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now I want to get a 3ds more than ever, I can buy one before august 12, and not have to worry about buying a game right away because I'll have 20 games, or wait till august 12 and not pay over $200 for the system, use about 30-40 to buy a game and still have some change in my pocket.

Wii ware definitely has some gems in there, it's just ashame because wiiware could had really been something more. lost winds 1 & 2, world of goo, mega man, cave story, bit trip series, nyx quest, swords & solders, sonic 4, jett rocket, FAST, art style series, and a few others i may not have mentioned or haven't played. wii ware has high quality games on a low quality service, tons of shovel ware, only afew demos, no price cuts or weekly sells, and a horrible interface, also the file limit, which is one reason why alot of games can't have online (not sure what's the excuse for alot of retail games not having online) one way nintendo could announce game sells is though the message board apparently, the only time I really see that blue light is when I get a new record in wii sports

my first offical game console was the N64, when i was 3 my big sister who was 12 @ the time had sega genesis and the only game she had was sonic 2, I watched her play it and it didn't take me long to start playing it, I eventually took over the game system, because all the games brought for it was mines. I believe sonic 2 was the 1st game I ever beat, I'm not 100% sure I do remember getting all the way to the last stage multiple times, It took me forever to beat metal sonic, I eventually beat him but was low on lives than I got to the final boss, that mega huge dr robotnik robot and I know I failed to beat him, but I just can't remember when i actually went back to beat him though. Also remember sonic 3/knuckles when u got all the combined chaos emeralds (i think it's 14 altogether) u turn into ultra sonic or ultra knuckles, but my absolute favorite was tails when he had the birds following him, I just thought that was awesome, I don't believe I ever got all the emeralds more than once per character. I actually played the first sonic the hedgehog last, I didn't beat it on the genesis, I remember making it to the last stage and losing, I believe I beat it on my psp. Also remember when one of m cousins showed us how to get knuckles on sonic 2 & 3 with the cartage, we tried doing it with like ever sega game to see if knuckles would be on there lol like street fighter, earl & toejam, etc. Sonic brings back so many memories, while my cousins had sega & nes they placed mario more than sonic, but I was a sonic man growing up, the 1st mario game I owned not counting mario kart 64 was super mario 64. I began to not like sonic some much when I got a dreamcast didn't care much for the 1st sonic adventure, I had the sonic adventure 2 demo and always wanted it because that 1st stage was fun. sonic shuffle was awful, once I got a ps2 & later on a gamecube I just lost interest in sonic altogether, the 3d games just didn't appeal to me, sonic heroes looked like fun and I played it for a sec @ a gamestop but never brought it. sonic rush was great, it was just a random purchase, the sense of speed was just awesome and I loved how it switched from both screens. sonic 4 ep.1 was good for what it was, a nice throw back, even if it did feel like a tech demo, I guess sega wanted to wipe the slate clean by eliminating tails & knuckles and using similar stages from past games. I think it was a fail to just put sonic even though they're suppose to add tails & knuckles to the future episodes, but still I would had been willing to go through the game 2 more times if I had them to play as, they need to add an update/dlc to add them to sonic 4, it's the least they can do for wii owners that won't be getting there hands on sonic generations as we wait for episode 2 which seems it may have been put on pause. for the time being imma try to get my hands on sonic colors that has been received well. to end this just gonna thank sonic for all the fun times, and being the one that got me into gaming, has been one of if not my all time favorite game franchises

I missed out on the entire sega saturn, never owned it, never played it, would love to give sonic cd a try because it looks like the one's from genesis. fav sonic games are still the genesis ones, the 1st sonic rush was good, and I actually like sonic 4 ep.1 and I maybe 1of the few that liked sonic 3d blast. Did anyone else ever did the cheat when u turn on the game and hit the cartage it went to this menu type of thing where u could select any stage u wanted to play, I stumbled apon that by complete accident when i was like six, never knew if any 1 else ever do that.

agree with every1 about the physics, but once you got use to them they weren't bad, I wouldn't even mind if they kept them, but just make sonic a bit faster, always felt like I had to do the homing attack to pick up the pace. But yeah throw in some more original stages, tails & knuckles and it's all good. It will be great if the second one did have tails & knuckles and it was a way to put them both on ep.1 as playable characters similar to putting knuckles on sonic 2

Will definitely be looking into this one, I have beat, void, and runner already, and the extras seem worth it, online leaderboards is gonna give these already addictive games mad replay value. And it mentions something about new difficulty modes, i would love for some of these games to be easier simular to how mega man 10 had an easy mode.

