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But the New 3DS's battery is removable I think (like the Gamepad's), why would anyone buy this thing when they can just wait for the inevitable higher capacity official battery?

Ugh, I hate using regular controllers for fighting games (apart from Smash, of course). Triggers just seem too detached from the rest of the buttons, give me a regular arcade stick layout for this game any day of the week.

One minute they can despise each other, and the next they can be playing tennis doubles. I don't see any problem with this animation.

Can we get Fire Emblem: Path of Radiance and Radiant Dawn on the eShop? I know Path of Radiance is a GameCube game, but its literally £100 used on eBay. Radiant Dawn is overly expensive at £50. Maybe a HD bundle?

And I just bought Shovel Knight... Oh well, it went towards my last Premium Code I guess.

The additional region, Battle Frontier, and the best NPC battle in the whole series with Red makes Heart Gold/Soul Silver the Pokemon game with the most amount of content.

I'll end up getting two codes from this, and one of them was almost completely from the free version of Monster Hunter from the Mario Kart promotion. Haven't bought much really, but I'm sitting at 908 total now so a £10 game should get me up to another just in time.

UK here, I saw a Zelda amiibo in GAME today when I went in to look around. Might be worth looking there in case stores have broken street dates on them.

Homebrewers have a new archemeny, the Theme Shutter of Death

So, this is the Gabe Newell Pokemon?

Well, at least amiibo sales are doing well enough for game to do this.

After being humiliated by the player, Glacia gets her revenge by using her ice types to freeze time and space.

No items, Fox amiibo only, Final Destination.

Got this for £9 a few months ago, and its worth it just for the keyboard. The only downside is when you connect it to a computer, tablet or whatever else you want, it picks it up as the American layout, so trying to get the pound (£) symbol will result in the dollar ($) symbol. But still complete worth it at £10 just for the keyboard, the game is just a bonus

And so, the Link invasion begins...

@Martinice I don't think you would get the Spinner in Hyrule Warriors like the regular Link amiibo does, but I'm guessing they'll be some sort of exclusive in Hyrule Warriors that hasn't been announced for him. Same with the Zelda and Sheik amiibos (and Ganondorf when its eventually out). Can't say about Mario Kart 8, but I doubt it since not all the characters in wave one got Mii costumes.

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I still have to finish Persona 4, but I'm really excited to play this afterwards along with the Persona 4 Arena games!

As much as the Pikmin 3 movies are cool, I don't see many people paying £4.49 each for them. Most people wouldn't even pay £5 for a full move on DVD these days. Not saying Nintendo doesn't have the right or any reason not to charge money for them, but they are all going to be up on the Internet for free on YouTube (or some other not-so-legal places) very quickly.

@minotaurgamer Since when is 3.36 million sales a failure? Especially for a game at the end of a system's life. It didn't have Ocarina of Time sales, but for the circumstances it did very well. Majora's mask has also gained a huge cult following in recent years. And on one of the most popular systems of this generation, if you don't think this game will be a hit you're the one that's wrong.

My body is ready Nintendo, take all my money!

I'm actually somewhat tempted to get that ShopTo deal even though I already have a 32GB Wii U...

@Mommar Why would you want to use the D-Pad? That would make it impossible to do tilt moves or have different walking speeds. Plus the D-Pad is in a very awkward spot on the console. The Circle Pad is far form perfect, but the D-Pad would be even worse. Get some circle pad covers if it bothers you that much.

"Not only would it be benefical for both fans and Nintendo, but probably also REQUIRED by US anititrust law, since Nintendo has a monopoly on games like Smash Bros. by virtue of having no competing title."

The Vita has significantly more fighting games than the 3DS . The Vita even has Playstation All Stars, which is in the same sub-genre of mascot fighters. There is nothing even close yo a monopoly in play here.

Got my download code from Amazon for pre-ordering, so check your emails if you haven't already

Might get the No More Heroes Tiger shirt, looks really cool.

Mega Beedrill may just be my favourite mega evolution dsesogn yet! Can't wait to use him!

@Captain_Gonru But before DmC, the Devil May Cry series did sell well. Devil May Cry 4 sold about 3 million units. The reason why DmC didn't sell well was because the reboot changed so much about the original story and characters that it polarized many fans. Devil May Cry certainly isn't a Mario or Call of Duty-level franchise, but a large enough fan-base does exist to warrant a sequel to the original series in my opinion.

Besides, Platinum's games are almost all comprised of over-the-top action games. With your logic, they should only be making Bayonetta 2 and nothing else.

