Official Nintendo Fanboy Smugness & Gloating Thread

[Darkflame]

I don't think most stores will be putting Gears up as a demo any time soon. It has an 18 certificate.

I know that.
Give them a cover or something.
Seriously.
That game would instantly show the PS3 isnt the massive godly upgrade Sony is saying it is.

The majority of people I know are completely convienced the PS3 will visualy beat the pants of the 360.
imo, this is because they havnt seen the best of the xbox running yet.

Both Gears and Halo are not games that will shift a 360 to the mass market, Microsoft needs games that appeal to everyone, not just the hard-core gamers that have adopted the system so far, otherwise Sony and Nintendo are going to kick their arses around the block again.

Gears and Halo will appeal to the crowd that will be PS3 early adopters.
Thats the point, those sorts of games more directly compete with the what the PS3 is being sold as.

Whatever the marketing people want you to believe they are all in competition

Yes, all the money comes from the same pot.
But Microsoft/Sony are doing the same thing, therefor microsoft has to show they can do that "same thing" just as well.
I also wouldnt say the Xbox was any more "hard core" then the PS2.

Nintendo is doing something completely different, and might beat them both.

[disciple]

No More Heroes :

[Jamesac]

I don't think most stores will be putting Gears up as a demo any time soon. It has an 18 certificate.

I know that.
Give them a cover or something.
Seriously.
That game would instantly show the PS3 isnt the massive godly upgrade Sony is saying it is.

I put Gears of War on the demo unit at my store. The MS rep asked us about the whole "M" thing, but so far not a single shopper complaint.

I'll grant that putting Dead Rising on there might have been pushing it a bit.

James

[Kemper_Boyd]

The majority of people I know are completely convienced the PS3 will visualy beat the pants of the 360.
imo, this is because they havnt seen the best of the xbox running yet.

Well equally you've seen fuck all of what the PS3 is capable of.

I think it depends upon what you are mean by visually, a PS3 won't
beat the 360 on shading or fill rate, but it may well be able to collide,
animate, tessellate and skin more geometry than a 360. I wouldn't
expect a PS3 game to be 'prettier' but I do think there's a decent
chance of it having games with more going on in them. i.e. The bits of
the graphics pipeline that run on the CPU are where the PS3's strength lies.

Cell's a physics, AI, audio accelerator, or whatever else you want. Sony
now need some bugger to do something with it before it's too late.

[CharlieF]

Dont know if this has been mentioned...

UK Nintendo membership holders will finally be able to put their 'Stars' to good use. Earned via codes packaged with Nintendo hardware and software sold in the UK, Stars have been useless (redeemed for wallpaper) until now. Nintendo has announced it will be adding Wii points to the Stars Catalogue.

By linking a Wii Shop Channel account to an online Nintendo membership, Wii owners will soon be able to put their Stars toward Virtual Console purchases (by way of Wii points). But it gets better: completing a survey upon purchasing a VC title will transfer some new Stars back to your membership. It's almost like the VC games are paying for themselves -- but not quite. We're willing to bet the 'Stars to Wii points' exchange rate ain't so hot.

Source: http://www.joystiq.com/2006/12/08/excha ... nts-in-uk/

Something worthwhile to spend my 7500 star points on.
No doubt we'll be screwed on the conversion rate. Can't see it being 1 Wii point = 1 Star. My guess it'll be at least 2 stars per Wii point but whatever it is, can't be worse than spending stars on ringtones etc...

[Darkflame]

5 stars per point more likely, but still better then no conversion.

Really nintendo should phase stars out completely, and just have WiiPoints.

The majority of people I know are completely convienced the PS3 will visualy beat the pants of the 360.
imo, this is because they havnt seen the best of the xbox running yet.

Well equally you've seen fuck all of what the PS3 is capable of.

True, but they are assumeing the PS3 will kick the pants off from the off.
It dosnt.
And, frankly, I dont think it ever will.
It might be better at some things, sure,no argument, but thats not what the buzz is.
The buzz is saying you will be able to instantly tell the difference from day one.
I merely think if most people today saw Gears labeled as a PS3 game, they would not only believe you, but also use it as an excuse to say how suppior the PS3 is

Sony
now need some bugger to do something with it before it's too late.

Yup, agreed here.
Im often going on about pushing physics in games, but I think its more then a hardware problem. Its also a problem with perception that its important.
It seems more weight is put on getting games to look right, rather then feel right.
When it is used Physics seems to be used to mean "look how much we can blow up", and thus a graphics add-on, rather then a gameplay effecting element.

