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If they do it, it should be system wide and not a criticism of Mario Kart 8. It's a system-wide feature and works as it does system-wide, so why hold it against Mario Kart 8? That's like complaining about the Xbox Live Gold paywall in a Halo review, or the PSN paywall in a Killzone review.

Convenient? Perhaps. Intrusive, though, don't you think?

Message notification is the same as normal messaging. The light around the home button glows.

Because one game doesn't use it, it show's it is redundant? Ok.

I dunno. Ask Nintendo :p

They did, and the Wii U had a good launch too. It's the period after launch where things are going tits-up. As said, Xbox One's April NPD was worse than any Xbox 360 April NPD before this year and reports are of the PS4 being sub-200k, too. No hard numbers yet, though, but Sony hasn't issued a PR which is telling. Infamous Second Son completely dropped off the chart, too.

Still within a year from reveal to launch, though!

I think I'd prefer it in HD on the Wii U eShop, tbh

The game came out 14 years ago. There's a good portion of players who did never play it. Just because we did doesn't mean others did not

Am I the only one who is seeing the gaming industry collapsing? April figures are atrocious. Xbox One is in #2 with 115k, which is lower than any April the Xbox 360 had before this year, and reports are that the PS4 wasn't that much ahead. With the Wii U flailing, the 3DS lower than it should be, and the new consoles seemingly dropping off from their huge hype sales, there's something bad happening and I can't be the only one seeing it.

Na, plenty of those to come. Don't worry, my friend

Na, I don't think so. 3DS titles are next year. Wii U titles are this year so it'd be about the Wii U ones foremost.

Nintendo hosting two Q&A sessions at E3 - One for Smash Bros., one for a new 3DS game I'm intrigued

Can probably use it with the Wii U's successor in 2017

This is the one I'm going to get. Many people use it http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B0084LZJ2G/ref=noref?ie=UTF8&psc=1&s=computers Need to get it soon...running out of space. Too many VC titles

Smaller ones tend not to be cheaper. You can get a powered 1TB one for £50. Hard drives get more expensive for smaller sizes as time passes.

1TB will last you for the life of the console Nintendo's games are really good with compression.

For the love of god man, stop loving certain consoles. :p

I thought people would have lowered their range to "£99 or lower" again :p

John Lewis have a Wii U Basic Set with NSMBU for £112 http://m.johnlewis.com/mt/www.johnlewis.com/nintendo-wii-u-8gb-basic-pack-with-new-super-mario-bros-u-mario-mascot-and-8gb-sd-card-white/p231817620?un_jtt_v_pdp=yes&un_jtt_v_from_product=un_product_19#page_loaded

I believe so, yes. As said, that's how Mario Kart Wii and Mario Kart 7 did it, and I see no reason that you can't here, and no word that you can't here.

All it shows is that your friend is joinable, doesn't matter if it's friends or on worldwide races. It can be for both if it works like MKWii and MK7 did, and I see no reason why it wouldn't here. What IGN meant is that you can't invite someone into your group if you've set one up, you have to wait for them to join themselves. I also forgot about the Xbox Live doing that since it seldom worked (pain in the arse). Apologies. I rescind that statement.

Eh? You can jump into a friends game easily... It has been like that since MKWii. Go to the Online option, select Friends and then you get this list Shows friends online and whether or not you can join them. Can join them at any point IIRC. If they're just going against the world or have a friend lobby. It's so simple. Much simpler than on many Xbox Live games where you have to wait for them to invite you, in my view.

Pic of the day. You can choose to play as the girl villager too!! How lovely.

It may be a bit sweeping, but it's been observed numerous times, especially with Nintendo, how things go. Satire with a hint of truth. They did do it to be family friendly and to protect the kids from profanity and possible grooming. Hell, that's why they killed Nintendo Letterbox... We may hate it, but Nintendo is more family focused with their devices than Microsoft and Sony, and if they were to institute these without strict restrictions, there would be hell. Then, if they did put those restrictions, and put them as standard that need deactivating, we'd have similar complaints to what we have here... Complaints akin to: "Nintendo are locking out voice chat as standard? So behind the times" "Why must I, as an adult, have to jump through hoops just to chat?" etc. Fact is, Nintendo can't win, no matter what they do