Official Nintendo Fanboy Smugness & Gloating Thread

Dave_M · Post by **Dave_M** » Mon Dec 11, 2006 3:17 pm 0

I'd pre-ordered Zelda and Rayman online but they couldn't meet the orders and are awaiting stock.

Do High Street stores actually have games in stock?

Mir Nyet · Post by **Mir Nyet** » Mon Dec 11, 2006 4:16 pm 0

grue wrote:
Tuur wrote:
Mir Nyet wrote:Question - how long do we think it is going to take Nintendo to overtake the Xbox360's global sales with their new Wii.
Nintendo forecasts 6M units for March 07, MS 15M by June if I'm correct.

It might take some time, but I wouldn't be surprised to see a 33% market share for every player this round...
If MS knows what's good for them they will release Halo 3 by Easter. We here know what the 360 is capable of, what the good games are, the strength of XBLA, NEON etc but Joe Cluelessious knows only Halo. If they want to reach 15m by June only Halo can manage it IMHO.

Not sure if Halo will raise their hardware sales, as I would imagine most hardcore Xboxer who would be interested in Halo already have a 360...

15M by July sounds a little high if they have only shifted 8M in the 14 months - especially if you consider it had the market place to itself then too.

They need to drop the unit price quickly to arrest the gains the PS3 and Wii are going to make on it, they must be into their 2nd or maybe even 3rd hardware revision by now, surely they have moved on enough to be able to drop the retail price?

Tuur · Post by **Tuur** » Mon Dec 11, 2006 4:19 pm 0

Mir Nyet wrote:15M by July sounds a little high if they have only shifted 8M in the 14 months - especially if you consider it had the market place to itself then too.

Dunno. They are looking at 10M by the end of this month, and they have some good titles for the first months of 2007. I expect a price drop pretty soon too.

I think we'll see Halo 3 in Q4 (2007).

Darkflame · Post by **Darkflame** » Mon Dec 11, 2006 4:25 pm 0

Halo3 and a price drop OR nice bundle to be released against the PS3 in europe imho would be the best move.

PS3 is their main competition, not the Wii.

Microsoft could easily steal lots of PS3 sales if they had Gears and Halo3 in stores, on demo, up against the current PS3 line up.

HGFB · Post by **HGFB** » Mon Dec 11, 2006 4:29 pm 0

I don't think most stores will be putting Gears up as a demo any time soon. It has an 18 certificate.

Mir Nyet · Post by **Mir Nyet** » Mon Dec 11, 2006 4:33 pm 0

Darkflame wrote:Halo3 and a price drop OR nice bundle to be released against the PS3 in europe imho would be the best move.

PS3 is their main competition, not the Wii.

Microsoft could easily steal lots of PS3 sales if they had Gears and Halo3 in stores, on demo, up against the current PS3 line up.

Whatever the marketing people want you to believe they are all in competition

Anything that takes a sale away from Microsoft or Sony is competition - most families do not have the spare cash for two major full priced consoles at once, so families buying a Nintendo are not going to buy another anytime soon. We could see a situation were Nintendo take a massive early lead, with the other two only catching up later when their hardware prices are down enough to allow for the mass market to adopt the platforms.

If this happens then the damage to the other two platforms will be done.

Obviously, the opposite may be true, and this could just be a blip for Nintendo, with sales slowing down once the inital buzz dies down...

...

Both Gears and Halo are not games that will shift a 360 to the mass market, Microsoft needs games that appeal to everyone, not just the hard-core gamers that have adopted the system so far, otherwise Sony and Nintendo are going to kick their arses around the block again.

Zzap64! · Post by **Zzap64!** » Mon Dec 11, 2006 4:47 pm 0

Dave_M wrote:I'd pre-ordered Zelda and Rayman online but they couldn't meet the orders and are awaiting stock.

Do High Street stores actually have games in stock?

I haven't been into a Woolies yet that hasn't got those titles!

teamonkey · Post by **teamonkey** » Mon Dec 11, 2006 5:29 pm 0

Well, it seems that Wii Baseball on Saturday night has properly knackered my right arm. I think I've pulled a muscle and my elbow keeps popping painfully. I need to try some deep heat tonight, but no more Wii for me for a while.

PumaG · Post by **PumaG** » Mon Dec 11, 2006 6:46 pm 0

fog wrote:
Darkflame wrote:
Stevo wrote:Unfortunately us Aussies cant get Turbo Graphix games
from the virtual console as it was never released here.

