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Well I'm not pre-ordering on the principal of their being a good £80 markup here in the UK for no adequately justified reason. But at least the number isn't the same so they're learning that currencies have different values. (The premium is £300 btw, by todays exchange should be £215.71)

Good for Nintendo though.
 

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artanis_neravar said:
Innegativeion said:
Called it.

And fuck me I had forgotten to pre-order. I really wanted the black one too... I may just wait.
I'm gonna be checking Amazon every day till they put theirs up (unless there is something going on between Amazon and Nintendo that i don't know about)
I don't get that it's on amazon uk, so what gives? :z
 

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Well, I certainly didn't see that coming, but I'm waiting to see how the games pan out before I call it a success.
Just the announce of Bayonetta 2 is enough for me to put the Wii U above anything Sony or Microsoft can offer. You'd have to put out something like Devil May Cry 5, Shin Megami Tensei - Miscellaneous Subtitle or Project Zero 5 (another Nintendo owned series I believe, if they ever remember Europe exists) to distract me from that and even then it'd probably have to be two of the above.
Well, I rated the Wii at the bottom of the last console generation, easily, so I've not got high hopes for this new console.

I've probably enjoyed the PS3 most out of the current generation, so I'm currently placing the majority of my eggs in Sony's basket.
My eggs are likely to end up in Sony's basket as the first port of call too, with a Wii U picked up on the cheap at a later date. Since I enjoy a lot of Sony's IP's and have done since the PS1, they're yet to let me down yet to be honest.

Microsoft I'm still not touching with a barge pole, the hardware issues are not something I can be bothered to deal with.
 

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SkarKrow said:
rob_simple said:
Pearwood said:
rob_simple said:
Well, I certainly didn't see that coming, but I'm waiting to see how the games pan out before I call it a success.
Just the announce of Bayonetta 2 is enough for me to put the Wii U above anything Sony or Microsoft can offer. You'd have to put out something like Devil May Cry 5, Shin Megami Tensei - Miscellaneous Subtitle or Project Zero 5 (another Nintendo owned series I believe, if they ever remember Europe exists) to distract me from that and even then it'd probably have to be two of the above.
Well, I rated the Wii at the bottom of the last console generation, easily, so I've not got high hopes for this new console.

I've probably enjoyed the PS3 most out of the current generation, so I'm currently placing the majority of my eggs in Sony's basket.
My eggs are likely to end up in Sony's basket as the first port of call too, with a Wii U picked up on the cheap at a later date. Since I enjoy a lot of Sony's IP's and have done since the PS1, they're yet to let me down yet to be honest.

Microsoft I'm still not touching with a barge pole, the hardware issues are not something I can be bothered to deal with.
Agreed, the only thing Sony ever did to piss me off was drop backwards compatibility, so now I can't play any of the awesome games in my PS2 library on my PS3.

To be honest, I don't blame you for avoiding the 360, I had to replace mine within a year of owning it, but it does have some decent exclusives; just no real console sellers, in my opinion.
 

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rob_simple said:
SkarKrow said:
rob_simple said:
Pearwood said:
rob_simple said:
Well, I certainly didn't see that coming, but I'm waiting to see how the games pan out before I call it a success.
Just the announce of Bayonetta 2 is enough for me to put the Wii U above anything Sony or Microsoft can offer. You'd have to put out something like Devil May Cry 5, Shin Megami Tensei - Miscellaneous Subtitle or Project Zero 5 (another Nintendo owned series I believe, if they ever remember Europe exists) to distract me from that and even then it'd probably have to be two of the above.
Well, I rated the Wii at the bottom of the last console generation, easily, so I've not got high hopes for this new console.

I've probably enjoyed the PS3 most out of the current generation, so I'm currently placing the majority of my eggs in Sony's basket.
My eggs are likely to end up in Sony's basket as the first port of call too, with a Wii U picked up on the cheap at a later date. Since I enjoy a lot of Sony's IP's and have done since the PS1, they're yet to let me down yet to be honest.

