Day 0 Update #3 – 1/18/2015

This week on the show, Filippo and Patrick are joined by Brandon Perkins. Turns out, we had a lot to talk about.

1/18/2015 Show Notes

• What are we playing?
  • Patrick
    • Drift Stage: 1:21.766!
    • Suikoden
  • Filippo
    • Defense Grid 2
    • Re-Volt (PC)
    • Double Dragon Trilogy (PC)
    • Outrun 2 FXT (PC)
  • Brandon
    • Super Mario 3D World
    • Dragon Age Inquisition
    • Captain Toad Treasure Tracker
• Drift Stage funded, still plenty of time to get in on the ground floor.
• Forza 6 announced, qualifies as an annualized franchise.
• Microsoft’s move back to $399 for the Xbox One was certainly short-lived.
• Lizard Squad: another one bites the dust.
• Nintendo Direct
  • Fire Emblem If
  • Xenoblade Chronicles X looking great.
    • Another open world game though?
  • Nintendo experiments with cross-buy with Mario vs Donkey Kong.
  • Wii joins Wii U Virtual Console, bring on the drizzle.
    • Super Mario Galaxy 2 now, Punch-Out next, then Metroid Prime Trilogy.
      • Metroid Prime Trilogy for $10, take that scalpers.
  • New 3DS XL – JUST the XL.
    • February 13th
    • $199.99 for red or black standard edition or Zelda special edition
      • But good luck getting the Zelda one…
    • $229.99 for Monster Hunter 4 Ultimate special edition w/game preloaded
    • No AC adaptor: Nintendo now assumes more upgrading customers than new adopters. This is NOT okay, on many levels.