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9031 | 65.25% |
| No |
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1191 | 8.60% |
| Maybe |
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808 | 5.84% |
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460 | 3.32% |
| Waluigi |
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1603 | 11.58% |
| Waa |
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748 | 5.40% |
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Is it possible for another user to help me figure out what my Online ID is? As in, the other person using the console typed in his information before me, but he hit the 'register later' option. But they still sent a confirmation email to him and had him type in a code. I wanted to type in my Online ID first because I bought it, but I don't know if his took the one spot or not. I got a confirmation email but I couldn't find a place to enter my code. Did his take or not? >_<
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Nov 21, 2012 16:22
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WaffleStomp posted:So what's the goon consensus on the Sonic racing game? Is it worth the 40 bucks? And does it have split screen local multiplayer and stable online play? It's pretty fun in singleplayer, at least, though Boost Challenges and apparently the WiiU-specific modes are broken right now on the WiiU version, so you might want to wait for Sega to release a patch for that. Haven't played any multiplayer yet, though.
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Nov 21, 2012 16:25
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Anyone order a Wii U post launch date from Bestbuy.com? Wondering what the wait times are. E - Oh it doesn't even let you add it to the cart. Legdiian fucked around with this message at 16:48 on Nov 21, 2012 |
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Nov 21, 2012 16:45
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Apparently Nintendo only has to sell one piece of software to make money back on Wii U, so this isn't nearly a big of a loss per console as people thought. They are going to make money on this very quickly.
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Nov 21, 2012 16:54
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Went by Gamestop to pick up my preorder of the Adventure Time CE today. Got to try out the Wii U pad for a bit. Now I had no doubt about it feeling comfortable, they've been doing a great job at ergonomic controllers for a while. Not to mention everyone said it felt good. But I was VERY impressed by just how good it felt. Was pretty nice. I played the Rayman demo and... yeah it does look nice, like everyone said. And the game seemed ok... except I got to a Murphy section within a minute of playing 3-4 minutes later I left as I was tired of Murphy mode. I could see it being fun with friends. Rotating the big spike maze thing for the viking girl to go through would be too hard with a friend. I would probably slam the spikes into them as hard as possible every chance I got. With the AI though...... not so fun. Why do they just walk slowly along? Why do they look at jumps for several seconds before taking them? gently caress. They should've at least had an adjustable AI level. Pro player mode where the AI does good even if you gently caress up a little... Good mode where it is competent at least and plays fast... And babby mode, which is what it currently does. It'd be the challenge mode: can YOU babysit this lovely player?!
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Nov 21, 2012 17:06
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greatn posted:Apparently Nintendo only has to sell one piece of software to make money back on Wii U, so this isn't nearly a big of a loss per console as people thought. They are going to make money on this very quickly. Saying that Nintendo sells the console at a loss is kind of misleading anyway. The pro console in Australia costs $430, which is a bit over US$440. There are definitely some territories where Nintendo is straight up profiting per unit.
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Nov 21, 2012 17:11
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cat doter posted:Saying that Nintendo sells the console at a loss is kind of misleading anyway. The pro console in Australia costs $430, which is a bit over US$440. There are definitely some territories where Nintendo is straight up profiting per unit. Don't most non US entities have effectively higher tax rates, import tariffs, and fees though?
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Nov 21, 2012 17:26
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cat doter posted:Saying that Nintendo sells the console at a loss is kind of misleading anyway. The pro console in Australia costs $430, which is a bit over US$440. There are definitely some territories where Nintendo is straight up profiting per unit. That's the cost of the Basic unit in Mexico. The Deluxe is $540. It's completely absurd. greatn posted:Don't most non US entities have effectively higher tax rates, import tariffs, and fees though? An economist friend of mine broke it up for me, and even taking into account taxes and tariffs, Nintendo or its distributor is still making a cool $100, more or less, in profit per console.
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Nov 21, 2012 17:28
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They're certainly making a killing on these compared to the 3DS launch. Everyone that buys one is going to buy at least either Mario or AC3/ZombiU/whatever with it. I don't think we're going to see the drastic early price drop the 3DS got this time around.
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Nov 21, 2012 17:30
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I picked up a basic last night but I haven't opened it yet in case I get a chance at a deluxe today. If I just give up and crack this thing open am I going to regret it? I'm tired of hunting around and this is the first WiiU of any kind I've seen since I started looking. Losing out on the reward system is irritating but I don't anticipate buying many titles through the store anyways. I'd rather buy physical media.
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Nov 21, 2012 17:31
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Gendo posted:I picked up a basic last night but I haven't opened it yet in case I get a chance at a deluxe today. If I just give up and crack this thing open am I going to regret it? I'm tired of hunting around and this is the first WiiU of any kind I've seen since I started looking. If you're not chomping at the bit for Nintendoland and won't be picking up many eShop titles anyway, then yeah, the Basic is fine. If you change your mind about wanting to download stuff (because there'll be plenty of eShop exclusives eventually), you can always plug in an external hard drive and never have to worry about the 8GB space limit again.
