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Righty, so I have £160 in credit with CEX now... I'm looking around my house and weighing up what I can trade in. Through various sales we have already got rid of most of my stuff! And it's a delicate balance too: sell bits and bobs for money for the wedding or for Wii U. Hoping to be able to drop less than £50 in cash on the system and a game but it's all going to depend on what rapey price they put on the system.

Good point. When was the last time Nintendo did that with a 3rd party at launch? Street Fighter II on the SNES?

I have mixed feelings in the fact that I know I want one. It goes without saying as it's a Nintendo system with an interesting premise and will have my favourite franchises pile onto it. I also don't have a 360 or a PS3 anymore so I'm not willing to drop the £450 it's going to cost me to get their new consoles with a game. In terms of games, ZombiU is sounding excellent and so does Rayman. Along with the multiplayer experience of Nintendo Land I think it's all going to be pretty tasty and as I don't have a billion hours a week spare on my hands to play games, I don't need many to keep my interest. In terms of money though that's a different kettle of pickled herring for me. With the wedding next year and debts to pay off, I can only afford the system if I trade in a ton of stuff and generate most of the money as credit with Cex then I should be able to. It might even end up being bluey and my Christmas present to ourselves :-) So yeah, I'd be excited if I knew I could afford one. But as I can't, I'll just say that it's looking fun and I hope that you lot with cash enjoy it lots

I've heard from extremely reliable sources that the Wii U version is bar long and far the best. I understand how the graphics engine works based of having tested the previous game and I know for sure that this is going to look polished and slick as hell. Generally speaking, a test demo is at least a month and a half to 2 months behind normal development and considering the time that the majority of devs got the Nintendo kits, the framerate issues in the demo don't really surprise me, nor do they worry me. The people I know at SEGA and at Sumo have said that they are really happy with the Wii U version and they are extremely passionate about the game. I think people also need to keep in mind that this hasn't been developed with the biggest budget in the universe either so they can't be expecting groundbreaking material as: 1) It's a multiplatform game 2) It's a 3rd party game 3) It's first wave

Does Dropbox have an individual file size limit? I use this as a cloud storage service all of the time and the more you use it and recommend it to people then the more space you get. Winner! But yeah, in terms of sharing the video it depends what you want people to do. If you want them to just view it easily then yeah Youtube is your best bet or something similar. Pretty sure Photobucket would also work and again you can set privacy settings. If you you want people to actually download the video though and keep it's original quality then some sort of cloud storage is going to be better.

Snarfachu? He's genuine comedy gold frequently throughout. Watch out for the episode where they break into the tower of omens (it think that's it... it's behind a waterfall!) and they trigger a trap above a pit of spikes. Snarf's - Face - Is - Priceless

Not a huge loss as it's still easily within the launch window. Anyone who has a Wii U will be looking for games to pick up and Rayman will be sitting there with open... space where his arms should be?

Turtles was actually pretty ok. They've managed to separate how they look a bit more this time and there's lots of anime time expressions going on. I like the design but the animation of TMNT better.

Slap yourself. No seriously. Online in Brotherhood was great fun and completely different to anything else I've played. If you've still got either of them then give it a go.

I love my weekend cartoons and ever since I was a kid watching Transformers, Thundercats and the wonderful times that were 80s kids tv, I've never been able to kick the habit. So... whatcu watchin'? What are your favourite ghosts of 'toons past? Funny gif and clips welcomes Currently underway at the moment for me are: Oh yeah! Don't knock this cos of the crap movie. This is excellent and is happy to play around in the area of more complex emotions with some classic villains involved. Also features possibly the biggest green lantern in the galaxy and he's awesome. Give it a whirl! Fantastic show that never stops making me laugh. I've got lots to catch up on but I like just watching a 10 min episode with my breakfast. It makes everyday feel like Saturday morning :-) Moody, shouty, hormonal and completely exploding all over your living room with tons of action. The story gets really thrown around especially after season 1 where season 2 starts with a complete mind fuck. It's given me a chance to get to know some of the more minor characters in the DC universe but honestly, most of the villains still suck balls. I enjoy it for the action mostly and the toon girls in their very tight outfits Bit out of left field and considering it's sibling show is Ben10 my recommendation of the week is definitely this: Generator Rex! This show is tons of fun and the action literally never stops. It's totally the calibre of show that I grew up with in terms of animation and characters, despite the sense of humor which is usually hammy on purpose. For those of you who give it a go, keep in for the long haul because it does have a full story arc with an awesome (if slightly inconsistent) ending.

