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Nintendo Gaming / Surprise new NINTENDO game in March!

« on: February 05, 2003, 10:28:21 PM »

I wouldn't get my hopes up for any third party exclusive content until announcements are made.

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Nintendo Gaming / Rumor: Just Sniffing Around

« on: February 05, 2003, 10:26:56 PM »

If they are hosted on Sega's seavers they could since they have to recop the maintainance and running fees for their servers. The free thing is for Nintendo's games on their eventual servers.

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Nintendo Gaming / I sent a letter to nintendo europe...

« on: February 05, 2003, 09:12:16 PM »

I doubt that Nintendo is doing it anymore. There are ways  for the Manafacture to control prices but fortunatly most of them are illegal. The price of games depends on several factors: how much the retailer is buying, which middle man they are using. (The Video game market uses middle men unlike the Auto Industry which has no middle man its shipped directly to the dealerships and the manufacture and the car sales man makes an average of $10,000 profit each on each vehical sold. All vehicles cost between 3,000 and 6,000 US to make and are sold at 16k-to-100+k each.)

By law the video game publisher can only set a MSRP, and sell the games to the retailers at a set markup field. (Like in Wisconsin certain products can only be marked up 20% it orginal price (gas etc....) Its by and large up the retailers to set their prices.

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Nintendo Gaming / Online game Ideas?

« on: February 05, 2003, 09:01:10 PM »

I do have an online game on paper based lossly off a story I've been writting since I was in 7th grade (about 12 years ago). It would be a massive ongoing war between two different spieces over a few solar systems. Its too late at night currently to dig it up. But think Starcraft except that a game goes on for days with thousands of players paticipating at different times. (Bandwidth nightmare.)

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Nintendo Gaming / This Zoonami Exclusive Game

« on: February 05, 2003, 08:55:26 PM »

You mean other than the fact its being made by ex-Rare developers. It will warrent attention I will say that.  And will almost definatly have more information on it soon since E3 is coming up.

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Nintendo Gaming / Surprise new NINTENDO game in March!

« on: February 05, 2003, 08:53:15 PM »

Its way to obscure to get any information from that answer. It will more than likely be a new game. But not nessarily a new franchise. And yes its more than likely third party since Nintendo doesn't like the spill any information before the event.

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Nintendo Gaming / Splinter Cell enhanced for Gamecube.

« on: February 05, 2003, 08:45:53 PM »

.... Ubi Soft is basically the first one outside of Sega to pull one off. (From what it sounds like) They may stop production on making new content for Xbox live since it does cost money, unless they charge for the downloads.

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General Gaming / Who has the internet Adaptor?

« on: February 05, 2003, 08:42:45 PM »

Or you can get a long Ethernet cord and a drill and use some low level carpentry skills.

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TalkBack / Game Boy Player available ONLY in Black

« on: February 05, 2003, 08:36:44 PM »

It doens't really bother me because my Gamecube is black. But its probally a mixture of cost, speed of production, and install base. I'm pretty much certian that we will see the other colors down the road, heck we even eventually recieved the spice controllers even though the unit itself never has made it Stateside.

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Nintendo Gaming / Rumor: Just Sniffing Around

« on: February 05, 2003, 08:29:37 PM »

I serieiously doubt that F-Zero will have online, but Lan maybe another thing. Its just that I doubt Nintendo would allow Sega to host a Nintendo franchise on their servers and make money for themselves that way.

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Nintendo Gaming / Offical 2002 Game Of The Year Nominees

« on: February 05, 2003, 08:23:34 PM »

I think Nintendo will take the greater number of the Awards there. And if Metroid or Animal Crossing wins the overall they will more than likely (unless AIAS is on some serious drugs) win the console of the year award. I really don't think Eternal Darkness of Splinter Cel have a chance of wining Console game of the year.

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Nintendo Gaming / Rumored Online Games... so far..

« on: February 05, 2003, 08:08:01 PM »

Not to start any wild speculation. But I wouldn't get my hopes to far diminished of seeing any of the Mario Sports titles online (considering the Louie Rumor), because hte Mario Sports titles are usally handled by third party developer Camelot.

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Nintendo Gaming / New Nintendo Dot Com poll - Fire Emblem

« on: February 05, 2003, 08:00:37 PM »

I voted Fire Emblem because I'm a sucker for more good Strategy RPGs. ( I also like using Roy in SSB:M)

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Nintendo Gaming / Splinter Cell enhanced for Gamecube.

« on: February 05, 2003, 07:56:53 PM »

I do believe the extra levels, etc. Are going to be the downloadable content thats made for Xbox live. So I wouldn't get my hopes too far up that it will be too different.