Microsoft I'm still not touching with a barge pole, the hardware issues are not something I can be bothered to deal with.
Agreed, the only thing Sony ever did to piss me off was drop backwards compatibility, so now I can't play any of the awesome games in my PS2 library on my PS3.

To be honest, I don't blame you for avoiding the 360, I had to replace mine within a year of owning it, but it does have some decent exclusives; just no real console sellers, in my opinion.
Thats why I kept my PS2 and the awesome library of games associated with it. Fuck yeah the PS2 was a great piece of hardware. Mine's still hooked up to my TV, along with a gamecube, wii (yes I'm aware the gamecube is redundant but shh it's a limited edition and I got it for £10 with the controller it came with), a dreamcast (single manly tear), my PS3, my MegaDrive (Genesis) and even a Master System. [EDIT: Before people ask my PC has it's own monitor and such. It lives in a different place.).

Yeah I Halo is decent, Gears of War bored me when I played with a mate, and why did the last boss take forever to die? I googled it and everyone said just keep shooting, well I got bored after 20 minutes of emptying bullets into his ugly maw.
But yeah, I enjoy Halo but it gets boring fast for me, I'm not good at it multiplayer at all either, I'm sadly much better at military shooters than arcadey ones. But Halo isn't enough to sell me a 360, especially since I currently compare all FPS's to Resistance 3, which is a damn fucking fine game, and all multiplayer to Bad Company 2.

I've been tinkering with my friend to try resurrect his dead 360 and it's hopeless, none of the internet fixes work and we've basically come to the conclusion that the GPU is just not connected anymore for whatever reason in a way that presents no visual evidence. All the soldering is in place, and it's all fine, we touched up any that looked bad after we tried various repairs, cleaned and everything and it's just dead. Works absolutely fine until you plug in an output lead. Out of warranty btw. Just a hopeless piece of cheaply manufactured scrap.

So yeah, I stuck with Sony for various reasons, wasn't into FPS's or multiplayer when I got my PS3, still prefer good single player but like multiplayer with a few friends that moved away, keeps you in touch.

2nd Edit: Incidentally, I like playstation plus a lot, it's been well worth my continued subscription, especially since they started putting whole games for free. Though here in the EU SCEE continually screw us on releases :\ still no counter strike and such.

3rd Edit: Somewhere you mentioned the Wii's controls and I gotta agree I prefer the standard controller for most games I own. I think the only game I own for it that's improved by them is Resident Evil 4, because of the nature of the gameplay aiming with the wii remote isn't a tedious exercise of tweaking the deadzone for hours and I found it a great way to play one of my favourite games. (3 copies! :D)
 

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OlasDAlmighty said:
Ya well, I'm gonna go build my own Wii U.
With blackjack, and hookers.
In fact, why not just forget about the Wii U and the blackjack?

On topic, I wish I could preorder one but I gots no cash. :(

On the upside, it comes out three days before my birthday so I might be able to get one as a present! :D
 

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Good. I'm glad to hear it. Nintendo hasn't exactly been flawless in their marketing; I'm glad to see they still seem to have garnered enough interest to be a genuine spearhead for the next generation, rather than the next Dreamcast.

...But you'll pardon me if I wait a year to see if big N can follow through on the plan for greater outreach to third parties and bringing in more mature titles.
 

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him over there said:
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I also can't stop playing Xenoblade. Someone help me.
Buy The Last Story, it'll blow it out of the water.
I certainly do respect Mist Walker. Hironobu Sakaguchi and Nobuo Uematsu are masters at what they do. I haven't enjoyed every game they've put out, but they have incredible passion and drive for telling a damn good story and building a fascinating world. They're some of the best at what they do.

God I miss the nineties...
 

