Official Nintendo Fanboy Smugness & Gloating Thread

Marius · Post by **Marius** » Thu Nov 15, 2007 8:12 am 0

hot dang, mario went from a 97% average after 24 reviews to a 98% average after 28 reviews...that's not too shabby.

Flabio · Post by **Flabio** » Thu Nov 15, 2007 8:37 am 0

It should be pointed out that Halo3 was at around 97% on metacritic after 20 odd reviews, and only started dropping off later on...

PumaG · Post by **PumaG** » Thu Nov 15, 2007 8:46 am 0

Atty wrote:
Samus wrote:
Atty wrote:the dreadful Wii Play.
?
I personally found it to be really lazy. Worst thing I've played on Wii so far. Yes, it's a cheapy learn-how-to-use-a-wii game with a free controller lobbed in, but it clearly didn't even have 1/10th the time or effort of Wii Sports' development put into it. The only thing on it that really grabbed me was the target shooting game, and Wario Ware does that better. Infact, if the unlockable bonus games on Wario Ware had all been put together to make wii play I would've been pretty ecstatic with it. As it is, I'm not even convinced it's worth the Â£5-10 extra you'd pay over just a wii remote.

Maybe not if you live on your own, but if you know anybody even slightly competitive then Table Tennis and Laser hockey are always a good half our each after the pub.

Darkflame · Post by **Darkflame** » Thu Nov 15, 2007 8:56 am 0

Ghostbiscuit wrote:But what about the tanks? I love the tanks.

Me too.
I think most people enjoy at least 1 game from Wii Play, making the fiver worth it, as long as you got someone to play with.

Atty · Post by **Atty** » Thu Nov 15, 2007 9:09 am 0

PumaG wrote:
Atty wrote:
Samus wrote:
Atty wrote:the dreadful Wii Play.
?
I personally found it to be really lazy. Worst thing I've played on Wii so far. Yes, it's a cheapy learn-how-to-use-a-wii game with a free controller lobbed in, but it clearly didn't even have 1/10th the time or effort of Wii Sports' development put into it. The only thing on it that really grabbed me was the target shooting game, and Wario Ware does that better. Infact, if the unlockable bonus games on Wario Ware had all been put together to make wii play I would've been pretty ecstatic with it. As it is, I'm not even convinced it's worth the Â£5-10 extra you'd pay over just a wii remote.
Maybe not if you live on your own, but if you know anybody even slightly competitive then Table Tennis and Laser hockey are always a good half our each after the pub.

Clearly I don't drink enough

I'm sure in time, Mario Galaxy will go onto sell well over half-a-million (maybe a million). It's going to be one of those games that Nintendo keep on shelves throughout the Wii's lifetime and will probably go onto sell very decently. Even though Zelda has been out since launch in Japan, it's only sold around 500,000 copies in total (About 1/3rd of what it's sold in the US), but it's still pootling along at a few thousand a week and remains the Wii's thirteenth best selling game for that week. It's certainally an odd one, and even though they're largely responsible for the new status quo, Nintendo also seem a bit confused by Japanese console buying trends.
It seems that the price Nintendo (and everyone else) is paying for the success of the DS in Japan is a marked lack of interest in the traditional under-the-telly console.

Flabio · Post by **Flabio** » Thu Nov 15, 2007 9:24 am 0

I dunno, looking at this weeks Japanese sales figures there still seems to be plenty of under the telly console love. Dynasty Warriors 6 has notched up nearly 300,000 in it's first week (20,000 of those sales on the 360, the rest on PS3).

The problem seems to be that Japanese gamers do love nintendo games, they just want them on their DS.

There's no 'Wii60' phenomena there, and the chances that someone will own a PS3 and a Wii are minimal. It looks like most Japanese hardcore gamers at the moment have a DS and PS3...

Jonesey · Post by **Jonesey** » Thu Nov 15, 2007 9:54 am 0

Seems like I was wrong after all - my SMG just shipped, which means in all likelihood it won't arrive 'till Monday now.

Wankers!!

Still - I'm not without a plan B: Buy one in town tomorrow on my day off and give the other one to my brother's kids at Chrimbo to go with their spankers new Wii.

Deckard · Post by **Deckard** » Thu Nov 15, 2007 11:53 am 0

I hear some branches of Game are selling SMG from 6pm tonight - can anyone confirm this ?

IronGiant · Post by **IronGiant** » Thu Nov 15, 2007 12:07 pm 0

Yay! Just got my copy of SMG.

Must resist playing it until later though as have a few things to do first (which includes waking up properly).

Ghostbiscuit · Post by **Ghostbiscuit** » Thu Nov 15, 2007 12:22 pm 0

Mine's just arrived too!

It shall be my reward in an hour or two for getting this work in front of me out of the way.

fog · Post by **fog** » Thu Nov 15, 2007 12:31 pm 0

Deckard wrote:I hear some branches of Game are selling SMG from 6pm tonight - can anyone confirm this ?

Yes, the branches are listed on Gamecentral today (Ch.4 page 691)

EDIT:
Oh and I have mine here too. A quick blast on Assassins Creed and then a proper session on Mario

Ghostbiscuit · Post by **Ghostbiscuit** » Thu Nov 15, 2007 12:33 pm 0

Something I've just noticed on the back of the SMG box, which isn't on any of my other games, is a small red boxout saying:

IMPORTANT: Unauthorised technical modifications to your Wii may render this game unplayable.

Update on the disc?

Deckard · Post by **Deckard** » Thu Nov 15, 2007 12:36 pm 0

Me out and about - can someone post the Games info as I couldnt find it online.

IronGiant · Post by **IronGiant** » Thu Nov 15, 2007 12:44 pm 0

Deckard wrote:Me out and about - can someone post the Games info as I couldnt find it online.

Try here:

http://www.pro-g.co.uk/news/12-11-2007-6870.html

BTW, it's:

Oxford Street, London; Bullring, Birmingham; Trafford Centre, Manchester; Sauchiehall Street, Glasgow; Metro Centre, Gateshead; Queen Street, Cardiff; Dawson Street, Dublin; and Donegall Arcade, Belfast.

fog · Post by **fog** » Thu Nov 15, 2007 12:49 pm 0

Ghostbiscuit wrote:Something I've just noticed on the back of the SMG box, which isn't on any of my other games, is a small red boxout saying:
IMPORTANT: Unauthorised technical modifications to your Wii may render this game unplayable.
Update on the disc?

Well mine has just done an update from the disc but, as my Wii refuses to do updates over the net, I'm not sure if it's a completely new one. I'm now at version 3.1E if that's any help.