They should at least consider selling or leasing out IPs which don't meet the nonsense 2 million sales criteria, there are plenty of developers which could do great things with them. How does a brand new Kamiya-directed Devil May Cry developed by Platinum sound? One can only dream though...

Looks good, but I can't be excited about it yet with Renegade Kid's seemingly random release schedule. I wouldn't be suprised if this ended up going in limbo like almost all of their other games

Way to dash my hopes and dreams of Xenoblade being played with a GameCube controller Nintendo... Maybe functionality for other games can be added in the future, but I doubt it...

@noctowl Unless you have an oversized living room, there are very few problems with the cord. Even if you do have a problem with the cord, the Wavebird exists.

As expected, week before Black Friday and Nintendo like to release their big holiday games around this time of the year as well. My body is ready for November 21st!

I guess this also confirms that there will also be a gap between the Japanese and Western releases of the Wii U version... Still good to see Pic of the Day continuing.

I prefer the fan version, I like my hardware to be designed simply and discreetly. Not over the top enough to make strangers stare, but for like-minded fans to figure out what it is and appreciate it. The official one just looks cluttered and unnecessary to me. Same goes for the Smash Bros. XL. I would much rather it just had a Samsh Ball rather than the entire cast and logo, I probably would had bought it then.

Cool for some people, but I'll stick to the GameCube controller, which is unarguably the best controller for Smash.

When you have people paying over $30 for a free demo with barely any content of your game, you can be pretty damn sure your game is going to sell insanely well.

PLEASE give me a code Club Nintendo, I NEED this!

I may be wrong, but I have a feeling that more characters may be coming, just not at the moment. There might still be characters that are going to be announced between the gap of the 3DS and Wii U versions to keep the hype rolling, and the new characters could be put in as a patch or free DLC for the 3DS version when the Wii U version comes out. That is what I suspect (and hope) happens.

Oh no Nintendo, your not getting me like that. Unless the XL goes for under £100 (which I highly doubt it will), I have no intention of buying a console until the New 3DS.

And just like that, Japan gets a huge advantage until 2015.

WHAT?!? A New 3DS with better CPU, a second circle pad and more shoulder buttons?!? This is fantastic! I guess my dud XL which I had to return was a blessing in disguise. But this does throw a wrench in my plans to get a XL for a bigger screen for Smash, so I guess I'll have to play it on a small screen until 2015, but a port of Xenoblade will be completely worth it.

Is it just me, or do the petals of the Plant Barrier look awful? They look like they were made in MS Paint. The flag does seem very over powered, that will be one of the items I turn off for sure.

Still waiting for the Wii U version to be released in Europe. If it does go on sale on Steam before it does go on the European eShop, I will probably get it there as well, I don't mind buying it twice to support them.

'Changed default choice to "Next Race" instead of "View highlight" in the menu that appears after the race of the Grand Prix.'
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To be honest, I think Renegade Kid has no idea how to organise their projects. All they seem to these days is announce a game, don't talk about it for months on end, and then announce a new game or cancel an older one. Its good that they have so many ideas, but they are worthless if they can't be implemented into finished products. If you have a presumably playable build of Treasurenauts (original release date was for Q1 of 2014), you can't just abandon the project in favour of game which hasn't even started development. And Mutant Mudds 2 was put on hold for Treasurenauts, and MM2 which was announced back in January 2013. Not to mention Moon Chronicles and the numerous titles which haven't even been released in Europe yet. Apparently the Razor scooter game is dead now according to the Go Nintendo article. Not even going to talk about Cult County.

All of these titles are all over the place, its just ridiculous. Renegade Kid is a indie developer, they simply cannot handle all of these projects. If you can't get a game out when your job is game development, you're not going to make any money and go out of business, its that simple.

Got 202, putting me technically at 19th, drawing with at least two other people, but there wasn't enough room on the leaderboard for me. Had a pretty crummy first 8 races, but ended up getting in the top three for all of them in my second half. Good luck to everyone else, looks like there's a lot less room jumping this time around!

165 after my set of 12. Currently tied for first, with Marioracer and Stacy1199, but I don't think that's going to be good enough to keep first with all the others that still have to play. Good luck to everyone else!

I heard about this a few days ago and thought it was interesting, but now I know it works as a Wii controller I'll probably end up buying it. I guess it works as a sideways WiiMote, but does it work with motion controls since the majority of Wii platformers (particularly NSMBWii and DKCR) basically require them? My honest guess is that it only works with Virtual Console games.

Sounds like fun! Sure, there's no chance I'll actually win, but I look forward to it!