I am really looking forward to The Last Story. Out of all the "Operation Rainfall" games, this is the game I feel that is going to be great.

To be honest with you, I did not enjoy my time with Xenoblade Chronicles. I just couldn't get into it. The thing I hated most about it was the gameplay. It was simply too complex for my taste. Also, I couldn't get into the story. I've only played like 15 hours, and for me it shouldn't take that long for a story to get interesting. I don't hate the game, I can see why people would love it, but it's just not for me.

Well... we actually aren't quite. Since last year we've learned that the console will have NFC capabilities; thanks to a leaked photo we've learned that it now has analog sticks instead of slide pads, with a couple other adjustments; we know a few third-party games in development for Wii U, such as Assassin's Creed III and Rayman Legends. When you add everything up, we know a bit about the console, though we still have no clue about most things.

Pandora's Tower is better. I played around 10-12 hours of each.

Treyarch: ‘The Wii U Stimulates All Kinds Of Thoughts About What’s Possible’
http://mynintendonews.com/2012/06/02/treyarch-the-wii-u-stimulates-all-kinds-of-thoughts-about-whats-possible/

I've been looking to purchase Pilotwings but I didn't want to pay $40 for it. I'll pick this up next week along with Mario Tennis. Thanks for info Pokebrawl.

Satoru Iwata will present #WiiU news in #NintendoDirect Pre #E3, Sunday June 3rd at 23:00 GMT / 24:00 CET. http://t.co/EUbUkLDg

— Nintendo of Europe (@NintendoEurope) June 2, 2012

Nintendo hosting special Nintendo Direct tomorrow! 3 pm PT/6 pm ET!
http://gonintendo.com/?mode=viewstory&id=178419

Nintendo sure know how to tease us and get us hyped

Let's add some excitement to the train ride! A new rumor for all of you!

Another round of rumored info, coming from a supposed European development house with several Wii U projects in the pipeline...

- achievement system also allows you to gain points
- a certain amount of points nets you access to additional features

“We have a lot of freedom with the Wii U points system, we can add “brackets” for players, e.g. if you amass X points you get promoted into a new bracket with awards such as new MP [multiplayer] skins. It’s basically what we’ve been asking Microsoft to do for years. Players who earn points by completing the game should be awarded. We can do that now.”

- cloud storage will be “a few hundred MB”
- this will be free to all players
- once again, due out 2013
- social networking features like Twitter, YouTube, and Facebook in Wii U
- upload screenshots to Facebook accounts, auto-Tweet game progress and record/upload game videos to YouTube

"They’re working on a UI overlay for the OS to add Twitter and FB notifications, but so far we haven’t seen it. They’ve reserved a lot of system memory for stuff like that. There isn’t much documentation about it in the new SKD, but they’ve told us it’ll be available in the future.”

- Nintendo Network on Wii U includes new avatars with a lot more features than the original Miis
- use the Wii U controller’s built-in camera to take pictures of yourself
- use these pics to create digital avatars that resemble high-definition Miis
- Miis can then be imported into games

“There’s an API for the camera to scan faces and turn them into low-res 3D versions for games. But it’s still buggy as hell and it depends a lot on the kind of engine you’re running.”

- porting current gen games to the Wii U isn’t as easy as originally thought

“(Games made on 360 will be) much easier to port to Wii U than PS3 versions. A lot less headache involved because their architecture is similar. Technically, you can just recompile X360 to the Wii U and it’ll pretty much run, but PS3 to Wii U is much much trickier.”

- latest SDK hardware is final, but the software keeps updating

“We’ve spent a lot of time creating our own tools for the X360 this generation, and we’ve already tweaked a lot of the tools to work on the Wii U. But if you code on the Wii U from ground up and have to use middleware, it’s probably gonna be tougher than doing an X360 game from ground up.”

http://gonintendo.com/?mode=viewstory&id=178422

[quote="gameheart"]Nintendo sure know how to tease us and get us hyped[/quote]

They sure are! I can't wait until today. (Sorry if this tag doesn't work.)