New HD Zelda hinted for Wii U

@guywithglasses

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!

@(Unverified)
I don't know if you were watching the same conference as me, Batman Arkham City, Darksiders 2, Tekken, and more as launch titles.

So basically all titles we'll have access to on PS3 and 360 without having to buy a new console?

@Reapers which you can play on your old and reliable ps3 without having to spend on a new console

@(Unverified)

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?

@(Unverified)

lol "reliable"

@Reapers u do know almost all the games u listed are also for 360 and ps3 not Nintendo exclusives

@(Unverified)
...And after actually READING the stuff that's been posted, I can successfully say that I am eating my words.

@ItsameMatt03

Ah, I remember when Mario Bros. was hardcore stuff.
To me is still hardcore, but to the majority is casual. People these days...

@(Unverified)
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.

@milliniar the art style looks different

the one shown looks more like TP if anything

@MystcLazrDragon that's pretty much Twilight Princess

@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.

@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.

@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.

@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.

@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.