Official Nintendo Fanboy Smugness & Gloating Thread

Flabio · Post by **Flabio** » Wed Nov 14, 2007 12:54 pm 0

My order is shot to bits now, I had it in the same order as Assassins Creed. I've tried to cancel ass creed, but it hasn't accepted the cancellation. Now I've no idea whats going to turn up on my doorstop or when...

TFO · Post by **TFO** » Wed Nov 14, 2007 12:59 pm 0

Baggypants wrote:Eurogamer is reporting on a ninty comment on an IGN podcase that Wii software games will be encouraged to be small.

This is because no-one has any spare room on their bastarding Wii anymore.
Where's the hard drive Ninty?

PumaG · Post by **PumaG** » Wed Nov 14, 2007 1:34 pm 0

TFO wrote:
Baggypants wrote:Eurogamer is reporting on a ninty comment on an IGN podcase that Wii software games will be encouraged to be small.
This is because no-one has any spare room on their bastarding Wii anymore.
Where's the hard drive Ninty?

I have no hard drive space left on my 360, should I whine to MS about it or delete some games?

Jonesey · Post by **Jonesey** » Wed Nov 14, 2007 1:40 pm 0

My SMG order details at Play have now changed to 'Packing' - phew!

After watching the video reviews from THIS thread sod it - I'm taking Friday off work!

IronGiant · Post by **IronGiant** » Wed Nov 14, 2007 2:02 pm 0

Wii shortage, shock, horror!

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/7094069.stm

Rod_S · Post by **Rod_S** » Wed Nov 14, 2007 2:39 pm 0

Flabio wrote:My order is shot to bits now, I had it in the same order as Assassins Creed. I've tried to cancel ass creed, but it hasn't accepted the cancellation. Now I've no idea whats going to turn up on my doorstop or when...

Probably two copies of Assassin's Creed

My Amazon order for Galaxy has slipped from Friday to Saturday. Merde.

IronGiant · Post by **IronGiant** » Wed Nov 14, 2007 2:45 pm 0

Rod_S wrote: My Amazon order for Galaxy has slipped from Friday to Saturday. Merde.

Mine still gives a delivery date of tomorrow - I placed the order in early August, how about you Rod?

Flabio · Post by **Flabio** » Wed Nov 14, 2007 2:47 pm 0

Rumour has it that Amazon have sold more pre-orders than the amount of stock they've been allocated. Hopefully this is an isolated incident and not indicative of a general stock shortfall across the board.

IronGiant · Post by **IronGiant** » Wed Nov 14, 2007 2:49 pm 0

Let's hope so - I'll be well ticked off if my 3 month old pre-order isn't met.

Rod_S · Post by **Rod_S** » Wed Nov 14, 2007 2:52 pm 0

IronGiant wrote: Mine still gives a delivery date of tomorrow - I placed the order in early August, how about you Rod?

Early August? Fanboy

Placed mine about a month ago.

IronGiant · Post by **IronGiant** » Wed Nov 14, 2007 2:54 pm 0

Rod_S wrote:
IronGiant wrote: Mine still gives a delivery date of tomorrow - I placed the order in early August, how about you Rod?
Early August? Fanboy

Heh. It was the early screenshots and videos that made it a must buy.

Placed mine about a month ago.

That means I can't call you a fanboy then.

fog · Post by **fog** » Wed Nov 14, 2007 3:00 pm 0

Flabio wrote:Rumour has it that Amazon have sold more pre-orders than the amount of stock they've been allocated. Hopefully this is an isolated incident and not indicative of a general stock shortfall across the board.

It wouldn't be the first time Amazon have done that either. I'll never use them again after being let down a couple of times. Gameplay all the way for me. Already dispatched and expecting it tomorrow morning

Flabio · Post by **Flabio** » Wed Nov 14, 2007 4:29 pm 0

It's Gameplay I'm having trouble with. I suspect my attempt to take Ass Creed off the order has them confused.

Oh, look, they've shipped the whole order and ignored the cancellation.

Ah well, guess I'll be playing Ass Creed after all.

benedictw · Post by **benedictw** » Wed Nov 14, 2007 5:25 pm 0

Flabio wrote:It's Gameplay I'm having trouble with. I suspect my attempt to take Ass Creed off the order has them confused.

Oh, look, they've shipped the whole order and ignored the cancellation.

The gameplay special.

If you send stuff back - make sure you keep the recorded delivery slip because they sometimes 'forget' they received stuff esp as their preprinted stickers dont have account information on some of the time.

Atty · Post by **Atty** » Wed Nov 14, 2007 7:07 pm 0

Baggypants wrote:Eurogamer is reporting on a ninty comment on an IGN podcase that Wii software games will be encouraged to be small.

Am I alone in thinking this may be a good thing? aside from the obvious "Wii memory is teh small" / "it's not XBOX hueg!" whinge.

A Nintendo Rep has responded with this:
'"I can confirm as we originally said at the announcement of the Wii Ware service earlier in the year that Wii Ware games will come in a range of sizes but we will encourage smaller, more compact games for the service," a Nintendo spokesperson told Eurogamer today.

"I can also confirm we are contemplating that developers will be able to release one game per month during the launch window in order for us to address potential volume issues.

"We have not revealed any details about who sets pricing for Wii Ware titles. However it is important to remember that one of the keys aspects of the Wii Ware service is to allow everyone access to fresh, new content at a low price."

So in other words, there's some truth in what's being said, but some of the finer details might be a bit off. Nintendo is officially classifying the information as "speculation", despite the statement above.

Wii Software - more commonly known as WiiWare because America and Japan are bigger than us - is a system a bit like Xbox Live Arcade or PlayStation Network that allows developers to create smaller games and sell them to consumers for lower prices than boxed copies.

Nintendo hopes the service will encourage independent teams and those who lack the wherewithal to produce big games to get involved with Wii development as the console's installed base grows and its free online service, Nintendo Wi-Fi Connection, continues to attract users.'