But guess what.........We can

I was looking through the Wii options and saw that you could
change the country setting. I changed mine to the UK went to
Wiiconnect and accepted the agreement. I then went to the
shopping channel and accepted another agreement. Then I
entered the shopping channel and the Turbo Graphix games
were available. I downloaded Bomberman, changed all the
settings back and now I can play Bomberman. WOOHOO.

I was going to try to set my machine to Japan and try to get
some of the Japanese shoot em ups but I have run out of
Wiipoints.

I wonder how long it will be until Nintendo fix it.
FANTASTIC!
Thats exactly what I was hopeing for.
*preys they dont bother to change it*
Me too And if they do I hope it's not retrospectively so anything you had bought no longer works. Everything was supposed to be region locked and not just a restricted sales area so I'm wondering if the VC region locking isn't activated yet?

I thought the Wii's location list was PAL only?

fog · Post by **fog** » Mon Dec 11, 2006 7:04 pm 0

PumaG wrote:
fog wrote:
Darkflame wrote:
Stevo wrote:Unfortunately us Aussies cant get Turbo Graphix games
from the virtual console as it was never released here.

But guess what.........We can

I was looking through the Wii options and saw that you could
change the country setting. I changed mine to the UK went to
Wiiconnect and accepted the agreement. I then went to the
shopping channel and accepted another agreement. Then I
entered the shopping channel and the Turbo Graphix games
were available. I downloaded Bomberman, changed all the
settings back and now I can play Bomberman. WOOHOO.

I was going to try to set my machine to Japan and try to get
some of the Japanese shoot em ups but I have run out of
Wiipoints.

I wonder how long it will be until Nintendo fix it.
FANTASTIC!
Thats exactly what I was hopeing for.
*preys they dont bother to change it*
Me too And if they do I hope it's not retrospectively so anything you had bought no longer works. Everything was supposed to be region locked and not just a restricted sales area so I'm wondering if the VC region locking isn't activated yet?
I thought the Wii's location list was PAL only?

Yeah on checking it is. So unless there was something released in Australia for example that we didn't get then this isn't any use for us. Sooner or later someone will find a way though

Jamesac · Post by **Jamesac** » Mon Dec 11, 2006 7:13 pm 0

Feh! The US Wii doesn't even have Japan listed as a country to choose. The sooner this console is hacked so I can spend my money on the things I want to buy, rather than what some prick in marketing wants to sell me, the happier I'll be.

80+ mii in the Mii Parade so far, though.

James

grue · Post by **grue** » Mon Dec 11, 2006 7:34 pm 0

Jamesac wrote:Feh! The US Wii doesn't even have Japan listed as a country to choose. The sooner this console is hacked so I can spend my money on the things I want to buy, rather than what some prick in marketing wants to sell me, the happier I'll be.

80+ mii in the Mii Parade so far, though.

James

I have my 3 and a Brian Blessed that managed to squeeze through the 5 minutes the USB dongle woke up from the coma. I ordered my wireless router though so in a couple of days I'll be spamming Miis all around.

Deckard · Post by **Deckard** » Mon Dec 11, 2006 7:48 pm 0

very sexy retro look

http://gizmodo.com/gadgets/home-enterta ... 220904.php

Deckard · Post by **Deckard** » Mon Dec 11, 2006 8:28 pm 0

double post but for you few who might skip - crash, bang wallop -

http://uk.ds.ign.com/articles/750/750195p1.html

Darkflame · Post by **Darkflame** » Mon Dec 11, 2006 8:32 pm 0

HGFB wrote:I don't think most stores will be putting Gears up as a demo any time soon. It has an 18 certificate.

I know that.
Give them a cover or something.
Seriously.
That game would instantly show the PS3 isnt the massice godly upgrade Sony is saying it is.

The majority of people I know are completely convienced the PS3 will visualy beat the pants of the 360.
imo, this is because they havnt seen the best of the xbox running yet.

Both Gears and Halo are not games that will shift a 360 to the mass market, Microsoft needs games that appeal to everyone, not just the hard-core gamers that have adopted the system so far, otherwise Sony and Nintendo are going to kick their arses around the block again.

Gears and Halo will appeal to the crowd that will be PS3 early adopters.
Thats the point, those sorts of games more directly compete with the what the PS3 is being sold as.

Whatever the marketing people want you to believe they are all in competition

Yes, all the money comes from the same pot.
But Microsoft/Sony are doing the same thing, therefor microsoft has to show they can do that "same thing" just as well.

Nintendo is doing something completely different, and might beat them both.