Official Nintendo Fanboy Smugness & Gloating Thread

Alarm · Post by **Alarm** » Tue May 08, 2007 3:22 pm 0

Fil wrote:woo! super castlevania. Now I can whip bats! and jump! and whip bats while jumping!

You can crouch (and whip!) too.

Guru-Meditation · Post by **Guru-Meditation** » Tue May 08, 2007 6:13 pm 0

Marius wrote:One of the larger multimedia-stores in oslo has giant signs outside saying "We have Wii's in stock". No sign for the PS3, though...

It's no surprise for PS3s to be in stock there

Fil · Post by **Fil** » Wed May 09, 2007 1:25 am 0

Alarm wrote:
Fil wrote:woo! super castlevania. Now I can whip bats! and jump! and whip bats while jumping!
You can crouch (and whip!) too.

I always forget crouch and whip

Alarm · Post by **Alarm** » Wed May 09, 2007 1:26 am 0

Fil wrote:
Alarm wrote:
Fil wrote:woo! super castlevania. Now I can whip bats! and jump! and whip bats while jumping!
You can crouch (and whip!) too.
I always forget crouch and whip

I've noticed.

Guru-Meditation · Post by **Guru-Meditation** » Wed May 09, 2007 2:27 am 0

Can you crouch and jump ala Mario?

Darkflame · Post by **Darkflame** » Wed May 09, 2007 2:33 am 0

Guru-Meditation wrote:Can you crouch and jump ala Mario?

Luigis better at that.

arbster · Post by **arbster** » Wed May 09, 2007 10:21 am 0

Hardware Sales in Japan for 23-April-2007 - 29-April-2007

1. NDS - 256,063
2. WII - 102,522
3. PSP - 33,860
4. PS3 - 12,791
5. PS2 - 12,584
6. 360 - 3,162
7. GBA - 1,125
8. NGC - 167

Looks like the Wii and the DS had about 85% of the market share!

Oh, notice which platforms have the top 16 titles.

Top 50 Software Sales:

01./00. [NDS] Final Fantasy XII: Revenant Wings (Square-Enix) - 274,004 / NEW
02./00. [NDS] Momotarou Dentetsu DS: Tokyo & Japan (Hudson) - 78,980 / NEW
03./01. [WII] Super Paper Mario (Nintendo) - 75,839 / 220,031
04./08. [WII] Wii Sports (Nintendo) - 58,026 / 1,458,814
05./00. [WII] Big Brain Academy: Wii Degree (Nintendo) - 42,259 / NEW
06./09. [WII] Wii Play (Nintendo) - 41,784 / 1,220,413
07./00. [WII] One Piece: Unlimited Adventure (Bandai-Namco) - 40,003 / NEW
08./07. [NDS] Mario vs. Donkey Kong 2: March of the Minis (Nintendo) - 37,115 / 175,736
09./06. [NDS] Phoenix Wright 4 (Capcom) - 35,052 / 333,535
10./00. [NDS] Panel de Pon DS (Nintendo) - 34,583 / NEW

11./00. [NDS] Daito Giken Official Pachislo Simulator DS: Ledendary Treasure; Osu! Banchou; Yoshimune (Paon) - 31,554
12./10. [NDS] Yoshi's Island DS (Nintendo) - 30,937
13./15. [NDS] More Brain Age (Nintendo) - 27,617
14./14. [NDS] New Super Mario Bros. (Nintendo) - 26,744
15./11. [NDS] More English Training (Nintendo) - 23,776
16./13. [NDS] Prof. Layton and the Mysterious Village (Level 5) - 20,359
17./05. [PSP] Final Fantasy (Square-Enix) - 19,308
18./03. [PS2] Persona 3: Fes (Atlus) - 17,797
19./22. [NDS] Brain Age (Nintendo) - 17,652
20./20. [NDS] Mario Kart DS (Nintendo) - 16,603
21./02. [PS2] Fate/Stay Night ［Realta Nua］ (Kadokawa Shoten) - 15,477
22./21. [NDS] Animal Crossing Wild World (Nintendo) - 15,100
23./18. [PSP] Monster Hunter Portable 2nd (Capcom) - 14,384
24./00. [360] Test Drive Unlimited (Microsoft) - 13,962
25./00. [PS2] Magister Negi Magi: Dream Tactic: Dream Woman is a Princess (Konami) - 13,554
26./19. [NDS] Word Puzzle Mojipittan DS (Bandai-Namco) - 12,900
27./00. [360] Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six: Vegas (Ubi Soft) - 12,267
28./17. [PS2] Pro Baseball Spirits 4 (Konami) - 11,758
29./25. [NDS] Common Knowledge Training (Nintendo) - 11,712
30./24. [NDS] English Training (Nintendo) - 11,583
31./04. [NDS] Nodame Cantabile (Bandai-Namco) - 11,486
32./16. [PS2] Musou Orochi (Koei) - 11,096
33./00. [PSP] Everyone's Map 2 (Zenrin) - 10,273
34./26. [NDS] Dragon Quest Monsters Joker (Square-Enix) - 9,775
35./00. [PS2] Elvandia Story (Spike) - 9,174
36./33. [NDS] PokÃ©mon Diamond (Pokemon) - 8,925
37./36. [NDS] Kanji Brain Test 2M (IE Institute) - 7,952
38./38. [NDS] Kanji Test (Rocket Co.) - 7,308
39./29. [PS2] Kingdom Hearts II: Final Mix+ (Square-Enix) - 7,077
40./27. [PSP] Gundam SEED Alliance vs. ZAFT Portable (Bandai-Namco) - 7,045
41./39. [NDS] PokÃ©mon Pearl (Pokemon) - 7,015
42./31. [PSP] Jikkyou Powerful Pro Baseball Portable 2 (Konami) - 6,823
43./00. [PS2] Shinkyoku Soukai Polyphonica (Prototype) - 6,329
44./37. [NDS] Super Robot Wars W (Banpresto) - 6,241
45./00. [NDS] Tetris DS (Nintendo) - 6,056
46./34. [NDS] DS Kageyama Method Electronic Kanji Drills (Shogakukan) - 6,053
47./35. [NDS] Tamagotchi's Splendid Rainbow-venture (Bandai-Namco) - 5,976
48./48. [WII] Wario Ware Smooth Moves (Nintendo) - 5,945
49./40. [NDS] Crayon Shin-chan DS: Arashi wo Sakebunutte Crayon Daisakusen! (Banpresto) - 5,859
50./12. [NDS] Atelier Lise: The Alchemist of OrudÃ´ru (Gust) - 5,819

