No man, no... you have try to make points but it seems like you got this thread out of your arse, sorry.
1) DLC on a Mario game? - Other companies make DLC, they killed themselves too? specially when nintendo already delivered you the finished product, they are not offering something necesary it just an agregate, it's a ''harmless'' DLC, you can continue to live with you NSMB2 because that was a full game, oh you want a new coin rush pack? pay $1, you don't? what's the problem then? they gave you a full fledged New Super Mario Bros game, wether you found it particulary ''spectacualr'' or not does not change the fact that it's a full NSMB game that it's good by his own right.
2) Really? - That is supposed to happen, of course that there will be no games nintendo is working on the Wii U! the generation is ending it's common sense yet in 2011 you got MW3, Kirby's return to dreamland, Skyward sword, Madden, Conduit 2, Lost in shadows, de blob 2, mario sports mix, WWE all stars, virtua tennis 4, trackmania... when there is supposed to be NO GAMES for the console because all devs are busy with the Wii U, and even so, this year you have Kirby's dream collection, Lego Batman 2, Xenoblade and The last story (for us non european/asian), Epic Mickey 2, Pokepark 2, NBA 2k 13, Pro Evo 13, WWE 13, Rhythm heaven, Mario Party 9, Lego Lotr, It doesn't matter if those games appeal to you or not, the games are there and that's a fact.
As for the 3DS there you have OOT 3D, Samurai Warriors, Tekken 3D, Super Street Figther IV, RE Mercenaries, RE Revelations, Shinobi, Heroes of Ruin, Fifa, Ridge Racer, NSMB 2, Dead or Alive, Mario Tennis, Mario Kart, Devil Survivor: Overclocked, Kid Icarus Uprising, Rhythm thief, Tales of the Abyss, Super Mario 3D Land, Metal Gear Solid, Kingdom Hearts Dream Drop Distance, upcoming? Monster Hunter 3g, Animal Crossing, Professor Layton, Phoenix Wright, Code of Princess, Virtue's Last Reward, Unchain Blades Exxiv,Professor Layton VS Ace Attorney, Pokemon Mystery Dungeon, Bravely Default: Flying Fairy, Adventure Time, Paper Mario, Epic Mickey the power of illusion, Harmo Knigth, Sonic Racing Transformed, Shin Megami Tensei 4, ignoring the ones we are not sure if will come out of Japan... It's not that hard.
3) Region lock it's something most of us agree on, but... here in south america AKA Piracy's Heaven, you can find flash cards (DS) everywhere, you can find Pirated Blu-Rays (PS3 games and Movies) at any store for 10% the price of the original copies (Ps3 games cost 700/900 Local currency, pirated ones cost 60/80), HERE i have yet to see a pirated 3DS game, i'm not in favor of region locking but i have to admit that nintendo's actions ,at least so far, have been effective so i don't know...
As for localization it's very simple, japanese games don't sell outside of Japan period -- Yeah i know there are exeptions but companies just preffer not to take the risk, we have to put ourselves in their shoes, when we talk bigger companies like capcom one would think there's no excuse but you wouldn't send you game to fail aand with Xenoblade and the last story i keep thinking that this was nintendo's plan the whole time, they were coming anyway. I still hate all of this localization problems though.
I can't stop thinking you made this thread just for the lolz.
