Wind Waker HD for the WiiU coming this fall.

[S00N3R FR3AK]

Along with telling us they are under way with the next Zelda game they announced this as well. The game still look gorgeous and it will look even better made for HD.

http://www.gameinformer.com/b/news/archive/2013/01/23/the-legend-of-zelda-wind-waker-hd-coming-to-wii-u-this-fall.aspx

Also a new 3D Mario, Mario Kart and Smash Bros will be playable at E3. New Yoshi game based on Kirbys Epic Yarn and the VC is coming out in April.

[S00N3R FR3AK]

Here is the full Nintendo Direct.

[jerzdawg]

Looking forward to the Mario 3d (maybe mario galaxy 3?) and Mario Kart... I never played Wind Waker so I may pick that up.. cant wait for E3

[Draconian Guppy]

Much rather they remade golden eye for the wiiU and improved physics, but then again, I stopped caring about Nintendo since the cube era.

[Brandon H Supervisor]

i see an odd pattern going on here, CES was amazing last year but E3 was rather disappointing, this year it seems to be the reverse. CES was rather lame and it's looking like we're gonna have a great E3 this year :)

[_neutrino Veteran]

i want a full fledged console version of Golden Sun :D

[Guest]

Wow oh wow. Sadly I would gladly go buy a Wii U just to play this game. Damn you Nintendo!

[+Warwagon MVC]

OMG Wind Waker, only one of the best video games ever made, and the best looking!

[compl3x]

Who says Nintendo just sell the same first party titles over-and-over again? Oh, wait.

It's smart. I'll buy them and no doubt love them, but I thought Ninty was looking to get more 3rd party titles on the Wii U. Have they spoken any more about that?

[n_K]

Haha, wind waker is the new OoT! OoT was released a total of 11 times last I counted, a right cash-cow for nintendo, wonder how many times this will get re-released.

Also, $8 for a SNES game!? Wow, does anyone actually pay that? Cheaper to buy a 2nd hand SNES and the cartridges.

[Jason S. Global Moderator]

Haha, wind waker is the new OoT! OoT was released a total of 11 times last I counted, a right cash-cow for nintendo, wonder how many times this will get re-released.

Also, $8 for a SNES game!? Wow, does anyone actually pay that? Cheaper to buy a 2nd hand SNES and the cartridges.

at our 2nd hand store, most of the SNES carts are well over $8.

look fwd to playing Wind Waker as i never have before.

[Blackhearted]

Those screenshots look so nice.

[DirtyLarry Veteran]

Two words...

GamePad Support

As such, this is a definite buy for me.

Have to say, as a WiiU owner, was more than happy with everything announced for today. I have gone on the record about the fact the WiiU is not my primary console, so it is appearing to serve the exact purpose I purchased it for... To play some great 1st party Nintendo games.

The other thing I am incredibly psyched about, is the announcement of the Virtual Console, in particular the fact that games for the first 30 days will be 30 cents each. I will easily pick up 10 classic SNES games, and since it will only cost me $3 to do so, call me a happy camper.

[Rudy]

I'm excited about Mario Kart, maybe the new Mario game (3D land was fun but I didn't like galaxy). I'm disappointed there's no new Mario Party game, playing Nintendo Land really made me want a Mario Party game for the WiiU

[neufuse Veteran]

Haha, wind waker is the new OoT! OoT was released a total of 11 times last I counted, a right cash-cow for nintendo, wonder how many times this will get re-released.

Also, $8 for a SNES game!? Wow, does anyone actually pay that? Cheaper to buy a 2nd hand SNES and the cartridges.

You haven't seen the SNES market lately have you? A system can go up to $200, and up to $1500 for a new boxed system...... games can go from tens of dollars to hundreds of dollars...back in early 2000 when SNES was considered an "old" system games went cheap, now its in the "retro" stage and games are worth a good bit now...

