Official Nintendo Fanboy Smugness & Gloating Thread

oxo · Post by **oxo** » Tue Sep 26, 2006 3:35 pm 0

Gameplay now have preorders open fyi!

fog · Post by **fog** » Tue Sep 26, 2006 5:19 pm 0

That Heroes intro footage is gorgeous but it's also a couple of months old. Anyone seen any gameplay footage yet?

http://www.digitimes.com/systems/a20060726A1001.html

Microsoft is planning to cut the retail price of its Xbox 360 Pro System from US$399 currently to US$299 in an attempt to compete with the PlayStation 3 (PS3), which will be launched by Sony in November of this year, according to Taiwan-based OEM component makers.

Probably bollocks but would that be to compete with the PS3 or the Wii?

teamonkey · Post by **teamonkey** » Tue Sep 26, 2006 5:29 pm 0

fog wrote:That Heroes intro footage is gorgeous but it's also a couple of months old. Anyone seen any gameplay footage yet?

Since it's from Marvelous, that could well be gameplay footage.

MegaZoid. · Post by **MegaZoid.** » Tue Sep 26, 2006 5:32 pm 0

Slapped down my 20 quid deposit for a Wii at Game (13th deposit in so hopefully i should get one on dec 8th

Terrypantsman · Post by **Terrypantsman** » Tue Sep 26, 2006 5:54 pm 0

I just read the last 20 pages of this thread.

I found it sort of creepy.

pasquinelli · Post by **pasquinelli** » Tue Sep 26, 2006 6:01 pm 0

Terrypantsman wrote:I just read the last 20 pages of this thread.

I found it sort of creepy.

lets never speak of that again.

Hajile · Post by **Hajile** » Tue Sep 26, 2006 6:59 pm 0

disciple wrote: Honestly man, take the blinkers off..

NOBODY slated you for guessing 179.99, you were slated for comparing the price of a Wii with 4 full controller sets to the price of a CORE 360! And then using that such a ridiculous comparison to show how expensive the Wii is!

See here..
http://www.yakyak.org/viewtopic.php?p=975803#975803

Hajile wrote:This was before blinkered Nintendovision had reset the fanboy's default, always-was price of the Wii to Â£179, of course. And whaddaya know, now suddenly people have no reason to have ever thought it would be Â£150, and were dicks if they thought that.
People adjusting their world view? Yeah right!

Ahem.

See here...

Gorecki wrote: This post is practically the dictionary definition of fanboyism.

Don't look at the available evidence and form an opinion on that. Instead, have an opinion right from the get-go and then cherry pick the facts to fit your argument. And if that fails just make the facts up.

Â£179.99 for the console? That's been announced where exactly?

This has been a really interesting and fun thread mostly. Let's not spoil it with petty and pointless whining, eh?

Considering Gorecki's reply above directly referenced the Â£179.99 thing, mentioned nothing of my other estimated prices and cried fanboy at me and accused me of petty whining and telling scandalous lies about Â£179, I'd say the blinkers award goes to you, disciple. Stick that in your pipe and smoke it, sunshine.

Yes, I was also lambasted for my other pricing estimates, but that's neither here nor there currently, is it? We're talking about revisionist Nintendocentric history with regards to Â£179. Which you'll see clearly if you delve into this thread in any great depth.

Predictably, I see this particular point degenerating into the usual fare where each of us will trawl the ten pages around where these quotes are lifted from, plucking anything out to quote to our advantage.

Don't play pedantry with me, matey boy, I'm the best in the world at it.

Yak · Post by **Yak** » Tue Sep 26, 2006 7:09 pm 0

Don't give a toss, shut up about it please, let's just moo-ve on and talk about the Wii shall we?

Roobarb · Post by **Roobarb** » Tue Sep 26, 2006 7:19 pm 0

Free Opera Wii for all regions until end June 2007.
http://www.opera.com/pressreleases/en/2006/09/26/

Hajile · Post by **Hajile** » Tue Sep 26, 2006 7:20 pm 0

Yak wrote:Don't give a toss, shut up about it please, let's just moo-ve on and talk about the Wii shall we?

Forgive me, I just got home from work and saw someone directly responded to a previous post of mine, and felt the need to reply, as I was unable to do so while other people were deciding on my behalf that I was going to stop talking about it.

Not that I was even talking to you. Your last post there is akin to walking across the pub to tell a stranger you don't like what they're discussing with someone else you don't know.

More than one discussion can go on in this thread. Try to be a little more accomodating, and not try to snuff out all but positive feedback.

rockwaldo · Post by **rockwaldo** » Tue Sep 26, 2006 7:25 pm 0

you want to talk to a particular person then do it via PM, you want to talk to everyone and indeed allow everyone else to talk then you do it in a thread.

And you are indeed getting very tedious now with your attempts in one-upmanship with regards to who said what about the price (which is now a forgotten arguement for those that cared about your bickering in the first place).

So yeah, go back to work or something...

Jamesac · Post by **Jamesac** » Tue Sep 26, 2006 7:31 pm 0

teamonkey wrote:
fog wrote:That Heroes intro footage is gorgeous but it's also a couple of months old. Anyone seen any gameplay footage yet?
Since it's from Marvelous, that could well be gameplay footage.

It's from Grasshopper, just like Contact on DS. Marvelous's name is in there somewhere, but the creators/developers are Grasshopper.

James

minus9 · Post by **minus9** » Tue Sep 26, 2006 7:32 pm 0

One thing I don't quite get about the free Opera download is: if you download opera before the end of June do you then "own" a copy of opera for the wii and can get updates etc or does the free download time out in June and you have to buy it?

rockwaldo · Post by **rockwaldo** » Tue Sep 26, 2006 7:33 pm 0

minus9 wrote:One thing I don't quite get about the free Opera download is: if you download opera before the end of June do you then "own" a copy of opera for the wii and can get updates etc or does the free download time out in June and you have to buy it?

The way it reads is that it is free until July and then everyone will have to buy it if they want to keep using it. I doubt it will be that expensive mind, and i think its a completely reasonable thing to do.

minus9 · Post by **minus9** » Tue Sep 26, 2006 7:38 pm 0

rockwaldo wrote: The way it reads is that it is free until July and then everyone will have to buy it if they want to keep using it. I doubt it will be that expensive mind, and i think its a completely reasonable thing to do.

That's fair enough to me, I've used Opera on and off for years under windows/linux/PDA without coughing up. I think I owe them a few quid.