Hopefully that will change soon, I see nice movement from Lucas Arts and Endorphin, ect.

I put Gears of War on the demo unit at my store. The MS rep asked us about the whole "M" thing, but so far not a single shopper complaint.

Hay, good for you

No More Heroes :

Looked far far better in the early trailer.
~sigh~
Capcom cop-out, imo.
Going for generic realism with a hint of cell-shading, rather then the extreme comic book/killer7-eqs style of the first shots and trailer.

[Gorecki]

Apolgies for going off-topic in the PS3 vs X360 bitching thread but I've just had a go on a Wii for the first time and it's glorious. Just wonderful. We spent ages just buggering about in the menus and creating Mii's, which is great fun and dead easy.

Only played Wii Sports and Play but there was bags of fun to be had. Wii Tennis is just god-like. Possibly the best multiplayer game ever and easily the best tennis game I've ever played. Virtua Tennis on the Dreamcast finally gets relegated.

This is gonna cost me a small fortune come the new year .

[Bubba]

After a monster 12 hour Zelda sesh (admiitedly interspersed with some eating and adjusting of self on couch) I'd just like to say how much it rocks Not wanting to get into a prettyness arguement again, so I'll ignore that - the gameplay is fantastic which is of course what really matters. 10 out of 10? Probably not (I can think of a few moments which have just made me want to throw my Wii out of a window) but a very, very good adventure game none the less

Oh, and then we made Hitler ready for the aquisition of a 2nd nunchuk. Now if someone could send me Ghandi...

Cheers

Bubba

[Marius]

Just had my first Wii crash when leaving the Mii plaza. Had to unplug the power cord to get in started again

[reverie]

Some news fresh from a Square-Enix press conference held today -

Dragon Quest IX “Defender of the Stars” for DS!

We knew that Square-Enix was holding a press conference today in Japan. We also knew that they were going to talk about a new Dragon Quest game. Dragon Quest VIII was the last main adventure, which was released for the PS2. Many people were hoping that the next true Dragon Quest would go to the Wii. Well, it is indeed going to Nintendo…but instead of the Wii, it will be for the DS! Development is being handled by Level 5, and the game will also feature 4 player co-op and wifi play! The team would love to have the game out sometime in 2007.

So now the DS has Dragon Quest IX, Dragon Quest Monsters Joker, Final Fantasy XII Revenant Wings, Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles Rings of Fate, Its a Wonderful World, Swords of Mana. They really are putting all their weight behind the DS.
Well I guess they're milking from the biggest udder so to speak.

3rd party exclusives don't come any bigger than this, in Japan anyway. This is absolutely blockbuster news for NoJ and what will be seen as a crushing blow for Sony in Japan.

[grue]

VC question here:
1. Are the games combatible with the Wavebird and if yes
2. Do they use the analog stick or just the D-pad?

Thanks.

[fog]

VC question here:
1. Are the games combatible with the Wavebird and if yes
2. Do they use the analog stick or just the D-pad?

1. Officially only the Classic controller supports all VC games. The Wavebird will work for all Ninty games and most from other formats but not all.

2. Same as in the original games.

[benedictw]

My wife spent a few hours last night on the Tennis and played me until 11pm. This has, officially, never happened before - ever.

[Deckard]

Bringing more non-gamers in, same as the DS, Nintendo ARE developing the market

[Alarm]

From Go Nintendo (I had to correct "it's opening" though!):

Wii is the fastest selling UK console…ever

Okay, so last week we found out that the Wii sold through 50,000 units within 12 hours of launch…quite an insane number. Now there’s another number coming in that makes the 50,000 less impressive. According to Chart Track, the Wii has sold 105,000 over its opening weekend. That beats the Cube’s sales of 52,000 consoles, and the previous record holder, the 360 at 70,000. With each day that passes, I start to feel more and more confident that the Wii will definitely do much better than the Cube.

Equally as impressive, 6 of the Wii’s 14 launch titles made it into the “all format top 40″, with Twilight Princess debuting at number 5. Other games on the list were Wii Play, Rayman Raving Rabbids, Red Steel, Monster 4×4, and GT Pro Series.

Let’s not forget about the DS, which managed to sell 110,000 units this past week, and DS software holds 14 places in the “all format top 40″.