[notuptome2004]

Much rather they remade golden eye for the wiiU and improved physics, but then again, I stopped caring about Nintendo since the cube era.

They did remake it it was called 007 Golden eye http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GoldenEye_007_(2010_video_game) for the Wii

[macrosslover]

Two words...

GamePad Support

As such, this is a definite buy for me.

Have to say, as a WiiU owner, was more than happy with everything announced for today. I have gone on the record about the fact the WiiU is not my primary console, so it is appearing to serve the exact purpose I purchased it for... To play some great 1st party Nintendo games.

The other thing I am incredibly psyched about, is the announcement of the Virtual Console, in particular the fact that games for the first 30 days will be 30 cents each. I will easily pick up 10 classic SNES games, and since it will only cost me $3 to do so, call me a happy camper.

you sure? I thought only one title per month up till July are only $30 cents, not all of them? There was a list somewhere I can't find. This announcement was the only true suprise to me from Nintendo, everything else we knew was coming so it was like meh. There was no megaton OMG where did that come from announcement. It would be nice if they did an HD Zelda complilation of all of the Zeldas before Wii so that you could own all the Zelda's on one system.

The virtual console in its current version still upsets me to no end. Stop bs'ing around with it Nintendo and release all of your NES, SNES, N64, Gamecube, and gameboy games on the virtual console on day 1. Not just the 15 best or random titles total. Make the WiiU the ultimate Nintendo system.

[n_K]

You haven't seen the SNES market lately have you? A system can go up to $200, and up to $1500 for a new boxed system...... games can go from tens of dollars to hundreds of dollars...back in early 2000 when SNES was considered an "old" system games went cheap, now its in the "retro" stage and games are worth a good bit now...

u high?

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Super-Nintendo-SNES-Bundle-5-Games-PAL-Addams-Family-/130836137507?pt=UK_VideoGames_VideoGameConsoles_VideoGameConsoles&hash=item1e76710623 ?40 BIN for console + 5 games + PSU + 2 controllers

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/SNES-Console-and-Games-Stunt-Race-FX-Clayfighters-2-PAL-bundle-job-lot-/130839363788?pt=UK_VideoGames_VideoGameConsoles_VideoGameConsoles&hash=item1e76a240cc ?40 BIN for console + 2 controllers + 2 BOXED games

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/SNES-Console-and-Games-Street-Racer-On-the-Ball-PAL-bundle-job-lot-/130839357145?pt=UK_VideoGames_VideoGameConsoles_VideoGameConsoles&hash=item1e76a226d9 same as above with multitap, ?40 BIN

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/SNES-Super-Mario-All-Stars-Console-8-Boxed-Games-Rare-/390529271034?pt=UK_VideoGames_VideoGameConsoles_VideoGameConsoles&hash=item5aed5bc4fa ?100 BIN for boxed special edition console with 8 boxed games.

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/STREET-FIGHTER-2-SUPER-FAMICOM-SNES-JPN-JAP-JAPAN-/271028370849?pt=UK_PC_Video_Games_Video_Games_JS&hash=item3f1a8cbda1 ?3 for a game

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/SUPER-PUYO-PUYO-SUPER-FAMICOM-SNES-JAPAN-IMPORT-/271038447269?pt=UK_PC_Video_Games_Video_Games_JS&hash=item3f1b267ea5 again ?3

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/MARIO-PAINT-SNES-SUPER-NINTENDO-/321056225808?pt=UK_PC_Video_Games_Video_Games_JS&hash=item4ac0713a10 Mario pain, ?4.

So no, they're not pricey.

[Guest]

http://www.ebay.co.u...=item4ac0713a10 Mario pain, ?4.

Don't think I have played that one.

[torrentthief]

The virtual console in its current version still upsets me to no end. Stop bs'ing around with it Nintendo and release all of your NES, SNES, N64, Gamecube, and gameboy games on the virtual console on day 1. Not just the 15 best or random titles total. Make the WiiU the ultimate Nintendo system.

