What kind of name is Maxwell McGee anyway.

IGN said:

Nintendo has revealed sales figures for two of the year’s biggest 3DS titles. To date, Fire Emblem Awakening has sold 240,000 copies in the United States (more than 80,000 of which were purchased digitally through the 3DS eShop) and Luigi’s Mansion: Dark Moon has sold 415,000 copies (the “bulk” of which were sold at retail).

Ouch.

No idea what Nintendo expected to sell on either game, but I figure anything selling under a million these days probably isn't doing well.

Ravenprose said:

No idea what Nintendo expected to sell on either game, but I figure anything selling under a million these days probably isn't doing well.

Well, it's niche and it was severely supply constrained.  But I get where you are coming from.

I certainly hope both games are considered successful by Nintendo. It just didn't sound good when I first read it.

I played the Soul Sacrifice demo for a good two hours, pretty cool game. The structure of the game is interesting as you are reading a book (that talks to you) and the chapters of the book are your missions. As you select a mission you can also read up on lore which is like your enemy database. There is tons of backstory, all told in an old fable like way, really cool art style as well.

The missions are all arena based combat, usually you have to elminate certain monsters. So you enter an area which is large enough to run around and hide but its just one screen in size, nothing massive. You choose what attacks to have, up to six, these are spells which have a limited number of uses per mission. You can put strong attacks but they can only be used twice. Weaker ones can be used many more times. Scattered around the world you can find objects to replentish magic or absorb fallen enemies for spells or health.

Combat is cool as what spells you choose change how you battle. You can be a specialist at ranged attacks. You can be more in your face super moves kind of guy. You can put defensive spells to be more smart about combat. The action is fast and fluid, far quicker than something like Monster Hunter. As the game opens up you gain allies which are AI partners that help you out, these can become online friends as well. As the missions get harder the monsters become huge epic battles to take them down. Those familiar with MH kind of know the drill.

I was hoping for a game with a large world to explore so I am saddend to see its all missions to small areas. And it seems like the entire game is just combat against enemies. The presentation and story is really well done though and I find the action to be more compelling than MH.

Seems like a quality Vita game but I am not sure these kinds of games are for me.

Dvader said:

What the fuck am I looking at?

You're way too nice when it comes to Carnage, Vader. With him crapping on every single Nintendo topic, someone finally HAD TO say it!  

I hope you guys were as agitated when Final Fantasy 13, 13-2, 14, God of War 4, Gears of War 4, Resident Evil 6, ORC, Monster Hunter 4, Lost Planet 3, Ace Attorney 5 (actually the 7th game in the series), Halo 4 (actually Halo 6), Assasins' Creed 6 (Black Flag), Dead Space 3, Crysis 3 FIFA, Madden 50 etc were announced.

EDIT: LOL Vader's response to Carnageheart pretty much nailed it:

Dvader said:

I got two Mario 3D platformers last gen, two in 6 years. How many 3D Zelda games came out last gen 2, 6 years apart. There were 6 AC games. 3 Uncharted games, 4 Gears, 6 CoD games, 3 resistances, 4 Halos all in the same time. Get out of here with this rehash garbage. Nintendo takes more time and effort to get their sequels to be brand new adventures in ways other companies dont even dare attempt.

Holy crap. Really? Are you seriously going to try to argue that every game that stars Mario is the same kind of game cause that is just stupid. Mario games, the ones that everyone considers Mario games is Super Mario, the platformer. Now there are two kinds of Mario platformers 3D ones and 2D ones, they are pretty damn different.

Are you guys forgetting Battalion Wars, Wii Sports Resort, Excitetruck, Excitebots. the Last Story, Xenoblade, Disaster Day of Crisis, Rhythm Heaven, Warioware revivals of Kid Icarus Pikmin Pilotwings and Luigi's Mansion, Wii Sports, Wii Fit, Nintendogs, Brain Training, Harmoknight, Pushmo, Advance Wars, Fire Emblem, Other M etc or that they are publishing and commisioned games like LEGO City, Wonderful 101, Bayonetta 2, SMT X Fire Emblem, Project X made by Monolithsoft and X. Endless Ocean 1 and 2 etc. You could even consider NSMB as a new franchise born in the DS era with it's retro styling (which I am sick of).