Wii U/3DS Communication Plans with unannounced project(s)- Mario and Donkey Kong

[Reece]

Super Smash Bros. for Wii U/3DS is the only game that really interacts with each-other, so many people have been wondering why this hasn't been pursued earlier, this is an interesting conversation between Shinya Takahashi, Shigeru Miyamoto and an IGN interviewer:

With Smash Bros., because the two games have the same gameplay and the same controls, that game in particular is designed where you’ll want to start playing on the 3DS first and build up your characters there, and then transfer that character data over to the Wii U and play with them there.

There’s no real reason that we haven’t done it yet. I guess it just hasn’t really fit into the titles that we have been making and it’s not that we haven’t thought about it.

In fact, with Wii Fit U we created the Fit meter which connects to the Wii U GamePad wirelessly and transfers data. Within those plans we also thought about potentially having some type of functionality with 3DS that would connect to it, but ultimately we didn’t include it. We also had an idea where, if there’s a Wii U at home and maybe the father or the kids have a 3DS, then we might think up a system where the Wii U would know that you were home before your dog did. It was a kind of interesting concept based around that, but we ended up not doing anything with that idea. It hasn’t really worked its way into the titles we’ve been developing.

Now this is where the conversation starts to get interesting.

But there are some things that we’re working on that we haven’t announced here at E3 that do involve some sort of communication between the Wii U and 3DS.

Miyamoto: “We can’t say the title, can we?”
Takahashi: “Not really.”
Miyamoto: “If you were to say it, they would get really excited.”
IGN: Now you really have to say something… (laughs).
Takahashi: “We are thinking about that with Mario and Donkey Kong."​

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This is a huge tease by two major developers at Nintendo, so let me know what you think! I'm pleased to see Nintendo has plans to experiment with the communication between their home-console (Wii U) and their handheld (3DS).
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[Artisan]

Mario and Donkey Kong? So maybe Idk it would be neat to play levels from the Mario Maker to the 3DS and or Mario vs. DK things or two DK games or neither. Well how have past handheld connected with consoles? We've got the Pokemon series, Four Swords, and more importantly an arcade title like Mario vs. Donkey Kong which is Pac Man Vs. (among others which has also been playable through DS Download play). I can't wait to see what the functionality of the games are because the functionality between the two seems like a neat concept whether all the data that's shared between the two are stats or completely different functions and games via download play.

 

[Natsu Dragneel]

I don't play the Mario and donkey kong series but I do like this idea so it gives more of a reason to buy a Wii U. I cant wait to see the other games that will incorporate this feature.