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Overusedname said:
him over there said:
Overusedname said:
I also can't stop playing Xenoblade. Someone help me.
Buy The Last Story, it'll blow it out of the water.
I certainly do respect Mist Walker. Hironobu Sakaguchi and Nobuo Uematsu are masters at what they do. I haven't enjoyed every game they've put out, but they have incredible passion and drive for telling a damn good story and building a fascinating world. They're some of the best at what they do.

God I miss the nineties...
All I know is that I'm glad the wii exists, it gave games too big to be a $5 indie title but too small to be a mega sales record setter an outlet to exist on.
 

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Just got the email from Gamestop and Best Buy last night, was already sold out.

Stay classy both of you stores.
 

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SkarKrow said:
Yeah, that's why I kept my PS2 (and three PSX's, for that matter) along with all my other consoles, but sadly all but the three current gen consoles are currently at my parents house because I move around too much to lug all these extra consoles and games along with me :( The only thing I ever use my Wii for is to play Gamecube games because they're a million times better than anything that came out on the Wii because none of them have those awkwardly inserted Wiimote wiggles and spastic hand-jiving. (I agree with you about RE4 though, it's the only game I was willing to re-buy for the Wii, but is demonstrable of how the Wii's 'innovative' control system is basically good only for swinging a sword or aiming a gun.)

Halo bores me to tears, no matter how much I try I cannot get into it, but I like Gears of War because it has some nice set pieces and the locations are pretty varied for that type of game; but I enjoy things like Uncharted and Infamous a lot more. When my first 360 broke I did the towel trick and it actually worked, but I sold it the very next day before it could break again so I don't know how long the fix lasted.

I definitely think Sony caters most to those of us who still don't give a shit about multiplayer, since the only one of their exclusives with multiplayer I can think of is Uncharted and they clearly put more effort into the story mode than the multi. Plus, I still think that the Playstation controller is the comfiest and most aesthetically pleasing controller that's ever existed, so whenever I'm getting a multi-platform game I'll always opt for PS3.

Jove said:
Yeah I heard those Wii games were good, but after paying full price for House of the Dead: Overkill and finding out it was about twenty minutes long I refused to ever shell out money on a Wii game again.

That's what I keep trying to tell people: Just because something sells well, doesn't make it good. That's what has me so surprised about the WiiU's high pre-order numbers; I had assumed that all the gimmick crowd initially suckered in by the Wii's bells and whistles would have moved on to Angry Birds or whatever the current flavour of the week is. Speaking personally, I have seen absolutely nothing in the WiiU promotional stuff that has convinced me it will be worth buying.
 

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This gen is running on nearly 8 years now, I bet ppl are happy just to see something new come out.
But...But I've only had mine two years, and I can't afford a PS4 now that I'm saving up for my house. MAKE IT STOP!
 

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Jove said:
You would think people would have learned by now from the Nintendo Wii...guess not. -_-
You mean learned that it was a console aimed directly at a certain demographic, and that it achieved that goal admirably?

You're right, it would be great if people had of learned that by now.
 

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You know what sucks?
Nintendo is a japanese company and yet the release in japan comes last....

Will they release Zombie Panic in Wonderland [Zombie Panic in Wonderland]?
I liked it on Wiiware. I would like to see it on Wii U.
 

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Angie7F said:
You what sucks?
Nintendo is a japanese company and yet the release in japan comes last....
Better for us, with does that suck at all?

Its a change. I like it.

On a sidenote, why does Nintendo choose so retarded names for their consoles... I dont really like "WII U" Its starting to look nerding saying that. Or maybe its just me.
 

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SaintlyTurkey said:
I assumed something else from the title, like the WiiU was going to be just as casual friendly as the Wii despite Nintendo wanting to win back the hardcore crowd. As in 'Selling out'.

But yeah. It's been ages since a new console was released, I can't say I'm surprised with it selling out so quickly.
A Nintendo console having a strong initial fanbase who are willing to buy it before games are released or they've properly used the system, is not a surprise. You can still find Nintendo fans who will tell you the Gamecube was the best thing ever, but like the Gamecube, it will take continued sales rather than initial sales to tell if it will flop or not