seems exagerated but bets are still on the PS4 winning the race, and microsoft eventualyl dropping out after they are done throwing money around.

I'm thinking a repeat of the 6th generation: PlayStation will completely dominate the gaming scene; Xbox will have a respectable showing, but wind up on life support in Japan; and Nintendo's offering will have slow sales but be full of cult classics. But I do see Valve playing a part with their new Steam Machine. 

Wii U isn't powerful enough to run battlefield 3.
No chance of running Battlefield 4.

Please tell me you're sarcastic  . Anyway, to my understanding the Wii U is two 360s taped together in the same sense that Wii was two GameCubes taped together, so it could indeed run it just fine. 

Lets take Battlefield for example, you have a giant map filled with buildings, grass, detail etc. The only real thing taken away would be the amount of grass on the field (The Ground Clutter) and tone down a tiny tiny bit on the detail. Overall, it wouldn't effect your personal gameplay experience unless you're a graphics whore. The game will run just as good as other consoles, just slight alterations. 

 

But for less detailed games like fighting games, there wouldn't be any downgrade at all since their isn't really much there to begin with. 

Seems about right, and most graphics-junkies usually go for ludicrous $900+ PCs and brag about them on /v/ anyways. But many fighting games do have quite detailed graphics from what I've seen.  

I don't even have a 1080p TV, let alone some multi-thousand dollar 4K monstrosity; so I don't see the point. 

I don't think it has a target audience

I assumed it was for kids too young for the 3D feature; those who can't see the 3D feature, or it just makes them sick; or those who couldn't afford a normal 3DS but still want to get their hands on Pokemon X/Y. 

I have to agree with Blake. GTA I beieve is rated T for teen by the ESRB. A child that's still growing up really shouldn't be playing it.

And guns should always be kept secure in the hands of people thained in the use and storage of them.

Actually, Grand Theft Auto IV  is rated M (the equivalent of R), which is even worse for a kid to have. But really, what kind of failure of a parent/guardian let's their kid around a actual gun? 

I understand the Wii U... but I was talking about the 3DS! That thing is selling crazy dude!

Exactly my point, and even breaks their "Nobody's buying it, so it's not worth our money." argument over Wii U development. The 3DS is selling extremely well and yet somehow it's not good enough for them; but the Vita is apparently fine with them despite much lower sales. 

The least they could do is put the indie games on the 3DS too! This is just biased when they put the games on the vita which no one has... and not on the 3DS!

 

Ignorance.

That is insane! Developers won't put games on the Wii U because it won't sell, but they'll go ahead and shove them on the mostly-dead Vita. I'm sadly going to main PlayStation 4 this generation (as I said earlier, developers don't care for the U); but the Vita can go ____ itself for all I care. 

People are getting there hopes up too high, this is oviosly new version of the Pokedex 3D app on 3DS.

I agree, the background does look too realistic for a Wii U game.

Huh, that's around PS3-level looking graphics to me, the Wii U could probably pull it off. 

Is it better to go ahead and get this version?

Yes, yes, and yes. 

I agree with you but, for people who can only get one console and want the Nintendo exclusives it sucks because then they can't play some of the great multiplatform games like GTAV 

I always found myself getting bored of the Grand Theft Auto games after about six hours. Once the initial shock value wears off the game starts to get mind-numbing, it's like half the shows on [adult swim] in that respect.

I've noticed that Wii games look better on my TV when I turn down the sharpness. Virtual Console games generally look fine in HD, but their actual *on the original system* counterparts look far better on an older CRT. 

Personally I would love to see a 2.5D remake of this *relatively* forgotten 32X gem, with the characters having their modern designs and a remixed soundtrack. Sadly, I doubt that Sega would actually go for it; they seem to prefer that this game never existed. 

I go for physical copies of games anyhow, but with all the moves and models using polygonal models on top of non-MIDI music I'd assume at least 3 gigs! I suppose that everything has been compressed to minuscule size to save on memory. 

"We have a console with practically no games, so let's make another one right away with even less!" is what I'm getting from this. 

Because Western media pundits have no attention span and can't grasp the concept of long-term thinking. Hell, Western gaming in general can't seem to think long-term as evidenced by reducing themselves to living from one AAA release to another. Not exactly a stable model to live on.

More and more Westerners (mostly PC games, but console users are getting better) are going for indie titles to tide them over until the next big release. Microsoft, Sony, and Nintendo all have indie-friendly ways to get their games onto the Live Arcade, PlayStation Store, and eShop respectively. Self-published indie games carry far less risk than their multi-million dollar big brothers; and as all three companies make a profit of each of these (numerous) self-published titles, they're loving it. 

Don't know how to capture or are you killing the Peco too quickly? Or something completely different, of course.

 

If the former: Whenever the monster is low enough on health, catch it in a trap (Shock or Pitfall, either works), then toss Tranq Bombs at it. Typically takes two, though RARELY it takes three. 

 

If the latter: Get Great Jaggi armor. It gives you an ability that tells you when a painted monster is low on health. The symbol on the screen will start blinking white instead of just staying pink.

The problem is that it just doesn't want to get low enough to capture, and it's a pain to juggle items (Reggie help you if you mess up using a Sonic Bomb). I guess that I'm not good at these kinds of games. 

I for one cannot get past Trapping a Trickster to save my life (I have about nineteen hours in), it's embarrassing. 

That would imply they'd make another Spyro game. 

Well it holds all 3 Pokemon 3DS game in a pokeball. Its just cool. Would you rather carry 3 3DS cases, or a pokeball for your pokemon needs?

Who says there is going to be a Pokemon Z? The reason I haven't played the fifth generation games is because I was banking on a Pokemon Gray Version. 

I... I don't see the point of this, 3DS games already come in hard cases so it wouldn't really be useful.

•Sonic Lost World, The Legend of Zelda: Wind Waker HD, and maybe some Virtual Console games that come along for the Wii U

•Pokemon X, Castlevania: Mirrors of Fate, and Mario & Luigi: Dream Team for the 3DS

•A PlayStation 4 console (really don't want to, but you have to go where the games are) with Battlefield 4 and maybe some downloadable titles.

•Some hats and keys for the PC version of Team Fortress 2

A rather costly endeavor, when I think about it.

Because they're considered "kiddie crap", along with everything else that isn't a M for Money FPS, Family Guy knock-off that is somehow worse, and reality TV so forced that it becomes actively unpleasant to watch. I would make a comment about explosion-filled exploitation blockbusters, but they're actually a guilty pleasure for me. 

I got Game & Wario and noticed that some of the mini-games (namely Pirates and Arrow) tend to control a bit strangely as they go on, like the GamePad goes out-of-sync and can't tell where it is anymore (the other games, and everything else about the GamePad, seem to work); has anybody else had issues with this?

For a game that no one on this forum seems to like, they seem to be very interested in it now that it's coming to the Wii U.

Call of Duty is a good game, but not to the ueber-amazing-epic levels that your average Xbox fan seems to think. 

That's right, 1 month before the NA's release! We're also getting The Wonderful 101 earlier and we already got Mario and Luigi: Dream Team. Seeing a trend here...

I suppose that makes sense, as English, French, and Spanish are all spoken in Europe they can put it there first.