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Confirmed! eShop only release for Europe!

Yep, looks like I was right on the money about Code Of Princess!

That's all it needs to be. They're not gonna go too into detail just yet (that's what the rest of the year is for!) Just a quick overview, some of the key features (Streetpass/Spotpass use etc), a couple of the new mons and ending with a teaser trailer. Ok, time for speculation! Full 3D environments (rotatable camera with touch screen) that are fully interactive (ALA Zelda and Golden Sun), 3D characters and battles (no more sprites), box management at any time (but you can only change out your party at a PKMN centre), Streetpass trading via a special "Streetpass Box" in your PC, event Pokemon and items added secretly in the background via Spotpass, more Rotation and Triple battles (but no new battle types), Surveys now done with Streetpass, always-connected online for everything (so no more waiting for it to connect to the internet to do anything, with real-time game sync for the Dream World!), EV training made even easier through a Streetpass enabled Join Avenue equivalent! And that's just for starters!

Not until we get Chrono and Zombie type Pokemon first!

Well the "TV app" market is still small, young and lacks both standardisation and a strong leader. There's still time for them to jump in and establish themselves; assuming that they really are actually interested in doing so (though with Steve Jobs out of the picture... who knows!) If another competitor was to jump into the fray, they're still the most likely candidate IMO.

Out of the ones shown so far, I reckon that the Steam Box has the best chance of success. It fills a niche that is under significant threat (or at least will be in the future), so there's a sizable potential market there (and they do have some killer software that could drive hardware sales they were at least timed exclusives; as well as support from almost everyone on the existing Windows version of Steam, who would need somewhere else to go if MS do fully lock down Windows in the future...). The problem for Valve though is a matter of resources as they're a relatively small (and private) company; with nowhere near the R&D, marketing and operating muscle of the bigger players. I think another big problem for the android based platforms is not just the lack of exclusive titles, but also the ever present dominance of iOS and the ever looming possibility of Apple stealing everyone's lunch with the phantom of the fabled Apple Television/iOS console/TV apps/whatever. If they ever did decide to jump into the TV device market, they could easily crush everyone else like Ouya into dust.

So with two new consoles announced in just the last two days alone (Valve's Steambox http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=506899 and NVidia's Shield Handheld http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=507099) and a further 3 consoles due to arrive late this year/early 2014 (Ouya, PS4 and Xbox 720), is anyone else here getting a flashback to the mid 90s; when pretty much everyone had a crack at making their own game console? It's pretty crazy really! It's just been the "big 3" for the last decade and now all of a sudden, consoles are popping up left-right and centre! (granted, I fully expect stuff like Shield to crash and burn; if indeed it doesn't follow the Panasonic Jungle's example and just disappears out of existence before it launches) Weird times at the moment! I wonder if it comes as a result of the past generation (gen 7) just lasting too long, or if it's a sign of an impending crash as the market becomes too fragmented for its own good? The 90s saw these flies get swatted away, but with a burgeoning indie market now in place, I wonder if there may indeed now be room for more platforms (certainly not all will survive, but could we see more distinction between different surviving devices? - With Nintendo doing their own thing, someone filling in for generic AAA traditional games and one more for indie/mobile games on the TV/and maybe on the go as well) What do you guys make of it?

Yeah, I really liked the demo too. Seems like it would be fun in short bursts (though would make for a bit of a repetitive slog if you powered through it) Just gotta wait till I get paid... Almost there!

Were hookers and backs of dodgy trucks involved? Cause that's one hell of a deal!

Clearly they think that an "earthshaking" announcement comes every time they mention something coming on a Pokemon show aimed at little Japanese kids :p

Level 5 usually overship their games, so having it sell out is obviously a good sign I reckon it might be using the same cartridge as Animal Crossing (as I'd expect Nintendo to want to transition to the faster flash Game Cards for all games, so it might be sharing a production line with AC - which would be eating up most of the cards I'd imagine) Hopefully Nintendo can share more of their own cards, or open up an additional line to get the FL cards out faster!)

The difference here is that THQ went bankrupt in order to sell themselves off, while Onlive just shut down to sell itself to itself (effectively) to wipe out its debt. THQ have seemingly tried to do something similar with the sale to Clearlake (where Ruben and Clearlake's CEO seem to be buddies), but the courts are disallowing it from happening. As it stands, THQ will be sold off to someone else; probably piece by piece to 5 unnamed mystery buyers...

I dunno... I reckon that B&W might get capped at the knees by the death of the DS as a platform. I suppose that partially depends on how strong B&W2's legs end up being and how long it props up the DS' legs for though...