Not one PS3 title!

Darkflame · Post by **Darkflame** » Wed May 09, 2007 10:49 am 0

Despite Nintendos utter domination, I am still completely depressed at Zelda : Twlight Princess not being anywhere there.

TFO · Post by **TFO** » Wed May 09, 2007 11:06 am 0

Darkflame wrote:Despite Nintendos utter domination, I am still completely depressed at Zelda : Twlight Princess not being anywhere there.

Agreed - although this is simply a cultural thing...make a game with sod-off great Gundam robots, and the Japanese will buy a million copies of it. It'll sell about 3000 copies in the West if it gets released at all.

flookster · Post by **flookster** » Wed May 09, 2007 5:34 pm 0

Reggie on Wii, the breakfast bar of next (this?) gen consoles.

Speaking from a purely selfish hardcore gamer point of view, I'm not happy about this at all.

Alarm · Post by **Alarm** » Wed May 09, 2007 5:39 pm 0

Over the coming fiscal year Namco Bandai plans to release 23 titles for Sonyâ€™s PS3, 24 games for Microsoft's Xbox 360 and 37 titles for Nintendoâ€™s Wii console.

I'm surprised at how many PS3 games they are developing, if I'm honest.

Flabio · Post by **Flabio** » Wed May 09, 2007 5:43 pm 0

Alarm wrote:23 titles for Sonyâ€™s PS3, 24 games for Microsoft's Xbox 360

At least half of which will be on both machines I'd wager. Probably even higher.

arron · Post by **arron** » Wed May 09, 2007 5:44 pm 0

Alarm wrote:I'm surprised at how many PS3 games they are developing, if I'm honest.

Well, they need to make up the cost of selling the PS3 at a $250-$300 loss, assuming they sell the console at launch prices in the first place..More games mean more pets win more prizes..or something like that. Apparently according to arstechnica, the XBox is now making $70 for each console sold thanks to re-engineering some of the components from the release version.

Darkflame · Post by **Darkflame** » Wed May 09, 2007 6:40 pm 0

flookster wrote:Reggie on Wii, the breakfast bar of next (this?) gen consoles.

Speaking from a purely selfish hardcore gamer point of view, I'm not happy about this at all.

Dosnt mater.
If Nintendo is making enough off casuals, then it dosnt have to rush any of its games. And thats good for everyone.
Mario Galaxy dosnt need to be rushed out to boast flagging Wii sales, like Sunshine was for cube sales.

Nintendo isnt one too really target demographicly anyway.
I dont see them turning down a project because its "too hardcore and dosnt appeal to the over 40's"

If anything, Nintendo want too turn the casuals into a new hardcore, rather then visa versa

Foozwah · Post by **Foozwah** » Thu May 10, 2007 5:00 am 0

flookster wrote:Speaking from a purely selfish hardcore gamer point of view, I'm not happy about this at all.

Just wondering what your definition of "hardcore gamer" is based on...?

Not having a go (really!), but just thinking about when being "hardcore" was (oddly enough) about being really into games, rather than about relative hardware tech levels, type/genres/presentation of games, or whether others were playing them.

Seems to me that hardcore gamers should embrace something like the Wii, with its innovative controller, and "gameplay over graphics" approach, rather than settling for yet another incremental increase in shallow eye candy, wrapped around the same FPS/driving games, ad-infinitum.

Just my thoughts today though. Your own mileage may vary.