Deathborn

The question is, apart for better graphics (and a huge development cost), what would a home console pokemon would bring that a handled one don't?

Just wait a few years and the SS haters will love it... just like TP and WW before. For me, SS is far superior to TP. It's creative (in its amazing artistic direction and in game design) and feels alive. Plus, I absolutly love what they did with Zelda's character (especially design wise).Its big negative points are a mostly empty and useless sky HUB (but TP's overworld is bigger and emptier) and forgivable boss fights. TP is the weaker home console episode for me. It's just a bigger, emptier OOT clone with more polygons, a sepia filter and a pseudo-mature plot. The universe went far too closer to more bland and generic ones and kinda lost the zelda magic IMO. It's good sure... but it started to go in the wrong direction IMO (that's why they should not listen to fans and try to make something good instead).

Considering the game mechanic, it would be perfect as a final smash so: - From a developper point of view, it would be easier with Lucario since he has the same boby shape and thus can retain the same skeleton and animations in his second form. - But I feel Mewtwo is more popular and has a movie dedicated to this new forme. Hard to say!

Or maybe you get upgrades for items in dungeons.

Henchmen Studios (a new small independant french studio where I nearly made an internship) has posted this "Hey guys! Don't miss today's Nintendo Direct. A surprise should be in it." on their facebook page. So we'll probably see their upcoming game, Monkey Pirates on WiiU or 3DS eShop.

K.Rool revealed to be the 4th playable character in DKC:TF! And a newcomer in Smash Bros!

Seriously?? You see how zoomed is this picture (+ the angle which tend to uglify textures) and the size of an average pikmin during a game session. You won't notice in game. It would be pointless to waste memory with a bigger one.

Since they used this confirmation to promote the release of Pikmin 3, I think it's safe to expect Pokemon Trainer near october and Diddy Kong in November.

They didn't say say Kong ... they said character. [cross fingers for playable K.Rool]

https://vine.co/v/blhYFAuKZh7 Seriously... Oo. Fun character and I'm not really against it I guess ... but quite strange to reveal her as the third character when there's so much other popular characters better deserving.

http://www.gamekult.com/actu/yoshi-plagie-sur-google-play-A107670.html

Ubisoft is always hiding things.

Seems like they choose to power-up the brothers in a different way. It looks like the leaf turns Luigi into a fox and not a racoon.

You don't know what you're missing. JJBA is amazing. I wet my pants seeing the trailer. Now, I want a PS3...

No, Megaman isn't confirmed. And you have unrealistic expectations.

Zelda, Pikmin, Metroid, Mario Luigi's Mansion, Animal Crossing, Yoshi, ??? DK, Takamaru, F-Zero, Balloon Fight?

In fact, this video was made to be the first trailer of the game by one of the development team but wasn't chosen by the marketing team... I really don't know why they named it like that though. (Don't ask how I know that)

So it has begun: unreasoned personal desires taking over realistic expectations... prepare to be disappointed guys. Putting aside characters, the features I would love to see are (mostly just wishful thinking... won't be disappointed if it don't happen) : - Costumes (like with Wario). - Improved adventure mode. Subspace Emissary was a step in the right direction to breath life in the smash bros world. The whole "world of trophies" thing has a lot to offer plotwise and could easily be developed into something really cool. I can imagine something like a mix between: - Kirby: SSE was already kinda-like a Kirby in smash bros universe. Just add the possibility of assist trophies being "summoned" for temporary help like helpers in some Kirby games, - Metroid: Instead of dividing the game in levels, create a big world with various areas connected together and take advantage of the vast array of characters and abilities to block paths leading to them. This way, you can encounter some basic characters along the road and, instead of unlocking other characters as they pop during the plot, make the player explore and search for their trophies hidden across the world (same goes for new assit trophies,...), - Zelda/Mario: use a town populated by NPCs from Nintendo games as the central hub where you can customize characters (costume, stickers, assist character,...), grab side quests and hints about hidden trophies, play mini-games and arena (boss rush,...) without exiting adventure mode,... - and throw in some exotic gameplay phases inspired by other Nintendo games (barrel blasting from DKC for example). ... Oh and instead of creating crappy ennemies nobody cares about, use the damn iconic ennemies from the Nintendo games you're paying hommage to! (same goes for locations) But it's Sakurai so, strangely, that's the thing I'm least expecting to come true. He's good for making games with load of contents but have weird tastes in world building... it's like he throw random things and hope they work together. - Chess board-like game with trophies, playable on the WiiU tablet. The assets are done: why not use them for gameplay!

What Jonnas said! And for your last question, it's "La Légende de Zelda".

I'm french so I think I can help... Hope this help!

This!

Fixed. Dry Bowser at least appeared in a Mario game before MK Wii.

Yeah for Lakitu!! Meh for Metal Mario. It's baby Daisy/Funky/... all over again: palette/costume swap of existing characters. I don't expect much from not yet revealed characters.

Where did all of these were stated? Since Sakurai didn't want to make Brawl, I'm quite surprised he would do the next one. And we can't know how far it is in developpement since Nintendo have been holding back on showing Wii U games (they will probably show more during the traditionnal autumn event). So I am curious to see your sources (or maybe I just missed something during the announcement). EDIT: Nevermind. Just rewatch the announcement. Missed the Sakurai part. Hope we won't see Krystal with a landmaster in the game. Golden sun, Wars series, Sin and Punishment, Punch-Out, Starfy, Custom Robo, the recent Xenoblade and Last Story,... (and Excite series with the frog bot from Excite Bots: not very likely but I don't feel it's impossible considering the track record of originality of the series for characters). And there's also a good bunch of characters from already used series.