Official Nintendo Fanboy Smugness & Gloating Thread

Perkunas · Post by **Perkunas** » Fri Jul 07, 2006 10:41 pm 0

I am shocked. My mum bought Brain Training a few days ago, and now she wants me to buy a Japanese DS.lite for her when I am in Tokyo.

Managed to settle a trade where she'll get my old DS and I'll just have the DS.lite, without me having to pay for anything though.

Rod_S · Post by **Rod_S** » Fri Jul 07, 2006 10:48 pm 0

Loving the look of this drumming simulation:

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid ... 8705&q=wii

Give me this fucking console NOW, please.

namor7 · Post by **namor7** » Sat Jul 08, 2006 1:22 am 0

Perkunas wrote:I am shocked. My mum bought Brain Training a few days ago, and now she wants me to buy a Japanese DS.lite for her when I am in Tokyo.

Managed to settle a trade where she'll get my old DS and I'll just have the DS.lite, without me having to pay for anything though.

Nice move

...and great vids, Disciple & Rod.

I had no idea the drum game could be so cool

D.J.Fudge · Post by **D.J.Fudge** » Tue Jul 11, 2006 9:32 am 0

Total sales of DS consoles in Europe now over 5 million units

Nintendo has this morning announced sales figures for the DS Lite in Europe, revealing that 200,000 units of the new handheld were sold through in ten days following its launch - despite concerns that it would be swamped by World Cup fever.

Total sales of the DS and DS Lite in Europe have been nudged over the 5 million unit mark by the early success of DS Lite, which is priced at around 150 Euro and rolled out in two colours - white and black - on June 23rd.

According to Nintendo of Europe's marketing director Laurent Fischer, the launch of the console has reinforced the company's claim that it is broadening the market for videogames into new demographics.

"Retailers across Europe said that they had never seen such a vast array of different people buying the product, everyone from business men to young women to grandfathers," he commented.

The firm is also celebrating the success of several of the software titles for the Nintendo DS - with Nintendogs still by far the most powerful title on the platform in Europe, with over three million units of the software now sold in the region in the wake of the launch of the most recent version, Dalmatian and Friends.

Animal Crossing: Wild World has also been a success, with 600,000 copies sold since it launched in March, while Dr Kawashima's Brain Training has reached 250,000 sales across Europe - a far cry from its 2.5 million selling performance in Japan, but the title looks set to continue to sell steadily for some time.

Marius · Post by **Marius** » Tue Jul 11, 2006 9:44 am 0

Aah, the future is looking bright for Nintendo fanboys

I showed the drumming simulation to a friend of mine, one who is pretty pro-sony. He actually managed to whine about not being able to play bass drums, and without that, he didn't see the point.

There is a snowballs chance in hell satisfying some people...

Nixie · Post by **Nixie** » Tue Jul 11, 2006 9:36 pm 0

That drumming vid looks awesome!

http://www.gonintendo.com are reporting a nintendo fair is happening on july 12th (thats pretty much now right?) Its supposedly for retailers so as such I'd expect a Wii launch date to be given to them...?

Nixie

Flabio · Post by **Flabio** » Wed Jul 12, 2006 10:44 am 0

Ooh look, it's another special edition DS Lite...

http://www.watch.impress.co.jp/game/doc ... 2/ff01.htm

Perkunas · Post by **Perkunas** » Wed Jul 12, 2006 10:51 am 0

Flabio wrote:Ooh look, it's another special edition DS Lite...

http://www.watch.impress.co.jp/game/doc ... 2/ff01.htm

Jet Black DS Lite is also on its way.

Winning Eleven DS, Yakuman DS and Mahjong DS all confirmed to have WiFi.

Anders · Post by **Anders** » Wed Jul 12, 2006 12:09 pm 0

Dammit, that drum sim looks awesome. It's unlike anything I've ever seen on a console before.

I need to own that and make my neighbours hate me.

Post by **Snakey** » Wed Jul 12, 2006 11:29 pm 0

Figured this was the best thread to post this in... Apologies if it's already been done, don't have time to check right now...

Given that "Analysts" have been saying they think the PS3 will come out on top eventually, but only marginally behind 360, and that the Wii will come in a very distant third, I found this amusing

http://next-gen.biz/index.php?option=co ... 3&Itemid=2

phattslagg · Post by **phattslagg** » Thu Jul 13, 2006 12:15 am 0

Marius wrote:Aah, the future is looking bright for Nintendo fanboys

I showed the drumming simulation to a friend of mine, one who is pretty pro-sony. He actually managed to whine about not being able to play bass drums, and without that, he didn't see the point.

Hmm.. would there be anything stopping them making a footswitch add-on, which would plug into the nunchuck port?

You could have 2 Wii sticks + 2 footpedals, and play a full drum kit

Governmentyard · Post by **Governmentyard** » Thu Jul 13, 2006 12:25 am 0

When is it page 50?

Jamesac · Post by **Jamesac** » Thu Jul 13, 2006 4:56 am 0

Snakey wrote:Figured this was the best thread to post this in... Apologies if it's already been done, don't have time to check right now...

Given that "Analysts" have been saying they think the PS3 will come out on top eventually, but only marginally behind 360, and that the Wii will come in a very distant third, I found this amusing

http://next-gen.biz/index.php?option=co ... 3&Itemid=2

Now be fair, that's a Japanese company talking about Sony vs. Nintendo. The 360 is only a curiosity there, not any kind of market force. The idea of Microsoft being anyone's competitor over there is just silly.

James

Post by **Snakey** » Thu Jul 13, 2006 10:32 am 0

Well yeah, I was more talking about the fact that nobody over there seems to give a toss about the PS3. Which is surprising, no ?

Yak · Post by **Yak** » Thu Jul 13, 2006 10:35 am 0

Snakey wrote:Well yeah, I was more talking about the fact that nobody over there seems to give a toss about the PS3. Which is surprising, no ?

Not to me, really, because that is pretty much exactly how I feel... definitely having the Wii and a few games as soon as it's out, PS3 is in the "maybe next year sometime" category...