Helmsly

I would rather they made a serious attempt to make a console worth owning for more then just Nintendo games before they went third party. Because as much as I consider their games the best in the world its not enough to justify myself buying a full fledged console for £300+ JUST for their titles. I think this is the main reason for the Wii U's sales figures. If it wasn't for the massive price cuts its been getting in the UK, i wouldn't have bought a Wii U at this point in time. If they can't get third party on board, with day and date releases like the others and all the same features, can't compete with an online service like the others etc then yeah, it would be best that they went and made games for other platforms so they can just concentrate on what they do best.

I don't think its a case of Hindsight being 20/20 in this case. A lot of these issues were seen by many many people for the past few years and its kinda shocking that Nintendo are only seeing these issues now.

I only noticed today that I had forgotten to link my Wii U eshop account with Club Nintendo. Does anyone know if I can still get stars from all the games I've bought from the eshop before I registered?

I was reading the BBC blog and someone asked about the the iPlayer coming to Wii U in the comments section in December last year. He got a reply from the technical Product manager: http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/internet/posts/BBC-iPlayer-comes-to-the-Sony-PlayStation-4

That's probably something to do with their current deal with Sky, which i think comes up for renewal later this year. But I'm also excited about this. Not so much for the new content, i'm more interested in their content from the past.

I picked this up today, I freaking love it.

I decided to double dip and pick this up for Wii U last night as its on sale and I like off Tv play. Did anyone else buy it through the eshop sale?

I managed to get online last night and buy Ducktales Remastered which downloaded without a hitch. There seemed to be issue with that game downloading its patch though, it was downloading very slowly and kept failing over and over. But at least it lets you play the game without having to wait for the patch to install so it wasnt really an issue.

Yeah and Valve has the excuse that they gave away Left 4 dead 2 for free which caused Steam to take a hammering along with its big Xmas sale, and they still managed to fix it by the end of the night.

Merry Christmas!

oh its out already? how much is it?

I love the look of that airport stage

From todays nintendo direct. You also can get Super Mario Bros Deluxe if you register your NNID on your 3DS before the 31st of January

Just in case anyone missed it from the Nintendo Direct

The start of that Smash brothers trailer confused me at first, I thought it was revealing Kirby would be in Mario Kart 8 I enjoyed the Direct but I wouldn't really say any "bombs where dropped" here. Mario Kart 8's new tracks look very nice, I especially like the airport stage they showed off. The NES Remix stuff looked great to me, I'll almost certainly get those. Other then that, more Donkey Kong and the smash brothers reveal were all I was interested in. Now i must ransack all of my Nintendo games and see if I can get 7000 points to get that Luigi's mansion diorama lol.

I lvoe that this is being released through steam now. I Shall try and play this tonight.

Looking forward to Donkey Kong and Mario Kart

Yep 245K (Dreamcast, November 1999) 192K (Dreamcast, November 2000) 259K (Dreamcast, November 2001)

I think overall with those eras, the preference is understandable because Nintendo had never really made a good effort in the UK when it came to promoting their consoles or games. But all that said, the Wii, DS and now 3DS have all shown that there are a lot more people in the UK that prefer Nintendo games and consoles so I'm not sure that what happened 15-20 years ago can be blamed on whats happening with the Wii U.

But no where near as low as the Wii U has been doing. I mean I'm just saying I don't quite buy the idea that the uk hate Nintendo especially when these same people had no problem buying the Wii, DS and 3DS. A lot of gamers in the UK own Nintendo consoles but haven't bought the Wii U and I don't think its simply a case of they just hate the company, I think they just are not impressed enough with the console to think its worth buying.

I was under the impression that Nintendo had been doing very well in the UK for nearly a decade with the DS and Wii and its only the Wii U that has seen these awful sales for Hardware and Software?

I dunno, I thought No Man's Sky looked very nice. But yeah, overall it was a strange show.

Whaaaat!? This is News to me!

Well whatever he announces, at least Nintendo will have some kind of presence at the show. Last year they didn't have any, which was very surprising considering they had just launched a new console.

My favourite level so far is Hands-On Hall, the Japanese dojo style level.