing that the retweet button already does. Then they take those tweets and twist/spin them to sensationalize, or cover the fact that they haven’t done any actual reporting.

Good thing I have a 360. The deathstroke missions look awesome.

Microtransactions for everyone.

Kaiymia trolls people a lot so I wouldn't take this as any sort of conformation at all. It will probably be there but an early build at best.

Its a bit crazy how we just took the word of Obsidian and Double Fine (to be fiar they're word is worth a lot). But Precursor isn't given the time of day despite having had much more of a known quantity that looked impressive and not just an idea.

This isn't getting kickstarted. I like the idea and want to see a new horror game succeed and become a definite force again this generation but yeah no. I honestly don't have the problem of an episodic horror game as I loved the walking dead, but I doubt they would be able to pull it off.

At this point a pub is going to come in too save this project.

Shouldn't this list onl cover summer games which is a health majority.

Game and Wario
New Super Luigi U
Pikmin 3
he Wonderful 101
Wii U party
Rayman legends

Ohh a Samus Silhouette.

SIlly or unbridled genius?

I'm hoping this is announced at E3.

******* LOL EA

complains about lack of sales yet advertising the version of the game with no sales at all.

With that said this means the Wii U is a next year purchase and i'll be getting ether a xbox or PS4 this holiday season.

@citizenerased

But Colors and Generations are great games.

@justinj42

What NO. I mean Sonic colors was a WII exclusive but the next game completely ignored the platform. '

Still good news I guess since sonic games seem to do the best on Nintendo Platforms. Still i'm bettiing this is a timed exclusive and once those probable lackluster sales come up were going to see the announcements of other console six months from release.

those people look nothing like legos.

@Pixelroy

No but they're part of a growing Majority of devs who really don't care to support nintendo systems. Its a narrative that's so deep in the industry that its starting to seep into the Mainstream though process about the console.

The only guys we've really seen come to nintendo's help are indies that mostly work on Hardware in the first place.

Excatly why I decided to wait instead of grabbing a WIi U when I had the chance. Really hope that E3 can turn the systems fortunes and mindshare around.

Man this is the dude who had a huge hand in the Prince of Perisa remake as well as being behind Assassin Creed 2 and 3. This is equal to firing Jade Raymond or Michael Ancel.

@Philip_J_Reed

The Wii Gamepad isn't innovative since the tech is already have been in the main stream since around 2006. Its even isn't really iterative seeing as its worse than most mainstream modern tech.

Also from a pure technology standpoint Kinect is still more innovative than the gamepad. Doesn't mean either is bad or good.

@Farmboy74
Downloaded real racing 3 on my nexus 7 and the IAp were near offensive. I deleted it and bought Real Racing 2 for $5 so I wouldn't have to deal with that.

@Farmboy74

Mist of the top teor smart phone games are $4-$10 which is inline with the eshop pricing model. I'd pay full price for some of gameloft games and even pay for the ones free on mobile platforms to get rid of the microtranstion junk.