While it would be great if Nintendo followed Sony’s lead, I don’t imagine them pricing the downloadable versions of their retail releases any cheaper than the physical copies. It would be the smart thing for them to do, but it’s Nintendo, so you know they won’t actually do that.

Considering Nintendo still hasn’t figuring out how anything digital works and the lack of price changes or sales on the Wii Shop, I fully expect them to do this.

Sony has done what I think is a reasonable solution with Vita games: offer a 10% (or so) discount for digital versions. It gives a bit of a break without crippling retail sales. That said, Nintendo won’t do that, at least at the time they start selling New Super Mario Bros. 2.

If it’s anything like the way PSN does digital releases, then it would only be fair to make them the same price. Give people that option to go for the digital copy immediately, or go out and get the game for retail.

I think we will see it released for those platforms. Having said that, it won’t be the same thing we saw at their E3 press conference. That was a version running on a high-end PC and probably won’t reflect the same current generation version they have said will be available. I think there will be a next-gen version of Watch Dogs that more closely resembles the PC version, though.

Unless Watch Dogs is planned for the next generation of consoles only, I think it’s assured it will be on both the PS3 and the Xbox 360. I mean, this is Ubisoft we’re talking about. What I’m extremely curious about is whether it will end up on the Wii U as well.

This wouldn’t be the first time a Ubisoft title slips past generations, and we know two things: that it wasn’t locked-down information deemed worth discussing in the briefing (they were asked afterward), and they love going all out to support system launches.

Considering a game of this caliber, it would only make sense to capitalize the product on the most popular systems. While it might help either side to be an exclusive, it would be nice to just release them for both consoles.

I think we have seen all Nintendo will have to offer the Wii U at launch in terms of retail releases. We’ll see New Super Mario Bros. U, Pikmin 3 and Nintendo Land (either as a pack in or sold at launch). If they do have anything else, it will be downloadable, but another full retail release from them seems unlikely.

Normally, I would say absolutely, but Pikmin and Mario by themselves will carry the launch. Is there another retail game in the works for the launch window? Perhaps, but I don’t see anything else available immediately.

Nintendo has absolutely buried games in the past. While we know about a lot of games (including Game & Wario, which I hope isn’t taking up all of Intelligent Systems’ time), the company’s certainly prone to releasing an Excite Truck or a Steel Diver to little fanfare.

I could see this happening. There’s a lot of things they just seem to sneak in there that we never would’ve found out about there otherwise.