You do realise they have to test the games with the gamepad right?

[The Teej]

Haha, wind waker is the new OoT! OoT was released a total of 11 times last I counted, a right cash-cow for nintendo, wonder how many times this will get re-released.

Also, $8 for a SNES game!? Wow, does anyone actually pay that? Cheaper to buy a 2nd hand SNES and the cartridges.

So because it was remade once all of a sudden it's a cash cow? You probably turned a blind eye to the droves of PS2 remakes I take it?

Also,

N64

GCN, twice

Wii

3DS

I'm counting 5 releases total; 7 if you include the bundled Master Quest versions for GCN and 3DS (although these weren't released seperately, they were bundled in the game itself, so you can't really claim it as a seperate re-release). A reasonable figure for any specific game, but 11 is WAY off the mark.

Unless of course you're including the incremental patches for the N64 version (J 1.0, J 1.1, US 1.0 Gold, US 1.0 Grey, US 1.1, US 1,2, EU 1.0, EU 1.1), in which case you're being ridiculous as these aren't re-releases and many, many games got re-shipped with incremental upgrades from the 6th gen and below as there was no online patching system available.

[Brandon H Supervisor]

You haven't seen the SNES market lately have you? A system can go up to $200, and up to $1500 for a new boxed system...... games can go from tens of dollars to hundreds of dollars...back in early 2000 when SNES was considered an "old" system games went cheap, now its in the "retro" stage and games are worth a good bit now...

yep, so if you just want to play some of the games and aren't into collecting, you're better off just getting an emulator and some roms :) (as a side note, love using the snes emulator in my ds flash card)

[neufuse Veteran]

u high?

http://www.ebay.co.u...=item1e76710623 ?40 BIN for console + 5 games + PSU + 2 controllers

http://www.ebay.co.u...=item1e76a240cc ?40 BIN for console + 2 controllers + 2 BOXED games

http://www.ebay.co.u...=item1e76a226d9 same as above with multitap, ?40 BIN

http://www.ebay.co.u...=item5aed5bc4fa ?100 BIN for boxed special edition console with 8 boxed games.

http://www.ebay.co.u...=item3f1a8cbda1 ?3 for a game

http://www.ebay.co.u...=item3f1b267ea5 again ?3

http://www.ebay.co.u...=item4ac0713a10 Mario pain, ?4.

So no, they're not pricey.

so you looked for specific low priced ones just to prove your point? Look for original boxes systems, they are hundreds of dollars, original boxed mario games go for hundreds of dollars, heck I can't even buy crap games for cheap on eBay in the USA.. Mario Paint with the mouse, mouse pad and original box in the USA goes for $40+ Chronotrigger boxed $185 http://www.ebay.com/...=item337f48848e oh hell, chronotrigger box only http://www.ebay.com/...=item43b7b4ff00 $43! SOLD!

Original SNES with mario all stars.... http://www.ebay.com/...=item2c6bda304c boxed $125

original SMW box only http://www.ebay.com/...=item2c6bacb6d7 $37! For a freaking box!

even bundled sets of cartridges only in the USA got for $100+... I just saw one that sold a little bit ago... 5 games, $175... that's still $35 a game for Zelda, SMW, DK, DK2, and f-zero

[+Audioboxer Subscriber²]

This is a game worth seeing with some graphical boosts (Y)

[DirtyLarry Veteran]

you sure? I thought only one title per month up till July are only $30 cents, not all of them? There was a list somewhere I can't find. This announcement was the only true suprise to me from Nintendo, everything else we knew was coming so it was like meh. There was no megaton OMG where did that come from announcement. It would be nice if they did an HD Zelda complilation of all of the Zeldas before Wii so that you could own all the Zelda's on one system.

Yeah got a newsletter from Nintendo earlier today and indeed I misunderstood. Just one title a month will be .30 cents apparently. Nowhere near as cool as I thought it was. Oh we'll.