I think that the fact that the 3ds stills uses cartages shows that it's still primary a game system. The reason the iphone & ipod touch games don't have physical cartages because they aren't gaming devices 1st their phones 1st. The reason the digital media failed for the psp go is simply because the psp was already out and alot of people owned 1, myself included. No one was gonna trade up their psp's if they already had a full library of games, because they couldn't play those games on the go, they would have to buy them all over again. Nintendo is video games at heart not phones not music players and I don't expect them to get rid of physical media anytime soon.

http://youtu.be/LPCe0IVDmfI a youtube review for FAST just couldn't wait

sigh, no FAST demo for europe, so were probably not gettin one, so i'll keep a look out for the review. any1 from europe gettin this on day1 please leave ur thoughts on the game, cause I definitely got $10 ready I just need confirmation that this game is HOTT!!!

no demo, I hope FAST has a demo when it's released next week

There's more detailed impressions of FAST-racing league @ nintendoworldreport.com this game sounds sweet

the pace for good wiiware games is picking up Fast out may 30th, motoheroz between june & july. awesome

Been waiting for this game for a while, this looks solid, I never played an F-zero game, but have play several of the wipeouts and I love that series, I do hope this gets a demo on the same day of release, I definitely think this is a day one purchase Need for speed Nitro & mario kart say hello to fast.

been looking forward to this game for sometime, I love wipeout and i'm really hoping this is a clone of that or even better. this & motoheroz i think could be day 1 purchases because both these guys have solid track records. Where the heck is sonic the hedgehog ep 2? and night game and la mulana from nicalis

pretty decent, but come on nintendo, throw in smash bros, mario strikers, super paper mario, Fire emblem, mario party 8, wario ware, mario and sonic @ the winter Olympics (since the london Olympics will be out soon) wii sports resort should be $20 since Everyone owns wii sports and resport is significantly better, punch out, and I'm sure there's plenty more I've forgot to mention, but nintendo needs to go all out with this. Any nintendo wii games that was released before 2010 should be on this list. Will be getting supersluggers though loved that game and may get twilight princess

I had both mario sluggers & smash bros. both stop working on me @ one point, i've been waiting for these games to drop in price for ages so i can get them again

I really hope this is good whether it's a port of the HD version or it's own game, HP wii = fail

@ BellGoRiiing never beat this game either, would make it to the last boss, I believe it was some sort of robot dog, then U would fight the guy in some sort of machine and I don't think I ever figured out how to hit him. I may have to get this, considering you can save virtual console games and don't have to worry about going all the way to the beginning if you lose.

I don't mind the name being Nintendo stream, but assuming of the style of the controller it doesn't seem this system will use any sort of motion control. If that's the case I hope the wii won't die soon after the release of stream, because I still feel like it's alot of untapped potential for the wii, and I can see it being like ps2 as far as life goes. I hope the wii at least get alot of stream ports

Just finished reading this 3 part feature, and have so much more respect for gaijin games and there series. They had a goal for their series and accomplish them with such a small team. I only own beat & void, sadly haven't beaten either, definitely gonna take the time out this week to go back. Still plan on getting runner & fate soon and maybe flux, need points. As many others said before they need to rerelease all these games on a disc for around $20-30 throw in some online leaderboards and some other extras like art work or something name it "Bit Trip Journey" or something like that. I'm sure anyone that played at least one bit trip game would get it, and for the people that may not know about the series may grab a hold or may even visit the shop to buy an individual copy.

can't wait, loved episode one, the physics took some getting use to, but it didn't hinder the experience. I just want the game to be cheaper and throw in tails & knuckles so i can get 3 times the replay value, and maybe sum sort of multiplayer, like on sonic 2 & 3 it would be split screen and you could race through the stages

Great sweepstakes to start off the year, and @ least every1 has a decent chance, it's not a US or UK exclusive and this is one of the biggest releases this year. Don't expect to win, but you can't win if you don't try so I won't give my hopes up, hope it's more sweepstakes like this, I hate when theirs an awesome prize being given away and it's for UK only, and I'm sure UK feels the same way when it's US only.

Definitely been interested in this game for a while, looks like some pretty good wiiware games are on the way. With Liight, fast racing league, and motoheroz, I'm gonna need a couple of nintendo point cards.

mario party 2 is definitely one of my all time favorite N64 games. Me & my cousins used to be up late night playing this, sometimes it would be more than four of us and whoever got the lowest score on a mini game would have to give up the controller. There was times when we would gang up on the person with he most stars and steal their stars away. I can't really remember any of the mini games, but I know some of my favorites was on mario party 2. I kinda fell off mario party when it came on the gamecube, the only one i had was seven. I wouldn't mind grabbing this, but it's alot harder to find four ppl to sit down and play this game with.

