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Forums - Nintendo - Nintendo Direct announced for tomorrow - Wind Waker HD/3D Mario/Mario Kart/New Monolith game/Yoshi's Epic Yarn and more!

mai on 23 January 2013
Soleron said:
Ridiculously Japan centric. Will the West buy a single game shown today?

New Zelda, SSB U, Mario 3D? Granted we won't see them until end of 2013 (end of 2014 in case of Zelda), but there're few :D



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BlkPaladin on 23 January 2013
mai said:
VGKing said:
osed125 said:

I will say the only disappointment for me during the ND was that users had to buy the VC games again, it doesn't affect me as much because I only own a few VC game, but I can definitely see how this will anger a lot of people. Even if it's just $1 it should be free.

It would have been nice to see footage for Bayonetta 2 and 3D Mario, but I can wait for E3.


The games don't magically work on Wii U. It takes time and work to get to run properly and to integrate stuff like Miiverse. Yeah, it should be free but you can surely understand why its not.

Yeah, I understand, security issues, extra work is minimal. They just do not want Wii VC to work on Wii U as it'll open doors for possible exploits, so they'r making separate Wii U VC with all functions that expected for it. Should be free.

Should be free but that isn't the state of business. As I pointed out even Sony charged a reduce charged to "digitize" the PSP disc based games in Japan. Else where they are requiring you to rebuy them at full price. Not a Sony hate thing since I'm indifferent, before I get jumped on, but it show what Nintendo could of done.



DanneSandin on 23 January 2013
JEMC said:
MentalAlliance said:

Best I can do for you at the moment is tell you to go to the end of this video, but there should be a separate video up of just the Monolith Soft part soon, I'm sure.

Thanks for the link! I watched most of it bu missed the last part because someone entered and forced me to do my job >.> ...

DanneSandin said:
But what can they show at e3 now? All they've got is Mario and Mario kart to show off now... or??

There's still Retro...

Yeah, but then they wouldn't have anything for e3 2014 ^^



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VGKing on 23 January 2013
chriscox1121 said:
VGKing said:
osed125 said:

I will say the only disappointment for me during the ND was that users had to buy the VC games again, it doesn't affect me as much because I only own a few VC game, but I can definitely see how this will anger a lot of people. Even if it's just $1 it should be free.

It would have been nice to see footage for Bayonetta 2 and 3D Mario, but I can wait for E3.


The games don't magically work on Wii U. It takes time and work to get to run properly and to integrate stuff like Miiverse. Yeah, it should be free but you can surely understand why its not.


no, it shouldn't, we've already payed for our games.  If they want to raise the price for future downloads they can do that, but we have already payed for our games.  Can you imagine steam or Apple doing this 

LOL? I said they should be free lol.

Anyway you make a good point. But even apps require updates to run properly on the new iPhone or iOS updates. You have to understand that a console is much different from a smartphone. Anyway I'm not one to defend Nintendo so I'll just stop here.



VGKing on 23 January 2013
Soleron said:
Ridiculously Japan centric. Will the West buy a single game shown today?

Well Nintendo is a Japanese company so...



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Vinniegambini on 23 January 2013

The bombs were dropped! I can't. My wallet



Asriel on 23 January 2013
osed125 said:
Asriel said:
Over-all I'm quite disappointed.

Wind Waker, new Monolith Soft title, Fire Emblem cross-over are great. Yoshi is a nice bonus.

But announcing they're going to announce 3D Mario, Mario Kart and Smash Brothers at E3? What a waste of time.

No dates for Pikmin 3, Game and Wario, Wonderful 101?

Charging users to upgrade their Wii U virtual console purchases? No solid date for Virtual Console becoming available? Not even a whisper about unified accounts?

I'm less likely to buy a Wii U in the near term with that being the case. I was thinking of buying one by June, but likely it'll be the end of the year before I jump in.

Either you had waaay too much expectations or....I don't know what else.


My expectations were very low. Dating previously announced games isn't a particularly high expectation. Software wise, it's good, and software does sell systems, but Nintendo are doing a poor job of setting release dates, improving their digital policy, and making Virtual Console an attractive service again. I'm sure this is great news for some people and for Wii U owners, but I can't help but feel like I've been kicked in the teeth for buying a lot of Virtual Console games. Nintendo need to join the twenty first century and start universal accounts for their systems, rather than tying downloads to individual machines.



mai on 23 January 2013

Last and the biggest complaint about this ND. Mr. Iwata, improve your English pronunciation, please. It's painful to listen.



Soleron on 23 January 2013
mai said:
Soleron said:
Ridiculously Japan centric. Will the West buy a single game shown today?

New Zelda, SSB U, Mario 3D? Granted we won't see them until end of 2013 (end of 2014 in case of Zelda), but there're few :D

They weren't shown. I meant all the footage. We did know about those three games anyway. Also I don't think any of those will be 2013, but Mario Kart should be.



gronk-bonk on 23 January 2013

was that shulk at the end of the monolith trailer



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