Nintendo sales ownage in February

Richie · Post by **Richie** » Thu Apr 19, 2007 2:10 pm

http://kotaku.com/gaming/wii/nintendo-s ... 253599.php

DS owned the Wii, but Wii owned everything else.

Mericks · Post by **Mericks** » Thu Apr 19, 2007 2:42 pm

Wow...I can't remember the last game I played on my DS...Oh wait, yeah I can. It was Animal Crossing: Wild World.

Post by **BreakmanX** » Thu Apr 19, 2007 2:52 pm

Everyone has a DS. Leanne's mom bought one. I about pooped my pants at the last visit, she pulled it out and started gaming. A fucking black one no less.

Luckily Leanne got a black one and let me trade my white one to her for it. What is love for?

Mericks · Post by **Mericks** » Thu Apr 19, 2007 3:13 pm

BreakmanX wrote:Everyone has a DS. Leanne's mom bought one. I about pooped my pants at the last visit, she pulled it out and started gaming. A fucking black one no less.

Luckily Leanne got a black one and let me trade my white one to her for it. What is love for?

Wtf? You got a black DS Lite? Dude, I'm gonna make my own game system now. One that'll have a game that'll let me break into your house to steal your black DS Lite. Damn Nintendo.

Black >>>> White.

Verence · Post by **Verence** » Thu Apr 19, 2007 5:07 pm

I think the sales figures for the Wii should be cut in half when compared to the PS3, it being half the price.

Of COURSE it's going to sell more if it's half the price.

Mericks · Post by **Mericks** » Thu Apr 19, 2007 5:34 pm

Verence wrote:I think the sales figures for the Wii should be cut in half when compared to the PS3, it being half the price.

Of COURSE it's going to sell more if it's half the price.

...What an odd play on words. Though honestly, once all the $500 consoles are gone, then the Wii won't even be half the price anymore. Seriously though, there's a lot of factors other than price for why the people won't buy the PS3.

mecha · Post by **mecha** » Thu Apr 19, 2007 9:43 pm

BreakmanX wrote:Everyone has a DS. Leanne's mom bought one. I about pooped my pants at the last visit, she pulled it out and started gaming. A fucking black one no less.

Luckily Leanne got a black one and let me trade my white one to her for it. What is love for?

Everyone? I don't have one.

WiizerFanboy · Post by **WiizerFanboy** » Fri Apr 20, 2007 12:27 am

i <3 my DS. I want a pink one though... Anyway i'm amazed the DS is STILL outselling other gaming systems. Everyone who wanted it should've gotten it May of '06 ( or was it later than that??? ). But yeah i completely forgot about the PSP, i even forgot that i broke mine and still have like 10 of the old ass games i bought legally...

Post by **BreakmanX** » Fri Apr 20, 2007 11:09 am

It is interesting to note that all sales compared to previous months went down, except for the Ps3 which saw a rise. DS and Wii are still dominating though.

Post by **BreakmanX** » Fri Apr 20, 2007 11:12 am

BTW, Richie, you ever play the Mega Man Zero series for GBA? I highly suggest you check it out, its the spiritual successor to the Mega Man X series. Pretty good too. They are unbelievably hard though, except for Zero4. The reason I bring this up is that I've been replaying Mega Man ZX for the DS, which I previously did not like. The continuous map system they use, instead of the stage select screen, absolutely sucks but as long as you have a guide (mmhp.net) its a lot of fun. I'm actually really enjoying it now. Kinda sucks I have to play it in short bursts since I only do it when I can't be working on my papers...

Anyway, check it out.

Richie · Post by **Richie** » Fri Apr 20, 2007 3:46 pm

BreakmanX wrote:BTW, Richie, you ever play the Mega Man Zero series for GBA? I highly suggest you check it out, its the spiritual successor to the Mega Man X series. Pretty good too. They are unbelievably hard though, except for Zero4. The reason I bring this up is that I've been replaying Mega Man ZX for the DS, which I previously did not like. The continuous map system they use, instead of the stage select screen, absolutely sucks but as long as you have a guide (mmhp.net) its a lot of fun. I'm actually really enjoying it now. Kinda sucks I have to play it in short bursts since I only do it when I can't be working on my papers...

