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Update: Been meaning to bump this to the front page for awhile. Now that the Wii U is out in Europe, there’s no better time to do so! Also – you can add your Nintendo Network ID (and 3DS Friend Code) to your profile. New members can input this information at registration.

My Nintendo Network ID is ValayNE. What’s yours? I (and others) would love to know!

I’ve set up a handy topic on our forum right here where NE visitors can exchange IDs with each other. Joining is incredibly easy. So why not sign up and add some friends?!

P.S. – I’d be more inclined to add those of you who let me know about their intentions of registering my ID. That way I’ll have a better idea about things. Again, this is where the forum comes in handy! Or send me an email. Or something. Please!

Software

1. New Super Mario Bros U
2. ZombiU
3. Trine 2: Director’s Cut
4. Nano Assault Neo
5. Sonic & All-Sars Racing Transformed
6. Scribblenauts Unlimited
7. Assassin’s Creed III
8. Little Inferno
9. Mighty Switch Force! Hyper Drive Edition
10. Nintendo Land
11. Darksiders II
12. Ninja Gaiden 3: Razor’s Edge
13. Warriors Orochi 3 Hyper
14. Madden NFL 13
15. Disney Epic Mickey 2: The Power of Two
16. Tekken Tag Tournament 2: Wii U Edition
17. Chasing Aurora
18. Just Dance 4
19. Rabbids Land
20. EA Sports FIFA Soccer 13

We’ll be adding these charts to our regular rotation of charts (alongside the 3DS one!).

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Amid all of the Wii U hype, you may have forgotten that the white 3DS XL launched in Europe today. View some photos of the snazzy system below.

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As is the case with the 3DS, Wii U demos have play limits.

FIFA 13, the first game to ever receive a demo on the Wii U store, can only be accessed ten times. Once this limit has been reached, the trial won’t launch.

Play locks will likely vary between demos. On the 3DS, we’ve seen downloads that maintain a limit as few as five and as high as thirty. There’s even been one instance in which unlimited plays have been offered.

EA’s FIFA 13 demo is only available on the European eShop at the moment. A Rayman Legends demo should be on the way to the North American and European Wii U stores in the near future.

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Following the release of Mighty Switch Force! on the 3DS eShop, WayForward created a free update that brought along five new levels and other small changes. Could something similar happen with its console brother, Mighty Switch Force! Hyper Edition?

When asked about the possibility, Voldi Way said:

“You know it’s hard to say just yet. I mean we don’t have any plans, I should say that. Then again, we didn’t have any plans to add new levels for the first one. If it does well and people like it then yeah we’ll keep adding stuff.”

And WayForward level designer Chris Schroder added:

“We can keep on adding levels if you guys want.”

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Shigeru Miyamoto offered a great deal of input for the development of Paper Mario: Sticker Star. There were two specific aspects that he wanted the team to address: the game’s atmosphere and story.

Regarding the atmosphere, Miyamoto didn’t want things to stay the same. He didn’t want Paper Mario 3DS to be just another outing in the series.

Miyamoto was also down on adding many story elements. That could be due to feedback from Super Paper Mario. In a new Iwata Asks, Kensuke Tanabe revealed that Club Nintendo feedback from fans showed just a 1% liking for the Wii game’s story.

Iwata: Miyamoto-san really persevered with Paper Mario this time. Exactly what was he particular about?

Tanabe: Aside from wanting us to change the atmosphere a lot, there were two main things that Miyamoto-san said from the start of the project—”It’s fine without a story, so do we really need one?” and “As much as possible, complete it with only characters from the Super Mario world.

Iwata: That’s a difficult task. In some ways that would be the exact opposite direction from recent games in the series.

Tanabe: Yeah. With regard to the story, we did a survey over the Super Paper Mario game in Club Nintendo, and not even 1% said the story was interesting. A lot of people said that the Flip move for switching between the 3D and 2D dimensions was fun.