Official Nintendo Fanboy Smugness & Gloating Thread

[disciple]

Wii Sports impressions, Kotaku not overly impressed.

http://www.kotaku.com/gaming/wii/wii-sp ... 214124.php

[Rod_S]

http://www.kotaku.com/gaming/wii/wii-sp ... 214124.php

Did anyone else get Biorhythms bundled with their Speccy? Christmas day = gutted.

That's Wii Sports, that is.

[Deckard]

Or Pac Man with their Atari VCS

Or quite a few non-free PS3 games yesterday

[Darkflame]

Wii online showing enforced updates:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lZfX5wIt_n4&NR

Pwned Darkflame!

Cheers

Bubba

Not quite. I wasnt saying it wouldnt update...indeed, we all suspected as much from the "setup disc" listed on the box too. And, in fact, they talked about adding Wii-channels later,so we knew it would be updated at least some time. At launch is obvious they are making the systems as the firmware is still worked on.

Im merely skeptical the updates will be gamecube related, and thus freeloader-disableing.
I just think the gamecube mode is likely to be straight lowering the clockspeed and running things exactly as a gamecube.

[ThetaReactor]

Between the Gamespot idjits and the guy with the "freaking out" GC controller [ZOMG it's freaking out! I plugged the remote into the wrong slot!], I'm convinced that everyone with a Wii right now is absolutely fucking braindead.

Jesus Fucking Christ, man. The rest of the world figured out miscalibrated joysticks a decade ago. The N64 even had a soft reset function built in for it.

[A Black Falcon]

Yeah, some of that stuff was pretty painful... I mean, a gamer who has never had a controller do that before? Ever? That's unbelievable... all he had to do was unplug it and plug it in again...

[fog]

Between the Gamespot idjits and the guy with the "freaking out" GC controller [ZOMG it's freaking out! I plugged the remote into the wrong slot!], I'm convinced that everyone with a Wii right now is absolutely fucking braindead.

Aye and they are all getting seemingly final copies of Excite Truck even though it's been dropped as a launch title.

[DocDaneeka]

Anyone know if I can I use my old Gamecube RGB Scart with the Wii or will I have to buy a new one?

[MegaZoid.]

Realy looikingforward to excite truck , ive been watching the videos on ign and it looks like my kind of game

[arbster]

Anyone know if I can I use my old Gamecube RGB Scart with the Wii or will I have to buy a new one?

From Wikipedia:

"Nintendo has stated that the Wii console will not be compatible with the GameCube modem adapter, broadband adapter, Game Boy Player, AV cable, or AC adaptor."

I hope it is wrong...but I guess it isn't. I may in the end try and get a Wii at launch and I suspect this will be another expense. Damn

[Roobarb]

AFAIK the AV port on the Wii is different as it combines the functionality of the gamecube digital (used for component) and analogue ports.

Moving away from the Wii for a minute, the NPD October US Console Sales are in, and the DS Lite continues its quest for global domination.

Hardware Sales
NDS - 360,000
PS2 - 235,000
360 - 218,000
GBA - 169,000
PSP - 130,000
GCN - 32,000
XBX - 3,500

Software Sales
NDS - 1,300,000
PSP - 650,000

The software sales figure is particularly interesting, as the DS installed base is only 20% higher in the US than the PSP installed base. Presumably a lot of PSP owners can't find anything they want to play.

In US, DS had sold 6.6M, and PSP 5.3M, by end Oct 06
In Japan, DS had sold 11.5M, and PSP 4.2M, by end Sep 06
In Europe DS had sold 6M, and PSP 4.5M (estimated) by end Aug 06.

Averaged DS:PSP sales since DS Lite launch in each territory:
2.5:1 in US (3.5:1 DS+GBA:PSP sales), with averaged DS sales of ~400,000/month
5.5:1 in Japan (GBA sales negligible), with averaged DS sales of ~750,000/month
4.5:1 in Europe (5.5:1 DS+GBA:PSP sales) (estimated), with averaged DS sales of ~450,000/month

Those gun-happy yanks are little slow to get with the beat, but basically everywhere else on average the DS Lite is outselling the PSP 5:1. I'm sure i've heard a similar figure before somewhere...

[fog]

Worth noting for game saves:

...but our tests have shown that the SD card simply doesn't register on the memory management screen. We've tried this with a number of SD cards, both empty and full of data, and while picture viewing and MP3 playback worked fine, the system refused to recognize the card as a game save storage device.

http://www.joystiq.com/2006/11/12/are-w ... m-says-no/

And is it true you need a GC memory card to save GC games and can't use the internal memory (or an SD card) ?)

[Bubba]

I suspect it'll come in the form of a... FIRMWARE UPDATE!

Although requiring a GC memory card to save GC games really doesn't suprise me - I'm guessing it literally *is* a gamecube from the moment you hit that "run gamecube" option from the main menu.

I'd expect that once the VC comes online we'll find updates to the OS to allow stuff like this.

Cheers

Bubba

[A Black Falcon]

Aye and they are all getting seemingly final copies of Excite Truck even though it's been dropped as a launch title.

No, it was only delayed in Europe. It's still a US launch game.

I hope it is wrong...but I guess it isn't. I may in the end try and get a Wii at launch and I suspect this will be another expense. Damn

It's not, it uses a new cable, not the SNES/N64/GC cable design, and just comes with standard AV cables.

[ThetaReactor]

Those gun-happy yanks are little slow to get with the beat, but basically everywhere else on average the DS Lite is outselling the PSP 5:1. I'm sure i've heard a similar figure before somewhere...

Hey, now, don't generalize. I have an Enamel Navy unit sitting next to the .45 in my nightstand Maybe all the really hardcore Americans imported one, eh?