Anyway, check it out.

This is pretty much the reason I've shyed away from the new Zero series. I like the plot, and I like the looks and style (new interpretation of Zero himself), but the difficulty worries me.

Don't get me wrong, I don't mind challenging games; I think the best MMX games walked that fine line between cakewalk and infuriating frustration. But if I'm playing a game, spending most of my energy overcoming it's incredible difficulty, then I'm probably not having much fun, and isn't that what games are about?

Mericks · Post by **Mericks** » Fri Apr 20, 2007 4:43 pm

Richie wrote:This is pretty much the reason I've shyed away from the new Zero series. I like the plot, and I like the looks and style (new interpretation of Zero himself), but the difficulty worries me.

Don't get me wrong, I don't mind challenging games; I think the best MMX games walked that fine line between cakewalk and infuriating frustration. But if I'm playing a game, spending most of my energy overcoming it's incredible difficulty, then I'm probably not having much fun, and isn't that what games are about?

Yeah, I know the whole difficulty thing. I mean how many people out there remember Ninja Gaiden? I love the game, but the fuckin' game was SOOOO hard at times (and in several sections, it was so fucking hard to do what's normally a simple task in a normal game, like taking 1 step through the room without dying) that it actually killed the game. I mean hard games are good, but fighting the same boss 574 times is a bit ridiculous...

Speaking of which, one of favorite games, F-Zero GX, even suffered from the problem of difficulty in several areas. Anyone who's played it is probably very familiar with the infamous Chapter 7...Probably one of the hardest little tidbits ever made in any video game ever. I actually quit fucking with the story mode after a while because I spent so much time trying to figure out the secret to beating that race. I quit for so long that after I got back into the story I found the tricks I was looking for on my 2nd attempt and beat the track on my 3rd.

Remember, this Chapter was fucking hard on Normal. The developers were fuckin nuts and went ahead and made Hard and Very Hard, and they were even so sadistic as to give you a bunch of vehicles that you can't get any other way than to beat the game's chapters on these 2 modes, unless you used Action Replay or went to the game's arcade counterpart, F-Zero AX, which is INCREDIBLY hard to find. So far I've only beaten 1 chapter on Very Hard and 2 on Hard (not counting the 1 on Very Hard that I beat).

I'm really pissed off about not getting further right now though because I've been busy trying to optimize some of my custom machines right now. I've even gone as far as to try calculating how my parts' weights affect their performance along with how one rating will affect another rating on the machine and shit, since apparently customizing is very misleading unless you get in depth. Anyway, I don't even remember wtf I started this post saying so I think I should stop. Especially since I seem to actually be the only guy in the world that plays F-Zero GX.

Post by **BreakmanX** » Sat Apr 21, 2007 9:06 pm

Richie wrote:
BreakmanX wrote:BTW, Richie, you ever play the Mega Man Zero series for GBA? I highly suggest you check it out, its the spiritual successor to the Mega Man X series. Pretty good too. They are unbelievably hard though, except for Zero4. The reason I bring this up is that I've been replaying Mega Man ZX for the DS, which I previously did not like. The continuous map system they use, instead of the stage select screen, absolutely sucks but as long as you have a guide (mmhp.net) its a lot of fun. I'm actually really enjoying it now. Kinda sucks I have to play it in short bursts since I only do it when I can't be working on my papers...

Anyway, check it out.
This is pretty much the reason I've shyed away from the new Zero series. I like the plot, and I like the looks and style (new interpretation of Zero himself), but the difficulty worries me.

Don't get me wrong, I don't mind challenging games; I think the best MMX games walked that fine line between cakewalk and infuriating frustration. But if I'm playing a game, spending most of my energy overcoming it's incredible difficulty, then I'm probably not having much fun, and isn't that what games are about?

Play ZX, and maybe try Zero 4. I promise you'll enjoy.