Official Nintendo Fanboy Smugness & Gloating Thread

bloid · Post by **bloid** » Wed Nov 01, 2006 4:17 pm 0

fog wrote:On a different note....why so few SNES & N64 titles for VC? That's all a bit shit.

Apparently, Japan gets more (at launch at least)

PumaG · Post by **PumaG** » Wed Nov 01, 2006 4:26 pm 0

benedictw wrote:http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/6088914.stm

BBC Random Person looks at the Wii.

They weren't convinced but were most impressed by Zelda. Completely the 'wrong' way round as I had pegged Zelda as being fairly hardcore and wario etc as being good for the new peeps.

Hardly a random person, this was a female non gamer, and it is gaming as a whole she is not convinced about.
"So far, so OK - but I still wasn't convinced gaming was for me"

Atty · Post by **Atty** » Wed Nov 01, 2006 4:55 pm 0

Not sure why Japan are getting the larger VC list, but maybe it's Nintendo's way of gauging interest in VC and demonstrating it's potential to Japanese Developers with large 8 and 16-bit back catalogs.

The way some people on forums and such are flying off the handle over this you'd think those were the only VC games the US will EVER be getting. The last thing Ninty want at this point is for you to buy your $250/Â£175 Wii, spend less than Â£20/$20 on Zelda, Mario 64 and bunch of other cheap VC games and not buy another full price wii game for months. Also, Judging by the list Capcom and Konami may not have given the go ahead for releasing their games in the US, so Nintendo need to stretch out their contributions to the VC a bit more so it looks like a steady stream of content.

My guess is that Europe will get a very similar line up to the US, possibly with a couple of extra Mega Drive games, what with it doing so well over here.

Anders · Post by **Anders** » Wed Nov 01, 2006 5:00 pm 0

Surely no one expected Nintendo to release all the old top titles for the VC at launch? Obviously, they will be trickled out and mixed up with lesser ones.

Deckard · Post by **Deckard** » Wed Nov 01, 2006 5:03 pm 0

Giz were saying an extra 10 VC games a month after launch

Jamesac · Post by **Jamesac** » Wed Nov 01, 2006 7:11 pm 0

Just so long as it's as easy to make a Japanese account on Wii as it is on Xbox, it shouldn't be a problem. I'm not expecting that to happen immediately, but I'm sure some clever person will figure out a way soon enough.

James

fog · Post by **fog** » Wed Nov 01, 2006 7:51 pm 0

Anders wrote:Surely no one expected Nintendo to release all the old top titles for the VC at launch? Obviously, they will be trickled out and mixed up with lesser ones.

No and I don't really want the old top titles either as we've played the majority of them to death.

Just thought they could have put a few less well known SNES and N64 titles on the list.

Deckard wrote:Giz were saying an extra 10 VC games a month after launch

If they stick to that promise I'll be more than happy. XBLA take note.

Post by **Snakey** » Thu Nov 02, 2006 10:22 am 0

Foozwah wrote:Err, they did do Sonic on the Master System...

It was released just five months after the Megadrive/Genesis version, and while it obviously has 8-bit graphics, it featured identical gameplay.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sonic_the_ ... _System%29

No it didn't. It was nothing like it. And complete and utter shit.

Atty wrote:The last thing Ninty want at this point is for you to buy your $250/Â£175 Wii, spend less than Â£20/$20 on Zelda, Mario 64 and bunch of other cheap VC games and not buy another full price wii game for months.

I dunno, at the prices they're charging for VC games, you'd think they'd be very happy with that.

How fucking much?

Alarm · Post by **Alarm** » Thu Nov 02, 2006 10:26 am 0

Latest Japanese software sales:

1. (DS, Nintendo) General Knowledge Training DS - 189,700
2. (DS, Nintendo) Pokemon Diamond - 127,011 / 1,498,210
3. (DS, Namco) Tales of the Tempest - 88,137
4. (DS, Nintendo) Pokemon Pearl - 85,530 / 1,276,812
5. (PS2, Aquaplus) Utawareru Mono Chiriyuku Mono e-no Komori Uta - 82,343
6. (PSP, Bandai Namco) ACE COMBAT X Skies of Deception - 60,584
7. (PS2, Bandai Namco) Jojo no Kimyou na Bouken: Phantom Blood - 34,070
8. (DS, Rocket Company) JLAA Official Kanji Kentei DS - 31,108 / 187,732
9. (DS, Nintendo) New Super Mario Brothers - 30,885 / 3,335,253
10. (PS2, Sega) Yakuza PS2 The Best - 29,854

PumaG · Post by **PumaG** » Thu Nov 02, 2006 10:45 am 0

Snakey wrote:
Foozwah wrote:Err, they did do Sonic on the Master System...

It was released just five months after the Megadrive/Genesis version, and while it obviously has 8-bit graphics, it featured identical gameplay.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sonic_the_ ... _System%29
No it didn't. It was nothing like it. And complete and utter shit.

Atty wrote:The last thing Ninty want at this point is for you to buy your $250/Â£175 Wii, spend less than Â£20/$20 on Zelda, Mario 64 and bunch of other cheap VC games and not buy another full price wii game for months.
I dunno, at the prices they're charging for VC games, you'd think they'd be very happy with that.

How fucking much?

Maybe Nintendo could get the online shop system run by a charity

Samus · Post by **Samus** » Thu Nov 02, 2006 11:03 am 0

KORORINPA

New Zelda trailer from the official pages:

http://us.wii.com/viewer_zelda.jsp?vid=9

Mele · Post by **Mele** » Thu Nov 02, 2006 11:32 am 0

Sure hope the game play and controls are amazing in Zelda , the graphics look pretty dreadfull. Is there no improvements on the wii version compared to the GC visual wise.

Have faith mele nintendo wont let me down

Post by **Snakey** » Thu Nov 02, 2006 11:35 am 0

PumaG wrote:Maybe Nintendo could get the online shop system run by a charity

$8 for an old ROM that's had nothing done to it whatsoever? You're fucking joking.

Samus wrote:KORORINPA

That's either going to be really fucking annoying, or ace. It looks ace. Here's hoping.

Samus · Post by **Samus** » Thu Nov 02, 2006 12:06 pm 0

Avi-file for that Zelda trailer, must see:

http://forum.desertqueens.com/richy_tem ... movie2.AVI

Samus · Post by **Samus** » Thu Nov 02, 2006 12:11 pm 0

Snakey wrote:
Samus wrote:KORORINPA
That's either going to be really fucking annoying, or ace. It looks ace. Here's hoping.

Same here, the ball movement and everything else from the one vid I've seen of it looked spot on. It looked challenging in a good way, and after a couple of tries the guy playing got the hang of it. Hope it gets a EU release, not counting on it though, think I'll have to import sooner than planned.

EDIT: YouTube Zelda Trailer:

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http://www.nintendo.co.jp/wii/topics/in ... vie03.html
http://www.nintendo.co.jp/wii/topics/in ... vie04.html
http://www.nintendo.co.jp/wii/topics/in ... vie05.html
http://www.nintendo.co.jp/wii/topics/in ... vie06.html
http://www.nintendo.co.jp/wii/topics/in ... vie07.html