Official Nintendo Fanboy Smugness & Gloating Thread

Marius · Post by **Marius** » Mon Nov 27, 2006 7:53 am 0

I'll probably glue on a couple of leather straps, one on each side of the controller. That should keep sweaty hands from loosing the grip. Also, reinforcing the strap with some fishing line seems like a good idea. Those lines are made to withstand a lot of punishment.

Alarm · Post by **Alarm** » Mon Nov 27, 2006 10:38 am 0

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Samus · Post by **Samus** » Mon Nov 27, 2006 10:51 am 0

Atty wrote:
Disciple wrote:
It's a shame really, something so minor.

Something to be careful of on Dec 8th anyway, especially if you've just bought a HDTV. Think I'll be taking the wrist strap off my DS and using that and the Wii one together.

It is a real shame, and I can understand why some people are reacting with a certain amount of skepticism and even ridicule to people who've just wiimoted their Â£2000 TV, but if all it takes is damp or sweaty hands and a moment of getting carried away in Wii Tennis for the wrist strap to fail then it's clearly not fit for purpose and Nintendo should definitely replace it with something much tougher - The materials used in the DS wrist straps are extremely strong.

Wow, this is definitely not the case....

I can't see how on earth the strap could ever broke down in normal use, you have to swing the WiiMote from the strap or something like that for it to broke. This is really a non-issue if you just keep it in your hand like you should and play Tennis or Boxing or whatever.

Come on guys, try it yourself, listen to people who've played it or at least investigate before getting worried.

amanset · Post by **amanset** » Mon Nov 27, 2006 10:52 am 0

This place is probably the safest place to say this:

I am SO FUCKING HYPED right now. I feel a bit embarrassed as I am 32 years old. After the PS2 silliness I promised myself that I'd never buy a concole at launch again but ...

Christ, I think I'm going to have a heart attack.

Nintendodragon · Post by **Nintendodragon** » Mon Nov 27, 2006 11:01 am 0

offyoutoddle wrote:If the Revolution (Wii is still such a stupid name to say) hadn't had that stupid controller, I might be more interested.

Why would you be more interested? if the Wii didnt have a revolutionary control input it wouldnt offer anything that the PS3 or 360 have.

I cant wait to try using candles instead of the sensor bar!

benedictw · Post by **benedictw** » Mon Nov 27, 2006 11:10 am 0

amanset wrote: I am SO FUCKING HYPED right now. I feel a bit embarrassed as I am 32 years old. After the PS2 silliness I promised myself that I'd never buy a concole at launch again but ...

Christ, I think I'm going to have a heart attack.

I feel the same way.

Unfortunately, my Wii is under strict orders to be hidden until Dec 25th. Nnrrrggghhhhh.

I am excited to have something that I can play against my kids with - something that my daughter can play easily.

phattslagg · Post by **phattslagg** » Mon Nov 27, 2006 11:17 am 0

benedictw wrote:
amanset wrote: I am SO FUCKING HYPED right now. I feel a bit embarrassed as I am 32 years old. After the PS2 silliness I promised myself that I'd never buy a concole at launch again but ...

Christ, I think I'm going to have a heart attack.
I feel the same way.

Unfortunately, my Wii is under strict orders to be hidden until Dec 25th. Nnrrrggghhhhh.

I am excited to have something that I can play against my kids with - something that my daughter can play easily.

As of last night, you Sir, are in exactly the same boat as me - ironically, it was for precisely that reason that Mrs. Phattslagg had the 'great' idea of making it part of their xmas presents.

amanset · Post by **amanset** » Mon Nov 27, 2006 12:25 pm 0

I'm supposed to be keeping mine to the 25th as well, but quite insanely that is because I said I would, like a Christmas present to myself. My girlfriend thinks I'm a mentalist.

