Not much of a rumour as the guy in the video doesn't have any source what so ever, also just to point out the article is some ones personal blog that ask the question if they should buy Sega nothing more and it is from way back in April too.

Plus I don't think Nintedno would want to buy Sega Sammy Holdings which is what Sega are they are much more than a games developer and publishers they have many other branches too in Japan, Nintendo wouldn't be interested in purchasing a comany they would only pick up single games developers and not whole publishers.

Best laugh I have had all day, worst trolling I have ever seen though.

I have never used it but know some one that has, and the quality of the prints depends really on how good your printer is he used regular A4 paper to print it on and behind the plasic cover of the cases it looks pretty good, and as good as you will get unless you use glossy paper.

Any of the games that had limited releases because they sold so poorly despite getting good reviews, as there seems to be quite a few of those on the system, I can imagine though some of the ones that will get the highest values will be Xenoblade, Last Story, Pandora's Tower, Metroid Prime Trilogy and even Skyward Sword Sword to an extent as even though it sold a few million it is still one of the lowest selling Zelda games.

Sounds like it is the membrain that is worn out inside and unless you have a replacement there is no way of really fixing them, I have fixed a Snes controller recently but I done that using parts from a broken controller, I also fixed an N64 analog stick by replacing the stick itself with one from a third party controller and it is actually a better stick. I also tend to stip the controllers and deep clean all the buttons and holes that they go in as some times all the crap they collect over the years causes them to jam up.

I don't think ebay has ruined retro collecting in anyway at all if anything it has made it easier I have purchased 50 N64 games in the last year mainly over ebay and the prices are fairly reasonable and I tend to be picky as to the condition of the boxes and manuals too, I have only paid close to what two games sold for at retail from when they were first released but that was because they are rare to come by and even harder to get in good condition in the boxes.

You will always get one or two people who put the price of certain games at stupidly high prices for no reason but then you can normally just search for other copies of it, I spend hours doing that some times just on one game to find the cheapest one in the best condition, there are ones at some point I know I will have to pay a lot for because of how limited a release they got but those ones are last on my list.

Can't say I noticed the drive being loud at all when playing games, but regardless of that seems rather strange that a downloaded game would make the drive spin, have you tried removing the disc and see if you can still hear the drive moving? If so it may be a fault.

Zelda games have never been the system sellers it has always been the Mario games, Twighlight Princess may have launched with the Wii but every Mario platform game released on the system after it outsold it and Skyward Sword sold poorly compared to that, but then few people were buying Wii games by then. Mario Kart and Super Smash Bros. are also more of a system seller than Zelda games, the only Zelda game that could be considered a system seller is Ocarina of Time and even that as much as I loved it didn't sell any where near what Mario games sell. If anything Launching the Wii U with a Mario game was a smart move by Nintendo as that alone will be what sells systems.

No time soon maybe after there is a price drop on the regular deluxe and they feel the basic model is not selling enough compared to the deluxe model, but doubt that will be any time soon.

Personally I have enjoyed it, it's far from perfect but it delivers a level of tension most games don't as you know dying means you lose a lot of your stuff and have to risk going back for it, only thing that can detract is some times it can feel slow paced because you try and take your time to not rush in because you risk death, but then I think that suits it feeling more like you are fighting for survival. I fell some of the reviews didn't understand the way the game was mean't to be played and wanted it to be more like left for dead.