Their's gonna be some irate people, I was interested in the game, but I didn't really think much about it. I feel bad for the people who been looking forward for this for months.

I'm not much of a dancer, but feel like I need this game for casual settings, every1 already played wii sports, I think this is a good game to have, what I don't understand is how the game detects certain movements, dance central on kinect has a full fledge camera detecting your entire body while this only has the wii remote, with no balance board support or motion plus.

not a big zelda fan, but if this game is like slated to come out @ the end of next year, what is nintendo going to come out with to feel in the gaps, so far the only schedule release date is mario sports mix, and last story is suppose to be coming so time next year, and maybe just maybe a pikmin 3, but not much is certain, and from the 3rd party side so far the only games to look forward to is the conduit 2 & de blob 2. Nintendo is more than likely to focus on the 3DS the 1Q but I just hope wii isn't getting neglected. But you can never be sure what nintendo has up their selves

Nintendo could help 3rd parties more, but honestly what else are they suppose to do. Advertisements for 1st and 3rd party games are posted weekly on the nintendo channel, not to mention they have nintendo week. If EA would actually put more effort into their games, especially their main franchises maybe they would sell better. The reason EA don't advertise their wii games themselves is because majority of their games that come out on wii are multiplatform, and the wii version always get the short end of the stick. I never seen any commercials for madden 11 on wii, I never seen any commercials for need for speed hot pursuit on wii, I wonder why. Probably because they want gamers to think their getting the same game as the HD consoles, when their actually getting crap. This goes out to all third party publishers that complain "MAKE BET-TER WII GAMES!!!. No Ps2 ports, and no careless crap like nfs hot pursuit on wii that wasn't even made by the same developers that made the good version. The wii may not be a ps360 but it's loads more powerful than the gamecube which had decent looking games, If RE4 can look that good even by todays standards on a freakin gamecube, there's no excuse why games can't look that good on wii. Look @ the conduit, monster hunter, sonic colors, sin & punishment, Metriod prime trilogy, mario galaxy 1 & 2, and numerous games I haven't mentioned, all 1st and 3rd party games that look good and if were in HD could stand close to ps360. Sorry if I went off topic a bit with this rant, just tired of 3rd parties making the same excuses.

I may get this at some point, my only problems with the game is that I just don't like the particular look of it, wish the art style looked more like world of goo, and the price is a little bit steep

bounces lasers off the walls, you gotta admit that cats got balls... of energy. I shoot 'em outta my chest ladies. LMBO. I hope this game turns out as awesome as this song.

I've downloaded all the demos, the only one I didn't play yet was "And Yet It Moves". Bit trip fate which I already planned on getting, I know I'm gonna get for sure now. Jett Rocket was solid, i'm in no rush in getting it, I might as well save thoughs 1000pts and just start playing Mario Galaxy 2 again for the extra stars. Thru space isn't worth it, it just feels like a mode that should be in a tetris game. I'll be playing "And Yet it moves" later. Next week I hope to see cave story, excite bike, you me and the cubes, bit trip runner, and art style light trax

Man I'm still extra pissed about this game, I look forward to need for speed games every year, and while a the wii versions was somewhat flawed in one area or another, they was still fairly decent racing games. I really wish EA Montreal could just whip out a nitro sequel in like 3 month, with just more stages, cars, and customizations, pick ups and online. Even though nitro was a bit lacking, nitro was truly a great racer, from the sense of speed to the graphic style. I'm begging that wii gets a decent nfs exclusive by 2nd quarter next year because this crap should not be able to pass as a yearly entry in the nfs franchise.

Better late than never I suppose, other than thru space I been wanting to play all the other demos available.