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TalkBack / Nintendo of America Vice President Retires

« on: February 05, 2003, 10:30:49 AM »

The new VP surprises me. Spiegle is an over priced, Sony Loving, catalog. Oh well if they can sell overpriced things like that catalog can sell things at that inflated of a price he may be the right person for the job.

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TalkBack / 2003 Interactive Achievement Awards Finalists

« on: February 04, 2003, 10:50:31 AM »

Well I guess this will put an end to Xbox fans saying that Splinter Cell was going to receive the Game of the Year, since it wasn't even nominated for overall Game of the year. And if Metroid or Animal Crossing takes Game of the Year overall I don't see how the others will be able to take console Game of the Year.

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Nintendo Gaming / GameCube's Appeal to the Teen Audience

« on: February 03, 2003, 07:37:20 AM »

In a business sense they are doing nothing wrong. Eternal Darkness sold more than enough to make a profit off of it, and Metroid prime. The Gamecube doesn't have the userbase to have many instant million copy sellers. (Zelda is more than likely going to be the first.) And we are not going to see an enormace jump in unit sales since there is three competitors out there.  There are few people willing to get more than one console even if there is one or two games exclusive to it that they want. So until there is a considerable pull these people are not going to get another console since the one they have is getting game just fine.

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Nintendo Gaming / Too Human Hype Thread!!!!!!!

« on: February 03, 2003, 07:29:09 AM »

The ideas were innovative when the game was first orginally was schedualled to come out. And that was about 2 years ago. Deus Ex had yet to come out. I do remember some ramblings of it in a GameInformer, unfortunatly I usally don't keep magazines that long. It was over 80% complete then, and soon after that they were aquired by Nintendo. (I think its the same magazine that Eternal Darkness was first announced in for the N64. After they were aquired both projects were switched over to N64 then the Gamecube. Too Human was put on the back burner about 6 months before Eternal Darkness was released so they could get one game done in a timely fasion. Considering that at 80% almost all gameplay aspects are in place, it a good sign that it will be playable, in some form (ala Eternal Darkness) at E3. (I almost said we but I'm not going to this years E3 as orginally planed I have another place I have to be the same week.)

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Nintendo Gaming / GameCube's Appeal to the Teen Audience

« on: February 02, 2003, 08:48:57 PM »

Yes I have to agree to Nintendo they are basically doing nothing wrong from a business standpoint, they are making money and a lot of it They do aknowlege that their is a portion of their market that wants Mature titles and they have went on work on those. But so far they haven't been selling. They have aquired the help of the Retro and Silicon Knights to help with this. But we can't expect them to drop a very lucrative market that they basically own just because we think they should

As for Zelda they are advertising it, they did that movie theater blitz in November/Dec (They should do it again right before launch but that is my opinion.) They have to kiosks out. They even have ads in Playboy. And remember a good portion of the videogame market has a real short attention span so it would be a little bit of a waste to go all out just yet. (Oh, they also have POP in Video game stores.)

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Nintendo Gaming / Too Human Hype Thread!!!!!!!

« on: February 02, 2003, 08:36:44 PM »

A little more on the story line is your a dective in future and looking into some crime syndacite, or something like that. Its been a while since I read the old articles on the game.

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Nintendo Gaming / Nintendo, the dare devil?

« on: February 01, 2003, 07:00:36 PM »

I know thats why it crucial that people wait until E3 before deciding that Nintendo has been doing nothing these last few months. (I don't know how you can with all the announcments, but there are people out there.

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Nintendo Gaming / Nintendo, the dare devil?

« on: February 01, 2003, 06:52:44 PM »

Let's hope they can back that up at E3. Maybe they will let us in on what they did with the Rare money. Its kind of hard to see them as a risk taker right now but then again they have been holding their cards close to themselves since Yamauchi retired.

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Nintendo Gaming / What ever happened with the Triforce?

« on: February 01, 2003, 06:49:08 PM »

I wouldn't be that hard to port it. I don't think a game like that would have much in the way of translation problems. But let's hope they get some of the reports bugs out of the game before release.

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Nintendo Gaming / Will Zelda: Wind Waker break sales records?

« on: February 01, 2003, 06:45:07 PM »

It could but I wouldn't get my hopes up. We thought the same thing with SMS. Well Wind Waker is getting a lot more attention it seems and Nintendo has done little in the way of advertising.

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Nintendo Gaming / Final Fantasy 3 on Game Boy Advance?

« on: February 01, 2003, 04:01:15 PM »

Well they already started it in some form. And Square seems to like to milk their franchises, so we may see it on the GBA and maybe Gamecube.