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@Anachronism
I agree with this. I appreciate very much the "lack" of basic features. No Camera, no Mic(not sure about this one) etc means this is a very "safe" platform. I hope the next one followa suit.

I bet the PS2 had a lot of substantial price cuts to drive sales. The switch hasnt had even one. That being said, the switch has a much larger pool of potential customers than the PS2 did

They've announced more playable DLC characters than they've announced playable characters in the game you'll be buying. Something is wrong with this picture

I noticed that it's 2 player on the eshop. Waiting for more details

Nice. New maps, very necessary. The game got stale for me and I just stopped playing. They should drop new content occasionally. Not a big fan of 3 month seasons

With Shifty stations being a thing of the past ot looks like I really missed out on Splatfest being different. This is just 3 days to have no ranked matches.

Fireworks in Celebrations are now post launch content? Sad Nintendo

They've already diluted mario kart.

What's the point of not bringing back all specials and stages?

Hoping this looks better in handheld than Xenoblade Chronicles 2 did

This is how they treat games that has a tonne of content. Kind of how I knew Strikers would be bare. Hope they still do a general direct.

If Big Brain or Warioware are on sale I'll be in

No MM2, no Luigi's Mansion...

Looks like there should be a competitive aspect to this game. Strategy games should try to add multi player modes.

@wazlon has it been 75% before?

China seems more a kin to a criminal organization. I'm glad someone is willing to throw caution to the wind and fight back. The video game companies are just as greedy as the others. "No way can we pay more than $5/hr for labor cost, that would kill our bottom line, we'd have to drastically raise the price." What a strawman argument and a phony choice. The price of gaming will not be raised for me because I won't pay your fake made up prices because you couldn't use slave labor. You're the ones who chose to put all your eggs in the Chinese basket. That's poor planning and not my problem. Now you can pay the cost of diversifying the labor force and if you try to do it by raising prices on your customers you'll lose our business and you can explain to your investors how you screwed up such a basic idea of not relying solely on Chinese thugs.

I was hoping that ring mode would be available off line. You should also be able to adjust how long games are, up to 6 sets. Also, how many rackets so you get in a match should be completely configurable. Good updates but these things are all things I've been hoping they'd add. Here's hoping the court select screen has real character to it

@nado_san not sure why they don't give more options. Multiple sets, longer and shorter matches, choose the number of broken rackets broken before a loss. All of these should absolutely be options. Smash Bros. Is one of their most beloved franchises and look how configurable and option filled that game is. I wish they would pull some lessons from Sakurai. Offline tournaments would also be amazing!

Playing Tornado without having played XC2 THEN playing XC2... anyone have thoughts about that?

Do you earn gold coins for buying it online?

@thesilverbrick seems expensive for an indie game

@jn2002dk agree with just about most of those in terms of priorities

I would venture to guess that all of the new fighters goto the Wii u version and yet Nintendo has stayed silent. As such, I'm predicting that there will be a Wii u specific direct coming out before the NX reveal and they will have a good amount of Wii u goodies in store

If for no other reason miitomo will be good because it will be a way to communicate to other Wii U owners. Hopefully I can send a message to a wii u friend who is currently playing Splatoon and get some squad battles or private matches started much easier than now. Currently the best way is either NintendoLife Forum or posting something on miiverse and adding new friends to play with (eventhough you already have a tonne of people currently online playing). The same will be true, hopefully, for getting Smash fights going. Nintendo's current way of multiplayer management is horrid. This should make it easier (if you can do some of the things I'm assuming you can do)

The DLC is way too expensive. Does each character add new events and challenges offline? I'm guessing they do not and that is more evidence, if true, that the DLC is overpriced. Hopefully they'll have a deal at some point, if not I'll probably stay DLC free because this type of nickel and diming shouldn't be supported. I think I saw that a bundle of characters (no stages) was almost $30 and that doesn't even include every character that will be in the game. The DLC may as well be called Smash 5 and sold for $80 at this rate. Also, I would much more appreciate a proper tournament mode, friend invites and a lag free experience online that any new characters and/or stages

Who cares. Honestly, add an F-Zero, a more realistic racing game (similator like for my brother), a Metroid and a Zelda and the Wii U couldn't be any better

Isn't it obvious. Nintendo party chat and real notifications are finally in the Wii u

