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[Tasty]

Y'all been hitting that nostalgia toke just a little too hard.

[cool breeze]

List wars between the Gamecube and the Wii.  These fuckin' guys.

[Great Rumbler]

Galaxy was a lot better than Sunshine, come on.

[Tasty]

Galaxy was a lot better than Sunshine, come on.

Internet contrarians, can't live with em, can't strangle them with your bare hands over the web.

[Takao]

List wars between the Gamecube and the Wii.  These fuckin' guys.

[DCharlieJP]

I really didn't mind the gamecube because it's high points were high.

If, however, i was a Gamecube only player at that time i'd have been throwing myself under the nearest train.

[Van Cruncheon]

gamecube's 16-bit output really dampened my enthusiasm for it. i consider it on par with the ps2's "jaggies"

[Tasty]

I really didn't mind the gamecube because it's high points were high.

If, however, i was a Gamecube only player at that time i'd have been throwing myself under the nearest train.

Definitely the dark days of Nintendo...

[naff]

Lol if you've been happy solely with any Nintendo home console since SNES you're either very casual or a massive pathetic shill

[Tasty]

Poor Iwata wants to make games but he's locked up in the executive ivory tower.

Arino all over Iwata's hands.

[Momo]

Whats going on here?

[Joe Molotov]

Whats going on here?

[DCharlieJP]

So - those Monster Hunter Wii U bundles that totally sold out are now back in stock for preorder at a fair few places, premium sets/basics still available.

Either Japan is getting a trillion launch units or this really is "no one cares, yet" - i've never seen a high profile machine not sell out it's preorders - i had to fecking queue to get a Wii preorder on first day of preorders for godsake.

So now i have two machines preordered (i did have three, but the amazon one can go) - i doubt i'm picking any of them up to be honest, but at least i have some options.

[Tasty]

They should ship some of those Wii U's stateside, all the major retail chains are sold out of preorders.

[Cerveza mas fina]

So - those Monster Hunter Wii U bundles that totally sold out are now back in stock for preorder at a fair few places, premium sets/basics still available.

Either Japan is getting a trillion launch units or this really is "no one cares, yet" - i've never seen a high profile machine not sell out it's preorders - i had to fecking queue to get a Wii preorder on first day of preorders for godsake.

So now i have two machines preordered (i did have three, but the amazon one can go) - i doubt i'm picking any of them up to be honest, but at least i have some options.

Wii was sold out for months in Holland, I worked in a comp store back then and it was madness.

[archnemesis]

Really? I thought it was only in the US. Consoles are always easy to find here. I guess it's because we pay a premium price.

[naff]

Wii sold in pretty small quantities initially tho right? Lack of supply (engineered for effect?) and massive demand = being out of stock for ages. I've got a premium bundle pre ordered. Nobody here's claiming to be out of preorders yet afaik

[DCharlieJP]

I honestly find it difficult to believe that we have a full on sell out in US and Europe on preorders and not in Japan. It just seems completely unrealistic unless the numbers are incredibly low outside of Japan.

i know : "<place> is NINTENDO LAND!!" but as i keep seeing "But Wii U has Dragon Quest, a new mario and Monster Hunter at launch! Game over! All the big japanese titles..."

so something isn't right somewhere along the line.

[archnemesis]

At my local store it's only the Zombie U bundle that has sold out.

[cool breeze]

All I hear about the US stock is how limited it'll be.  Whether all those orders are people looking to rip off (man)children or legit, who is to say.  Maybe they'll get got like with the PS3.

Launch lineup is stacked with popular games (already released on other consoles--and Mario), so that might help.  Unless fiends have kicked that habit.  I'm assuming the 3ds one is selling like hot pancakes.

[D3RANG3D]

I'll pick one up in about a year, for $100.00

[Rusty Shackleford]

I'll pick one up in about a year, for $100.00

So confident! But are you ballsy enough to put your money where your mouth is and short some Nintendo stock

[D3RANG3D]

I'll pick one up in about a year, for $100.00

So confident! But are you ballsy enough to put your money where your mouth is and short some Nintendo stock

I don't want to be homeless

[Rusty Shackleford]

I'll pick one up in about a year, for $100.00

So confident! But are you ballsy enough to put your money where your mouth is and short some Nintendo stock

I don't want to be homeless

Never bet against Nintendo's shiniest new thing for the unwashed masses, eh?

[D3RANG3D]

I'll pick one up in about a year, for $100.00

So confident! But are you ballsy enough to put your money where your mouth is and short some Nintendo stock

I don't want to be homeless

Never bet against Nintendo's shiniest new thing for the unwashed masses, eh?

The unwashed masses know not what they do!

[Rusty Shackleford]

GET THEE HENCE WITH THINE WIIU, DIRTY POOR!

