Official Nintendo Fanboy Smugness & Gloating Thread

[Nixie]

Totally unrelated, just had to post this.

This is a pictrure of Toshihiro Nagoshi, creator of Monkey Ball & director of MB for Wii:



Doesn't quite look the part does he? Looks like a character from a Castlevania game or something

My mum says she wants her wardrobe back; and the eyebrow tweezers too...

[fog]

And I'm speaking from a personal point of view, as someone who owns or have owned every console imaginable. I love Nintendo, but I have just as many games for the PS2 as I have for the 'cube.

I'm still trying to come up with a plausible reason to buy the PS3, I never found one regarding the PS2...Wii had me convinced after watching Mario in action

Slightly contradictory. But I guess it depends on what argument you were trying to strengthen at the time

[supermonkeyworld]

And I'm speaking from a personal point of view, as someone who owns or have owned every console imaginable. I love Nintendo, but I have just as many games for the PS2 as I have for the 'cube.

I'm still trying to come up with a plausible reason to buy the PS3, I never found one regarding the PS2...Wii had me convinced after watching Mario in action

Slightly contradictory. But I guess it depends on what argument you were trying to strengthen at the time

It's possible to own lots of shit PS2 games, god knows I've got quite a few myself.

[Anders]

I'm still trying to come up with a plausible reason to buy the PS3, I never found one regarding the PS2...

[Bubba]

*All* the consoles have faaar to many good games to not own them. Once they get to the £100 or lower mark that is

I'm sure the same will be true of both the PS3 and the Wii. When consoles become cheap enough it becomes justifyable to own all of them. I guess the tipping point varies from person to person, but £100 or thereabouts is well within my budget if there's an awesome game or two for a system. When it came to getting a PS2 this was Katamari and Okami. Let's face it - each platform has games which can only be found on it, whether it's Guitar Hero or Mario Galaxy.

Cheers

Bubba

[phattslagg]

Apparently Guitar Hero is coming to all major platforms next year

[Bubba]

Apparently Guitar Hero is coming to all major platforms next year

*Fuck yeah!* Got any more details? And will they sell a USB to Gitaroo adapter so us poor PS2 users don't need to rush out and buy another house full of 'em?

Cheers

Bubba

[Yak]

Just got the call from Gayme - Wii deposits being taken from tomorrow .

[Kemper_Boyd]

That there is what really happened, the rest was hype as usual. If you look back at the thread, it was mainly Snakey around here who started the talk about unusually low Wii price points. The official line, however, remained the same.

There's the official line for public consumption and there's what Nintendo
was telling developers in private. I get the impression and Snakey may
agree that behind closed doors Nintendo was discussing a much lower price
with publishers and developers. It's not just Snakey who said it was going
to be cheap.

[grue]

Just got the call from Gayme - Wii deposits being taken from tomorrow .

*Imagines a water tank labeled Game*

[Bubba]

That there is what really happened, the rest was hype as usual. If you look back at the thread, it was mainly Snakey around here who started the talk about unusually low Wii price points. The official line, however, remained the same.

There's the official line for public consumption and there's what Nintendo
was telling developers in private. I get the impression and Snakey may
agree that behind closed doors Nintendo was discussing a much lower price
with publishers and developers. It's not just Snakey who said it was going
to be cheap.

Honestly, I don't think many people expected what largely amounts to a gamecube and a new controller to cost virtually as much as an X360. I was expecting around gamecube launch price, not that much higher.

Honestly, with Ninty fans all appears to be fine and rosy. We won't know whether it succeeds in bringing new people into gaming till well over a year. If a console or handheld *doesn't* sell out at launch (cough, cough, Jizzmongdoh) then there's something seriously wrong. Christmas 2007 will be an interesting time, as all platforms will have had a bit more time to mature by then!

Cheers

Bubba

[phattslagg]

I think they've simply taken the decision to make as much profit as they can on the initial wave of interest, especially with the launch being so close to Christmas. Inevitable price-drop will then follow in time for PS3 launch.

If they time it right, I think it'll work out OK for them.

[Anders]

Apparently Guitar Hero is coming to all major platforms next year

Great news and I hope they at least consider producing slightly bigger guitars...

[Marius]

And I'm speaking from a personal point of view, as someone who owns or have owned every console imaginable. I love Nintendo, but I have just as many games for the PS2 as I have for the 'cube.

I'm still trying to come up with a plausible reason to buy the PS3, I never found one regarding the PS2...Wii had me convinced after watching Mario in action

Slightly contradictory. But I guess it depends on what argument you were trying to strengthen at the time

I obviously meant at launch, since I aquired my first PS2 only a few months ago. I've been going crazy in the bargain-bins lately...plenty of catching up to do

[fog]

And I'm speaking from a personal point of view, as someone who owns or have owned every console imaginable. I love Nintendo, but I have just as many games for the PS2 as I have for the 'cube.

I'm still trying to come up with a plausible reason to buy the PS3, I never found one regarding the PS2...Wii had me convinced after watching Mario in action

Slightly contradictory. But I guess it depends on what argument you were trying to strengthen at the time

I obviously meant at launch, since I aquired my first PS2 only a few months ago. I've been going crazy in the bargain-bins lately...plenty of catching up to do

I was winding you up. Now get back to Guitar Hero