warioswoods

The real news is that Nintendo sold 15 million low-resolution portable cameras in Japan this year. ; )

The first-party titles by Nintendo occupy about 90% of my gaming time, so that's not really a problem for me. I don't care at all about the volume of third-party games, I just want a few here and there of stellar quality (RE:Revelations).

That's why I sort of wish Nintendo could just subsidize these in order to have them in its library; pay a few key third-party developers some pretty hefty funds for targeted projects, so that an expensive game on the level of RE won't be a risk for them even if it sells badly. Nintendo certainly has the cash on hand to do that, even after a year of losses.

As long as these guys keep bringing the crazy, I'll keep bringing my money.

They should port their retail games over to the eShop in some form. I'd certainly download their recent Aliens game, but I'm not quite as keen on obtaining a retail copy.

One of my all-time favorite platformers, of course. So much better than SML1/2 it's not even funny. Actually, it is funny.

@Rin_Tezuka

What makes a good man go neutral? Lust for gold? Power? Or were you just born with a heart full of neutrality?

Missed naming opportunity here.

Wii 3D U

Well... I wish all was that rosy, but I fear it's just publishers being erratic as usual.

The DoA devs recently said that their 3DS game had disappointing sales, and that was a rather flawless port full of features. It sounds like neither platform is a guaranteed hit for 3rd party games, even great ones.

> How will the battle between the game designer and his -hero- victims turn out?

#corrections

What did we do to deserve this?

More specifically, what did Philip do?

Give me Riven--the best game in the series--and stop rehashing Myst.

"though they have no further purpose as DoA's dioramas do"

I bet James found some interesting "further purposes" for those.

I'm not a fan of the font in the forums. Not at all, and bumping it down a notch in my browser settings still looks somewhat ugly.

Outside of that, I'm cool with the changes. Or, I will be once that fugly Tekken ad goes away. ; )

I've had an odd occasion like this as well, where a friend of mine evidently walked by a restaurant where I was eating, and Streetpassed me through the wall.

Every shot I've seen of this game just looks so... cheap. I hope I'm proven wrong when I have a chance to see it in person, but I just can't view this favorably alongside something as gorgeous and DOA:Dimensions.

It is a great loss. It's the most difficult game I ever played, and something everyone should experience.

I made it inside the Technodrome a few times, but could never beat it. Has anyone here ever made it all the way through?

@6

Yes, I know that you use the bottom screen, but that means those "pathways" aren't for your stylus to follow. It can't work like Elit Beat, so what do you actually do?

I still don't "get" this game. It looks kind of like Elit Beat Agents in the screenshots — but that's the top screen! ... but the top screen isn't the touch screen, so how the hell does this work?

Uh oh, this sounds like colossally bad timing.

http://entertainment.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2012/02/06/10333229-artist-dog-star-has-mysterious-illness

Hmmm... it's certainly a bigger game by a long shot and has some cute maps and things along the way, but I felt like the level design wasn't as interesting as Dream Land or Adventure; this one began what I consider the long trend of repetitive, seeming random levels in Kirby games.

Still worth playing, though, and maybe I'll feel a bit differently all these years later.

Now, correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't everything in the figures already on the disc and just unlocked via the portal? The figures surely don't actually contain all the models and new levels, and you don't have to connect to the web to download it, right? Just curious.

He should be in charge of Nintendo's advertising on the subject.

The eShop, it's quasi-curated!

Hmm.... I'm always scared to pick up a game like this, due to the time investment needed. I haven't played a serious RPG of this scale since college. Maybe I'll pick it up at least to support the whole import process.

Yep I heard Playstation was for squares.

For relaxing times, make it Suntory time.

At first I read the article title as "Genius Sorority..." and was quite perplexed. Yup.

The best part of the Q&A was Iwata's explanation of the "Miyamoto is retiring!" PR fiasco.

Some of you may not be able to follow one of the subjects Mr. Miyamoto just referred to, so let me supplement it. During one of the interviews he accepted abroad, Mr. Miyamoto commented that he always tells his subordinates that he’s going to retire soon, in order to nurture the young developers. Mr. Miyamoto’s intention in making these remarks is to change the developers’ mindset because they will continue to believe that “this is Mr. Miyamoto’s responsibility, not ours” unless he encourages them to envision the workplace without him. Unfortunately, the article was reported as if Mr. Miyamoto had made his retirement announcement. Follow-up articles were created one after another on the Internet. Before we knew it, articles containing completely different messages from Mr. Miyamoto’s original message were circulated, which once again reminded us how scary the Internet can be.

I love the skiing games in Wii Fit Plus, once you get the hang of steering with your weight. I guess I'll stick to those for my balance board exercise.

The board game possibilities of the Wii U are its greatest opportunity, IMO. Motion was the way the Wii made it into every living room, but now they need to sell the idea of a perfect machine for traditional kinds of board game play with a twist. You can sell a game with a pack of special NFC cards, pass the screen around, tap them against it to initiate actions, etc. All kinds of play are possible using this technology.

