I had a different write up originally and edited it down, but I had a small write-up on it getting the actual Call of Duty 2, not a weird console-only spin off like CoD2: Big Red One on the PS2 and Xbox.

And yeah, the first year was fine, spectacular compared to the Wii U thus far.

Nintendo typically always has shitty launches. Look at the 3DS. Now it's on top (like the DS) while the Vita...well, Sony ignores that thing.

I'm not too worried about the Wii U.

N64 has to be the worst launch ever. Super Mario 64 & PilotWings... that was it for months.

Super Mario 64 blew everybody away at the time though (apparently, I thought it was repetitive as hell) and could easily be defined as a system seller, something the Wii U didn't have.

US Launch Titles:

NES -> Super Mario Bros, Duck Hunt, Excitebike, etc; 61.91m NES consoles sold worldwide
SNES -> Super Mario World was a huge leap forward from the NES Marios, 49.1m SNES consoles sold worldwide
N64 -> Super Mario 64 was a "revolutionary" leap forward for the Mario Franchise, 32.9m N64 consoles sold worldwide
Gamecube -> Luigi's Mansion, the system never fully recovered selling a weak 21.7m Gamecube consoles sold worldwide
Wii -> Wii Sports, nothing like it, 99.85m Wii consoles sold worldwide
Wii U -> New Super Mario Bros U, which was absolutely nothing new, 3.10m Wii U consoles sold so far worldwide

I have no real correlation between launch titles and units sold, but it was fun to try.

To note the best selling Nintendo device is the Nintendo DS with 154.6m units sold, the Game Boy is second with 118.7m units sold. Current reigning game console is still the Playstation 2 with 157.68m units sold - roughly the Xbox 360 and PS3 combined. The Virtual Boy sold 770,000 units.

I bet they have white and black deluxes only for $300.

Which stores are participating?

4 hours doesn't seem very long with 4 unique demos on them for everyone to try.

Thanks. Might have to check that out on Wed.

Didn't realize the deluxe kit was still at $350. We'd been thinking about upgrading our Wii, but we'll definitely wait a little longer.

Tigerdirect had a sale on the wii u deluxe for ~$300 recently.

I spent my evening last night doing a system transfer from the Wii to Wii U. It was a big hassle, because my Wii wasn't even hooked up and I didn't remember where my second sensor bar was.

Once I finally finished, I went to upgrade all of my virtual console purchases. Turns out that of all the ones I had, only two were eligible for upgrade: Super Mario World and Super Metroid. And I already bought Super Metroid for $0.30. So I did all that work just to upgrade Super Mario World. Oh well.

I still haven't done this... I really should though so I can pack up the Wii. Are the other games not eligible because the games haven't been released on the Wii U marketplace yet?

Correct. Once they're up on the Wii U's eShop (and this is something they definitely should have done better) they'll be available for upgrade.

Yeah, so it was still worthwhile to do the transfer. At this point the only thing I use my Wii for is Gamecube games.

If I buy games on the Wii virtual console channel on the wii u, are they still eligible for cheap upgrades? I have 9,000 some wii points and was wondering if I need to spend them before I transfer.

Ok, thanks!

Man, whatever happened with the golf tech demo idea? I would have thought EA would have been all over that with Tiger Woods.

The 1:20 mark:

Shit.

Closest BB with the disc is 2 hours away.

The only SoCal one is Bakersfield. Nothing else? Wow.

So after watching the direct (finally), I'm sticking to the Wii U and 3DS only. Between Zelda, Mario, Donkey Kong and Pikmin I'm set!

New Zelda and Donkey Kong or remakes?

Ok, thanks again!

Did they offer a release date for Pikmin?

August 4

Yessss

Here are a few gifs I did really quick of the cat suit...

You can check out the "fact" sheets and more if you login to Nintendo's E3 Site:

User name: Nintendo
Password: E32013
http://press.nintendo.com/E32013/

I got a spiffy new Wind Waker Wallpaper!