Official Nintendo Fanboy Smugness & Gloating Thread

Tuur · Post by **Tuur** » Mon Dec 04, 2006 1:04 pm 0

Have you guys seen this home made Wii PS3 ad spoof?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HnxEnoosh4Q&eurl=

Yak · Post by **Yak** » Mon Dec 04, 2006 1:12 pm 0

Tuur wrote:Have you guys seen this home made Wii PS3 ad spoof?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HnxEnoosh4Q&eurl=

Yeah, I saw that on Kotaku yesterday. Awesome stuff.

I hope he won a Wii!

matt · Post by **matt** » Mon Dec 04, 2006 1:18 pm 0

xav wrote:More Iwata Asks: this time about Wario Ware Smooth Moves

http://ms.nintendo-europe.com/wii/?site ... d=6&l=enGB

http://ms.nintendo-europe.com/wii/?site ... d=6&l=enGB

The "Iwata Asks" articles are much better presented on the new American Nintendo Wii website, but they're not quite up to date yet.

http://wii.nintendo.com/iwata_asks_vol5_p9.jsp

matt

Darkflame · Post by **Darkflame** » Mon Dec 04, 2006 1:20 pm 0

xav wrote:More Iwata Asks: this time about Wario Ware Smooth Moves

http://ms.nintendo-europe.com/wii/?site ... d=6&l=enGB

http://ms.nintendo-europe.com/wii/?site ... d=6&l=enGB

Looks like a laugh.

However, the difference between an ok game (Touched) and a truely fantastic game (Twisted) was all in the detail.
For Smooth moves to be good,they have to follow Twisted not just in movement-concept, but also in its balance between gameplay and reward.

matt · Post by **matt** » Mon Dec 04, 2006 1:22 pm 0

I think you should play it before writing it off!

Yak · Post by **Yak** » Mon Dec 04, 2006 1:23 pm 0

It has a *cleaning the cow's bum* game. She moos and swings her tail if you succeed.

I don't see how it can *not* be genius

.

arbster · Post by **arbster** » Mon Dec 04, 2006 1:37 pm 0

A previw of No More Heroes (formerly known as "Heroes")

http://www.1up.com/do/previewPage?cId=3155573

Looks quite nice to me. Should be out in the summer.

Also, not sure if this was posted before but here are some screenshots of Theme Park DS:

http://www.gfdata.de/archiv11-2006-gamefront/2570.html

Sim City coming as well. How about a conversion of Cannon Fodder!

Maybe Syndicate (though I never played it much originally - skint - but it looked nice).

Darkflame · Post by **Darkflame** » Mon Dec 04, 2006 5:17 pm 0

matt wrote:I think you should play it before writing it off!

I'm not writting it off, Im just hopeing its upto Twisteds standards.

Im sure there could be some very amusing "toys" done with the Wiimote.

Skah T · Post by **Skah T** » Mon Dec 04, 2006 10:31 pm 0

My coworker just got a PSP for his son. Another coworker and I (both DS owners) asked him why he didn't get a DS instead? His response: "The screen is bigger."

grue · Post by **grue** » Mon Dec 04, 2006 10:35 pm 0

Skah T wrote:My coworker just got a PSP for his son. Another coworker and I (both DS owners) asked him why he didn't get a DS instead? His response: "The screen is bigger."

Inferior dick syndrome.

fog · Post by **fog** » Mon Dec 04, 2006 10:37 pm 0

Heh

Skah T wrote:My coworker just got a PSP for his son. Another coworker and I (both DS owners) asked him why he didn't get a DS instead? His response: "The screen is bigger."

I only know one other person at work with a DS and AFAIK he hasn't used it for months and yet I know a whole bunch with PSP's. Additionally I know of nobody else interested in the Wii yet about half a dozen have just bought 360's, many simply because the PS3 was delayed. Go figure.

Anyway of no real importance but I thought this was a lovely little detail:

Getting pro in either tennis or boxing:
If you get pro, which is over 1000 points, then in either sport, the reward is a bigger audience, and all of your Miis that aren't being played get put into the audience. If you make a bunch of random Miis, they will all be there.

Skah T · Post by **Skah T** » Mon Dec 04, 2006 10:41 pm 0

fog wrote:Anyway of no real importance but I thought this was a lovely little detail:
Getting pro in either tennis or boxing:
If you get pro, which is over 1000 points, then in either sport, the reward is a bigger audience, and all of your Miis that aren't being played get put into the audience. If you make a bunch of random Miis, they will all be there.

Ooo, I was wondering what happened when you got pro. Too bad they don't add spectators to Golf, too.

Alarm · Post by **Alarm** » Tue Dec 05, 2006 12:02 am 0

From GamesTM magazine, with thanks to Go Nintendo:

â€œSomething big is coming to the Virtual Console, something that, for the past decade, certain corners of the retro community have been crying out for. I wish I could say more, but the uncertainties of publishing schedules prevents me from spilling the beans too early. Nevertheless, if what weâ€™ve heard turns out to be true, the virtual console is about to become a lot more interesting and looks like it might turn out to be much more valuable to dedicated retro gamers than we first thought.â€

Sir_LANs-a-lot · Post by **Sir_LANs-a-lot** » Tue Dec 05, 2006 12:08 am 0

Alarm wrote:From GamesTM magazine, with thanks to Go Nintendo:

â€œSomething big is coming to the Virtual Console, something that, for the past decade, certain corners of the retro community have been crying out for. I wish I could say more, but the uncertainties of publishing schedules prevents me from spilling the beans too early. Nevertheless, if what weâ€™ve heard turns out to be true, the virtual console is about to become a lot more interesting and looks like it might turn out to be much more valuable to dedicated retro gamers than we first thought.â€

W1NN4R!

Alarm · Post by **Alarm** » Tue Dec 05, 2006 12:12 am 0

Confirmation that import Wii plays Japanese Wii VC games

... But while it's no problem to play Japanese discs on Japanese systems, what about the Virtual Console? Would it be possible to play Japan-only VC titles on an import console? The answer would logically seem to be "yes," but there's often very little common sense at work in matters of territorial lock-outs.

Fortunately, the answer actually is yes. If you have a Japanese Wii, an Internet connection and the patience to wade through an ocean of foreign-language menus, the joys of the Virtual Console are yours to behold. The Wii network doesn't discriminate according to IP addresses, so logging onto the Japanese Shopping Channel is a matter of having the right hardware, not being in the right place.

The Japanese Virtual Console shop works almost exactly like its American version, all the way down to the interface -- with one significant difference. (Besides the language, of course.) That difference is that the Japanese shop doesn't ask for billing address information when you buy points with a credit card. On one hand, that's sort of bad, since it makes the shopping process slightly less secure... but on the other hand, it's very good, because it drastically simplifies the whole thing for importers.

Had Nintendo required a card with a Japanese address, import gamers would have to wait for Japanese Wii Point cards, which would inevitably suffer from the requisite import markup fees; instead, anyone with a functioning MasterCard or Visa can hop online and buy points. Better yet, prices are in yen, which means that games which cost $8 in the U.S. shop are $6.95 in the Japanese shop (by today's exchange rate).

More here: http://www.1up.com/do/newsStory?cId=3155624

YakYak

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