Of course you can just watch it for yourself!

2013 is the (Y)ear of Luigi! And man does Luigi deserve some love! He's been pushed in the background for so long and rarely gets the limelight. He's the Understudy to the prolific Mario!

So of course the first big celebration in the Year of Luigi is the release of Luigi's Mansion: Dark Moon on 3DS coming next month. Man am I HYPED for this game! It's been years since I've played the original that launched the GameCube (one of my favorite consoles). I'll be really glad to go back into the mansion with my vacuum in hand! I'll probably be picking this one up as close to release as I can!

Furthering the Year of Luigi, is the launch of a new title in a series that I just ADORE! A new installment in the Mario & Luigi RPG series, Mario & Luigi: Dream Team! I REALLY like the concept of this one. You explore Luigi's dreams where he gains Dream Powers to help Mario on his adventure. Just the bits they've showed already has me head over heels for this game!

A few more announcements were an update for New Super Mario Bros. U that stars Luigi alone. A new Zelda community on Miiverse. New DLC updates for Fire Emblem. The long awaited US release date for Animal Crossing: New Leaf (SO HYPED)! Wii Street U. HarmoKnight and Kersploosh. Mario and Donkey Kong: Minis on the Move. A Natsune addition to the Virtual Console including Harvest Moon and Legend of the River King from the GameBoy Color days. And MUCH MORE!

A few more pieces of news I'm pretty stoked for are Monster Hunter 3 Ultimate coming to both 3DS and Wii U that can play and interact together. Injustice: Gods Among Us, a new fighter that takes a unique spin on your favorite DC superheroes. And Donkey Kong Country Returns is being ported to the the 3DS!

There's a lot of 3DS and Wii U news here! Some of it I'm not that excited about, but I'm sure there are points that I skipped that some of you would love to talk about. I personally am more excited about the Year of Luigi announcements, the Animal Crossing: New Leaf release date (June 6th, GET HYPED). Kersploosh! looks pretty interesting! Wii Street U looks kinda useful for me personally. I plan on moving to a city so I'd like to get a bit of an inside look on things before giving it a visit. Monster Hunter 3 Ultimate and Injustice Gods Among Us look great and am glad to see more from them. And the Donkey Kong Country Returns 3D port is a good move on Nintendo.

So what did you think about this Nintendo Direct? What announcements and news pieces are you excited for?