Now that you mention it he does look like the magic u. Elf looks the same as well except now she has a hood. Thought it might have been a homage but if it was done by the same guy that is very cool.

Quit peddling your elitist Japanophile bullshit. Ever watch a Japanese game show? Yea, that knocked you down a peg. But for realsies, sales have dropped for the Wii. The casual gamers maybe excited but the core gamers are what makes the market. For a short term investment it's a good idea but in the long run sales are going to dwindle. Nintendo is about gimmicks plain and simple.

http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2380665,00.asp

No one is expecting for every new gamer to stick around, just to increase the fanbase by a sizable chuck, which it has.

There's also the whole thing with little massive hits on the Wii recently to drive a spike in sales. When Skyward Sword hits, you can bet sales will rise a bit.

The core market is still there and will most likely come back for the WiiU if they left. Nintendo isn't stupid, they see that the main fanbase is weakening and that the other companies are coping everything they've started hoping to steal away some of this new market. Announcing the WiiU right now was brilliant, it gets back the Nintendo fanbase, which is incredibly loyal, and manages to interests a few new fans they've made. This works great in the long term.

The freak out over stock right now is a knee jerk reaction, I see it little more than a bunch of suits not understanding the thought process here.

Yo Sega Y NO PHANTASY STAR ONLINE 2?

and I may be late for the party...someone made me watch the new NFS game... WTF IS Quick Time Events doing in a racing game!?

Pretty much sums up my feelings on Nintendo. Just look at their last 5 SKUs/ pieces of tech:

1. Wii U
2. 3DS
3. DSi XL
4. DSi
5. Wii

The worst part about the gimmick is that while publishers try to all jump on early, developers seem to struggle with the hardware; and I'd wager that's how things will play out. Ubisoft will pump out piles and piles of budget titles for it, but unless teams like Bioware, Bethesda, Rockstar and Treyarch embrace it and put out exclusives for it the only thing that really going to sell are first party titles. And knowing Nntendo that's 1 oe 2 titles per year; if you're lucky.

Now I'll admit the Wii U is sort of impressive, but how can it make games better? I don't need a map layout on a touch screen in my hands. I wouldn't want to hold that up for more that a few minutes so that rules out first person shooters. Aside from redoing titles like Four Sword Adventures or Pac-Man Vs I don't see too much use for it.

Doubtful, Skyward Sword is set for this holiday season, WiiU doesn't come until next year sometime.

might be a little longer for another zelda game for the wii u...remember the zelda trailer for the gamecube?

But the enhance version isn't a bad thing too. I believe the perfect launch for this is a pokemon game...or even metroid. only time will tell.

They designed the game to sell wii motion plus so I doubt it's getting a port.

I was thinking Left 4 Dead, but it sounds good nonetheless.

It was made for Aliens:Colonial Marines.