V. Amoleo

I'd hardly say they were completely trashing it. They make mention that they probably should have included a second circle pad and that the bigger screens will look more pixelated as they haven't increased the resolution. They do moan about the touch screen though. Which is complete nonsense. I'd love to know how I'd play Brain Training with a capacitive screen. They end on which I feel is a valid statement.

I bought the Mario statue recently. It's quite nice but it definitely feels a bit 'cheap'. The base itself isn't even solid.

I didn't receive mine today. I hope you fared better.

They have Mario Sports Mix on the Wii too. I bought it and they would only give me the disc and case saying that the reduced price was 'due to the lack of manual'. I know most of us don't even look at the manual but it annoys me knowing that there's a game sitting in my collection which isn't complete. You'd think, with them expecting people with a 3DS (or DSi) to upgrade to a 3DS XL that they'd actually allow your account to be used on multiple devices. For every good thing I hear about Nintendo's online strategy there's always some stupid decision to balance it out.

Except they do determine the price by what they sell it to the retailers for. When the price drop happened it was because Nintendo started to charge the retailers less, not because they all decided to drop the price. So @cvl is right to blame Nintendo for the price. Personally I'm okay with the price. I was expecting £150-£180. It's at the top end but still within what I would pay.

Tails would like a word with those who say foxes can't fly.

I'm probably being stupid but how do I reply to a letter?

Amazon haven't even dispatched mine yet. I guess I'll be joining in the fun some time next week.

That's true. But then I guess it's no different to buying a limited edition version of a game. I'm not completely sold on digital downloads on it yet especially when they're as expensive as the retail version. And I guess I sort of enjoy having the cartridges and cases too.

Nintendo have announced that The Game Group have an exclusive pre-order bonus on this. Now I need to convince myself that I don't need it.

You can do a system transfer to another 3DS but other than that you can't backup/transfer the games/money on there.

Please tell me I'm not going crazy. It's gone again this morning! I'm guessing it won't matter to most of us here though because we've probably all already pre-ordered it.

This seems to have disappeared from Amazon today.

It's very short and there's an annoyingly small inventory but other than that I've found it to be a fun little game.

It's out on 20th July

I guess I'm going in blind too. I own all of the Kingdom Hearts games except the GBA one but I don't think I've ever completed the first level on any of them. Not because they're boring but because my PS2 keeps going into a black screen when it's loading from which it never recovers and I've just not got around to playing the PSP one (next on my list after I've completed The 3rd Birthday!) or the two on the DS (which are also in the backlog ).

Thanks, @Rummy. I suspect it being Friday night had a factor in me forgetting that I'd actually already seen that trailer It's looking really interesting and no worse for not having a traditional battle/xp system.

Thanks @Jamba. Those pictures look amazing. I really hope this gets a European release.

Yeah, sorry, I've only just read back through the thread. I should have done that first. It was just a bit of a surprise when I read it.

The August Official Nintendo Magazine has a 2 page preview of Paper Mario: Sticker Star. Weirdly it says "This is how you'll earn items and experience to level up, by scouring the environment and solving people's problems rather than scrapping".

The August Official Nintendo Magazine (pg. 14) says we should be getting lots of videos and images of Monster Hunter 4 from the Capcom Summer Jam event on 1st July. I'm guessing that's the same event that @Hero\-of\-Time has posted the timetable for.

Very much so. It was more that I was expecting it in August without any real reasoning behind it and I'm looking for an excuse to buy Pokemon Conquest

Bit later than I expected. Might have to pick up Pokemon Conquest in the meantime. Even so, happy it's finally got a release date! I can't wait until it turns up.

I don't think the n-space developed FPS were too bad either. Nothing spectacular but seemed to do the best they could with the hardware.

A note about GameStop: They take the money as soon as you make the order.