Ronnie

I don't know that's why I'm asking

I'm not that clued up on sales figures, will Nintendo be happy with Splatoon hitting 1 million this late after release?

Don't you just love amiibo? They're so awesome, especially these Animal Crossing ones, they look the best quality ones yet. I hope they release a Xenoblade series next. Would love a mech one. Seems like their display cases at E3 were always busy. Good to see they're so wildly popular, looks like they're a long term part of Nintendo's future now.

Fantastic post. Please stick around and post more, this board could do with some of that

Fair enough, my point was more in reply to Hero-of-Time's post. I think 2 years is the norm on PS4/XBO between reveal and release, with shorter timeframes the exception. Whereas on Nintendo Reggie is right, the norm is 6 months to a year, with anything longer being the exception. Obviously there's no right or wrong way of doing things.

Nintendo's reveal to release timescale is way shorter than the competition, by at least a year. There are exceptions, as Reggie says they break their own rules on occasion, but for the most part when Nintendo unveil a game, it's out within a year (Splatoon, Mario Kart 8, Wind Waker HD, Hyrule Warriors, Kirby, Federation Force, Mario + Luigi, Link Between Worlds.....) or even six months (Mario 3D World, Donkey Kong, Captain Toad, Zelda Tri Force Heroes, Star Fox, Majora's Mask 3D, Pokemon X, Luigi's Mansion 2...). Personally I prefer the way they do it, even if the occasional long-term tease would be nice.

But we're talking about Gamespot so I guess they got what they wanted.

Never mind Last Guardian, Final Fantasy 7 and Shenmue 3 are probably years away from being done. And when they first showed Zelda it was only supposed to be a 12-18 months away. At least he seems very aware of how much a Metroid game is wanted. That's something I hope Nintendo have learned from this E3, how much fan service counts. I do prefer their policy of mostly showing games out in the next 6-12 months, but one sneak peak every E3 into a far off game would be nice.

Captain Toad was soooo good. Wish they would release some DLC level packs for that.

I don't think you understand what AAA means. It has nothing to do with how it reviewed. If you want AAA Nintendo games this year: Splatoon, Yoshi, Mario Maker, Star Fox and Xenoblade.

Pilotwings NX please, and make it more like the SNES game and less the vanilla 3DS one.

Judging a game based on previous entries in the series =/= judging a game based on a person's expectations. The latter was your point, which is what we had an issue with.

Dear oh dear. Another reason to ignore Gamespot and their clickbait reviews.

No I agree that games should be reviewed in part by looking back at previous installments. I think we're talking about two different things, the discussion was about professional reviews, not what the average gamer thinks of a game. Of course his expectations would come into it but a reviewer on IGN or Gamespot needs to judge a game on its own merits.

Sorry I think that's rubbish. The reviewers expectations shouldn't be a factor, games should be judged on their own merits. Agree re: the tenth installment in a series being judged based on what came before it though.

What an amazing game that was. I wish Battlefront was more in that style of game rather than another FPS, but that's personal preference. But yeah this makes Star Fox Zero look terrible.

Great way of displaying them all! Wish they would sell something like that.

It's sad but it's also encouraging at the same time.

Good point!

My full gaming diary for the next 18 months: Wii U Kirby and the Rainbow Paintbrush Watch_Dogs Rayman Legends Assassin's Creed 3 Trine: Enchanted Edition ---- Yoshi's Wooly World Super Mario Maker Star Fox Zero Animal Crossing: amiibo Festival 3DS Ultimate NES Remix Donkey Kong Country Returns 3D ---- Animal Crossing: Happy Home Designer Chibi-Robo: Zip Lash The Legend of Zelda: Tri Force Heroes PS4 Journey Resogun Transistor Little Big Planet 3 Oddworld: Abe's Oddysee New 'n' Tasty ---- Tearaway Unfolded Uncharted: The Nathan Drake Collection The Tomorrow Children Uncharted 4: A Thief's End No Man's Sky Rime The Witness Firewatch The Last Guardian XBOX ONE Sunset Overdrive Ori and the Blind Forest ---- Rise of the Tomb Raider Lovers in a Dangerous Spacetime Ion ReCore Tacoma Inside Cuphead MULTIPLATFORM Mass Effect Trilogy Velocity 2X Never Alone ---- Mighty No 9 Adr1ft Star Wars Battlefront TrackMania Turbo Mega Man Legacy Collection Beyond Eyes Source Unravel Mass Effect: Andromeda PC Lumino City The Marvellous Miss Take Broken Age Gone Home ---- Mushroom 11 Darkest Dungeon

This game looks and sounds amazing. Elite: Dangerous is obviously the far superior game but I still can't wait for this one. It seems much more arcadey whereas Elite is more of a space sim.

I think Nintendo have hit the sweet spot between appealing to young and older fans with amiibo, high quality but cartoony in appearance. Personally I would never buy the Skylanders ones, they look like cheap kids toys.

What a stupid thing to include in their review

Summed up perfectly. I'm sure it'll look better on release, but I doubt it'll be good enough.

I can't help but think back to Iwata's "the NX isn't a replacement for the Wii U or 3DS" comment. I wouldn't be surprised for it to be quite cheap (given Miyamoto's comments that the Wii U is too expensive) and for it to be a third pillar like the DS was originally.