3DS/Nintendo News * WiiU announcements pg9

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**SagesStone**

Eh, on the WiiU is still enough.

**Iur_tae_mont**

Aww. So no news on the next SSB?

/dissapointed

**KingCracker**

Yea they said nothing about it, nor animal crossings. Im not a big fan of Animal Crossings mind you, but the wife was always a fruit cake about the games, personally I think they are too boring. Oh well, at least so far, Nintendo is sticking to their "We arnt staying with casual, we are going more hardcore" statements from months back. This line up already looks really good. Pretty excited about the WiiU. Sadly though, I wont be able to buy mine until tax season, as we are pretty tapped around Christmas from all the get togethers, and presents for my kids.

Oh well, I just look at that as a chance to get a few more games and possibly the black WiiU by then

**SagesStone**

Animal Crossing was alright for the first one on the Game Cube, but it went downhill with the others to me. It just can't pull it off like Harvest Moon can.

**KingCracker**

Agreed on both points. It was fune on the gamecube, and TBH, I seem to be missing my Gamecube more and more lately. Sure I could buy the games and play it on my Wii, but my Wii is modded, and I dunno if that part even works still, not to mention if itl screw anything up. Not sure. But the positive is, its garage sale season, and gamecubes can be picked up for pretty cheap when you find them. Im still hoping I find that deal of the summer on some random Nintendo product

My only real gripe with Harvestmoon/Animal Crossings is the fact they REALLY take time into consideration. It gets boring knowing, well I get to play for 5 minutes (once you get everything setup and running) and then cant really do anything for the next 20 hours

**4oursword**

I wonder if the WiU will play Gamecube games? It's got all the controls already...

Pokémon XD on a semi-handheld? *squee*

**KingCracker**

Lets say maybe? It can play Wii games, so who knows. That would be pretty cool, but I wouldnt hold your breath. If you look at their handhelds, for example, they seem to go a few generations and forget older ones and thats it. So Id guess, it wont but that would be cool if the WiiU would play gamecube games.

**SagesStone**

Well for the DS and such it was more to do with the hardware. The GBA was able to play GB because of some chip if I remember correctly.

Likely though if it doesn't get backwards compatibility it will have some sort of virtual equivalent.

**4oursword**

I reckon it won't happen, not least because the controller itself lacks a disc drive, so it would either have to be with infra-red range of the console, or copy the disc to memory...

**KingCracker**

Well the dumb thing about the DSi not playing gamboy advanced games is, if you take the DSi apart, theres still a bay INSIDE that is supposed to be for plugging in GA games. Now weather or not their was software to run it, I dunno, but the bay was in every single DSi

Also, Mass Effect 3 will be on WiiU during its launch period. Same with Darksiders......something, forgot the number and POSSIBLY WatchDogs. When asked, Ubisoft said "its definitely a possibility" So heres hoping for that yea? And speaking of, Nintendo said, the WiiU launch period will be a span of 3 months after the launch date. By then they said the WiiU will have 31 titles. Hurray for tax season landing at the end of that one

**4oursword**

Thought I'd leave this here...

**Manchu**

I wonder what battery life is like on those controllers ...

**4oursword**

About 2 seconds...

Although a charging station will be included with the console, so that fixes the problem the Wii had- the charger was £20 when I got one.

**KingCracker**

In one of the videos I watched they talked about the charge life on the Game Pad. Obviously it has different options for brightness and so on, but they are saying 4 hours on the normal settings. So really, not bad at all considering

**SagesStone**

Hopefully further into it we'll see ones with a longer battery life. 4 hours is not that bad, but it is kind of short for a controller.

**KingCracker**

For a 360 or PS3 controller yes. But this is a full blown wifi tablet that works in conjunction with a gaming console, and at normal settings apparently. I know from turning the brightness down and such on my 3DS I get longer battery life then the average with that......as long as I stay away from netflix that is

**Iur_tae_mont**

For the Pokemon players out there:

In the Us and Europe, They are re-releasing the event Victini (the one with V-Create, Fusion Flare, Fusion Bolt, and Searing Shot) From June 11 to June 26 over the Nintendo Wifi Connection.

So if you missed out on it earlier (or if you want two[or in my Case, 4 ^^]) You can still get the broken little son of a gun.

**SagesStone**

Good, was wondering what the next would be now that Darkrai finished.

**4oursword**

I never managed to get Darkrai because my Wi-Fi was playing up, but I have one from a friend anyways.

Nice to get another Victini though- I love the chubbly little funster.

**Iur_tae_mont**

Some More Pokenews/rumors:

Keledo, The fourth of the Musketeer Trio (yeah I know. Moving on) Will be released for the first time from June 23- August 31.

I do not know whether or not it'll only be in japan or not. Nor do I know if it'll be exclusive to B2/W2 Since they come out in Japan on the same day.

**4oursword**

Seeing as Keldeo changes forme in the second town, I suspect it will play out similarly to the original Victini distribution.

**Iur_tae_mont**

Prolly. I was kinda hoping it would be like the Shiny Beasts from right before BW came out.

**SagesStone**

Honestly I just hope they put the features they took out from HG/SS back in, but it may be hoping for too much at once.

Now I guess back to trying to get my Lilligant to be able to at least battle other players and not just NPCs due to the limited move set...

**KingCracker**

http://nintendo3dsblog.com/animal-crossing-jump-out-is-still-coming-to-3ds/

Tada! Even though Im not a fan, this means Ill be buying it for my wife when it does drop. And many people were pretty excited about seeing this one again.

Other news, apparently they are NOT going to redesign the 3DS in any fashion. They are planning the next handheld from Nintendo and thats it so far. So if any of you were holding out for an XL3DS then I wouldnt hold my breathe

**4oursword**

Battery life information and WiiU demo video below

http://www.officialnintendomagazine.co.uk/39202/wii-u-battery-life-reggie-speaks/

**KingCracker**

Wow some of those comments (read complaining) is a bit stupid TBH. Awwww the game pad wont last 6 hours on a charge doing all the crazyness that it does?!?!? BOOHOO!!! Really? I mean, its a home console controller, I dont complain that I cant take my 360 controller with my on trips and play games, so why does that matter? And like someone pointed out, my 360 controller lasts about 5-6 hours as well, and so if the GamePad gets somewhere in that area, I will be pretty impressed.

**SagesStone**

That's why it's usually not worth reading the comments.

**KingCracker**

Depends really, sometimes I like reading comments because they make me laugh. But then there is that

**KingCracker**

Its obviously recorded from a video camera, so the quality isnt top notch, but you can still tell it looks very crisp and very nice.

**KingCracker**

Call this a rumor/guess on my part, but I think WatchDogs WILL be out on the WiiU at some time in the future, along with the other systems. Why you ask? Simple, I was watching the Weekly Nintendo 3D show last night, and they were at E3 doing their rounds of all things Nintendo, and in the midst of all the Nintendo products and games, they flashed the WatchDogs booth. Now if any of you ever WATCH the weekly Nintendo shows you know that they dont show other game companies stuff if its not going to be on the system. Soooo call me crazy, but WatchDogs WiiU edition I think we will get