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Nov 21, 2012 17:33
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Gendo posted:I picked up a basic last night but I haven't opened it yet in case I get a chance at a deluxe today. If I just give up and crack this thing open am I going to regret it? I'm tired of hunting around and this is the first WiiU of any kind I've seen since I started looking. You should consider the idea that there will likely be things on the eshop that you cannot buy in physical media. Especially if they start doing HD remakes and releasing old games and whatnot. Also consider you would have to spend $500 in the e-shop to make up the difference if you got a premium, unless you plan on buying whatever the pack-in game is on the premium bundle separate. toxicsunset fucked around with this message at 17:43 on Nov 21, 2012 |
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Nov 21, 2012 17:41
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jdfording posted:Newegg has a kickass deal on a Seagate 1.5tb powered hard drive. Already $60 off plus with this promo code get another $20 so the total is $69.99 for 1.5tb and free 3 day shipping. As nice as that may be, I'm not downloading a single loving thing on any Nintendo console until I KNOW purchases are tied to my account, not the hardware. If I buy a thousand Nintendo consoles, I should be able to restore purchases to all of them.
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Nov 21, 2012 17:46
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toxicsunset posted:Also consider you would have to spend $500 in the e-shop to make up the difference if you got a premium, unless you plan on buying whatever the pack-in game is on the premium bundle separate. I may get nintendoland eventually but I'll just trade in other poo poo I have laying around to get it.
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Nov 21, 2012 17:48
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Gendo posted:I picked up a basic last night but I haven't opened it yet in case I get a chance at a deluxe today. If I just give up and crack this thing open am I going to regret it? I'm tired of hunting around and this is the first WiiU of any kind I've seen since I started looking. Unless you download a lot of titles and never want to use an external drive there's not much difference between the Basic and Deluxe. The eShop discount for the Deluxe really isn't that great since it comes in rewards cards instead of a straight 10% off. Oh I guess if you like Nintendoland that comes packed-in but you can get it separate. I wouldn't worry too much. 8 GB (really 5 GB after the OS) is plenty for save data and the like.
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Nov 21, 2012 17:54
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axeil posted:Unless you download a lot of titles and never want to use an external drive there's not much difference between the Basic and Deluxe. The eShop discount for the Deluxe really isn't that great since it comes in rewards cards instead of a straight 10% off. Oh I guess if you like Nintendoland that comes packed-in but you can get it separate. Actually closer to 3gb after OS, not a ton when you consider so far every game(well every game I've played) has a patch on release. AC3's patch was like 100mb.
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Nov 21, 2012 18:02
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I ordered that 1.5TB external HD from NewEgg someone posted a page or two ago. Seventy bucks and I'll never have to worry about storage again now. Much better than when I had to pay a hundred bucks for just 20 GBs for my xbox
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Nov 21, 2012 18:05
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greatn posted:Actually closer to 3gb after OS, not a ton when you consider so far every game(well every game I've played) has a patch on release. AC3's patch was like 100mb. Oh. drat. Well then that might require an external drive.
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Nov 21, 2012 18:11
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If you have people over for Thanksgiving though you'll definitely want Nintendoland so keep that in mind. This is the drive I have and it looks like it even dropped in price like $10 since last week  It's worked great so far, except like once when I left it idle at the login screen for a long time the U freaked out because it "disconnected" (probably power save mode on the drive)http://www.amazon.com/Western-Digital-Elements-Desktop-External/dp/B002QEBMCI
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Nov 21, 2012 18:11
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Dr. VooDoo posted:I ordered that 1.5TB external HD from NewEgg someone posted a page or two ago. Seventy bucks and I'll never have to worry about storage again now. Much better than when I had to pay a hundred bucks for just 20 GBs for my xbox But you could have gone to Gamestop and pre-ordered a 330GB hard drive for only $79.99!
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Nov 21, 2012 18:12
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jdfording posted:Newegg has a kickass deal on a Seagate 1.5tb powered hard drive. Already $60 off plus with this promo code get another $20 so the total is $69.99 for 1.5tb and free 3 day shipping. That is awesome. Ordered. Even if I never use it for the WiiU my old backup drive is only 80 GB and is getting really old and worries me. Thanks for this! 1.5TB should be more than enough for both.
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Nov 21, 2012 18:16
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axeil posted:That is awesome. Ordered. Even if I never use it for the WiiU my old backup drive is only 80 GB and is getting really old and worries me. Thanks for this! 1.5TB should be more than enough for both. Look into crashplan for your PC backup instead. 
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Nov 21, 2012 18:18
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I guess batteries won't be much of an issue for me then, considering I rarely play more than 5 hours at once. That's cool.
