Ronnie

That and Nintendo Land. None of the other launch games interest me at all.

What were you expecting, Nintendo to pointlessly include an ultra sharp, high res multitouch IPS screen?

Probably on par with Street Fighter

Green and magenta 3D, greeeat. Hardly "3D enabled" in this day and age

And that's surely what a handheld is for, to carry around and play on the go.

Agree with the GT review about the game's plaza, looks awful. I'm hoping for a Wii Sports type game sometime soon, rather than Wii Play U which is what this clearly is.

Beautiful cover. Reminds me of the stunning Majora's Mask one.

Go for the original. Sharpen screen, and smaller. You don't want to carry around a brick. Unless your eyesight isn't great I suppose.

I like GT reviews a lot, but they do tend to show way too much. IGN ones at least hold back

Wishes I could unsee are's post So is the GT video review full of spoilers?

Not at all. I tend to just skim or skip his posts anyway, they all tend to say the exact same thing. But I do see exactly where he's coming from with regards to the lazy visuals/audio

I don't see what line he has crossed. If people don't like his opinions and the argumentative way he expresses them that's their problem, and that's what the ignore feature is there for. Has he called anyone an 'idiot' like you just did? I genuinly don't know.

He shouldn't be banned because he's not doing anything wrong. Just posting his opinion. One that's quite understandable to be fair.

OMG a whole 5% difference!!!!

Do people think turning up at a Tesco in London on launch night/morning will be good enough to come away with one no probs? I've gone for the ShopTo preorder a couple of months ago but I'd quite like to get it in store like Game or something.

Going in a cold and calculating way where review scores are ludicrously subdivided by 100 maybe. Just get over the review score, IGN loved THE GAME. Yes the presentation is disappointing, but it still looks nice and the gameplay is obviously great, which is the most important aspect. I've been as scathing as they get when it comes to the visuals/audio, but if you're going to pick out specific comments, why didn't you pick out:

I think Miiverse is likely to be forgotten after a couple of weeks by most people. It certainly won't be replacing message boards

Pretty decent reviews, I doubt anyone was expecting a innovation / masterpiece of creativity or playability. I'm also obsessed with that opening jingle from the IGN review (and I assume game's title screen). SMB2 retro goodness.

Your loss, great article

I think it's a little laughable anyone is considering a 2TB drive for the Wii U. Or an external HDD full stop, at this point anyway. Fill the thing first, then when that eventually happens in what, a couple of years, then look to getting an external HD.

The exact same level music as previous NSMB games then, how f-ing lazy can they get.

I hope there's a star world. Also a shame they didn't bring back the map music from SMW (I assume)

I wish they'd bring back the keys and keyholes (complete with sound effect and animation) from SMW

The overworld does look pretty fantastic to be fair, particularly in the latest gameplay vid. The earlier worlds look a little barren, visually but later ones look amazing. What's with the big recycling logo on the Wii U game boxes though? Also that blue is going to clash with Zelda's gold. #zeldageekism