Official Nintendo Fanboy Smugness & Gloating Thread

D.J.Fudge · Post by **D.J.Fudge** » Mon Sep 25, 2006 10:36 am 0

I booked mine at gamestation on Saturday. I'm number 15 on the list

Yak · Post by **Yak** » Mon Sep 25, 2006 10:38 am 0

I'm #6 on Carmarthen's Gayme list, would have been #5 but for some fat bint who got there before me

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I'm sure #1-#4 must have been inside jobs, the place was barely open when i got there!

One up from last year, I was #7 for the ox360

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TFO · Post by **TFO** » Mon Sep 25, 2006 10:50 am 0

Yak wrote:One up from last year, I was #7 for the ox360 .

Still can't believe they didn't give you a free one.

Roobarb · Post by **Roobarb** » Mon Sep 25, 2006 10:52 am 0

Snakey wrote:You think fleecing your customers like that is a good idea? I don't.

Speaking as a customer, no I don't. But then Nintendo don't really stand out in as fleecing their customers more than many other companies. Look at Apple and iPods, or HP and printer ink, or Gillette and razor blades, or Microsoft and Windows/Office, etc. They all make very healthy profits on those as well, but they're still very successful. And aren't price cuts 6 months after a new model of tech is introduced par for the course these days?

Snakey wrote:Big difference. They may well be planning on doing a) (hell, they did it with the N64. Twice. That didn't really piss off their most loyal fan base even slightly, did it? )

Dunno, wasn't playing games around that time, but wasn't the price of the games (and lack of them) more a problem than the console price? I get the impression Nintendo could do just about anything and their loyal fanbase would still buy it. It's the mainstream audience they need to worry about, and are they going to actually know/care about the parts cost of a console , and whether it was more expensive a few months ago?

I don't know; I agree with you in that I would have liked to see Nintendo do something really different and price really aggressively from the start, as now they've lost some good will in the influential gamer community, at least in the US/Europe by charging full whack for a budget-game pack-in. But long term will it make any difference if the price is subsequently right? Are developers/publishers running away from the Wii just because of a high launch price?

matt303 · Post by **matt303** » Mon Sep 25, 2006 1:10 pm 0

One million units for US Wii launch

They'll flood the market

HGFB · Post by **HGFB** » Mon Sep 25, 2006 1:33 pm 0

21 at the Midlesbrough Game here. Despite their original plans they've gone ahead with taking preorders not knowing how many units each store will be allocated. I hope Nintendo treat Europe right for once or MS will own Christmas

Darkflame · Post by **Darkflame** » Mon Sep 25, 2006 2:44 pm 0

Roobarb wrote:
namor7 wrote:
Bubba wrote:*All* the consoles have faaar to many good games to not own them. Once they get to the Â£100 or lower mark that is
Right on
I already buy nearly a game a month, just on Nintendo (portable and home) consoles , and like Darkflame:
Darkflame wrote:I always complete games, and I make sure too only buy a game when I am sure I will want too complete it
How on earth anyone can find the time to play every good game on every console is beyond me, unless you hardly ever complete any of them

Thats exactly it....theres far too many games too be able too!
I feel I am quite selective.
But then, I am still playing Pikmen2 and Tales of Samphonia.

I also, naturely, got a heck of a lot of games too catch up on.
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As for past console prices:
http://curmudgeongamer.com/media/consol ... lative.pdf
$284.5775 is the average past price. (from Nes,Snes,N64,GC)

In real money thats Â£149.56 GBP

So, it seems to me if Nintendo said "look at our old prices" they were being perfectly honest.
The question is more over the pack-in WiiSports game being a forced packin.

Governmentyard · Post by **Governmentyard** » Mon Sep 25, 2006 2:48 pm 0

Cardiff have 35 pre orders and that should be over 40 by the time I get to their Gamestation on Friday. Looks like I'll not be getting one, so might just spend the money on something else and get a Wii next summer or Xmas. As with gig tickets and the like, I'm not interested in pushing to get something not freely available.

Shame as I've been really looking forward to the Wii but I'd sooner not even think about them if this whole thing of getting tantalisingly close to ownership and then not being able to buy one is going to be the case for the majority. I'd preorder if I were guaranteed one but why tease myself?

Can't preorder over the phone and can't preorder for this branch in that branch either, and the money I'm using to pay for it doesn't come for 3 weeks so I can't preorder online either, plus the city I need it delivering to is very different to the one my cards are registered in which can also be a problem.

The websites are giving fuck all away. Play say 'first come first served' great - so tell me where I would be in the queue and how many of any console you typically get on launch day, then I'll preorder

So frustrating that I'm guaranteed to have the money and will know exactly where I'll be but can;t even let myself in with a chance of getting one

Governmentyard · Post by **Governmentyard** » Mon Sep 25, 2006 2:50 pm 0

HGFB wrote:21 at the Midlesbrough Game here. Despite their original plans they've gone ahead with taking preorders not knowing how many units each store will be allocated. I hope Nintendo treat Europe right for once or MS will own Christmas

Various shop workers say they'll be very surprised if they get more than 20 units in the average provincial Gamestation.

Meanwhile some snot-nosed brat's mum is able to pick one up in Asda without queuing at all the same day deperate game fans are disappointed at their local games shop. The wise man is better off saying bollocks to the whole process.

Darkflame · Post by **Darkflame** » Mon Sep 25, 2006 2:54 pm 0

I am 11th in line to Wii at my local Gamestation.

Nintendo UK claim they have more for launch then ever before.

Do we have any figures anywhere for this "before" ?

HGFB · Post by **HGFB** » Mon Sep 25, 2006 2:55 pm 0

Darkflame wrote:Do we have any figures anywhere for this "before" ?

Just US figures and that worries me. The US are getting 1 million

Governmentyard · Post by **Governmentyard** » Mon Sep 25, 2006 2:57 pm 0

HGFB wrote:
Darkflame wrote:Do we have any figures anywhere for this "before" ?
Just US figures and that worries me. The US are getting 1 million

So probably 1 million for Eurpoe as well, and 2 for Japan?

In which case how many for the UK?

Darkflame · Post by **Darkflame** » Mon Sep 25, 2006 2:59 pm 0

So, more for japan then US you recon? (unlike ps3)
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I meant, do we have past figures for the UK?
If he claims we have more stock at launch in the UK,then say, the N64 or Snes?

HGFB · Post by **HGFB** » Mon Sep 25, 2006 3:00 pm 0

goatboy wrote: In which case how many for the UK?

5. They'll be on Ebay 10 minutes after Game opens.

Roobarb · Post by **Roobarb** » Mon Sep 25, 2006 3:05 pm 0

Gamecube European launch stock was 500,000. Sold 400,00 in the first week in Europe, and 75,000 in the first two days in the UK.

But then knowing Dave Yarnton, he probably means "We'll get more than the UK quota available at Japanese launch" - i.e. more than 0