OMG, I've been hoping Nintendo would approach DLC in the style of expansion packs and it sounds like they are going to deliver!

The funny thing about that is that it isn't technically a double negative. It's simply a sentence with two negation modifiers, but the modifiers are affecting different things. Saying I "I can say I like it" has a completely different meaning. In one case, I'd be saying my feelings were positive, but in the other I'm…

So why not play one of the many Pokemon RPGs out there instead of announcing how you are giving up on Nintendo for a 3rd party making a Pokemon fighting game that a number of fans happen to be interested in?

I think you are drawing a lot of conclusions out of very little information. They said the game is coming to arcades first. Plus no mention of the hardware they are using was mentioned. It doesn't really look like anything the Wii u can't handle to me though the somewhat watered down youtube footage.

I was really thinking more along the lines of SMRPG where they make an RPG for a franchise that is not traditionally an RPG.

Yes.

Except it is a new thing because Nintendo explicitly said it was part of their Wii U strategy. And the other thing to consider is that Star Fox Assault kind of happened almost a decade ago and isn't really relevant when speaking of current events... that was Nintendo's previous big collaboration period when they were…

I guess that's true if you ignore the fact that they also have a lot of stuff that gets released on everything but Nintendo platforms.

Speaking of Zelda themed things by third party companies, Namco Bandai needs to hurry up and release the definitive Soul Calibur 2 HD on Wii U. It's the only platform where they'll be able to put all three of the console exclusive characters from the original.

I don't think Shigesato was making jokes about it.

I'm going to move the goal post a little on this one and say... on a console (or at least a major release) scale. The two games you described are kinda budget cheapo titles. Also to be fair, they don't really change the genre, they just apply a subgenre... though I suppose the same could technically be said of Hyrule…

I don't follow.

Why? Because they are letting other developers use their IP? It's not like anyone can do a worse job than Mario is Missing or Hotel Mario or any of the Zelda CDi games, and all of that crap was 20 years ago.

You mean Pokken Tournament? Isn't it just kind of obvious that it is a Wii U game?

Yeah, but it's usually one odd thing at a time. This is the first time we've seen that approach being done with multiple companies in separate collaborations in close proximity and more importantly, to take franchises and deviate from their core gameplay.

So this is Nintendo's answer to the third party situation it seems, first with Koei Tecmo and Hyrule Warriors and now with Namco Bandai and this. I certainly can't say I don't like it, it's a very smart answer to the whole 'Nintendo gamers only buy Nintendo games' complaint.

Giant mutant peaches aren't too far removed from these horrors:

Clearly Shigesato Itoi is part of some government conspiracy to make the populace of Japan eat giant irradiated peaches.

Considering that the level editor was one of the main attack vectors for running unauthorized code on the Wii, I kind of doubt it will at this point.

no reason to assume it would be either considering how different WC3 was to any of Blizz's other RTS games.