Official Nintendo Fanboy Smugness & Gloating Thread

Flabio · Post by **Flabio** » Fri Jul 13, 2007 1:48 pm 0

And only 5 years after Dance Dance Revolution too...

Nintendodragon · Post by **Nintendodragon** » Fri Jul 13, 2007 1:53 pm 0

true, but DDr couldnt do half the things Wii fit does.. Plus i suck DDR or "the Pratt maker" as my friends call it.

benedictw · Post by **benedictw** » Fri Jul 13, 2007 2:10 pm 0

Looks like its using 4 analog pressure sensors - you wouldnt be able to do half the stuff they do with Wii Fit with merely on/off ones.

Certainly got a LOT of interest from my wife.

PumaG · Post by **PumaG** » Fri Jul 13, 2007 2:27 pm 0

Reverend Goatboy wrote:It's been covered

Has anyone else read the article on Eurogamer about the Wii points being cancelled from Sunday if you don't agree to new T&Cs?

Apparently you need to log into nintendo website and agree to some new ones and then shortly you can redeem stars as wii points. Except this doesn't happen for me, I don't get anything about the new T&Cs. Though when I look at games registered my VC downloads are on there, as I've linked my wiiconenct account to my nintendo website profile. So I'm wondering if I'm already sorted? If I lose my points I shall be fucking livid, I've been collecting them for years. Oh, and they now expire after two years.

same for me, the cunts, or maybe not

PumaG · Post by **PumaG** » Fri Jul 13, 2007 2:29 pm 0

Stevo wrote:Today I finally upgraded to the DS lite

All I can say is....fuck me these screens are lush

Why the hell did I wait so long

Because the original DS had style and didnt look like a cigar box

Flabio · Post by **Flabio** » Fri Jul 13, 2007 2:30 pm 0

It's not the Wii points that they cancel, it's your Nintendo Stars.

And you should've had email about it, I've had three about it from them in the last week.

xav · Post by **xav** » Fri Jul 13, 2007 3:54 pm 0

benedictw wrote:Looks like its using 4 analog pressure sensors - you wouldnt be able to do half the stuff they do with Wii Fit with merely on/off ones.

Certainly got a LOT of interest from my wife.

I wonder how it connects to the Wii. We know it's wireless, but will it use the Bluetooth, or the Wifi connection.

As I understand it there's a maximum of 7 Bluetooth devices that can be connected to one BT "host". Potentially 4 of them are used up with the Wii remotes, so either the use of the balance board would limit the number of remotes that could be used at the same time (if it connects by "pretending" to be a remote), or it connects using one of the "spare" three BT device slots. The latter would seem to make more sense, but would mean that there's no chance of a 4 player skateboard game that uses it.

Alternatively it could connect via Wifi which would avoid any Bluetooth limits, but could present a whole host of other issues.

WiteWulf · Post by **WiteWulf** » Fri Jul 13, 2007 4:03 pm 0

I can't imagine it being WiFi, as well as the chipset itself being more expensive it'd also draw more power and require more hardware to provide a networking stack than the simple serial comms that are carried out over a BT link.

As far as I know, the 7 device limit is only on concurrent devices. I don't hink there's any limit to the number of devices that can be paired with the Wii.

Geenius · Post by **Geenius** » Fri Jul 13, 2007 4:29 pm 0

Flabio wrote:It's not the Wii points that they cancel, it's your Nintendo Stars.

And you should've had email about it, I've had three about it from them in the last week.

I'd just like to add that I've not had an email about this (not had one from them for a while), and I've just logged into the web site for the first time in weeks and can't see a thing about it

. What am I missing?

The Caffeine Kid · Post by **The Caffeine Kid** » Fri Jul 13, 2007 4:41 pm 0

When can I swap my stars for wiipoints? Get a move on, Ninty... I want Paper Mario.

I can't believe I got 1000 points before and wasted them on Sonic 1.

HGFB · Post by **HGFB** » Fri Jul 13, 2007 7:57 pm 0

Paper Mario is big bags of ace. I've never played it before. I think I'll definately be buying the Wii version when Nintendo finally get it translated into all 15000 European languages.

Samus · Post by **Samus** » Fri Jul 13, 2007 8:24 pm 0

I'm definitely interested to see how the balance board is used in other games, snowboarding could be excellent, to state the obvious.

Deckard · Post by **Deckard** » Fri Jul 13, 2007 10:20 pm 0

Can sony fuck themselves over anymore ?

http://www.1up.com/do/newsStory?cId=3161297

Fil · Post by **Fil** » Fri Jul 13, 2007 10:22 pm 0

By still charging the equivalent of over $800 for a console in Europe maybe?

Duck Turkin · Post by **Duck Turkin** » Fri Jul 13, 2007 10:31 pm 0

Calm down, as usual it's just hype, wishful thinking and some rather clumsy communication skills from Sony:

Dave Karraker, Sr. Director, Corporate Communications wrote:One quick thing before I head to the show for the last day. I just wanted to clarify something. Iâ€™ve seen a lot of posts this morning related to the 60GB SKU and the comments by SCEE President David Reeves. As we announced this week, SCEAâ€™s product offering in North America consists of a 80GB PS3 available in August and a 60GB PS3 available now for $499. We will have ample supplies of both models to meet the needs of consumers for the foreseeable future.