Official Nintendo Fanboy Smugness & Gloating Thread

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Got a Wii! (Well, technically my housemate has) - Been playing Wii Bowling, Wii Boxing and a few hours of Zelda.

It's remarkable the reaction that non-console gamers/non-gamers (He's a PC gamer, normally) have with the Wii. He fell in love with it almost immediately and really enjoyed Bowling and Boxing, and although Zelda caused some complaint (specifically the annoying cat-fishing rod bit at the beginning), he's utterly delighted with it.

We'll be living on Porridge and Bananas for a while as a result of buying it, but we're both happy as pigeon with it. :)

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Yeah, there's something unintuitive about that cat/fishing bit at the start.
Something just slightly wrong with the controlls.

Later on, when you fish properly in a boat, it works wonderfully well.
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Yeah, well, it's just a bit too abstract a puzzle for so early in the game, and like you say, the controls feel a bit weird. It takes a good few hours before you even begin to master Zelda's mechanics, and it's a bit savage of Ninty to throw in the fishing so early as something that's needed to continue the story.
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Japanese Software Sale - May 7-13:

01./00. [PSP] Final Fantasy Tactics: The Lion War (Square-Enix) - 154,891 / NEW
02./01. [NDS] Final Fantasy XII: Revenant Wings (Square-Enix) - 38,003 / 421,333
03./03. [WII] Wii Sports (Nintendo) - 30,180 / 1,573,776
04./10. [NDS] More Brain Age (Nintendo) - 27,930 / 4,266,115
05./08. [NDS] New Super Mario Bros. (Nintendo) - 21,332 / 4,440,924
06./02. [WII] Super Paper Mario (Nintendo) - 20,670 / 330,851
07./05. [WII] Wii Play (Nintendo) - 20,498 / 1,299,628
08./07. [WII] Big Brain Academy: Wii Degree (Nintendo) - 20,063 / 117,487
09./09. [NDS] Momotarou Dentetsu DS: Tokyo & Japan (Hudson) - 18,547 / 143,189
10./04. [NDS] Yoshi's Island DS (Nintendo) - 17,423 / 808,555

11./13. [NDS] More English Training (Nintendo)
12./15. [NDS] Brain Age (Nintendo)
13./11. [NDS] Phoenix Wright 4 (Capcom)
14./14. [NDS] Panel de Pon DS (Nintendo)
15./06. [NDS] Mario vs. Donkey Kong 2: March of the Minis (Nintendo)
16./12. [NDS] Mario Kart DS (Nintendo)
17./16. [NDS] Animal Crossing Wild World (Nintendo)
18./17. [NDS] Prof. Layton and the Mysterious Village (Level 5)
19./18. [NDS] Common Knowledge Training (Nintendo)
20./20. [NDS] English Training (Nintendo)
21./21. [NDS] Word Puzzle Mojipittan DS (Bandai-Namco)
22./22. [PSP] Monster Hunter Portable 2nd (Capcom)
23./41. [NDS] 1000 Recipes (Nintendo)
24./34. [NDS] Kanji Brain Test 2M (IE Institute)
25./19. [NDS] Dragon Quest Monsters Joker (Square-Enix)
26./00. [PS2] Wrestling Kingdom 2: Pro Wrestling World War (Yuke's)
27./25. [PSP] Final Fantasy (Square-Enix)
28./43. [NDS] Cooking Navi (Nintendo)
29./30. [NDS] Kanji Test (Rocket Co.)
30./37. [NDS] Tetris DS (Nintendo)

NDS - 22
WII - 4
PSP - 3
PS2 - 1
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benedictw wrote:
Marius wrote:Well, there are very few games I have any interest in playing online, so it doesn't really bother me.
Not even Wii Sports? Tell me online Tennis wouldnt be hysterical?
I'm sure it would be plenty of fun, but using a friend code every now and then is not exactly what I'd consider a major hassle, since there are very few people I usually play online with.
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Does the ps3 have any games at all? that chart would suggest not.
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Mario sales in Japan:

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Fil wrote:Does the ps3 have any games at all? that chart would suggest not.
"it's like going to a very expensive restaurant and not getting anything to eat"

It seems SCEJ is now trying to secure more titles for PS3 saying "We don't care if the title is localized or not"

Well, I don't think that would work. Madden PS3 was released here without localization, and sold less than 500 copies first week...
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The FFT remake is number one? Blimey, never knew it was that popular a game. It was a much better game than the recent GBA one though.
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GeeZa wrote:Mercury Meltdown just got 9/10 from Eurogamer. Interesting.
I'm rather tempted by that one. I almost bought it on the PSP, but then I heard a Wii version was in the works, so I waited. I'm glad I did! This game is just asking for a tilting.
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Was supposed to be tilting on the psp, from what I remember. (usb addon)
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Darkflame wrote:Was supposed to be tilting on the psp, from what I remember. (usb addon)
Yeah, you're right, I remember that too. Never happened though, but I'm not sure why. Maybe they tried it but it was too crap, so they didn't bother.
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..or the publisher thought it would be too expensive.
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Canada Sales in April breakdown:

Hardware sales:

Wii 42,100
DS 34,900
PS2 18,000
360 12,800
PSP 12,100
GBA 7,900
PS3 7,200

Software sales:

1. Pokemon Diamond 48,000
2. Pokemon Pearl 37,000
3. Wii Play
4. Super Paper Mario
5. God of War 2 11,600

Peripheral sales:

1. Wii Remote
2. Wii Nunchuk
3. Wii Points Card
4. X360 Wireless Controller
5. PS2 8MB Memory Card
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From Wired:

Wii Hits Seven Million Mark

Wii According to the latest info from VGChartz the Wii has passed the seven-million-sold mark, slowly but surely closing the gap between it and the 360, which to date has sold about 9.7 million.

What's interesting, but not terribly surprising, is how the sales break down geographically. The vast majority of 360 sales (6.17 million) come from the U.S., with just a tiny fraction (.39 million) coming from Japan. When it comes to the Wii, it's far more even: 2.46 million from Japan, 2.84 million from the U.S.

The latest worldwide sales charts [VGChartz]
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