The PS4's day will come, software-wise. I have no doubt of that. But it is odd how it's day has already come, sales-wise, before any of that good software seems to have arrived.

"Tech demo" was the phrase I was looking for when I said "basic gameplay demo"!

Subspace Emissary was a perfect stoner game and a perfect girlfriend game for me at the time. Fairly mindless but diverting button mashing broken up by fun little videos mashing Nintendo characters together just for the hell of it? It seems churlish to complain that it wasn't the deepest gameplay experience.

We do have somehow-even-vaguer Metroid news, which is that Nintendo is "thinking seriously" about how to best serve the two styles of Metroid. So… I would probably expect to see Star Fox first, but I am sure that Samus will ride again in the medium future.

This is probably a large part of it. The awesomeness of unbundled Zero Suit Samus and the fact that Little Mac is finally in it like he should have been from day one are also helping.

And no wonder! Instead of a loving home she has people who spend all their time poking and prodding and manipulating her into posing for "hilarious" photos. And now dragging her from the comfort of her home to a MOVIE SET where I presume she was frequently dragged away from her own feline pursuits to be poked and…

There's a new Star Fox coming in the indeterminate future! They showed a basic gameplay demo at E3 last year.

Australian accents were a great boon to the laugh-per-minute ratio. I don't know if the writing is any better in the Pre-Sequel, but the moon natives have pretty consistently hilarious line readings. I have too many degrees to be as amused as I am by a character named Peepot.

Is your assessment of it as unfunny based on how you feel about the series' humor in general?

It's such a weird criticism. If someone doesn't like Nintendo games, that's all well and good, but "Another Smash Bros. game? What is that, four in the past fifteen years? And besides, who needs it anyway when a go kart racing game featuring some of the same characters came out earlier this year?" is probably not the…

Me and the girlfriend are probably going to give Tales from the Borderlands a shot some time soon. We've never played any of these Telltale games. Is it a decent introduction to the "genre"?

As someone who's played a fair bit of the new one already, I'll say that while I also never got on board with hating Brawl, I think this one is way better.

I have definitely seen a fair amount of criticism of Nintendo here—much fair, some less so—but generally Nintendo has been coming in for high praise lately.

I liked it, and my girlfriend at the time sort-of liked it! So you're not completely alone.

Well, I've spent a lot of time playing this since Friday!

I believe my Nintendo account name is superlittlemac!

I think there must be, because every move in Smash Bros. is performed with by combining a single button press with a single direction!

What games have Nintendo announced at past E3s as part of an insubstantial marketing fluff campaign and then never released?

I dunno… granted, I've only seen the game through Conan's Clueless Gamer segment and that awesome video of the NPCs interrupting a cutscene, but I was struck by the fact that the characters look like dogshit with Lego hair.

If you want Bayonetta 2, I can't imagine that you wouldn't also love Wonderful 101, for what it's worth. The combat controls are different, but besides that the games share nearly all the same mechanics.