I just can't get past the horrible art design. I can see now why that kid let them sew buttons in his eyes.

You've used that picture on a lot of articles, but I just that weird head reflected in the controller for the first time.

@WaveBoy

Yet I find the Gyro controls not to be not an option(like in every 3DS game) considering the 3D effect is basically butchered in the process

I honestly don't understand this, and can only hypothesize that I somehow have much more stable hands than many. I used the gyro controls exclusively for aiming and looking in OoT 3D, and in this demo; I can say with certainty that it was never an issue to move the system and still stay within the 3D spot.

Are we using the gyro differently? You're not supposed to tilt the system in any direction whatsoever; you just shift it around in front of you, always in the same plane. With the aiming speed set to 'high' in the RE demo, I only had to move it a few inches in any direction to have a great range of smooth, accurate motion. Never a problem with the 3D at all, and I'm quite picky when it comes to that effect.

This might help get to the bottom of it: do you have any trouble keeping the 3D when playing FaceRaiders?

@ThomasBW84

Thanks, that sounds plenty intense enough. I look forward to some larger battles of that nature.

Based on the demo, it's gyro controls for me all the way. The button combinations couldn't even come close to that precision and quickness, nor I suspect would the CCPro be worth adding.

I'm very interested in this passing mention of "hordes of monsters" in certain episodes. Is it like defending yourself in the village in RE4, requiring crowd-management rather than just fighting one at a time, or are you just referring to missions that feature many enemies in sequence? I've yet to see more than maybe 4 enemies on screen at once in any footage.

Iwata, you can't just go duct-taping other companies' consoles together now!

@MrExcite

Indeed.

I dig this concept one, shown under glass at e3 last year.

Oh... I thought I was looking at Daikatana for a sec there.
>_<

If you're lazy like me, you don't want to pull up the entire site on your 3DS and then browse to the 3D image.

So, you can just hit L or R from your 3DS menu and scan this QR code to be taken directly to the mpo:

If only the "communities" feature in MK7 allowed you to ban users, or even just limit track selection, this problem would be inconsequential.

The first truly Nintendo-developed Mario Party, and the first significant overhaul of its rules since the earliest games. I can't wait.

Powerful mercenaries have united in Nexus

I don't play online often, but when I do, I just quit and join another game if either of the following occurs:

• more than one player choosing Wuhu (even if it hasn't come up yet)
• Wuhu chosen by one player and played, then chosen again by anyone

Since I don't care about online ranking etc, quitting isn't a big deal. I can see how it would be a much bigger problem if you care about your points or ranking.

Mr. Chicken, many thanks for taking the evident pain required for the review. They tell me the tagline is a nod to one of those things they used to call "concept albums."

But you've forgotten to do one thing. One very important thing. It must be rectified.

This game currently has 0 reviews on the eShop. No star rating shown at all. You are likely the only person to have suffered the atrocity long enough to unlock the rating option on the 'shop. The time is ripe; bring it down to one star, for justice.

But if you downloaded it only on your DSi, where ratings aren't possible... well, just get the Pikmin guys to transfer it over to the 3D thing so that you can take care of the one-starring. It's worth it, if only to prevent one or two poor fools from downloading yet another awful, awful game. Also, I never see anything sustain a low rating on ye olde shoppe, and I can't fathom why. We'll see if your one-star gets answered by a five-star from the developers themselves, which is generally my theory on how this goes.

Yeah, for some reason this one doesn't impress me all that much. I find the other tech demos more interesting.

It's just a fully panoramic movie shot from a car--which is neat and all--with motion-controlled viewing. The only part that seems particularly impressive is the system's ability to deal with streaming that much video data all at once.

It's a pinball showdown!

@61

Yep, and I understand that you can now finally transfer that game from your DSi, though I haven't tried doing so yet.

Like 17 said, the explanation is likely that they will not be emulating these games via software, but instead will have some sort of legacy Wii-mode the system will go into when launching old software, much like the Wii goes into a GC mode or the 3DS goes into a DS mode (thereby disabling advanced features, wireless, streetpass, etc).

No mention of Vita? Why not fan the flames a bit?

Vita still sold well under 50k, compared to that whopping 240k for 3DS. Flame amongst yourselves!

These EA games are just so dang boring. It's like they've spent a lifetime sucking out any remaining fun in the respective sports.

I did enjoy the first Tiger Woods that supported the Motion Plus, but only briefly before the overall dullness set in. It feels like something built for the days of PC gaming, not streamlined for a console. The controls were nice, I suppose, but it ends there. I'm also a big football fan, and love plays and strategy, yet find Madden to be the most mind-numbing way to kill the fun of that sport as well.

Can we please get another company to tackle the big sports? The minigames in Wii Sports / Resort ended up being far more fun than any of the full sports games I've tried. That says something.

They seem bent on only offering those games I've already downloaded. :-/ oh well