Official Nintendo Fanboy Smugness & Gloating Thread

[disciple]

Very positive impressions from a non gaming site in UK:

http://www.entertainmentwise.com/news?id=23483

Smiling. The Wii is about smiling gamers. I have seen the launch of many machines and gadgets, with expressions of surprise and admiration at graphics etc. But nothing comes close to this. No matter who you are and why you play games; you pick it up, you start smiling, even laughing straight away. The joy of gaming should be for everyone, and the Wii has brought joy to the face of every gamer I’ve seen touch it. Thanks, Nintendo. You’re brave enough to make fun once again the king of why we play games. Thank God someone thinks games should be fun before they’re anything else at all.

[Darkflame]

Its starting to seem as if the Wii has big subliminal messages in it going "FUN FUN FUN"

The doggle is just like a wireless card though, surely its the software side that would determain what security it supports?

The DS dongle comes with software. It's not a hardware only solution

Yes, but software can be upgraded.

For that mater, does Nintendos software even need to be used?
If windows picks it up as a usb wi-fi device, it might not even need it.

[HGFB]

I'm starting to think the reason Nintendo aren't mentioning Wifi security is because they have none (WEP is no real form of security these days)

[Yak]

Very positive impressions from a non gaming site in UK:

http://www.entertainmentwise.com/news?id=23483

Smiling. The Wii is about smiling gamers. I have seen the launch of many machines and gadgets, with expressions of surprise and admiration at graphics etc. But nothing comes close to this. No matter who you are and why you play games; you pick it up, you start smiling, even laughing straight away. The joy of gaming should be for everyone, and the Wii has brought joy to the face of every gamer I’ve seen touch it. Thanks, Nintendo. You’re brave enough to make fun once again the king of why we play games. Thank God someone thinks games should be fun before they’re anything else at all.

I'm really looking forward to my Wii now.

More and more I'm just getting the feeling that Ninty have got things *right*. I don't give a toss if the actual guts are just GC++. That's not the point .

[GeeZa]

Wii Pre-orders in the US pretty much sold out in the first day. Supply is almost certainly not going to meet demand.

[Darkflame]

The US is getting 1 million or 2 million?
How many of that is preorderable?
(just trying to get an idea what the preorder sale out means in terms of sales)

[Marius]

Wii sports alone seems worth the asking price for the console and I can honestly say that I haven't been this excited about a console launch since I first saw pictures of Mario 64 and Zelda Oot

And like Yak said, it being the least powerful doesn't really matter, something the DS has proven again and again.

Also, I would love if they somehow managed to integrate the controller and nunchuk into classic games, for instance using it as a yolk in Thunderblade or flapping both controllers like wings in Pilot Wings(perhaps too geeky? Nah..).

My god, the possibilities are endless

[Jamesac]

Reserved.

Almost wrote pre-ordered, then tried to put the "pre" together with the "ordered" and realized it doesn't actually make sense. My reserve is an order, nothing "pre" about it. Why use a senselss phrase when I've already got a perfectly good word meaning exactly what I'm trying to say?

So yeah, tangent aside, it's paid in full. But the Wai-ai-ting is the har-dest part! Doo doo do, do do doo do.

James

[amanset]

I've got my deposit paid and all but they haven't even announced a price yet for this part of the world.

Damn annoying really.

[ThetaReactor]

Not pre-ordered.

Was up all night wishing my leg would just go ahead and fall off, overslept.

Poo.

[Atty]

I was bored yesterday, so I edited together about 8:23 of gameplay footage of the latest build of Red Steel compiled from the four recent Ubisoft event videos that were posted a couple of days ago. Stage 6 has started working for me, so I've uploaded it there.

http://stage6.divx.com/members/175181/videos/1020131

I've basically removed anything that isn't footage of the game being played, including the developer talky bits, those irritatingly frequent (and disorientating) pan-to-wiimote/hand shots and I also tried to edit out the worst of the camera wobble.

The quality isn't quite as high I hoped, but I wanted to keep it well under 100MB so uploading it doesn't take a month of sundays.

I meant to also upload it to youtube, but my connection has gone really twatty.

[Darkflame]

Nice!
[/said in a borat style voice]

[Kemper_Boyd]

But no fur effects.

James

Uhh, you really _should_ know this by now. According to all the pics, vids (especially the ones I posted on pages 19, 47 and 59), hands-on reports and rumours the fur is there. It is also powerful.

Ignoring the resolution of these October 13th 'screen caps'.

Where's the fur gone?

http://uk.media.wii.ign.com/media/821/8 ... mgs_1.html

[Samus]

But no fur effects.

James

Uhh, you really _should_ know this by now. According to all the pics, vids (especially the ones I posted on pages 19, 47 and 59), hands-on reports and rumours the fur is there. It is also powerful.

Ignoring the resolution of these October 13th 'screen caps'.

Where's the fur gone?

http://uk.media.wii.ign.com/media/821/8 ... mgs_1.html

You might want to check page 19 for anything related, didn't bother to check 47 or 59 myself. And maybe also the context of my post, it is also powerful.

[Marius]

The fur is strong with this one.