Bear in mind we still don't know what the NX is. If it's somehow continuous with the prexisting hardware, as one of the images seemed to weakly suggest, it's quite possible the later Wii U games will be used as "launch titles".

I really don't care at this point, I only care that it's coming to the Wii U as that's one of the main reasons I bought the console. The odds of them cancelling it for the Wii U are extremely small I'd say, given how much work they've put into developing it on the platform.

1. Phantom Hourglass

2. Chrono Trigger

3. Advance Wars: Dual Strike

4. Final Fantasy IV

5. Super Mario 64 DS

Such a great library to choose from. Glad to see the 3DS will probably outdo it by the end of its lifespan, in game variety if not sales.

1. Phantom Hourglass

2. Chrono Trigger

3. Radiant Historia

4. Mario 64 DS

5. Final Fanatasy IV

The DS was such a great platform, despite having almost hideous graphical capabilities! Definitely go with Phantom Hourglass before anything else imo. If it wasn't for

the annoying revisting temple, it'd be one of my favourite Zeldas.

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.

Lol so I look back at the kickstarter page for the first time considering pledging.....

No need at all. Already smashed every record in the book. I think maybe I'll just buy when it comes out. Good job 3D platformer fans, we need to revive this genre.

I look forward to the sequel Pea and Anno.

This might be my first kickstarter pledge actually. How do they tend to do the different platforms in terms of pledges cos I only really wanna play it on Wii U? I guess it depends on how they set their milestones but does anyone ever have platform specific pledges?

I don't care about Amiibos either. But apparently they've sold more than they have WiiUs....

It's weird that the regional differences carry over onto the digital stuff too. I wouldn't have thought there'd be any reason to have the US release be later.

Dolphins had an explosion of massive updates recently, performance has skyrocketed.

Interesting. Can you quantify it with an example?

Unless you go dolphin with the HD texture pack, its just preferences.

Xenoblade Wii:
Dual Audio (Japanese and english)
Higher resolution (480p woohoo)
Still a collectors item

Even going with Dolphin for just a higher resolution is worth doing if your PC can handle it. I seem to remember mine struggled with anything higher than native resolution sadly.

I think this just applies to digital purchases though right? I've got the physical pre-ordered. Depending on what the music is, I'll prob get this theme! 

I've just got to the Mechonis (actual body, not the sword).

Such an incredible game. This probably has to be my favourite video game world ever created. I don't think I've ever really stopped to take in the view in games before.

So far it's looking very good!!

NintendoLife 9/10

Gamespot 8/10

Gamesradar 9/10

Nintendo-insider 9/10

God is a geek 9/10

Mynintendonews 8.5/10

So probably only slightly lower than the metacritic average for the original if things continue in this pattern. Big sigh of relief!!

[Update]

Got my copy today. Really enjoying playing it on handheld so far. The graphical downgrade is noticeable but doesn't ruin it for me.

The 3D however is really terrible! One of the worst implementations in a 3DS game. It seems to add almost no depth at all.

Fiora has made major improvements to the recompiler, making the emulation base line far more effecient, and she has also reverse engineered a lot of missing instructions, the lack of which would result to resorting to the snail speed cpu interpreter, killing performance. Shes also concentrated on games which use extremely rare instructions, greatly improving their performance and fixing many unplayable games. Particularly one game shes (Obviously) A huge fan of: Xenoblade chronicles. She also helped fix the rounding problem of floating point multiply and multiply add, fixing the physics in most all games, and fixing the ghost playback features. Kids a right busy bee, and a real smartie.

Pretty much an average rig now should be able to run xenoblade at full framrate, 1080p, with the enhanced textures, AA, and with no sound problems.

Well it sounds like an impressive list of improvements! Although I'm curious what the physics was like before? I assume rounding errors don't cause that big a problem with physics anyway. Although I have no idea how physics engines work. Something to do with numerical integration estimates I'm guessing.

Yeah just eshop purchase it looks like. Probably will be available to buy in the theme shop though.

I hope it's the opening theme for the music. I'd welcome opening my 3DS to that.

Well you seem to be detecting a lot more than I could by looking at it. As far as I could tell, there was just about 5-10m of depth and then everything else was just flattened into line with that 10m distance.

It's great they've managed to preserve the draw distance. That's part of what made the game so great: it's sense of scale.