Yeah this game looks ideal for DLC. Seems quite likely given how much Nintendo have completely hijacked that bandwagon.

What happened to that other game, fast racing neo?

They said a preview video was coming soon. When you get a teaser for the teaser, it's gotta be a big deal.

Nintendo are masters of compression without risking too much on visuals and audio. I have no idea how they do it, they must have an amazing algorithm. 

Well in something like Wind Waker, (and Splatoon), I'm guessing their main tool is to reuse the hell out of textures. In Wind Waker that's quite clear.

It's pretty minor when compared to some of the lies we get about games pre-release. But it's still a lie. People can reasonably expect games shown on the Xbox channel are running on the Xbox. Plenty of people only game in a fairly casual way and really don't keep up to date with all of the info. They'll be coming from the position of just assuming what they see is genuine. I wouldn't care about the 900p to 1080p jump but the 30fps to 60fps is one I definitely care about.

Always loved the first worlds in 2D mario games. The nice green grassy places. Can't remember what it's called in NSMBU though. I've really stopped paying attention to any of the lore in Mario games.

OoT/Mario Galaxy/Metroid Prime/Xenoblade Chronicles.

One of those. Depends on the day for me!

Definitely be getting this to go with my new3DS. Unless it gets the worst reviews in the world. It's got 7/10 written all over it!

Mario Galaxy would work quite well actually. A lot of the previews did point out there are similarities! Although I guess you couldn't necessarily shoot as many places you planned on going with the whole curvature issue. The paint shots would have to get caught in the gravity.

I think this roughly translates to "it's a christmas 2016 release, that's a long way off".

If it was a Spring release in 2016, you'd think this E3 would've been an OK time to show it off. Hell, look at the FF7 remake. Does anyone think that's coming within the next 2 years?

Nintendo is definitely getting DLC right. God knows why they took so long to jump on the bandwagon. The Mario Kart 8 DLC is some of the best I've ever bought.

So is this battle mode then?

And Fire emblem Awakening

My only problem with Fire Emblem's DLC was the reusing of the same maps 3 times. Except for that, it was a great addition. And a necessary one for Lunatic mode.

If they did the same thing as they have with Mario Kart DLC, that'd be awesome: bring in other Nintendo series! I want Link with a squid mask sliming up the walls of Hyrule castle.

Hang on, what do you mean by that? How is upscaled 1080p real 1080p? Surely 900 upscaled to 1080 is inferior to just the game rendering to 1080? 

Well considering the res it's being rendered at it's getting upscaled or downscaled no matter what. Unless you have some weird ass monitor or TV that outputs at 1600x900 you can't play it at its native resolution. If your TV is 1080p+ I don't know why you'd have your Wii U outputting at 720p. If your TV is 720p then it doesn't even matter at all its 720p or nothing at that point. (unless for some reason you want 480p) 

Yeah, it's true. There seems to be almost no reason to say it's outputting at 1080p.

Although coincidentally, my laptop screen is actually 1600x900. They do exist.

If that's what you have the Wii U set to output to in the system settings. Then yes I assume It should downscale it.

 

Your TV will upscale/downscale the signal to its native resolution anyway.

Right, so I guess what they're actually saying is "Anyone who happens to have their Wii U outputting to 720p, might want to put it up to 1080p for this game."

So the 4 people who that applies to will be thrilled?

1600x900 is pretty good. 

 

I thought the Wii U upscaled everything to 1080p anyway though.

I assume it can output at 720p as well?

I wanna know just how profitable they are. It seems a bit worrying.

They made one of the biggest games of last gen and it sold under a million copies. They're making one of the biggest games so far of this gen and it probably won't sell much more than that (I'm guessing it'll sell about 1 mil)

Are they really efficient with their budgets or are Nintendo just covering them for the sake of having these big exciting projects?

It's sitting at 630,000 sales now. Add digital to that and it's probably around 750,000 (not exactly sure what percentage is digital).

I imagine that's probably considered a success for them. Compared to the sales of the original which was targeting platforms that had much larger install bases, this is pretty good.

Hopefully we'll see a 3rd.

I will definitely buy this eventually. It wasn't at the top of my last because I'm just not very good at combo-based action games

Bayonetta 2 doesn't really require you to be good at combos. Not unless you're wanting to try the highest level stuff. Your dodge-timing is far more valuable.

100 games ready by holiday, that is about all we know

Is Tales of Vesperia one of them (that's all I really wanted to know)?

Works fine my end. Although having to unlock 200cc is a bit annoying. Maybe try deleted all of your system data for the game and start over?

Seems to take them a good 3-4 years on these types of games so hopefully they'll just continue the series.