[Takao]

I honestly find it difficult to believe that we have a full on sell out in US and Europe on preorders and not in Japan. It just seems completely unrealistic unless the numbers are incredibly low outside of Japan.

i know : "<place> is NINTENDO LAND!!" but as i keep seeing "But Wii U has Dragon Quest, a new mario and Monster Hunter at launch! Game over! All the big japanese titles..."

so something isn't right somewhere along the line.

Well, yeah. Nintendo fans are vastly over valuing the importance of MHTriG HD. Even the seemingly reasonable ones like Schuelma (sp?) on GAF have some unreasonable expectations on how it sends a signal that Wii U is a serious home for this series. It's a port of a handheld game that itself is an enhanced port of a Wii game. Combined, those 2 releases on 3DS and Wii have sold like 2.5 million in Japan. MHP3rd HD, which is a game that has a lot of content never seen on a home console sold like 450k on PS3 off a PSP release that did 4.5 million. The fact that Capcom has now put the main MH series on handhelds implies to me there's probably not going to be an MH specifically designed for Wii U. It's going to get MH4 HD, and then MH4G HD.

[Tasty]

"When the Deluxe Digital Promotion website launches in December, participants can see the points they've earned and receive codes for Nintendo eShop credit by signing in with their Nintendo Network ID and password."

Get a $5+ eShop credit with every full price retail game you buy, if you go black.

[pilonv1]

I honestly find it difficult to believe that we have a full on sell out in US and Europe on preorders and not in Japan. It just seems completely unrealistic unless the numbers are incredibly low outside of Japan.

i know : "<place> is NINTENDO LAND!!" but as i keep seeing "But Wii U has Dragon Quest, a new mario and Monster Hunter at launch! Game over! All the big japanese titles..."

so something isn't right somewhere along the line.

Limited quantities
First new console since 2007
Nintendo fans

Not completely surprised by a sell out on day one.

[cool breeze]

"When the Deluxe Digital Promotion website launches in December, participants can see the points they've earned and receive codes for Nintendo eShop credit by signing in with their Nintendo Network ID and password."

Get a $5+ eShop credit with every full price retail game you buy, if you go black.

Pretty smarmy way of handling it, but nice if it applies to virtual console/download games.  Steam and Sony just take 10%+ off the cost instead of giving that 10% back as promo credit.  Or maybe that's only with Plus users on the PS3? Anyway, I've seen people treat promotional credit like "$60 + $20 credit = I paid $40 for this game!" So it gets people into the whole cycle if they go that route.

what's a "Nintendo Network ID"? are there finally accounts?

[Tasty]

As far as we know, yes. We don't know much of the details except that you have an ID and a password. Whether the ID is alphanumeric or just numeric, and whether Nintendo will allow multiple systems to use the same account (useful for all those "but my Wii dun broke!" doomsday scenarios the Ninhater brigade likes to tell themselves at night to make them feel better about shitting on Nintendo's digital efforts) remains to be seen.

And yes, these points can be used for anything on the eShop (Virtual Console, original software, full game downloads), and that apparently extends to 3DS as well. Probably the whole point of the Nintendo ID, actually: linking your Wii U and 3DS.

[DCharlieJP]

Not completely surprised by a sell out on day one.

so why not Japan?

[pilonv1]

Whoops missed that bit   

Less interest in home consoles, higher interest in portables?

[Olivia Wilde Homo]

I preordered 2 Wii U tard+ packs without a problem today (one for myself, one for a family member)

Didn't Andrex say that preorders were sold out everywhere?  That doesn't seem to be the case at all in my experience.

[Shaka Khan]

Where did you preorder from? I only tried GS, and they were sold out on the first day. Right now they have a long "YEAH RIGHT" waiting list.

[DCharlieJP]

Less interest in home consoles, higher interest in portables?

pretty much my take - given the games coming for the 3DS i think the Wii U is going to crash horribly and the 3DS is going to go absolutely nuts over the xmas/new year.

Money is tigher for everyone, you can a BRAND NEW 3DS for 14800 yen (XL!) in Tsutaya these days - that's compared to the 24,800 tard pack and the library on the 3DS is insanity from a Japanese perspective. It ALREADY HAS monster Hunter 3G on it and given most people play socially anyways, the internet piece is only of note to a small subsegment and it seems the whole of Japan stopped carring about graphics years ago. Then we have Mario - i guess that will be the drawer - but hey - 3DS has those as well. Dragon Quest X? Looks like the Wii U version massively fell short - i can't see Japanese caring that they can play it in HD.

When you start breaking it down - for all the "Wii U - it's got what Japanese crave!" - i don't think it actually does. The 3DS is the king. I'd suggest next xmas is the time the Wii U will start getting some push - but i see a tough year ahead.

[Tasty]

I preordered 2 Wii U tard+ packs without a problem today (one for myself, one for a family member)

Didn't Andrex say that preorders were sold out everywhere?  That doesn't seem to be the case at all in my experience.