@ledreppe Tournament mode? Good luck with that. We can hope but it's not likely to happen

They haven't promoted this, we don't even know the teams. I wish they would allow us to create tournaments in game fully equipped with invites to friends or tournament registration codes. I doubt this will happen though

@Chubblings As for voice chat post match voice chat in the lobby during squad battles to discuss strategy and what when wrong/right in the last match would be more than enough for me. Also, if they could improve the message "C'mon and Booyah" could be 4 useful things or just add follow me, stay here,

@gcunit I think that was the first game I've every traded in, got Yoshi's Whooley world instead and that game is magnitudes better. Kirby was a horrible game to play on the tv

How cute, Nintendo thinks an incomplete Smash bros (They are still adding DLC) is worth $100 a year after its release

Mario Ultra Tennis is a game that I really want to know more about, I want to be excited about it but they've been too quiet. I may end up just moving to xbox one if this trend continues. It's becoming a little frustrating at this point

All these articles about patents is proof positive that Nintendo has no real news to report so Nintendo sites are being relegated to looking for patents. Other companies have patents as well but their sites don 't dig through their patent garbage looking for news because they actually have news. As much as I love my wii U there just aren't enough improvements to the core system (the OS) and certainly not enough games and Nintendo doesn't provide enough information for a modern company. Too bad, so sad

An App for this game would be great. They can do all announcements through the app. Get notifications when a new weapon is going to be released, new maps, splatfest etc (even join your splatfest team from the app). Also, changing your loadouts (or creating custom loadout "Outfits" would be a nice touch)

@Toadsfriend There didn't seem to be much to it, just hit the ball back and forward. How fun could that be? I really want to like this game but they haven't showed much about it

I'm really looking forward to hear more about the Tennis game. I"m not sold on it yet because I don't know anything about it but I have high hopes

@ultraraichu agreed, I was hoping the same thing. I suppose Private battles with Squidboard friends will have to do for now

why can't this just be in the game as "Squidtistics". Nintendo being Nintendo I guess

@abbyhitter same. My Ink Wall is no longer unstoppable

@CrazyMetroid How about instead of seeing us as fans you see us as consumers and a major reason why Nintendo is a profitable company. It will not serve Nintendo to ignore their consumers for too long (as noted by the fact that 90million former consumers decided not to support the wii u after owning the wii)

@Wolfgabe Yes, that's why. It's not a per-conceived notion of what a tournament is. It's what a tournament is. Word play will get Nintendo nowhere fast

@Wolfgabe Usually I could agree but don't promote it as a tournament when it's clearly not. This is not what anyone means when they think of a tournament. It's pretty much an improved online because now at least you can have custom matches with people but it's certainly not a tournament (other than the Regular ones that only Nintendo can create)

@ThomasBW84 Not just 1v1. Tourney mode should be exactly like "Regular Tourneys". Period. Why in the world would they think people wouldn't want to create their own regular tournaments? Nintendo is always defining their features by what they can't do. In a week from now we'll be talking about some obvious feature they left out of private Splatoon battles. I love Nintendo but far too often I'm wishing their games had the features of the other system with the gameplay and other benefits of being a Nintendo game.

I had this message in another thread but it's worth repeating:

The tournament mode truly does leave much to be desired. Basically tourney mode should be "Regular Tourneys" created by users. It's not that the other modes are horrible but without the ability to create Regular bracket based elimination tournaments this update is always going to be remembered for what you can't do. I don't know what goes on in those dev meetings. "Nah, people don't want to create regular tourneys. They'd rather wait 30 minutes for a Nintendo made tourney to start"

The tournament mode truly does leave much to be desired. Basically tourney mode should be "Regular Tourneys" created by users. It's not that the other modes are horrible but without the ability to create Regular bracket based elimination tournaments this update is always going to be remembered for what you can't do. I don't know what goes on in those dev meetings. "Nah, people don't want to create regular tourneys. They'd rather wait 30 minutes for a Nintendo made tourney to start"

How do you spectate a regular tourney? Also, Nintendo being Nintendo. Cant create bracket tourneys, have to join pre made ones. Also, cant create 1v1 tourneys. Either that or i justdont see how

I was originally really excited for Tournaments & now it's finally coming in with a whimper (no one is really making a big deal out of this right now)

@ThomasBW84 everything in the update is free?

@sevex I'll be surprised if they log a lot behind level 50