Official Nintendo Fanboy Smugness & Gloating Thread

Mayhem · Post by **Mayhem** » Mon Sep 25, 2006 3:37 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

Previous reports had mentioned 2 million for the US, which sounded far more likely to me viz:

US - 2 million
Japan - 1.2 million
Europe - 0.8 million

(that's my estimated breakdown btw at the time)

If the US is only getting one million, means a hell of a lot more are staying in Japan then.

oxo · Post by **oxo** » Mon Sep 25, 2006 3:41 pm 0

just got back from my Gayme in Stockport after they kindly rang me.
Im number 25

What annoyed me was the fact I registered my interest months ago with
them yet I only got in the queue once I paid my Â£20. P1ss poor service
if you ask me, luckily I was able to drop everything and get down there.

Governmentyard · Post by **Governmentyard** » Mon Sep 25, 2006 3:43 pm 0

I might get kites instead.

Roobarb · Post by **Roobarb** » Mon Sep 25, 2006 3:47 pm 0

Mayhem wrote:Previous reports had mentioned 2 million for the US, which sounded far more likely to me

Wasn't that 2million out of the 4million expected to be shipped by end of 2004? In which case...1 million ready for launch and another million by the end of the year?

Edit: have any of the shops signing up for pre-orders said if they're going to make up their own bundles, and what the prices would be, or are they all sticking to the Â£179 Wii + Sports package?

Yak · Post by **Yak** » Mon Sep 25, 2006 3:48 pm 0

goatboy wrote:I might get kites instead.

You've already got a kite.

Darkflame · Post by **Darkflame** » Mon Sep 25, 2006 4:32 pm 0

Roobarb wrote:
Mayhem wrote:Previous reports had mentioned 2 million for the US, which sounded far more likely to me
Wasn't that 2million out of the 4million expected to be shipped by end of 2004? In which case...1 million ready for launch and another million by the end of the year?

Edit: have any of the shops signing up for pre-orders said if they're going to make up their own bundles, and what the prices would be, or are they all sticking to the Â£179 Wii + Sports package?

The "contract" I signed with gamestation was just for the Â£179+Wiisports package.
Â£20 deposit.

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

hehe

Still, I think there will be plenty, even for the UK.

supermonkeyworld · Post by **supermonkeyworld** » Mon Sep 25, 2006 4:45 pm 0

Popped in after work today, #35

fog · Post by **fog** » Mon Sep 25, 2006 6:59 pm 0

supermonkeyworld wrote:Popped in after work today, #35

I pre-ordered from Play within an hour of them starting to take orders.

Drawback with that is I have no idea where I am in the queue. Wonder if they'll give me any advance notification of whether I'm likely to receive one or not?

Governmentyard · Post by **Governmentyard** » Mon Sep 25, 2006 7:38 pm 0

Yak wrote:
goatboy wrote:I might get kites instead.
You've already got a kite.

A bigger kite. With a buggy attatched to it. For zooming.

Louis G · Post by **Louis G** » Mon Sep 25, 2006 8:12 pm 0

im waiting to see who does the best deal.

louis

grue · Post by **grue** » Mon Sep 25, 2006 8:14 pm 0

Louis G wrote:im waiting to see who does the best deal.

louis

Deckard · Post by **Deckard** » Mon Sep 25, 2006 8:19 pm 0

Louis G wrote:and if anyone has Â£28k spare then please buy me a VW Eos

louis

My sister has had one for a month - been back to garage twice with the roof mechanism failing

Quite a good site for the overall picture -

http://www.wiipreorder.co.uk/

Lifer Riley · Post by **Lifer Riley** » Mon Sep 25, 2006 8:28 pm 0

Went into Game at lunchtime, paid me twenny. Number 16 on the list. "Better get one" says I. "I can't see us getting less than 50" replies he.

Most happy felt I. Warm with the knowledge that I'm not being as tardy as I was with the 360 last Christmas and I won't have to be drinking to blot out the horrific gloats this year.

Samus · Post by **Samus** » Mon Sep 25, 2006 8:33 pm 0

Ooooh boy....I'm gonna do this once more.

I'll do it quote by quote. And no Namor, I don't think I'm the one taking it out of context.

Snakey wrote:
Samus wrote:Please explain
You should know by now that if I say something, I've probably got very good reasons to believe it. I don't make this stuff up. And you know it.

Well, what you said was this:

Snakey wrote:That's what they were promising - it'd be really cheap.

What they've said publically, at least from the beginning of January 2006, is that it's going to be under 300$ (later changed to under 250$) and that it's going to be an affordable price.

So, no, they weren't promising anything like that at all.

Snakey wrote:
Samus wrote:Everybody? Extremely cheap? In your head buddy.
Yeah, if that's what you want to believe.

Nothing to believe here, man. Many people were not sucked into the "extremely cheap" hype. Most of the people who were talking about it were not exactly the biggest fans of the company either, now how could that be?

Snakey wrote:
Samus wrote:The rest of this quote (wherever that came)
..from your previous post?

Uhh, I meant that I wondered how the rest of what I quoted from you there had anything to do with what I was talking about => your stance that Nintendo lead everyone to believe the system was going to be unusually and extremely cheap.

Snakey wrote:
Samus wrote:Even less? Well, yeah, maybe if you cut it up like that, but why do you feel the need to quote so selectively?
Err... I quoted what you quoted.

Yeah, but either you didn't understand it the way I do, or just did some very selective quoting to make a point that wasn't there in the first place. I will look at the quote from Iwata again, just to make sure I wasn't wrong. Coming up just under this one.

Snakey wrote:
Samus wrote:This doesn't mean affordable as in compared to a GameCube, and you know it.
Maybe it doesn't if you've been brainwashed. But back in the real world, that's exactly what it says. Right there. In English. Read it again. "and when we say affordable, you may want to check our past records of price points, launching price points for any past hardware..." - yeah, that doesn't mean affordable compared to previous stuff at all, does it? Oh, wait. That's exactly what it actually says.

Ok then, let's have a look at the full quote once again:

Satoru Iwata:

[Laughs] As you know, that is speculation and we did not comment on the price point at all. What we've been repeatedly saying is that it's going to be an affordable price point, and when we say affordable, you may want to check our past records of price points, launching price points for any past hardware... I think you'll agree that we always come up with an affordable price point. So when we announce the Wii price point in the near future, I believe you are going to say, "That's an affordable price point."

I bolded the important part.

Now look at the full quote and place it into context.

Does it say that we're gonna launch Wii at an affordable price compared to all our past records of price points (the previous consoles)?

OR

Does it say that we've always launched our consoles at an affordable price point and we're going to do it again with Wii?

Now, I'm not English, but I do think that I'm right here?

I'd like some alternative views on this as well.

If I've misunderstood this quote, my sincerest apologies to everyone.

Bubba · Post by **Bubba** » Mon Sep 25, 2006 8:43 pm 0

Cheers

Bubba