Official Nintendo Fanboy Smugness & Gloating Thread

grue · Post by **grue** » Thu May 10, 2007 7:55 am 0

Soul Calibur Legends on the Wii only

http://www.the-magicbox.com/0705/game070509d.shtml

Flabio · Post by **Flabio** » Thu May 10, 2007 8:42 am 0

Cool. Always thought the Soul Calibur plot could work as an action adventure. Let's just hope it's better than the Tekken and Mortal Kombat action adventure spinoffs...

Alarm · Post by **Alarm** » Thu May 10, 2007 10:48 am 0

Japanese software sales: April 30 - May 6th

01./01. [NDS] Final Fantasy XII: Revenant Wings (Square-Enix) - 109,326 / 383,330
02./03. [WII] Super Paper Mario (Nintendo) - 90,151 / 310,182
03./04. [WII] Wii Sports (Nintendo) - 84,782 / 1,543,596
04./12. [NDS] Yoshi's Island DS (Nintendo) - 58,948 / 791,132
05./06. [WII] Wii Play (Nintendo) - 58,718 / 1,279,131
06./08. [NDS] Mario vs. Donkey Kong 2: March of the Minis (Nintendo) - 57,741 / 233,477
07./05. [WII] Big Brain Academy: Wii Degree (Nintendo) - 55,165 / 97,424
08./14. [NDS] New Super Mario Bros. (Nintendo) - 51,681 / 4,419,592
09./02. [NDS] Momotarou Dentetsu DS: Tokyo & Japan (Hudson) - 45,662 / 124,642
10./13. [NDS] More Brain Age (Nintendo) - 44,047 / 4,238,185

11./09. [NDS] Phoenix Wright 4 (Capcom)
12./20. [NDS] Mario Kart DS (Nintendo)
13./15. [NDS] More English Training (Nintendo)
14./10. [NDS] Panel de Pon DS (Nintendo)
15./19. [NDS] Brain Age (Nintendo)
16./22. [NDS] Animal Crossing Wild World (Nintendo)
17./16. [NDS] Prof. Layton and the Mysterious Village (Level 5)
18./29. [NDS] Common Knowledge Training (Nintendo)
19./34. [NDS] Dragon Quest Monsters Joker (Square-Enix)
20./30. [NDS] English Training (Nintendo)
21./26. [NDS] Word Puzzle Mojipittan DS (Bandai-Namco)
22./23. [PSP] Monster Hunter Portable 2nd (Capcom)
23./36. [NDS] PokÃ©mon Diamond (Pokemon)
24./41. [NDS] PokÃ©mon Pearl (Pokemon)
25./17. [PSP] Final Fantasy (Square-Enix)
26./28. [PS2] Pro Baseball Spirits 4 (Konami)
27./18. [PS2] Persona 3: Fes (Atlus)
28./47. [NDS] Tamagotchi's Splendid Rainbow-venture (Bandai-Namco)
29./07. [WII] One Piece: Unlimited Adventure (Bandai-Namco)
30./38. [NDS] Kanji Test (Rocket Co.)

NDS - 21
WII - 5
PS2 - 2
PSP - 2

TFO · Post by **TFO** » Thu May 10, 2007 11:37 am 0

Last week Ninty had the top 16.
This week it's the top 21.

arbster · Post by **arbster** » Thu May 10, 2007 11:40 am 0

Alarm wrote: 02./03. [WII] Super Paper Mario (Nintendo) - 90,151 / 310,182
03./04. [WII] Wii Sports (Nintendo) - 84,782 / 1,543,596

If Nintendo sold that much of those titles for the Wii in that week, I'm just wondering how many Wii consoles they actually sold.

They sold just over 58,000 copies of Wii Sports the week before with the Wii hardware sales at over 100,000.

Woooooo! Hopefully Nintendo had enough Wii consoles available to meet or possible beat that.

Alarm · Post by **Alarm** » Thu May 10, 2007 12:33 pm 0

DS sells over 10 million units in Japan

The DS continues to show that it is an unstoppable platform. By the end of April the DS had managed over 10 million units sold. This achievement has been pulled off after 61 weeks of the portable being on sale. The PS2 took 131 weeks to reach the same goal.

You can check out total Japanese hardware sales for the month of April below.

DS Lite: 702,844
DS: 2, 211
PSP: 158,291
GBA SP: 3,749
GB Micro: 3,626
PS2: 67,673
Wii: 287,722
PS3: 71,247
Xbox 360: 17,094
GameCube: 258

(From Go Nintendo)

Jimaroid · Post by **Jimaroid** » Thu May 10, 2007 12:38 pm 0

Don't forget that the Japanese charts are currently swamped by Nintendo with all the top 16 being either DS or Wii titles.

And the PS3 doesn't have a single title in the top 30, even the 360 has two titles in the top 30. Ouch!

aureole · Post by **aureole** » Thu May 10, 2007 1:04 pm 0

Still, at least the PS3 is finally outselling the PS2.

Alarm · Post by **Alarm** » Thu May 10, 2007 2:47 pm 0

Alarm wrote:DS sells over 10 million units in Japan

Actually, that is just for the DS Lite - the DS has sold over 6 million units in Japan, so the DS has sold over 16 million units in Japan.

Yes, I know I just contradicted what I wrote before...

