Official Nintendo Fanboy Smugness & Gloating Thread

Governmentyard · Post by **Governmentyard** » Mon Oct 15, 2007 7:05 pm 0

Yeah, I would sooner have gone on youtube and watched a few mp3 vids on the wii browser.

Pointless bloody exercise.

IronGiant · Post by **IronGiant** » Mon Oct 15, 2007 7:12 pm 0

I don't know why they don't release playable demos of their games. Seems a bit of an oversight to me.

Governmentyard · Post by **Governmentyard** » Mon Oct 15, 2007 7:14 pm 0

Storage, innit?

Not much space in a Wii for that sort of thing. Now, if they'd fucking let us use a hard drive through the usb.....

bloid · Post by **bloid** » Mon Oct 15, 2007 7:23 pm 0

or the 2GB memory card I've got plugged into it... *sigh*

Governmentyard · Post by **Governmentyard** » Mon Oct 15, 2007 7:54 pm 0

I thikn when you look at Nintendo's pricing model, you can see why theydon't do demos and other things like that much, everything is very gradual. You buy the Wii, you can play Wii Sports. If you shop sensibly, agame will be Â£30-35, a peripheral will be Â£15 for most things, your points, nunchucks, etc and an extra remote is Â£30. Keeping it simpe allows them to make a good profit on what you can walk down the high street and get while not providing massive choice. When something new does come along, it is a great novelty for owners of the system, such as the Hanabi festival or the updates to channels, and with the A++ titles due in the next six months, they'll get away ith that for a while longer.

Expect the likes of hard drive support, downloadable demos, etc in half a year to a year at the soonest, probably after Wiiware starts coming out in force and storage is needed. By then, the key to expanding their market will be to open the wii up to those who've go one of the other onsoles, they will be the ones to use multiplayer, demos, add-on peripheral capabilities like hard drives and so on, moreso than your mum who just wants to play eledees or Brain Training.

Don't get me wrong, I want them to unlock everything at once, now, and provide a much richer breadth of services for the Wii, but I can see why they don't. Right now they've produced a profitable and novel product which is being milked for as much as the market will bear, and next they'll move on from doing that, once they can affor dwiiconnect to be assive, e.g. online mario kart, smash bros, etc. Remeber third party online multiplayer titles will use nintendo's wii network as well, they need to be able to underwrite that. One day though, we'll mave metroid hunters Wii and it will be the best thing evar11.!!!!>1!

chub · Post by **chub** » Tue Oct 16, 2007 7:46 am 0

bloid wrote:or the 2GB memory card I've got plugged into it... *sigh*

Tell me about it. I got one for music purposes in Excite Truck, thinking that other games were bound to do a similar thing. Still waiting...

fuwafuwa · Post by **fuwafuwa** » Tue Oct 16, 2007 7:51 am 0

chub wrote:Tell me about it. I got one for music purposes in Excite Truck, thinking that other games were bound to do a similar thing. Still waiting...

Forever Blue/Endless Ocean allows you to play mp3 from your SD memory card.

chub · Post by **chub** » Tue Oct 16, 2007 7:57 am 0

fuwafuwa wrote:
chub wrote:Tell me about it. I got one for music purposes in Excite Truck, thinking that other games were bound to do a similar thing. Still waiting...
Forever Blue/Endless Ocean allows you to play mp3 from your SD memory card.

Really? Suddenly I'm more interested in it. Swimming about listening to my MP3s sounds like a good chill-out thing. It's out in November in Europe, so I'll keep an eye out for it..

Guru-Meditation · Post by **Guru-Meditation** » Tue Oct 16, 2007 8:06 am 0

DK Barrel Blast getting slammed :/ Looks like there won't be a decent kart game on Wii until Wii Kart ... unless Diddy Kong gets released on VC.

fuwafuwa · Post by **fuwafuwa** » Tue Oct 16, 2007 3:20 pm 0

chub wrote:Really? Suddenly I'm more interested in it. Swimming about listening to my MP3s sounds like a good chill-out thing. It's out in November in Europe, so I'll keep an eye out for it..

Unfortunately, no playlist function is available. So you can only choose one song per one dive... Anyway the game is very relaxing and lovely

Darkflame · Post by **Darkflame** » Tue Oct 16, 2007 10:32 pm 0

Guru-Meditation wrote:DK Barrel Blast getting slammed :/ Looks like there won't be a decent kart game on Wii until Wii Kart ... unless Diddy Kong gets released on VC.

Is there any other decent karting games anyway?

TFO · Post by **TFO** » Tue Oct 16, 2007 11:14 pm 0

Darkflame wrote:
Guru-Meditation wrote:DK Barrel Blast getting slammed :/ Looks like there won't be a decent kart game on Wii until Wii Kart ... unless Diddy Kong gets released on VC.
Is there any other decent karting games anyway?

Not yet.
Get hold of a copy of Double Dash or download the original N64 Mario Kart

Darkflame · Post by **Darkflame** » Wed Oct 17, 2007 12:05 am 0

My DS does me nicely mostly.
I was just curious if there was anyone other then Nintendo that managed to get karting right.

flookster · Post by **flookster** » Wed Oct 17, 2007 12:27 am 0

10 million people seem to think these guys have although it looks a lot like MK to me.

Nintendo got karting spot on with first game on SNES and while I loved MK64 and MKDD and played them to death they were never quite up to the standard of the original. The handheld games I feel were handicapped by the format although MKSC was quite ace when played through GBP on the GC with a wavebird.

Ghostbiscuit · Post by **Ghostbiscuit** » Wed Oct 17, 2007 2:15 am 0

New "dark" Advance Wars? Having just rediscovered and re-hooked myself on Advance Wars DS (again), this has got me worried.