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Nov 21, 2012 18:19
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Gendo posted:You can only use the drive for the WiiU. Once it's formatted for it you can't plug it into a PC and have it show up without reformatting it. Aw man  . Thanks for the heads-up Gendo. I'll look into crashplan. Or maybe I'll use the old backup drive for the WiiU.
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Nov 21, 2012 18:20
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Gendo posted:You can only use the drive for the WiiU. Once it's formatted for it you can't plug it into a PC and have it show up without reformatting it. Has anyone tried creating a PC partition and still having the WiiU partition working?
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Nov 21, 2012 18:27
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moving to SA mart.
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Nov 21, 2012 18:36
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axeil posted:Aw man
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Nov 21, 2012 18:37
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Shadowgate posted:I ended up with 2 Premium consoles and in the spirit of the holidays, I would like to offer the extra one to goons for the price I paid ($349.99 + $33.25 tax) + shipping to your destination. The only catch is I won't be able to ship it out until Monday, but the first person to PM me gets dibs on it. You should really edit this post out and put it in SA Mart, I believe its probatable to solicit things outside there.
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Nov 21, 2012 18:37
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Policenaut posted:You should really edit this post out and put it in SA Mart, I believe its probatable to solicit things outside there. Oops ok. I was just trying to offer it to people in this thread, but I'll move it.
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Nov 21, 2012 18:38
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Do we know if the Wii U will be included in this Thursday's Nintendo eShop update? Or I guess if there will be anything here at all in the states at least.
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Nov 21, 2012 19:23
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Maybe, but I'd doubt it. What would they put on it that isn't there already?
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Nov 21, 2012 19:27
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I seem to recall a "Coming Soon to eShop" section on the shop which included some retail games that aren't downloadable yet. I can't check from work, though.
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Nov 21, 2012 19:31
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greatn posted:Maybe, but I'd doubt it. What would they put on it that isn't there already? Eh, I dunno. Maybe there is some eShop game that's been mentioned as coming soon. But you're probably right, it'll just be 3DS and MAYBE the Wii. Supercar Gautier posted:I seem to recall a "Coming Soon to eShop" section on the shop which included some retail games that aren't downloadable yet. I can't check from work, though. Ah yeah, forgot about more full retail games. There definitely could be that.
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Nov 21, 2012 19:31
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It would probably be a small update, but an eShop update this soon might be a nice little sign that things aren't going to slow down just because the launch happened.
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Nov 21, 2012 19:31
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I've decided to keep the Wii U that I was debating to return when it arrives to me. Yeah, I might not get another game for it for six months, but when that time does come around, I am hopefully moving out on my own, and then I won't be able to afford it. I can afford it right now, so... yeah. Wii U, here I come.  (But from here on out, I need to be serious about saving up. I need to drastically cut back on the comics I buy every week (spent over $25 today) along with my video games.)
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Nov 21, 2012 19:35
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Revol posted:I've decided to keep the Wii U that I was debating to return when it arrives to me. Yeah, I might not get another game for it for six months, but when that time does come around, I am hopefully moving out on my own, and then I won't be able to afford it. I can afford it right now, so... yeah. Wii U, here I come. I pre-paid for my Wii-U only to find out the weekend before I got it that my dad lost his job and Christmas might get tight I'm just waiting for school to end so I can find a seasonal job to make it not so hard on everyone. If I had purchased a Deluxe I'd probably be selling it right now, but the Basic's can still be found everywhere so there's no point. Might have to sell the 3DS because I barely use it and Christmas money is important.
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Nov 21, 2012 19:40
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My god, you guys, my bathroom is less than 8 meters from my TV, and only through 1 wall... Do you know what this means? Never again will I have to wait for a break in the action to take a poo poo! Truly this is the future.
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Nov 21, 2012 19:45
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Walmart's availability checker is hosed up. In spite of it saying that it hasn't updated since the 18th, I've watched a store near me go from saying it was out of stock, to limited stock, to in stock. I don't want to be that guy that calls the stores daily, either. I really wanted the 32gb model, but I'm really considering just getting the basic. You guys make it sound so fun
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Nov 21, 2012 20:06
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liquidypoo posted:Walmart's availability checker is hosed up. In spite of it saying that it hasn't updated since the 18th, I've watched a store near me go from saying it was out of stock, to limited stock, to in stock. I don't want to be that guy that calls the stores daily, either. I really wanted the 32gb model, but I'm really considering just getting the basic. If you dont care about downloading games from the eShop the basic is fine. Otherwise, its a good idea to hold out for a deluxe. ...and it is fun you'll get one soon.If there is an fye near you I know they're taking 50$ for them to hold a system for you when it comes in. They refund your bux if you find it elsewhere, otherwise it just goes towards the purchase of the system. Also keep an eye open for WiiUs on  CYBER MONDAY
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Nov 21, 2012 20:10
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Am I the only one that is holding out for a deluxe because it's black?
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Nov 21, 2012 20:13
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