GeeZa · Post by **GeeZa** » Thu May 10, 2007 5:38 pm 0

Alarm wrote:Japanese software sales: April 30 - May 6th

01./01. [NDS] Final Fantasy XII: Revenant Wings (Square-Enix) - 109,326 / 383,330
02./03. [WII] Super Paper Mario (Nintendo) - 90,151 / 310,182
03./04. [WII] Wii Sports (Nintendo) - 84,782 / 1,543,596
04./12. [NDS] Yoshi's Island DS (Nintendo) - 58,948 / 791,132
05./06. [WII] Wii Play (Nintendo) - 58,718 / 1,279,131
06./08. [NDS] Mario vs. Donkey Kong 2: March of the Minis (Nintendo) - 57,741 / 233,477
07./05. [WII] Big Brain Academy: Wii Degree (Nintendo) - 55,165 / 97,424
08./14. [NDS] New Super Mario Bros. (Nintendo) - 51,681 / 4,419,592
09./02. [NDS] Momotarou Dentetsu DS: Tokyo & Japan (Hudson) - 45,662 / 124,642
10./13. [NDS] More Brain Age (Nintendo) - 44,047 / 4,238,185

11./09. [NDS] Phoenix Wright 4 (Capcom)
12./20. [NDS] Mario Kart DS (Nintendo)
13./15. [NDS] More English Training (Nintendo)
14./10. [NDS] Panel de Pon DS (Nintendo)
15./19. [NDS] Brain Age (Nintendo)
16./22. [NDS] Animal Crossing Wild World (Nintendo)
17./16. [NDS] Prof. Layton and the Mysterious Village (Level 5)
18./29. [NDS] Common Knowledge Training (Nintendo)
19./34. [NDS] Dragon Quest Monsters Joker (Square-Enix)
20./30. [NDS] English Training (Nintendo)
21./26. [NDS] Word Puzzle Mojipittan DS (Bandai-Namco)
22./23. [PSP] Monster Hunter Portable 2nd (Capcom)
23./36. [NDS] PokÃ©mon Diamond (Pokemon)
24./41. [NDS] PokÃ©mon Pearl (Pokemon)
25./17. [PSP] Final Fantasy (Square-Enix)
26./28. [PS2] Pro Baseball Spirits 4 (Konami)
27./18. [PS2] Persona 3: Fes (Atlus)
28./47. [NDS] Tamagotchi's Splendid Rainbow-venture (Bandai-Namco)
29./07. [WII] One Piece: Unlimited Adventure (Bandai-Namco)
30./38. [NDS] Kanji Test (Rocket Co.)

Well that's how to run a games company right there. They've proven a lot of gamers wrong, again. Surely the Nintendo coffers are starting to fill or overflow now? With the Wii userbase due to rapidly grow globally and the resources Nintendo now have available this is one of the few glimmers of light in an industry that appears to be unravelling before our very eyes. Here's hoping for some serious third party support over the next couple of years. Anyone else waiting for Pikmin 3 and PN.03 2? A sequel to Wave Race would be nice too, with big waves and more weather and stuff.

Perkunas · Post by **Perkunas** » Thu May 10, 2007 5:50 pm 0

Alarm wrote:
Alarm wrote:DS sells over 10 million units in Japan

Actually, that is just for the DS Lite - the DS has sold over 6 million units in Japan, so the DS has sold over 16 million units in Japan.

Yes, I know I just contradicted what I wrote before...

They'll have the PS2 beat soon.

Darkflame · Post by **Darkflame** » Thu May 10, 2007 5:56 pm 0

PN03 was capcom so Im not sure it will get a sequal.
(seeing as capcom arnt even giving wii owners a proper follow up to Re4 ~sigh~)

Pikmin3 absolutely!
Also Id like to see another Paper Mario at some point. (as in, RPG-paper mario). If Nintendo were really clever, purhapes manual paper folding this time?
Or give paper mario FLUUD so he can soak his way past walls and stuff

Most of all though, Nintendo doing this well gives them money to invest in all sorts of stuff.
Personaly, If I was Nintendo I would buy up Camalot and force them to make a new Golden Sun

More realisticaly, I imagine Wii games going into production now at Nintendo are more likely to have the option of bigger budgets.

Might take Nintendo awhile longer to get out of their cheap mindset.
(eg, invest in some downloadable software for us Wii owners, I still see no reason why we cant have a dvd player download, better media abilitys and USB device access).

Next year and the following one will be interesting if the Wii keeps up.
A stronger Nintendo takes the presure of them which is obviously both a good and a bad thing.

Alarm · Post by **Alarm** » Thu May 10, 2007 6:07 pm 0

Perkunas wrote: They'll have the PS2 beat soon.

Most likely, if they continue to sell over 2 millions DS Lites every three months. That's 8 million a year(!)

flookster · Post by **flookster** » Thu May 10, 2007 6:19 pm 0

Foozwah wrote:
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...?

Well you said it yourself in your next sentence:

Foozwah wrote:but just thinking about when being "hardcore" was (oddly enough) about being really into games

That pretty much describes me. I consider myself platform agnostic and have never been a fanboy of any manufacturer (certain developers maybe), and in general if there is a "must have" game on any console then the chances are I'll buy it.

Foozwah wrote: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.

I own a wii and as innovative as its controller may be, it is a long way from being perfect (personally I would describe it as shoddy). As much as I wanted ZTTP to be the killer app, after 2 dungeons I got frustrated/bored with the wiimote and played through GC version instead. Its not about eye candy for me but certainly its not about the mini game compliations and PS2/PSP ports that seem to make up the majority of the wii library to date. I want to embrace the wii but until nintendo release a game that delivers on the consoles' promise then colour me disappointed.

Marius · Post by **Marius** » Thu May 10, 2007 6:23 pm 0

aureole wrote:Still, at least the PS3 is finally outselling the PS2.

That is probably because all the stores are out of PS2's...