Official Nintendo Fanboy Smugness & Gloating Thread

F-ZeroOne · Post by **F-ZeroOne** » Wed Dec 19, 2007 8:44 pm 0

I somehow struck lucky and got a Wii today. And I only had to tear three people apart with my teeth to do it.

I've never been much of a Nintendo person; mostly by happenstance than any kind of fanboyism. My first games machines were computers, then a MegaDrive and a PlayStation. I was always aware that somewhere, deep in Kyoto, there was this little friendly Japanese guy called Shiggy whose video-game creating brain was the size of a small planet, but asides from an odd encounter with a Mario or a Zelda here and there, Nintendo has largely passed me by.

Now, I could go on here about what a clever little thing the Wii is, but I think the best way I can sum it up is by saying that my parents have played more Wii Sports this evening than any other video game I've introduced them to in the past thirty years.

Can I have a go please?

Col · Post by **Col** » Wed Dec 19, 2007 8:49 pm 0

I was in Nottingham today finishing off my christmas shopping, walked past Gamestation and Virgin (zavvi...whatever) and saw that they'd got 'limited Wii's in stock', but were only selling them in packages where you have to buy five games with it. Virgin's deal saw you pay Â£350, with probably shite games that they can't shift.

The stoopid public will pay this amount though. Clever work, Nintendo!

IronGiant · Post by **IronGiant** » Wed Dec 19, 2007 9:42 pm 0

Or, instead of being ripped off, you can buy the basic Wii plus Wii Sports from Amazon:

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Nintendo-Wii-Co ... B0007UATDG

EDIT: When they haven't sold out of course.

disciple · Post by **disciple** » Wed Dec 19, 2007 10:17 pm 0

Col wrote:The stoopid public will pay this amount though. Clever work, Nintendo!

I'm not sure it's Nintendo...

"Retailers have already been given feedback that we are not big fans of that. We think it masks some of the price advantage we have versus our competition and, frankly, the consumer should decide what they want," Reggie Fils-Aime, president of Nintendo of America, told Reuters in an interview.

http://www.dailytech.com/Nintendo+Frown ... e10066.htm

F-ZeroOne · Post by **F-ZeroOne** » Wed Dec 19, 2007 11:46 pm 0

Col wrote:I was in Nottingham today finishing off my christmas shopping, walked past Gamestation and Virgin (zavvi...whatever) and saw that they'd got 'limited Wii's in stock', but were only selling them in packages where you have to buy five games with it. Virgin's deal saw you pay Â£350, with probably shite games that they can't shift.

The stoopid public will pay this amount though. Clever work, Nintendo!

Mine was a bundle as well, but Â£270 with three games - which seemed to be any kind, so I picked up Super Mario Galaxy, Metal Slug Anthology and Resident Evil 4.

This was in Exeter, by the way - the Virigin stores been renamed something stupid, but its the one in the new shopping arcade.

F-ZeroOne · Post by **F-ZeroOne** » Wed Dec 19, 2007 11:47 pm 0

Col wrote:I was in Nottingham today finishing off my christmas shopping, walked past Gamestation and Virgin (zavvi...whatever) and saw that they'd got 'limited Wii's in stock', but were only selling them in packages where you have to buy five games with it. Virgin's deal saw you pay Â£350, with probably shite games that they can't shift.

The stoopid public will pay this amount though. Clever work, Nintendo!

Mine was a bundle as well, but Â£270 with three games - which seemed to be any kind, so I picked up Super Mario Galaxy, Metal Slug Anthology and Resident Evil 4.

This was in Exeter, by the way - the Virigin stores been renamed something stupid, but its the one in the new shopping arcade. Oh, thats it up there - Zavvi.

Flabio · Post by **Flabio** » Thu Dec 20, 2007 12:23 am 0

And lets face it, as a retailer do you really want to get on the Reggienator's bad side?

Misfit · Post by **Misfit** » Thu Dec 20, 2007 1:33 am 0

Amazon has had stock all afternoon and still has now at rrp with no bundle.

Play had stock at rrp for a good few hours too and I heard a lot of shops got big deliveries today.

For Amazon to still have stock suggests they are finally meeting demand?

Governmentyard · Post by **Governmentyard** » Thu Dec 20, 2007 4:38 am 0

Places like Game - if you ask for the console with no bundle they will tend to sell you one - but they aren't gonna encourage people not to buy bundles by pushing the console by itself too much.

Plus there's a vague law about not making buying thing 2 a condition of sale of thing 1, though there's a more concrete version of this in America which still gets ignored.

benedictw · Post by **benedictw** » Thu Dec 20, 2007 10:14 am 0

Flabio wrote:And lets face it, as a retailer do you really want to get on the Reggienator's bad side?

You're a retailer. You're ALREADY on NOE's bad side.

Deckard · Post by **Deckard** » Thu Dec 20, 2007 2:56 pm 0

http://gizmodo.com/335871/paper-mario-a ... 60-seconds

Nice little Nintenty animation

Governmentyard · Post by **Governmentyard** » Thu Dec 20, 2007 11:34 pm 0

I wonder what the Xmas VC releases shall be?

I hope Unirally because I love it.

/edit NES: Skate or Die, Blades of Steel
PC Engine: Monster Lair

Missed a trick there, Nintendo. I guess they want people buying full price stuff over the Xmas period.

Jamie · Post by **Jamie** » Fri Dec 21, 2007 11:08 am 0

Goatboy wrote:I wonder what the Xmas VC releases shall be?

I hope Unirally because I love it.

/edit NES: Skate or Die, Blades of Steel
PC Engine: Monster Lair

Missed a trick there, Nintendo. I guess they want people buying full price stuff over the Xmas period.

There might be something on xmas day maybe? Didn't they release something for free last year on xmas day? I didn't have a Wii at the time so can't properly remember.

Baggypants · Post by **Baggypants** » Fri Dec 21, 2007 11:16 am 0

Jamie wrote:
Goatboy wrote:I wonder what the Xmas VC releases shall be?

I hope Unirally because I love it.

/edit NES: Skate or Die, Blades of Steel
PC Engine: Monster Lair

Missed a trick there, Nintendo. I guess they want people buying full price stuff over the Xmas period.
There might be something on xmas day maybe? Didn't they release something for free last year on xmas day? I didn't have a Wii at the time so can't properly remember.

The beta version internet channel wasn't it? Valentines day was the Everybody votes channel, or was that mothers day?

edit: no, the internet channel was the 22nd of Dec, nothing was released on Christmas day.

Ghostbiscuit · Post by **Ghostbiscuit** » Fri Dec 21, 2007 7:26 pm 0

Didn't US Wii owners get a free Super Mario Bros. download or something? That rings a bell.