Didn't D/P actually outsell B&W? B&W was just much more frontloaded than the past games (a byproduct of appealing to an older audience and expanding the series' demographic reach)

Hate is a bit of a strong word for R/S/E no? It might be my least favourite of the series, but it's certainly not a bad game at all! It introduced a lot of the staples that have defined the series since (natures, double battles etc) and evolved the metagame into the beast it is today! Also "same game with a different story"? Come on man! You of all people should know that this isn't true. The Physical/Special system being overhauled for D/P/P alone is enough to make it a wholly different experience, with a whole different level of strategy (Hitmonchan actually became useful for godsake!) That being said, B&W is my favourite of the series and a big reason behind that is the fact that it wiped the slate clean with only having the 150 new mons being accessible until the main game was finished (it's also the first game that I actually bothered to catch em all since G/S/C too ) I don't expect to get that from gen 6, purely because they have to write an all new game engine for the 3DS, in fact I wouldn't be surprised to see the least amount of new mons since R/S/E. I am excited to see what the 3DS hardware could offer though - full 3D environments with camera control perhaps? (The environments could also potentially be much more interactive as a result too!) Not to mention new event Pokemon actually being added via Spotpass. No more would we know everything about what's upcoming any more! (Made all the sweeter by the end of the influence of Action Replay cartridges! ) Oh and just imagine if you could have a special box in your PC that trades random Pokemon with people via Streetpass!

It's almost twice as fast. I posted a comparison in the Wii U thread a whiles back (3DS still wins though of course )

Oh my! A twist has entangled THQ's thread of fate! http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=506812 It seems that the US courts have not approved of THQ's bankruptcy plan with Clearlake! So there are 5 parties who are all interested in buying parts of THQ, but Clearlake wants to make them buy the whole thing (all or nothing). THQ also have about 2 weeks worth of cash flow left - so the whole thing needs to be settled within that timeframe, or THQ will have to cease all development as they won't be able to pay their devs. So I guess the big question here is... Who are the 5 potential buyers? I'd bet on Warner Bros being one of them. Supposedly their lawyers were at the trial, testifying against the original bankruptcy plan. That leaves 4 mystery buyers who may or may not be VG Publishers...

Yeah true. I really loved how they made it so that no old Pokemon appear until you've finished the main game That being said, I really doubt they'll do that again. They could do that because they already had a DS engine that they could rework, so they could focus moreso on the raw content of the game. With Gen 6, they'll have to start from scratch, so they won't be able to make as many new Pokemon as had appeared in B&W.

Yes it does. In the Spooky chapter, when you get the shotgun (it even has the laser sight that RE4 made famous!) (Skip to around 3:30) You can even move while shooting to boot! (Something that wasn't added to RE until RE:Mercenaries 3D ) Oh and BT>>BK (Yeah, I went there :p)

All 3DS games save on the card itself.

I've just finished the 4th world and I'm still enjoying it (4-3 in particular was lots of fun ) But I do find myself wishing for more story and characterisation... I'm not fully convinced that ditching the story entirely was the right way to go (though I'm not really missing the experience points - I'm really enjoying the battle system in general still and I'm finding myself using the Thing stickers in battle a lot more in general - now that I know that I can always buy the Things back from Decalburg after using them, I can enjoy all their funny animations ) Yeah. The worlds pretty much follow the classic Mario cliches (Grasslands, Desert, Ice etc) That being said, there's plenty of creativity throughout and lots of parts that'll make you laugh and smile... Just don't expect the crazy characters, settings or story that you'd expect from a Paper Mario.

Once a great game, always a great game It's really one of a kind, a game that really defies a genre description (it was also the game that invented the over-the-shoulder 3rd person shooter view too! Take THAT RE4!) Makes you pine for the good ol' days of Rareware (and no, the Xbox version is nowhere near as good as the original!)

It's not that early really. PKMN B&W came out in September 2010 in Japan. The Gen 6 games will probably come around September or so. I think that 3 years is long enough Edit: Oh my... Seems that the official US PKMN Twitter account is now hyping up the event... One does wonder what it could all mean...

Good. The quicker that PS4 and 720 get unveiled, the quicker we get all of this shrouded-in-mystery BS over and done with! The promises of nebulous nonsense that has spread over the last year or so is just pissing me off. Finally we'll be able to see what they're actually doing/not doing and we'll see what fantastic/piss poor graphics jump that "next gen" will offer. Looking forward to anti-used game systems that have discs with RFID tags (http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=506560) that sell for £50 with ingame ads and another £50's worth of DLC on top of the privilage of paying full whack for it And with new controllers that are functionally identical to the ones you've already got for just £40 a pop (oh and you can't use your existing PS360 ones either...) Only £300 with a 2 year XBL Gold subscription (Youtube and Netflix access sold separately) WHAT A STEAL!!! I'm becoming a right Cranky Kong lol. Maybe if I'm lucky, there will be a couple of indie games I'm interested in playing in a couple of years down the line after retail becomes nothing but COD/COD clones, Uncharted & Heavy Rain clones, Asscreed and Fifa...

DSi only for maximum trollage :p