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Posted: Jun 7th 2011 1:02PM FinalOutrage said

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That footage was hot but damn why does it have to be for a system so unattractive?

Posted: Jun 7th 2011 1:03PM guywithglasses said

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not surprising

Posted: Jun 7th 2011 2:50PM The Blank Mage Returns said

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Nintendo is going to release a Zelda game? Inconceivable! Next you'll be telling me that they're also working on Mario and Metroid games!
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Posted: Jun 7th 2011 1:06PM RodrigoCard said

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HELL YES!!!!

Posted: Jun 7th 2011 1:06PM brandon916 said

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drool...

Posted: Jun 7th 2011 1:08PM (Unverified) said

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That's how they do it. Reveal a console that is obviously marketed to the casual audience and then follow it up with a Zelda reference just to give hardcore gamers the illusion that there will actually be games for the console this time around.

Posted: Jun 7th 2011 1:16PM Reapers said

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I don't know if you were watching the same conference as me, Batman Arkham City, Darksiders 2, Tekken, and more as launch titles.
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Posted: Jun 7th 2011 1:19PM Ashitaka said

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So basically all titles we'll have access to on PS3 and 360 without having to buy a new console?
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Posted: Jun 7th 2011 1:20PM (Unverified) said

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@Reapers which you can play on your old and reliable ps3 without having to spend on a new console
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Posted: Jun 7th 2011 1:27PM ItsameMatt03 said

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I didn't see a single casual title announced for it. I watched the whole thing. Did I miss something? Battlefield 3 is now...casual?
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Posted: Jun 7th 2011 1:33PM CoreyMihu said

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lol "reliable"
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Posted: Jun 7th 2011 1:36PM guywithglasses said

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@Reapers u do know almost all the games u listed are also for 360 and ps3 not Nintendo exclusives
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Posted: Jun 7th 2011 1:36PM (Unverified) said

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...And after actually READING the stuff that's been posted, I can successfully say that I am eating my words.
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Posted: Jun 7th 2011 2:11PM Soiden said

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Ah, I remember when Mario Bros. was hardcore stuff.
To me is still hardcore, but to the majority is casual. People these days...
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Posted: Jun 7th 2011 7:30PM bonkbonks said

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You always have to leave the big things for last to give a good impression.
At least they're promising more than with the Wii, so there's a chance we'll be getting real games after the first batch of darksiders and ghost recon.
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Posted: Jun 7th 2011 1:09PM aughscreennames said

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Lets not forget Link vs Ganon.

Posted: Jun 7th 2011 1:11PM MEGATOOL said

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Is that little white box the new console?

Posted: Jun 7th 2011 1:13PM Mrguy you know that guy said

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Sold.

Posted: Jun 7th 2011 1:18PM maemikemae said

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I'm glad they didn't just push back Skyward Sword further so it could be on the WiiU. I need to get my Zelda on this year!

Posted: Jun 7th 2011 1:26PM Fuzunga said

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This was so beautiful.

Posted: Jun 7th 2011 1:27PM milliniar said

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maybe it's just a HD skyward sword moment? I mean skyward sword isn't out yet so you can't say its a new Zelda game..

Posted: Jun 7th 2011 10:12PM Vuvuzelas said

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@milliniar the art style looks different

the one shown looks more like TP if anything
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Posted: Jun 7th 2011 1:29PM JMC611 said

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I think M.Bison has a good example of most of our reactions when we say this.

Posted: Jun 7th 2011 1:45PM MystcLazrDragon said

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This looks 1000 times better than skyward sword, don't get me wrong I LOVE zelda but SS just looks weird. I'm still buying it though.

Posted: Jun 7th 2011 3:45PM briscott said

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@MystcLazrDragon that's pretty much Twilight Princess
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Posted: Jun 7th 2011 2:08PM Enrique Ramrez said

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Never forget... this has happened before.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wBtAvX4Pkyk

I won't raise my hopes until I'm sure it's real this time.

Posted: Jun 7th 2011 2:52PM BananaBoat said

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@Enrique Ramrez - Oh man, I remember how amazed I was when I saw that demo, and how heartbroken I was when I saw Wind Waker. Don't get me wrong, I liked Wind Waker, but it wasn't what had been promised.

