Official Nintendo Fanboy Smugness & Gloating Thread

Alarm · Post by **Alarm** » Sun Dec 03, 2006 2:02 am 0

Latest Japanese hardware sales:

DS Lite - 201,378 (5,855,282)
PS3 - 32,662 (156,400)
PSP - 30,815 (1,540,101)
PS2 - 26,263 (1,274,552)
360 - 7,007 (176,450)
GBA SP - 1,264 (213,668)
GB Micro - 1,235 (135,467)
GC - 576 (71,239)
DS - 212 (957,207)
GBA - 27 (3,370)
XBox - 0 (1,705)

Alarm · Post by **Alarm** » Sun Dec 03, 2006 2:05 am 0

Gamestation (UK) deals:

Combo 1: Wii Console + Wii Sports + Any Game - Â£209.99
Combo 2: Wii Console + Wii Sports + Any 2 Games - Â£239.99
Combo 3: Wii Console + Wii Sports + Any 3 Games - Â£269.99
Add GT Pro Series or Monster 4Ã—4 World Circuit to these combos for only
Â£20 extra

Darkflame · Post by **Darkflame** » Sun Dec 03, 2006 2:43 am 0

Basicaly Gamestation is Â£10 off for every game you buy with it.

I still think its a shame no one is chucking a gamecube game or two free with it. They must have stocks that arnt shifting.

Samus · Post by **Samus** » Sun Dec 03, 2006 10:51 am 0

New Kororinpa gameplay footage:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vJ4O5rcIRkQ

PurpleChair · Post by **PurpleChair** » Sun Dec 03, 2006 11:23 am 0

Darkflame wrote:I still think its a shame no one is chucking a gamecube game or two free with it. They must have stocks that arnt shifting.

They'd need Cube pads and a memory card and so on (unless I'm mistaken, obviously).

Wouldn't be a bad idea, otherwise.

fog · Post by **fog** » Sun Dec 03, 2006 12:07 pm 0

Strange. Wii dispatched? Surely not.

This email is to let you know that the following items from your order no. : **********
have been dispatched:

Standard items: QUANTITY PRODUCT DISPATCH DATE
1 Nintendo Wii Console And Controller And Wii Sports Game 02-Dec-2006

Please allow:

7 Working days for CD's, GAMES, DVD's & VHS

For other items please refer to the individual product page for guidelines.

You can check the progress of any other items you have ordered and access your account by clicking here

Remember: there is only one delivery charge per order and you will not be charged separately for each dispatch.

Thank you again for your order.

Regards,

Woolworths.co.uk
Customer Service Team.

Checked my account page and it says "This item has been confirmed as despatched by the supplier. Please allow up to 7 working days delivery."

Well if nothing else it finally looks like confirmation that I'm getting one

jrc313 · Post by **jrc313** » Sun Dec 03, 2006 1:05 pm 0

fog wrote:Strange. Wii dispatched? Surely not.

*snippity snip*

Checked my account page and it says "This item has been confirmed as despatched by the supplier. Please allow up to 7 working days delivery."

Well if nothing else it finally looks like confirmation that I'm getting one

I've got mine pre-ordered for store pickup with Woolworths and my account page says that the Wii is ready for despatch. Games and the extra controllers are still sitting at the pre-order stage though.

I'm just happy to see confirmation that I'm getting one

PumaG · Post by **PumaG** » Sun Dec 03, 2006 1:18 pm 0

HGFB wrote:
GeeZa wrote:Making do with composite for a while isn't the end of the world to be honest. Just sit further back from the TV or something.
Sounds like a man who's never seen what composite looks like on my HDTV (And probably most HDTVs). Utterly awful. I wouldn't even bother with it.

That's very misleading.
Good HD LCD TVs have good scalers, Noise reduction and stuff like DNIe. Given that the panels are native Hi Res and progressive, if youre running SD then good electronics inside are a must.
Composite looks fine here, only a tad worse than Component, my family wont notice the difference, so my Â£20 goes towards an extra game, until Component cables are cheaper (currently x9 cables = price of a Wii pack

)

Some people here agree with me too, theres also screenshots for comparison.

http://www.avsforum.com/avs-vb/showthre ... ge=2&pp=30

HGFB · Post by **HGFB** » Sun Dec 03, 2006 1:25 pm 0

PumaG wrote: That's very misleading.

Not that misleading when you consider how many people are going to be buying cheap LCD HDTVs in the next few years.

PumaG · Post by **PumaG** » Sun Dec 03, 2006 1:28 pm 0

HGFB wrote:
PumaG wrote: That's very misleading.
Not that misleading when you consider how many people are going to be buying cheap LCD HDTVs in the next few years.

True, but the Samsung 32" can be had for around Â£650, thats half the price good big screen CRTs were when the Gamecube came out.

HGFB · Post by **HGFB** » Sun Dec 03, 2006 1:31 pm 0

Most people aren't going to be spending Â£650 quid on a TV though and when the price starts to come down the nice features (Like good scalers) get replaced with cheap rubbish.

It could be a problem for Nintendo over the next few years. Just out of interest. Have you tried something low rez like a C64 joystick game over composite on your TV? I've found with mine that the lower the rez the worse the picture (Like a kind of stair stepping on the edges). My PS2 and Cube over RGB aren't actually too bad.

Flabio · Post by **Flabio** » Sun Dec 03, 2006 7:28 pm 0

Some shots of the Wii titles available in Japan at launch and soon after.

http://www.watch.impress.co.jp/game/doc ... 2/soft.htm

Few games there I know nothing about.

Anders · Post by **Anders** » Sun Dec 03, 2006 10:14 pm 0

Looks like 2 versions of R-Type among the virtual Console games, SNES R-Type 3 and PC Engine R-Type 1. The PC Engine version was wonderful...

Alarm · Post by **Alarm** » Mon Dec 04, 2006 12:55 am 0

Wii download demos?

An internet translation of this article:

Revealed: Wii demo as Download Wii owners with Internet connection will be able themselves to download demo versions of Wii plays. The assumption gave it already longer, now is official it: Apart from Virtual CONSOLE plays Wii fans with Internet entrance will be able to download also demo versions of Wii titles. One can store the demos then either in 512 MT the large Flashram of the console or on a separately available SD-map. Which demos make the beginning, Nintendo wants shortly admits to give.

Darkflame · Post by **Darkflame** » Mon Dec 04, 2006 1:01 am 0

Dunno if thats confirmation or not, but Im sure they said earlier they would have demos, and even internet distributed full games.

Question is what and when.