I did not know the 5th game was being localized, the PW fans must be estatic :)

And then pray for Wright vs Layton. =D
Very much so. Still butthurt about Ace Attorney Investigations 2 being skipped though.

I saw pictures of that one. I haven't played any Proffesor Layton games but I want it anyway. Specially because Maya is in it instead of Phoenix's new sidekick.

Aye, it's definitely Phoenix and Maya circa the time of the original trilogy rather than middle aged waistcoat wearing AA5 Phoenix. I am a fan of the waistcoat though.

Wii U won’t have a universal achievements system

http://www.vg247.com/2012/11/11/wii-u-wont-have-a-univeral-achievements-system-report/

Let's see....It was already confirmed that this system will have hardware just above the power of a PS3....

Nintendo already confirmed that it's not going to play "Catch up" in terms of online offerings compared to XBL and PSN....now this...

Has anyone mentioned how the controller only lasts 3-5 hours and takes 2.5 hours to recharge yet? And, correct me if I'm wrong, but it doesn't recharge from the console itself, you have to get a separate docking bay (or buy the premium edition of the console, which includes the bay) and plug it into the mains. I swear, N64 onwards, each new console Nintendo have made makes it seem like their first one.

I'm sure you're wrong. The details aren't available yet, but I can't imagine the base console requiring the purchase of additional hardware to work.

I'm sure Nintendo will consider this high praise. Looks like it's trying to reinvent itself with each console, and at least with the Wii it had great success.

Achievements are pointless.

Nothing will stop me from getting this for Pikmin 3 and Monster Hunter 3 Ultimate.

A lack of an achievement system is not making me shed any tears, I don't need a doggy bone thrown at me with every turn

Well the pathetic battery life is true, and while I was also right about the docking bay coming with the premium edition, the controller can be charged without it. From an AC mains adapter rather than the console. Great design. I didn't say they were all different, I referred to how they were all terribly designed, poorly conceived and "died" before their competitors, despite always being released much later. With the Wii they got a huge market of little girls and housewives (statistically a fact, according to Edge magazine's publishing of the demographics) who only bought Wii Sports Resort and Wii Fit. Their third-party support situation was just as bad as it was on the N64 and GC. As developers have said, Nintendo only make consoles so they can release their own games on them, they don't seem to give a crap about other developers. The fact that the Wii has had about 3 noteworthy games in the last year or more despite having a large userbase says it all, and two of those are JRPGs that would have been taken as pretty average on the PS2.

I'd love the Wii-U to break this trend and for them to get back to their SNES glory days, or at least just have a similar range of third-party support to the DS, and games beyond just Zelda, Mario and Metroid - and then the 4 games that fanboys point out as proof of variety. And the excuse of innovation is terrible. With the Wii they just effectively released a peripheral for the Gamecube, a pretty poor motion control device, then repackaged a Gamecube as something new - and released the 260th Mario game and Ocarina of Time 4. Clever from a profiteering point of view, but terrible from an innovation and gaming one. Still, somehow I do remain vaguely optimistic for the Wii-U.

Looks cool. I might get it when it comes out here.

I don't think the Wii U will break the trend. My feeling is that it will be less of a success than the Wii, although it will have a higher attachment rate, because it will actually be useful for hardcore games.

I think that Nintendo is an experimental company (I disagree with you about innovation, I think they're the most innovative gaming hardware company), and I think that it's not a bad trait, but it's certainly not the best thing for people who just want a new console that does what the older one did only better. (Which IMO in the case of the Wii is the Xbox 360 + Kinect.)

The 3DS XL doesn't come with a mains charger.

Seriously.

I stand corrected. Though I understand that the US one does come with a charger. Apparently Nintendo believes that people in the EU and Japan have evolved to supply electricity using their own body.