This looks awesome. I understand people trying to make the Mario Kart connection but this seems to offer a car racing experience vs a kart racing experience. (No Im not splitting hairs there is a big difference) Yes they intergrated water and air portions to tracks but this game offers a flying experience Nintendo hasnt tried since Diddy Kong Racing (which should either be brought back or have it's flying mechanics lifted for the next Mario Kart). As for the water portions of the tracks, this game offers a boat racing experience that to looks awesome and way differnt from what Mario Kart 7 offered. I love Mario Kart 7, don't get my wrong... All I'm saying is Kart Racing =/= Car Racing Plane Racing =/= Glider Racing Boat Racing =/= Underwater Kart Racing

This article looks good next to the %260 increase in 3DS sales article. Doooooooooooom! Give me a break. Nintendo will do just fine. This add on is for Monster Hunter. if it works well and the game looks good (which I'm sure the game will at least look good) Ill get it. If the addon is a flop developers wont dev for it and it will never pick up as a must for the 3DS. I feel like this add on can help 3DS sales and draw in different developers, but if the thing doesn't work well then no harm no foul. Just my opinion but I'll be watching tonight for the 3DS show.

I was there as a spectator! It was epic!

IS IT MONDAY YET!? As for the Poke'dex, (along with just about anyone else who started the series with Red and Blue) I hope to see this expanded to the originals and so on. What a great idea though, spot pass to exchange Poke'mon info, and AR cards! I would be overjoyed if somewhere down the line there was a 3DS game where you could utilize the stereoscopic cameras so walk around and find/catch Poke'mon. I know there is some ghost Hunter game coming out like this, but I for one could honestly say there would be swarms of full grown men and women walking around their house looking for Poke'mon 3DS in hand if Nintendo would ever do such a thing. Stoked to be getting Excitebike for Free though. I Still don't actually own a 3DS game ( im sure I'm not the only one out there). I need something to get me through to LOZ:OOT.

@Dook_Pukem Touch screens sans scratches were pretty much solved with Apple using glass on the iPod touch/ iPad etc. although I'm not convinced it resists smudging any better. Im not advocating this for a game controller, im just saying glass has proven more scratch resistant.