What makes it worse is that I am travelling back to the UK for Christmas, so ideally someone should test it before I leave to make sure it works 'cos it'd be a git if I open it on the 25th and it is dead ...

offyoutoddle · Post by **offyoutoddle** » Mon Nov 27, 2006 12:26 pm 0

Nintendodragon wrote:
Why would you be more interested? if the Wii didnt have a revolutionary control input it wouldnt offer anything that the PS3 or 360 have.

cheaper? seems quite important to me.

offyoutoddle · Post by **offyoutoddle** » Mon Nov 27, 2006 12:29 pm 0

Yak wrote:[
Yeah, the whole *point* is that it *is* the main controller and not just an optional extra. That will encourage developers to actively seek the new rather than just reiterate the same old stuff and that is an excellent thing.

Which is still achievable by having it not optional, but in the package you buy, that way everyone will still definetly have it.

But I do see that it is a gutsy choice, planned to push gaming in a certain direction rather than entering the 'horsepower' battles of the other consoles this generation.

fog · Post by **fog** » Mon Nov 27, 2006 2:56 pm 0

Samus wrote:
Atty wrote:
Disciple wrote:
It's a shame really, something so minor.

Something to be careful of on Dec 8th anyway, especially if you've just bought a HDTV. Think I'll be taking the wrist strap off my DS and using that and the Wii one together.

It is a real shame, and I can understand why some people are reacting with a certain amount of skepticism and even ridicule to people who've just wiimoted their Â£2000 TV, but if all it takes is damp or sweaty hands and a moment of getting carried away in Wii Tennis for the wrist strap to fail then it's clearly not fit for purpose and Nintendo should definitely replace it with something much tougher - The materials used in the DS wrist straps are extremely strong.
Wow, this is definitely not the case....

I can't see how on earth the strap could ever broke down in normal use, you have to swing the WiiMote from the strap or something like that for it to broke. This is really a non-issue if you just keep it in your hand like you should and play Tennis or Boxing or whatever.

Come on guys, try it yourself, listen to people who've played it or at least investigate before getting worried.

I'd agree but there are a hell of a lot of reports of people having similar problems so perhaps Ninty underestimated just how vigorously people would play the games? Either way the strap should be strong enough to withstand these forces and in many cases it's clearly not.

radio · Post by **radio** » Mon Nov 27, 2006 3:38 pm 0

Marius wrote: Dunno about Space Giraffe, have absolutely no idea what sort of game it is, but my guess is that it would run perfectly fine on a regular xbox.

Wasn't it already done on the Jaguar?

/me runs far far way and hides before Jeff notices

Yak · Post by **Yak** » Mon Nov 27, 2006 3:43 pm 0

Marius wrote: Dunno about Space Giraffe, have absolutely no idea what sort of game it is, but my guess is that it would run perfectly fine on a regular xbox.

Uh, no. You need at least shader model 2.0 for the Neon engine to run, and I very much doubt that the original xbox could sustain the extended 16-stack version of Neon that SG runs in even if it had the shaders.

gilesgoat · Post by **gilesgoat** » Mon Nov 27, 2006 4:05 pm 0

Marius wrote: Dunno about Space Giraffe, have absolutely no idea what sort of game it is, but my guess is that it would run perfectly fine on a regular xbox.

Well Space Giraffe is quite a "beast" is lot more sophisticated and "hw
smashing" than Neon.

Mind you I tried to run Neon PC on a 733 Mhz machine with a real
"el cheapo PS 2.0 card" and it's still .. reasonable if you don't pretend much
from such a configuration.

Keep also in mind we are still "taming down" the big horsepower of the
360 to be able to produce a "similar enough" (well almost identical) PC
version and we are still locking all into PS 2.0

The day we'll start using PS 3.0 that will be all another matter.

PS 1.4 was, unfortunatelly, let's say a kind of "testbed" nice but really
"poor" for our kind of use ( too few instruction slots and too many limitations )
it opened the road to 2.0 that is "quite a nice compromise".

Still 1.4 can be more than ok for real time scientific visualization of stuff

Mir Nyet · Post by **Mir Nyet** » Mon Nov 27, 2006 4:16 pm 0

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