Nintendo Direct 5/17 News- New Sonic game, Best Buy partnership

[Tupin]

I'm excited that a lot of the games at E3 will be playable at Best Buy that same week. Sucks that The Wonderful 101 is coming out so late, though.

More news:
http://www.gonintendo.com/?mode=viewstory&id=202848

[kupomogli]

Sega partnered with Nintendo for three exclusive Sonic games. One is called Sonic Lost World, another is one of the Mario and Sonic Olympic Games, and the other is rumored to be a Mario and Sonic Kart crossover. The kart game will probably be good, the others I doubt.

[Bojay1997]

Pretty disappointed with the news from this one. Hopefully they are saving the good stuff for closer to E3.

[Bubble_Man]

Pretty disappointed with the news from this one. Hopefully they are saving the good stuff for closer to E3.

Same here. I was hoping for more info on the new Zeldas and some footage of Fire Emblem X Shin Megami Tensei.

[Dr. BaconStein]

People are acting like Lost World will be the Sonic game to end all Sonic games and we don't even know anything about it yet. I wish people didn't do this every time a new game is announced.

I can't say I'm very excited for anything announced, but I guess it's good news for Wii U owners.

[Nz17]

I'll tell you which announcement I was happiest about: the thirteen new Game Gear games on the N.A. 3DS V.C.! I really liked Crystal Defenders and Shining Force: Sword of Hajya back in the day, and in many ways both of these games have aged well. What will make them even better this time is no finicky power connector on the Game Gear killing my hour+ playtime per stage on the later levels in these games... and the sweet, sweet save states.

[WCP]

I think the Best Buy thing is a really good idea. Take the e3 to the people. Let the hardest of the hardcore be your evangelists. I can tell you this much, if there is a 3D Mario game demo or Mario Kart demo at Best Buy, I'll definitely be there trying it out first hand. Might as well take advantage of the situation right ? This is great way to get people out of their homes, actually trying out the product.

Every time I've seen the Wii U at a store, it was at a Target Kiosk, with no game demos, so I honestly haven't messed around with the Wii U much. It will be nice to finally have a reason to run it through it's paces.

[otaku]

these are awesome moves! I always kind of though sonic on nintendo consoles would be a good thing for nintendo (not so much for sega though you'd think more consoles to sell on would be better but hey it must be worth it to do it right?) and the bestbuy move is very cool I know I'll visit the local store for this