It creates this false idea that there's no games, cos they keep things secret 'til the 11th hour, like with Majora's Mask 3D, Tropical Freeze, Captain Toad, etc.

Today's Splatoon screen: Inkling footwear

Yes, I think N needs better marketing ways.
I feel like most of the low amounts of hype in a year is generated by us fans. It should be the other way round and much more and better TV commercials.

Oh, and bundles. Still can't believe there was no Smash Bundle. Hopefully Splatoon gets one but probably won't.

And the name of the device too. Talk about terrible branding

To me, it doesn´t seem that the Gamepad is such huge problem. Most people look at it with curiosity on retailers, but they also look the advertisment boards and think that WiiU is no different from Wii. I´ve seen many many people at our local Fnac looking at it and saying: "oh, that´s that old console from Nintendo, yeah, it´s a Wii, it´s old" and stuff like that.

Yeah, I run into people to this day who think Wii U is a pad for the Wii.

Which game should I buy used, Kirby Triple Deluxe or DKCR 3D? I watched about 5 reviews for both, and I still can't decide! Length is not an issue, just trying to figure out which will be more fun. So far, I know that DK is much harder and slightly longer and has 2 modes. Kirby is shorter, much easier and 5 modes (including secret ones). Both have enough collectibles to satisfy the completion in my and I think Kirby has more of them since from my Kirby experience, the secrets are hard to find (and pretty much only challenging part outside the bosses).

I like the world better in Kirby, but as a platformer overall I dunno which one to get. Buying used because it's cheaper. Getting both this year is not an option.

Yeah, that's a shoe alright!

Agree. If you told me that this is the new shoe design of Nike/Addidas/etc, I would completely believe it.

Maybe Nintendo should explore that option, partner with one of the big makers to launch a range of Splatoon inspired shoes.

Yes, I knew that the Wii U was a different console, but originally thought that the Gamepad was the whole console, not just a controller...

The 'new' 3DS is by far the worst named console by Nintendo, so much confusion!

I haven't played either so I am in the same situation! Though if I got to decide now, I would probably go with Kirby... but I don't think there is a wrong answer in this case!