Official Nintendo Fanboy Smugness & Gloating Thread

[Deckard]

So Nintendo are back to world domination again, handheld and console. I for one welcome the old masters back...

[IronGiant]

Excellent, now let's hope they don't get cocky and piss off their punters .......

[Deckard]

So when will Sony hit 10 million ? Does anyone - fanboy, pundit or "games expert" reckon this year ?

[Dio]

The rest-of-world figures for the PS3 must be hellishly worrying for Sony. Only the shocking Japan figures for the 360 are allowing it to stay remotely in touch.

[Darkflame]

Excellent, now let's hope they don't get cocky and piss off their punters .......

Well, pissing off the publishers is a bigger concern.

Half the Nintendo fans seem pissed off already at the dare mention mention of any "casual" games and "new" gamers joining their system. (despite no evidence whatsoever this has decreased other good games coming out at all).

The rest-of-world figures for the PS3 must be hellishly worrying for Sony. Only the shocking Japan figures for the 360 are allowing it to stay remotely in touch.

Well, apperently sony dosnt mind being beaten to a pulp as there sales figures are up 60%.
I assume thats hardware, not software.

[disciple]

Metroid Prime Corruption receives 9.5 at IGN.

http://uk.wii.ign.com/articles/815/815424p4.html

[disciple]

Corruption video review.

http://www.gametrailers.com/player/24117.html

overall gets a 9.6, gets a 9.8 for gameplay.

[GeeZa]

Corruption video review.

http://www.gametrailers.com/player/24117.html

overall gets a 9.6, gets a 9.8 for gameplay.

It's fucking superb. So far it's better than both Prime and Echoes and both those (especially the former) I thought were pretty damn near perfect as video games go. I've had to tear myself away from it otherwise I'd be glued to the screen all night. The first boss was a piece of piss. It's what you expect from Metroid, more exploration, data gathering and wonderment, and less on the raw fps elements. It's supposed to be immersive and it is.

The presentation is top quality, the graphics are jaw-dropping at times and the controls are perfection. It's all so wonderfully smooth and responsive, just like modern video games should be. They seem to have broken the game down into smaller sections so it's more manageable and the unlockables are frankly fab. I thought Bungie had sci-fi environments nailed but this shit is the best I've ever seen. Again, it's art direction and imagination at the fore. You spend most of your time just gawping at what is going on around you and the small details as usual make all the difference. Audio is world-class, both music and sfx.

Initial feeling is that this is the best Wii game so far and it's taken a while for something this good to come along since the launch. Sorry for gushing a bit there, we'll see if the quality holds as I should be able to grab another hour or so on it later tonight when the wife and dog are tucked up in beddy byes. I might be more critical by then.

[IronGiant]

Sounds great, would be better if the Euro release wasn't two months away ..........

Nintendo sure do know how to pack their prime release titles together - we have Phantom Hourglass for the DS on October 19th, Metroid Prime 3 on October 26th and the biggie (as far as I'm concerned): Super Mario Galaxy on November 16th.

Couldn't they, you know, kind of space them apart a bit more?

[Oaf]

Sounds great, would be better if the Euro release wasn't two months away ..........

Oh bollocks!

Here I am trying to fix my sensor bar, ready to go into town to buy a copy, and it's not even out over here

Arse!

[IronGiant]

The only solution is to buy a US Wii ..............

[MegaZoid.]

or buy a chip, buy an import metroid then download the usa version patch it then bobs your uncle

[IronGiant]

Can this be done with Metroid Prime 3 on a UK Wii without bricking it?

If so, more details please.

[Deckard]

http://www.wiikey.cn/ innit

[IronGiant]

Fanks.