Well I've seen this article linked to on 3 different forums. Add that to the fact it's Kotaku, I think you've got an explanation.

Wow more than 3D World is a surprise. Congrats on creating a successful new IP Nintendo. You should try it more often.

Hmmmmmm a story, eh?

If these guys could do gameplay as well as they graphics, they'd be damn awesome.

It's mostly indies you're talking about. Wii U is still doing pretty good with those. We've got Mighty No.9, Bloodstained and Yuka-Laylee all fairly big indie games on the way. Hugely looking forward to the latter 2, not sure about the first. Looks a bit dull so far.

As unbearable as that girl's voice was in that video, this looks like a rather nice addition.

I too enjoyed Colony 6 as a sidequest. Great idea.

Why would Gamespot know anything about E3? This happens every year, loads of fake rumours just come out in June.

These would be pretty great though. A new 3D Mario especially would be desirable. 3D World and 3D Land were great fun but very generic. Didn't leave much of an impact.

Not the sort of approach I expect with this sort of name but I guess the early access approach is probably best for this sort of game. Lots of potential bugs to iron out.

They've been kicking themselves for not thinking of it first for about a decade now. Might as well just jump on the bangwagon. At least they can claim some sense of authenticity.

It's only at 81 on metacritic. Fairly good, although based on the extreme hype some people were generating, I was kinda expecting high 80s.

Still worth buying though.

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? 

Just downgrade the graphics you goons. Everyone expects it to look worse anyway.

Haven't played a LEGO game since the original Star Wars ones. They any good nowadays? The only one that's really appealed has been City undercover. Although I avoided that cos of no off-tv play.

Weren't these guys threatening a video at some point? 

What other games have Next Level made? With Nintendo it's usually safe to assume it'll be the continuation of a pre-existent series.

Well of course it COULD do it with optimization. Almost anything could. But how much? It has 1/4 the RAM for a start. It's unlikely they're designing the game to just leave most of that unused. You'd need to know exactly how they're putting the resources to use to know how easy it would be to port to the Wii U. That makes a huge difference. If they're using most of that memory for high-res textures, well it's simple enough to just scale those down in a few clicks. What if they're using all of that for rendering really high poly models en masse? Well then they'd have to go through all of those models and make alternatives at 1/4 the poly count. That's a lot more work than downsizing a texture.

Recall, it took Ubisoft about 6 months longer to release Watch Dogs on Wii U, and it still came out as a bad port. That was even designed for last gen consoles. Do you think they're all just really crap at their jobs or do you think maybe it's just quite hard to do?

Right, but there's a difference between supporting the same (or a similar) graphics library and having the same graphical power. The Wii U could have the identical architecture and hardware functions as the PS4 but if the game's being written mainly for the PS4, the Wii U wouldn't be able to handle it in terms of the CPU and GPU power. Which means they'd need to do the whole graphical downgrade thing to get it working on the Wii U. Which I'm guessing puts them off! It sounds like they're having enough trouble trying to get the Xbox to keep up as it is.

I think they were saying that the full world of FF7, if remade with the detail of FF13 would take ten times as long (which I suspect was hyperbolic). That's not necessarily the same as saying the version they would remake would take that long. If they ever did remake it, chances are the world wouldn't have that same amount of detail. Almost no "open world" games do. A remake of FF7 would probably be about the same size a project as FF15 I would guess. But would probably take less time cos they'd already know what they were making, instead of all the dilly-dallying they've had with 15.

And where exactly did they say that Kingdom Hearts and FF15 will run on anything with DX11. That would be an insane thing to claim.

English translation for the new DQ7 out as well. Many times companies like this pay to use fan translations. Xseed almost entirely uses them for Falcom games. DQ8 also sold rather poorly..only half a mill in the US and that was only because it included a demo of FF12.DQ7 didn't sell great either but it was released late.  That said they sell on DS but then again this is the same company who hyped people up at a conference to announce a port of a port of a port and so far yet to release it over a year later.

Where is the english translation for DQ7?

I wasn't just basing that on speculation, they did admit that was the reason: http://www.siliconer...rect=no&oswrr=1

DQ8 already has an english localization. DQ7 was remade and would've needed a new one. That's a huge difference and it's the main one that tends to be the deciding factor, especially with such a text-heavy game.

To release this in the west, all they have to do is go back to their english script and just copy it into the new game and then probably get at least half a million sales out of it. They'd be absolutely insane not to do it! Whereas with DQ7, it's a huge game with lots of translation to do. It's also a lesser known game in the west. That's a much bigger gamble for them. DQ8 is no gamble at all, it's guaranteed profit.