Survey Results

Reggie is outgoing, making sure people are talking about Nintendo.

How can he be ANYTHING but good? After Reggie started his outgoing, public marketing for Nintendo other divisions started doing this, and now Reggie and George are both publically speaking out about Nintendo.

Its a glorious day for Nintendo, the golden age may have passed in the mid 90s but a new age is upon us. viva la revolutioN

(Intentionally placed capital letter ^^)

Ive posted alot today, cant sleep!

Hum looks like 75% of infendo readers are not very sensible. To me it makes more sense to buy a console a while after it’s release. Sure it’ll be inexpensive, but it will be even cheaper a few months down the line, plus there’ll be an established range of games out by then. It’s like with the DS, now is a great period to buy one cus there’s a whole range of games to choose from unlike the launch.

In addition buying a console or anything on the day of release is like signing up to become a beta tester, some problems are likely to emerge and will need a while to get fixed.

Oh well what I have to say won’t stop people from buying it on the day, it will always happen. I’ll comfort in the fact that I’m in the 6%. 🙁

I had a NES back in the day (I was a charter member of Nintendo Power and had a couple of the Club newsletters before that). Then I got interested in girls, went to college, got into PC gaming, etc. Now that I’m married, I finally got another console. We’ve only had our GameCube for a year and I’ve reaped the benefits of a wealth of games for $20 or less. I even picked up two pair of bongos for $10 each.

Despite that, I want to get in and have fun with the new system. I think the controller has really inspired me; add to that the WiFi and Virtual Console value and you end up with a must-have system.

Rollin: Kirby rules, C. Falcon drools.

“Rollin: Kirby rules, C. Falcon drools.”

Hehe, that wasn’t the point. (And Marth rules all!!)

“Because as I said I’m sensible! 😛
But as I said if somebody wants to buy it at launch they can, I’m just stating my case. I mean only those buying it at launch would dismiss perfectly good concerns such as price, launch games and possible bugs. *rolls eyes*”

Wai-Tung, i figured it out– ur insane. This is Nintendo we’re talkin about! Did u not read what i wrote? Launch games will be great, price will be fantastic, bugs (*pukes*) will not exist. (When was there ever a price drop a few months after any major console launch?) Name on Nintendo launch that was buggy; name on Nintendo launch that didn’t have at least one good game; name one Nintendo launch that was badly priced. Stop looking at the 360 as a point of reference for Nintendo’s operations, man. You’ve been Msoft jaded.

Please no luigis games at launch date…
it´s bad luck!

😉

This is clearly something i can’t change ur mind on, but i’ll be damned if i don’t try.

How do i sound insane? What has Nintendo done to make you think there is a good chance buying a Revolution on launch day won’t be worth it? Like seriously, it has never happened before with Nintendo. I don’t get why ur so worried. This isn’t the 360.

“But hey I don’t know how I’m meant to explain it, you have to already look beyond the actual console to know. :S”
Huh?
Please try to explain it to me, i’m honestly in confused to hell as to why u feel this way.

I realize i sound a bit excited in that previous comment, so let me expound on my stance. I don’t see the sense in waiting months just for a price reduction. I understand what u mean, Wai, that getting the console blindly is pretty dumb. That’s a given. But that’s not the case. We definitely know for sure there will be a couple badical Nintendo games, the controller that 3rd parties have said from experience works spectacularly, a free online service, and Nintendo’s history of fault-free launches. This is optimistic excitement, not blind faith.

For the record, I sed DS was arguably a blind purchase on day one because, really, the true DS games weren’t there yet. 360 was another fan-only purchase for launch because the games are short of incredible for most ppl. Those were understandable.

If the Revolution were to somehow fall apart disasterously, of course i’m gonna hold off and watch by the sidelines. I just can’t fathom that, with what we know now, someone wouldn’t want this thing ASAP.

This is clearly something i can’t change ur mind on, but i’ll be damned if i don’t try.
I’m clearly not going to hammer any sense into you either! 😛

Is 200 smackers really that expensive in ur opinion?
It is if you’re working class! 😛 Seeing how it’s not essencial to my life I might even consider waiting it out a year till I can get a good second hand version for £100 or less. And in Britain a $200 console would probably be £250 cus we always get ripped off.

Anyway I reckon you’re blowing this way out of proportion, as a casual gamer Nintendo Revolution simply isn’t an item worth getting on day 1, no matter how revolutionary it is for gaming at the end of the day it’s just a bit of entertainment. I like being tight with my money and I like getting stuff for less. I simply can’t comprehend this idea of buying something straight away! And certainy we can’t always hope that Nintendo consoles will always be reliable, sometimes major faults do happen that can’t be foreseen. Even the most reliable companies like Apple can get it wrong by accident, so I like to take a bit of caution and have a piece of mind.

But in the end like I said, I’m a working class causal gamer, maybe my existance in your universe is a bit too difficult for you to comprehend? 😛 Peace.

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Ah well that in part explains the whole situation, the assumption was that I was a hardcore gamer so therefore I have to prove my hardcoreness by buying what will be the greatest console ever on day one. lol well I’m glad we’ve got that one sorted out. 😛

Well from all this I hope you’ve learnt that even casual gamers browse for the news and we don’t all fit the stereotypes of playing Yahoo Pool. 😛
Why am I here? Cus I like to read something I have an interest in and I can then have convos with my friends who are gamers, so I sound like I know a lot about the subject. lol 😀

The thing is right, I understand that there will be people who have to go and get things out on the first day, it’s simply how they like to do things. I would be seriously worried if this wasn’t the case. It’s a case of good marketing on Nintendo’s part, loyalty from fans and just generally some people are perfectable able to afford a console on launch and they feel that they do need it straigth away.

Basically everybody has different values, wants and needs. I was simply expressing the values of another group of people; whoms value is to get the best deal according to their own needs. From our prespective our values are quite sensible. The value of immediate gratification is a perfectly sensible value for yourself and so there is no right or wrong value if we were to take a postmodernist sociological view.

Nah, it’s ok. It did seem like u were covering ur insults by using the smilies, though. The rolling of the eyes, calling ppl insensible and such. I meant that about everyone, not just me. You also kept saying that it was a pure loyalty purchase, which i take offense to. I think that, for other ppl here, that’s definitely true, but i’m not one of those ppl. I’m not an Xbox nut, but if i had the disposable income, i woulda bought 360 in the launch period had it interested me more. Not cause i HAVE to have every new thing on day 1, but cause i am able to buy it and want it very badly. Point is, i’m not gonna go into that with my eyes closed like u insinuated.

I don’t see the difference in waiting for a couple more games or a lower cost. The games are gonna be there at some point in the launch window. If u want more, u can certainly wait longer, but waiting a few months for the price to come down is unrealistic. Even a year after release it probably won’t drop. So,in my view, the value is gonna be big from the start. Although, neither one of us can say what’s really gonna happen till it happens.

To each their own.

*a shaking of the hands*

Same here, but i’m willing to do what’s neccesary.

^_^

We’ll meet (clash?) again.

Yea, i’ll see u on the launch line ;D

Just about, yea. Can’t wait to score some swag.

I would probably vote “I’ll give it a while untill more games come out” and also I gotta save up for one I mean I’m not made of money. You know?