From where? I'm still looking.

[Owl-faced Wizard]

Looks like Wii U is good for something after all:
You can jump on the blue Yoshi's bubbles, effectively making it that Bubble Bobble sidescroller I always wanted. 

[Cerveza mas fina]

Does it have Netflix?

That could be a system seller for me.

[MCD]

Wii has Netflix so I guess yes?

[Cerveza mas fina]

But now in HD.

Nintendo is stepping up their game!

[Tasty]

It's also getting YouTube I think. Although the original report was vague on if it was Wii and 3DS or Wii U and 3DS.

[DCharlieJP]

making it that Bubble Bobble sidescroller i always wanted

I always thought of Liquid Kids as a Bubble Bobble side scroller, though the mechanics only bear mild similarities. It's probably more in common with NZS

... please ignore.

[Owl-faced Wizard]

LK is the Bubble Bobble sidescroller if all you had is the water bubbles and you threw them at your feet because platypuses can't blow bubbles.  It is pretty great though.

[Takao]

FIRST US COMMERCIAL



why u is the controller and it's for kids right?

[Hitler Stole My Potato]

That's ridiculously bad.

The whole thing comes off looking like an accessory rather than a whole new console. 

It's the same problem they've had since they showed this thing off last year.  Confusing message.

[maxy]

Nintendo certainly knows its audience and they are very good in getting money out of their parents.

[Trent Dole]

FAMILY FRIENDLY DUBSTEP

[Joe Molotov]

Nintendo: Our drops are Rated E for Everyone.

[Takao]

Nintendrones are getting even more unruly than usual thanks to people rightfully calling this ad poop at what it's trying to do. It's aimed at the casuals who probably don't know what the Wii U is, but the ad assumes they do. The die-hards saying the 2 seconds of an off centre Wii U deck at the end will clearly tell them it's a new console is a joke given how similar it looks to the Wii.

There are still people who think the 3DS is a DS with 3D, and their first Wii U ad doesn't clear up that confusion. That said, I have to believe NoA has a more straight forward ad in the wings.

[Human Snorenado]

FAMILY FRIENDLY DUBSTEP

Mario is eating molly and FREAKING OUT SO HARD MAN

[cool breeze]

for reference, here's the UK commercial where they spend the length explaining why it's not the same shit.  Literally starts with "A BRAND NEW CONSOLE."

[Huff]

That's some weak ass DUB. pre order cancelled

[Steve Youngblood]

Nintendrones are getting even more unruly than usual thanks to people rightfully calling this ad poop at what it's trying to do. It's aimed at the casuals who probably don't know what the Wii U is, but the ad assumes they do. The die-hards saying the 2 seconds of an off centre Wii U deck at the end will clearly tell them it's a new console is a joke given how similar it looks to the Wii.

There are still people who think the 3DS is a DS with 3D, and their first Wii U ad doesn't clear up that confusion. That said, I have to believe NoA has a more straight forward ad in the wings.

Eh, I'd be more worried about the branding if they were selling the controller as a standalone device at launch. As it stands, even old biddies who are buying the new toy for little Jimmy for Christmas will have to realize that it's a new system whether they understand the situation or not.

[Takao]

Very true, but conversely people thinking it's just a controller may make them dismiss the platform entirely.

[parallax]

am i the only one shocked at the "this is my first time playing XXX" comments when it gets released on the wii u? i mean, people have never played a tekken game before now, and are jumping in right now? why? if ive avoided a series for a decade, im not gonna jump in because its on a new system.

[Great Rumbler]

am i the only one shocked at the "this is my first time playing XXX" comments when it gets released on the wii u? i mean, people have never played a tekken game before now, and are jumping in right now? why? if ive avoided a series for a decade, im not gonna jump in because its on a new system.

something something Nintendo fan something

[parallax]

am i the only one shocked at the "this is my first time playing XXX" comments when it gets released on the wii u? i mean, people have never played a tekken game before now, and are jumping in right now? why? if ive avoided a series for a decade, im not gonna jump in because its on a new system.

something something Nintendo fan something

so nintendo fans stay seclusively inside a nintendo balloon? how fucking miserable would that be? i mean, what did they play for the majority of the wiis lifespan?

[Huff]

have you ever met this kid named andrex?

[Steve Youngblood]

so nintendo fans stay seclusively inside a nintendo balloon? how fucking miserable would that be? i mean, what did they play for the majority of the wiis lifespan?

Eh, in all honesty, it's really not that weird. I mean, it's weird if we're talking about people on message boards like GAF who seem to live, eat, and breathe gaming but stay exclusive to one platform, but I actually know several people in real life who like video games, but aren't diehard fans. And among them, there's like 3 people that I can personally think of that for whatever reason just stick with Nintendo. They like Mario and Zelda and (insert random other title here), and they play whatever else interests them.