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Nintendo Direct 2012.12.5 - Dec. 5th, 6AM EST (JP), 12 PM EST (NA), 5PM GMT

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donkey show

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This is good avatar material...

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Taker666

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I thought that was a pretty decent direct to be honest. Delivered what I expected/hoped for and a little extra.

Preview of launch games in Japan, new trailers of games due early next year, confirmation that Panorama view is coming, a bit of Nintendo Tvii ..and a nice little extra of google maps (using panorama view style functionality).
 
jobber

jobber

Would let Tony Parker sleep with his wife
BGBW said:
It was a demo where you would watch a video stream and use the pad to look in any direction.
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Thanks for clearing that up. I thought the gamepad magically added a back camera so you could shoot video. Seems kind of.... useless.
 
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ScreenSplitter

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Captain Nibel, set course for disappointment. ... where is Nibel?

Also, did anyone else get a 3DS update this morning? Opened it up... it was already updating. Finished in 4 seconds. Weird.
 
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BGBW

Maturity, bitches.
jobber said:
Thanks for clearing that up. I thought the gamepad magically added a back camera so you could shoot video. Seems kind of.... useless.
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Yeah, I tried it out for a minute at an event because I felt sorry for the lonely stand assistant. Might be novel for a free download but I really don't see what Nintendo is aiming for with this bit of software. Nintendoland already demos the feature perfectly well.
 
Muku

Muku

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RagnarokX said:
Nintendo doesn't want future titles to hurt the sales of current titles. Also, the longer people know about a game, the more they hype it beyond reason or the more negative knee-jerk impressions can spread to the general gaming market as "facts".
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I know and understand that. I'm not usually one to jump on the hype train, especially as of late. Though, I really think that should be up to the gamers to get off that train before it even takes off. I really hope we're not going into a generation where we know maybe two months in advance or so. That's a bit depressing.
 
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StayDead

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Muku said:
I know and understand that. I'm not usually one to jump on the hype train, especially as of late. Though, I really think that should be up to the gamers to get off that train before it even takes off. I really hope we're not going into a generation where we know maybe two months in advance or so. That's a bit depressing.
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I'm sorry but I'd rather go into a generation where I'm genuinly surprised and get new news every 2 months than be stuck 10 years ago when the only time gaming news happened was E3.
 
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Muku

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StayDead said:
I'm sorry but I'd rather go into a generation where I'm genuinly surprised and get new news every 2 months than be stuck 10 years ago when the only time gaming news happened was E3.
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Mega news happened there, but not everything relied on waiting for E3.
 
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TheDrowningMan

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gofreak said:
Sort of off-topic, but how gradual or otherwise has Nintendo's shift from being proudly 'purely games' to proudly 'multipurpose' been?

I've noticed it very distinctly since last E3 I guess, when Reggie talked up their place at the center of the living room heavily, and I suppose before that with some of the 3DS presentations. But were they this heavy on it before that?

I'm not complaining, I think it's sort of necessary given the current environment, but just a thought that struck me watching this ND in particular. Back in the good old days, they used to contrast themselves heavily against Sony on this front but it seems they realised they were pissing against the wind a bit. But it makes certain decisions elsewhere all the more puzzling.
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Makes you wonder if this has something to do with the oddly quiet launch. There's been such a lack of advertising, such patchy stock allocation, with 'casual friendly' supermarkets, in the UK at least, getting next to nothing while Game has stock to spare, that I wonder. What if it's about stamping out problems and building content for the first few months? I'm sure Nintendo hoped for sell-outs, but there's been nothing to suggest there were delusions that the console was going to fly like it's 2006. Word of the device would have been unavoidable if that were the case.

With the controller as it is, Netflix and similar, TVii, the first useable console browser and now Google Maps...If the bugs are exterminated, content (Twitter? Facebook?) keeps being added and the cost of entry is maybe £200 for Premium, it's going to look like an awfully tempting all-in-one device by the time the other consoles launch at £300+. The telling thing will be how Nintendo advertise over the coming months - if games have to share the stage when they decide to indulge the mass market, we'll know they're really going to push this as 'The Box'.
 
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daakusedo

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Too many pikmins died today.
Do they think that's what we want to see?
Going full-frontal attack on a bulborb should not be done anymore. We're in 2012.
 
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Effect

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urfe said:
The point of this was to hype the Japanese launch. You are not the main audience, and you getting a lot out of it is not their concern.

The other Nintendo Directs are for you, and will have more relevant stuff.
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Needs to be repeated. Not all NDs are going to have the same content and nor should they. It's why each region gets their own versions. Otherwise they might as well just subtitle the Japan one and call it a day.

Still foolishly holding out hope for a Dragon Quest X announcement from NoA. I need my RPG fix and I'm not ready to go back through Xenoblade just yet.
 
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Bumhead

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Effect said:
Needs to be repeated. Not all NDs are going to have the same content and nor should they. It's why each region gets their own versions. Otherwise they might has well just subtitled the Japan one and call it a day.
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Yeah, exactly. I didn't watch the Japan ND as I'm at work but by the sounds of it, it was very specifically designed as a pre-launch showcase for the Wii U.

It was also at a seperate time to the EU and US ND's today, both of which are focusing on regions where the system has already launched. It wouldn't surprise me if most of the content between the EU and US versions is the same, or at least similar, but that both end up being very different in content to the JP one.
 
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