The nostalgia maybe part of the success, but at the end of the day golden eye is completely different from the original and holds its own as a good game. Activision unlike ubisoft & especially ea takes the wii seriously. Take a look at the guitar hero & COD games, they didn't port thoses games from ps2 like alot of lazy developers has been doing, they haven't taken out the online like ea been doing to games like nba jam and the entire nfs series on wii. Heck they even threw in modes you can only get on wii like in the guitar heroes through DS connectivity. All they do is scale down the graphics. Theres 3 things developers do on wii when a multiplatform games is released they either A
give us a crap wii verision, which is usually a ps2 port or a rushed piece of crap that includes choppy framerate, and no online B give us a build from the ground up wii exclusive which usually takes advantage of the wii strengths but can be hit or miss (Shaun white snowboarding, Madden 10 & 11, nfs nitro, etc...) and C give us an exact clone of the HD versions all modes intact, only problem is watered down graphics. Now for example EA just released NFS hot pursuit on all major platforms a game I been looking forward to all year, the wii version was not made by the same developers of the HD versions, and that game looks like utter crap, I've purchased every nfs since underground and this will be the 1st time ill skip over getting the latest nfs game unless I get a ps3 or fix my 360 cause I never seen a nfs game that look so horrendous, look up the game for yourselves and ask me do you think the wii version of NFS hot pursuit will sell well from it's nostalgia, anyone in their right mind would say no, because there was no effort put into the game. Long story short activision makes good wii games, activision makes money, maybe ea & ubisoft should take notes since it really seem to be that difficult for them.

Like a couple other ppl said it's likely the bad press the game has been getting. two particular reviews that stand out is the one's received from G4 & game informer. Game informer gave it a 6.25, remember game informer magazine is distributed from gamestop where most ppl buy their games, so alot of ppl who seen the review apparently thought the game was mediocre. And I heard G4 gave the game a 2, I don't know if G4 review games on any of their television programs, but if so I'm sure when alot of ppl saw that horrendous review they got turned off from the game

This game definitely slipped under my radar, don't remember hearing about this which makes the 1200pt price point seem kinda steep, but since it's from nintendo it should be worth it in the end.

I'm definitely up for a new lost winds. The first one was a breathe of fresh air, though it was short and lacking. But the second one was much more story heavy, and the season swap was ingenious.

If the disc version on wii is more robust than the xbla version it would be worth it, add a couple extra modes, maybe toss in multiplayer. Only other alternative would be to break up the game and sell it in pieces. Either way I would like to see a demo on the shop channel

Man I got to get a new wireless router, it blew out like two weeks ago. I want bit trip runner & fate, cave story, excite bike, jett rocket, and yet it moves

looks promising, ill definitely be keeping an eye on this one

The shop channel can be loads better, but my real issue is playing games online, the friend code crap, wii speak never been really utilized, and no wii ware and vc demo service,. not to mention lack of messages on the wii board, i only change my wii to stand by mode to check the weather, games need to go up on sell to, put a nice hand full of games on sell a week and send messages about the sells more ppl will be likely to check out the shop channel, advertise the new releases on monday and put games on sell for maybe a weekend

I wonder will the points be just added to our accounts, or will it be similar to the internet channel reimbursement where we just had a list of nes games to choose from, or will we have to tell them what game we want so they can gift it to us. I hope the points are just added to the account, cause I have 500pts leftover from buying sonic 4 and would love to get the upcoming bit trip fate

DO WANT, but just dished out a bout load of points for sonic. please be a contest that gives out like a hundred copies like the groovin block one, Gaijin Games can afford to do it with the way they bringing out games

didnt care for this contest so i didnt entered, even though free is free, but better to let someone have a chance who might actually want whats being given, congrats to all who won, and hope we get another contest soon

sega betta do a last minute discount over here, or give us a 500pt reimbursement. just seen the ign in review, and though it was good (8.0) they mention the game is short, who am im kiddin though, still a day 1 purchase

man cant wait but at the same time mad this is coming out so soon cause i finally got points to get cave story & bit trip runner that would had been a even 2000pts spend. maybe after i get sonic next time i get a card ill get cave story and bit trip fate instead, fate looks like more fun than runner

glad 2c mp2 comin out was definitely my favorite with mp3 comin close. question does anybody knows whether thoses adpters were release so that it would be possible 2 use old nintendo controllers on wii. I remember hearing bout them awhile back and not sure if dey ever came out cause I still have 3 n64 controllers that's itchin for some use

Man I got a wii points card coming in the mail in a few days. Was originally gonna get cave story & bit trip runner, but with sonic coming so soon... man this makes things complicated. Where's a friend to gift you when you need em. To help save yall afew dollars there's nintendo points cards going on ebay buy it now for 17.99 so its like you gettin $20 for $18

It's offical check ign.com sonic will be out on oct 11 for wiiware oct 12 for psn & xbox live all priced at $15

Episode 1 is suppose to have 16 stages, and depending on how many episodes there r if each one has at least that amount of stages, I wont complain