I'll take this teaser image with a grain of salt until I see the game in action.
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Posted: Jun 7th 2011 4:29PM PulpHero said

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@Enrique Ramrez

The Space World footage of Link & Gannon was ALWAYS a tech demo designed to show off the Gamecube's capabilities. Nintendo never promised a game would come of it.
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Posted: Jun 7th 2011 7:48PM BananaBoat said

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@PulpHero - Some of us were pretty young at the time. A tech demo shown during E3, and then reprinted in Nintendo Power, was as good as a sure thing. We didn't know what "tech demo" meant.

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Posted: Jun 7th 2011 7:50PM Enrique Ramrez said

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@PulpHero Exactly. And that's exactly the point as well. Many people seem to be taking for granted that a new, HD Zelda is coming, when all we've seen so far is ANOTHER tech demo.

I was just reminding that, well... life's not always as good as we'd want.
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Posted: Jun 7th 2011 2:12PM Soiden said

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Surely is just a demo, but damn it looked so good.

Posted: Jun 7th 2011 2:53PM KenobiEagle said

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Zelda HD... OMG, this was gorgeous.

I really hope Zelda WiiU turns out to be something like this. I don't want a repeat of the Link vs Ganon Gamecube demo that turned into Wind Waker. Blegh.

Posted: Jun 7th 2011 2:59PM bleiss said

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Reading the comments it seems people want the hardcore and the exclusives to fork out for this but im trying to think what nintendo exclusives can be considered by the hardcore crowd. Smash bros? has zelda moved to a casual game like mario has? Metroid? Idn but I would kill someone for a gritty star fox fps.

Posted: Jun 7th 2011 4:11PM xxxsam said

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@bleiss
Mario Galaxy (both) is a casual game now? Yes it's easy to get to the ending sequence if you don't bother playing the difficult levels, but what 'hardcore' player would want to leave half the levels unfinished?

Certainly it's no more 'casual' than any other popular game (shooters, Grand Theft Auto, etc). There are some unpopular games which are rather more hardcore (e.g. the dungeon series on DS, I forget what it's called) but in general almost all games are casual - as in, they are somewhat challenging, but players of average ability should generally be able to finish the game without a ridiculous level of frustration.

The type of moron who won't play a fun game because it has cute characters rather than ugly space marines? This is STILL not the system for you. Yes you will most likely now be able to get Generic Shooter 78 on this system as well as the other two, but it'll have slightly worse graphics and that's all you care about so why bother?

Imo the third party game thing is not for hardcore gamers. Hardcore gamers already have a PS3/60 so what do they care? If they have the money and are smart they'll get this as well for the first-party stuff and the odd cute/casual exclusive but probably most games they'll still get on the other systems.

This is for people who really like Nintendo games, so they want a Nintendo system, but when there is some kind of big video game event like an LA Noire or an Assassin's Creed or whatever, there's a chance they won't be left out of that either.

Or it's for people who only want to make room for / only can afford one game system; the games for the 6-year-old boy are all on Nintendo but the 38-year-old mother wants to spend her after-bedtime free hours ripping zombies to pieces and that wasn't so easy on the original Wii.
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Posted: Jun 7th 2011 6:30PM Emperor Monkey said

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Mario, being the benchmark of pushing hardware past where everyone else thought impossible, is going to look simply amazing on this system.

Posted: Jun 7th 2011 9:46PM jackattack92 said

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I realize they gave us a Holiday 2011 due date, but seems to me they've been putting the horse before the carriage lately. Twilight Princess Gcube/wii thing, now 'announcing' another before we see the one promised LAST E3...yikes.

Posted: Jun 8th 2011 1:55AM crazedaku said

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Wii made me lose faith in Nintendo. Maybe I will wait 4 years, buy the system at the discounted price and all the exclusives, (All 3 of them) and be happy then. We shall see next fall. Maybe I will not be able to wait.

Posted: Aug 23rd 2011 8:36PM Rforthewin said

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Do you Need the Wii U for this?

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