Official Nintendo Fanboy Smugness & Gloating Thread

Darkflame · Post by **Darkflame** » Fri Sep 29, 2006 4:14 pm 0

I always hoped they would move towards giving subtle hints in the landscape.

eg. Motion in the grass, or a shadow from the sky.

Would fit the game perfectly, imo. Not only make encouters "less random", but also make the world seem more like its alive on its own.

Samus · Post by **Samus** » Fri Sep 29, 2006 6:29 pm 0

http://www.guardian.co.uk/consumer/stor ... e_continue

Flying off the shelves at ... http://www.play.com

How many sold? In nine days, 7,000 units have been pre-sold, even though they won't actually be delivered until December. That makes it the biggest and quickest launch ever on the site.

So you can play tennis, golf, or baseball, you can bowl or box or play something called Zelda Hands-on, which is a sword fighting game.

Alarm · Post by **Alarm** » Sat Sep 30, 2006 12:34 am 0

The latest Japanese software and hardware sales:

1. PS2 Minna no Tennis 87814
2. NDS Final Fantasy III 56596
3. NDS New Super Mario Bros. 56045 / 3136171
4. NDS Gintama DS: Banji Ousoudou! 39737
5. NDS Brain Training 2 34879
6. NDS Animal Crossing: Wild World 25617
7. PS2 Rurouni Kenshin: Enjou! Kyoto Rinne 24712
8. NDS Tingle RPG 23168
9. NDS Cooking Navi 22504
10. PS2 Harukanaru Toki no Naka De Maihitoyo 22100

DSL 139,835
PS2 32,673
PSP 23,118
GBASP 2,145
GBM 1,186
Xbox360 1,109
GC 763
DS 316
GBA 20
Xbox 8

I expect the new Pokemon titles to sell a bucketload - maybe even more than FF III did in its first week.

RageMatrix · Post by **RageMatrix** » Sat Sep 30, 2006 2:46 am 0

C64 titles for the Virtual Console. Epyx stuff only right now, but possibly System 3 titles?

http://www.gamasutra.com/php-bin/news_i ... tory=11060

Post by **Snakey** » Sat Sep 30, 2006 3:47 am 0

RageMatrix wrote:C64 titles for the Virtual Console. Epyx stuff only right now, but possibly System 3 titles?

http://www.gamasutra.com/php-bin/news_i ... tory=11060

Bit of a weird one, this. First of all, the C64 isn't a console. So they need to rename the thing

But more importantly - a lot of the games required at least some use of the keyboard. It'll be interesting to see how they handle this.

Marius · Post by **Marius** » Sat Sep 30, 2006 4:02 am 0

Alarm wrote:The latest Japanese software and hardware sales:

1. PS2 Minna no Tennis 87814
2. NDS Final Fantasy III 56596
3. NDS New Super Mario Bros. 56045 / 3136171
4. NDS Gintama DS: Banji Ousoudou! 39737
5. NDS Brain Training 2 34879
6. NDS Animal Crossing: Wild World 25617
7. PS2 Rurouni Kenshin: Enjou! Kyoto Rinne 24712
8. NDS Tingle RPG 23168
9. NDS Cooking Navi 22504
10. PS2 Harukanaru Toki no Naka De Maihitoyo 22100

DSL 139,835
PS2 32,673
PSP 23,118
GBASP 2,145
GBM 1,186
Xbox360 1,109
GC 763
DS 316
GBA 20
Xbox 8

I expect the new Pokemon titles to sell a bucketload - maybe even more than FF III did in its first week.

After a ten year drought it's good to see Nintendo back in business...hopefully lastingly so.

Marius · Post by **Marius** » Sat Sep 30, 2006 4:06 am 0

Darkflame wrote:I always hoped they would move towards giving subtle hints in the landscape.

eg. Motion in the grass, or a shadow from the sky.

Would fit the game perfectly, imo. Not only make encouters "less random", but also make the world seem more like its alive on its own.

I agree, subtle changes in the landscape, warning us that a "hostile" pokemon is nearby, would be great. It's been a long time since I grew tired of random ecounters, and ithat is the primary reason I've stayed away from the FF franchise ever since FF VII.

FF XII seems to be more my cup of tea

Post by **Snakey** » Sat Sep 30, 2006 4:19 am 0

But that's typical RPG type stuff. I think you might annoy the Japanese fans if you start fucking with the basics.

GeeZa · Post by **GeeZa** » Sat Sep 30, 2006 6:56 am 0

Snakey wrote:
RageMatrix wrote:C64 titles for the Virtual Console. Epyx stuff only right now, but possibly System 3 titles?

http://www.gamasutra.com/php-bin/news_i ... tory=11060
Bit of a weird one, this. First of all, the C64 isn't a console. So they need to rename the thing

Oh yeah, I also convinced my mum it would help my education too.

Erm, is this C64 games thing on the Wii for real?

Marius · Post by **Marius** » Sat Sep 30, 2006 10:36 am 0

I don't see a reason why it shouldn't be real.

Darkflame · Post by **Darkflame** » Sat Sep 30, 2006 12:47 pm 0

Yup.

Guess they are just porting ones they own the rights too + can easily map the controlls for.

So no Mercenary then ~sigh~

Sir_LANs-a-lot · Post by **Sir_LANs-a-lot** » Sat Sep 30, 2006 1:03 pm 0

Snakey wrote:
RageMatrix wrote:C64 titles for the Virtual Console. Epyx stuff only right now, but possibly System 3 titles?

http://www.gamasutra.com/php-bin/news_i ... tory=11060
Bit of a weird one, this. First of all, the C64 isn't a console. So they need to rename the thing

But more importantly - a lot of the games required at least some use of the keyboard. It'll be interesting to see how they handle this.

Yes, yes...I'm splitting hairs..

Rod_S · Post by **Rod_S** » Sat Sep 30, 2006 2:05 pm 0

Darkflame wrote:
So no Mercenary then ~sigh~

The Wii couldn't handle the graphics.

Post by **Snakey** » Sat Sep 30, 2006 11:04 pm 0

Sir_LANs-a-lot wrote:Yes, yes...I'm splitting hairs..

You're doing more than that, son

Rod_S wrote:The Wii couldn't handle the graphics.

Darkflame · Post by **Darkflame** » Sun Oct 01, 2006 12:06 am 0

Of course it cant,But I can play it on my DS ver FrodoDS emulator.
Too slow though

(for those interested it seems about 30% speed it should be...and loading times about the same as a real tape-based system)

oww..that just got me thinking, Damocles DS would be lovely.