Well the last Kid Icarus game was on the NES. Only a handful of hardcore gamers know about it. You can't bet everything on a game with so little brand recognition.

WTF is wrong with Nintendo that they only had 8 friggin people working on MK7 until earlier this year?!? This ain't the Super Nintendo! No wonder Nintendo has no games coming out... they're such cheap bastards that they won't hire more people to pump software production up, and instead pull critical development teams like Retro away from their work on (hopefully) an awesome HD game for Wii U, when Nintendo should be fully able to handle a game like MK7 in-house with no problem whatsoever.

Tell me about it... the real kicker was when Iwata (I think that's who it was) came out at the E3 press conference and said that yeah, eventually there's gonna be a new Smash game on both Wii U and 3DS, BUUUUUUUT... they haven't gotten around to it yet, because the main guy behind SSB is currently too busy trying to get Kid Icarus ready for release.  Really?

I mean come on... which is going to sell more copies and move more hardware... a new SSB on BOTH systems with potential cross-platform multiplayer (if Nintendo actually gets its shit together on that, but thats a whole 'nother topic), or a reboot of an obscure franchise that only the hardest of the hardcore Nintendo fans know about?

Remember... it took these assholes more than 6 years to give us a sequel to Melee... and all it ended up being was Melee 2.0 with more obscure trophies and shit shoved in it, and an online mode that made the old X-Band modem adapters for SNES and Genesis look cutting edge by comparison.  I honestly can't believe how anyone can still support Nintendo when they have been so blatantly lazy about software development for an entire generation now!

Well reviews indicate that it has turned out very well. But I'm not really a fan of Retro, I prefer Nintendo keeping development of their big series in Japan. Retro is really good, but they still don't have that magic. I bought and beat DKCR some weeks ago - it's not up there with Mario games. In NSMBWii, when you look at the 'super skills' videos, you realize that all the levels were designed with the perfect run in mind. Every tiny gap, jump, enemy were placed for you to blast through the levels, once you've got the flow. DKCR doesn't quite have that.

But I disgress. I clicked "Netrual".

THIS, without the doomsayers paronia. You would think a series as big as Mario Kart would have gotten a bit more attention from the start, they stopped to get Nintendogs out?? WHat, how hard could that have been to made, its essentially the same as the regulars with 3D effect on, bad 3d effect as well IMHO. I hope Mario Kart 7 doesnt feel rushed, but im not sure anymore

I'm sure they weren't going to release MK7 before mid 2012. That small small team was supposed to have a lot more time for the job. But with 3DS ending up in its difficult situation, Iwata decided to release all their biggest games this holiday. Did you ever see Zelda, mainline Mario and Mario Kart in one month? And three 3DS bundles and new colors in a systems' first year? NO WAY was that what Nintendo had planned, and they're not going to be happy about it. 

Holy crap, I didnt even know there was a GB one. Was it good?? Screw it, ill just order it and find out myself worst case scenario i wasted 12 bucks.  I think Ninty is hoping that the exposure in Brawl will help push Kid Icarus into the limelight. IT kinda worked for Fire Emblem with Marth and Roy in Melee??

Hold the phone! where is Luigi's Mansion 2, i thought it was releasing before the end of the year. Im on Amazon and i dont see a release date.

Where have you been?  LM 2 ain't comin out till next spring at the absolute earliest.

To be fair, LM2 was never proposed to come out before the end of this year. I can't wait for that game though! I was so excited for it when they announced it... I thought they had all but given up on the prospect of continuing the spinoff.