Well Sonic does sell best on Nintendo platforms ;-) Glad to hear this is going so well as the original is very close to my heart. Glad to hear that they fixed a lot of the issues which were unavoidable due to the complicated development originally. They better have made the missions as fun as they were last time :p

I'm really, REALLY not liking the writing at the moment. The last episode felt really clumsy to me and the script is driving me insane lately as some of the lines are complete cack. "He's you..." for example. I'm finding the characterisation to be so inconsistent that I've lost touch emotionally with any of the characters or their developments not to mention that the current Doctor seems to be so childish that he's bordering on being completely obnoxious. I liked the concept of the building and it's cyclical nature but the delivery has just been all over the place.

So I'm genuinely up for turning this fully on EA and helping an effort to completely VITO this edition. Anyone who is buying a Wii U needs to understand who poor value for money this is going to be.

It could simply be that Kirby sells badly in the EU? Maybe they need the sales in the US to be guaranteed before financing it can be signed off. Also why shouldn't it be released later? Is it any worse for being released later? The reality of the situation is likely to be that whether it was released earlier or later would have had a negligible effect on sales.

There are legitimate, probably financial reasons why this would be the case with the examples that you have given. Pokemon is a huge guaranteed seller with massive merchandise business so it's natural that they would have more resources localise. A lot has to do with how the game is developed in terms of how connected the text it, how carefully it needs to be translated and so on. Another point about US > EU localisation. US localisation usually only has 2 languages English and Spanish, if not just English. EU however has the full EFIGS (English, French, Italian and Spanish) if not more. So you have twice as much translation work to do. So there are a lot of different reasons why the time varies. But let's face it, there are few times when you getting a game a bit later than you would like does little more than aggravate a gamer's need to have it now.

My company deals with shipping goods in and out of the country as well as dealing with UK, EU and US laws and regulations on radio use and licensing the EM spectrum. From that point of view, I"m aware that every single territory has a myriad of different requirements that cannot all be met by one single product and so this leads to different products being produced for each territory. Thanks to the different tax laws, this also means that companies have to completely re-price products to balance value as well as profit/loss. It's a horrible and fucking difficult balance. To make sure that products meet the expectations of the customer and the laws of the territories different products have to be produced and the areas in which they are released contained. But hey, it's not like I can't sympathise with some customers that want to get games released in their territory. In some cases games might sell better if they were allowed to be purchased overseas, as I know that in particular fan-crazed cases people would happily play them in a language that they don't understand! But what I can't accept is people who complain about time differences of release. Harvest Moon on the GCN I get and that was stupid but people getting pissed about a game not coming out within 6 months of it's counterpart in a different territory? Get over it. EDIT: Oh and great and logical words from Jayseven.

New news on the online front. Already posted by HOT by thought people might like to read it here as well. From Eurogamer (http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2012-09-25-how-monster-hunter-3-ultimate-wii-u-and-3ds-work-together)

Also Nintendo are looking to use it themselves.

Fairly accurate as long as you have set it to a local host server. If you are getting measurements over 30Mbps then yes the data won't be accurate but that's pretty much no one. Bear in mind that this won't take into account several things such as: Load on multiplayer server Load on Nintendo's servers (sure they will be involved somehow with authentication) Connection distance to both of the above Varying contention on your ISP during different times of the day Doesn't really take into account simultaneous up and down No idea how many simultaneous connections will be kept open for the Wii U or well/badly it handles traffic.

I can't say anything negative about Prime 1. Absolutely fantastic game on every level but I think it's easy to debate it's Metroidness. Personally I was happy for the departure and enjoyed getting lost

They'll resurrect Ann Diamond just for the scrawl of epileptic rage!

and You see I completely disagree with you here. You have said that these are independent levels or new sections in Rayman right? Good stuff to me as it means more content. My argument is that replaying the levels in a sped up mode will add very little for me to the point where I might not even bother. So you agree with me that they use completely different mechanics? I don't even understand why you are arguing with me about this? I value the fact that I get different gameplay in the middle of the game and despite the fact that there is this change in gameplay, you are somehow saying that the core mechanics stay in tact in Rayman? That's just flat out incorrect. Yes, thank you for your amazingly patronising take on judging the way I perceive value.

Just sold my original playstation, Master System + games and a car boot full (couldn't fit any more in!) this weekend. Made £65.... ahh yeah.

I'm extremely hesitant about this game. I feel burned by Revelations and the little things about the gameplay really haven't been addressed yet (and I would include the kind of thing that Cube is talking about in that). It's going to be a rental before purchase for that reason as I don't want to watch a ton of reviews (which generally spoils it) which will probably still not answer my queries and suspicions. Stupid thing is, I still feel compelled to trudge through AC:Revs to finish the story :/

What I don't understand is why they are doing it. The show was gaining popularity in the US before they did any of that so why feel the need to put in this kind of effort.