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#160879 Ban the last poster!

Posted by Eggplante! on 19 January 2013 - 06:32 PM in Roleplay and Forum Games

Banned because Piers Morgan is right about everything regarding gun control.

#163308 Ban the last poster!

Posted by Eggplante! on 26 January 2013 - 08:44 AM in Roleplay and Forum Games

Banned because I squashed the goomba.

#133282 Official Nintendo Network ID Sharing Thread

Posted by Eggplante! on 19 November 2012 - 06:20 AM in General Gaming

Our Nintendo Network ID is, as you may have guessed: Eggplante

Add us and let's get our game on!

#160882 Disc vs Download

Posted by Eggplante! on 19 January 2013 - 06:35 PM in Wii U Games and Software

The biggest thing I'm upset about with digital-only is going to be the lack of collector's edition content. I mean, sure you might pay extra for DLC or a season's pass or something, but what about that cool journal from the game, or statuette, or even that gold Wii Remote? Gone

#161979 Disc vs Download

Posted by Eggplante! on 22 January 2013 - 07:57 PM in Wii U Games and Software

It probably is illegal & I normally wouldn't have done it, but when I bought my wiiu points card they charged me 12% tax for it. I didn't want to have to pray full tax twice so I changed my region. I still payed 17% tax though when I should've only payed 12%. So if the law wants to get on my case they can suck beans.

Not sure what you mean here since Wii U games that you buy online are not bought with points. Also, if you are talking about Wii games you buy for points, you don't pay tax twice since you pay in points, so if a game is 800 points, you pay 800 points, not 800 *1.12 or whatever your tax rate is. You would have paid tax on the 2000 points you bought, for example, but not twice.

#163303 Disc vs Download

Posted by Eggplante! on 26 January 2013 - 08:36 AM in Wii U Games and Software

I never sell back my games, so I don't have a problem with digital. If the games are huge, like Smash Bros though, I go retail. Another thing, people say that you don't own the game when you go digital, but you only own a license to play it. Is the company going to take it back from you or something?

They're not going to take it back from you or anything, but the argument is being made about whether or not you will always have access to that game. Let's say Nintendo goes bankrupt or decides to stop offering certain games on its online store. (Get around the fact that those things probably won't happen, but we've seen worse and weirder things happen). If you have paid for a game and are granted a license to use it but Nintendo no longer offers it, you can't redownload it, which means you've effectively lost the money you've paid for it. The same thing would not happen with a physical copy unless it requires a constant internet connection to servers to verify its authenticity, though game companies are moving away from that now anyway.

The same applies to physical retail games and not just digital games.

That's actually not true. No, you don't own the physical assets of course, or every gamer would have a 0.00001% ownership of Modern Warfare 3 or Super Smash Bros. or any other game. But you do own an always playable copy of the game that cost you probably the same price as a digital copy would have.

#137620 Wii Mini

Posted by Eggplante! on 24 November 2012 - 04:22 PM in General Gaming

It probably won't be able to play GC games because the "family edition" removed support for it. So while I can see them making it even smaller... I don't really see a point. Maybe to save material costs while they ride the death out? :/ It's probably a fake rumour.

That's true. It might also be a surprise with perhaps two GC ports instead of four, and just a single memory card slot. Then again, I might be out to lunch. Of course, it would probably cannibalize their own sales if they made GameCube games available on the Wii U Virtual Console/eShop. Then again, how would we manage with controls? Even the Pro Controller doesn't line up with the GC controller unless you remap all the buttons to be inverse (analog on the top, buttons on the bottom).

#138976 Wii Mini

Posted by Eggplante! on 27 November 2012 - 07:18 AM in General Gaming

Wii Mini is a CANADIAN EXCLUSIVE! http://www.eggplante...-mini-announce/

#139559 Wii Mini

Posted by Eggplante! on 28 November 2012 - 05:14 AM in General Gaming

If you read the wording closely, it says that it's a Canada exclusive through the holidays. Which means that it will be brought to other territories at the beginning of the new year I presume.

Or it means that it won't even be in Canada after the holidays. At which point it'll be worth even more.

#137372 Wii Mini

Posted by Eggplante! on 24 November 2012 - 08:30 AM in General Gaming

This makes sense and it doesn't. The consoles can only be so much smaller in width because the DVD is a fixed length. The length could be shortened, as well as the height slightly, but there still needs to be enough room for GameCube ports and memory card slots as well, assuming they don't remove those.

The only market I can see for this is the crowd that wants to play GameCube games because they can't do that on their Wii U. Of course, that is a feature that Nintendo could take out of the Wii Mini or whatever it's called.

Given that the console hasn't been announced and the Wii U hasn't been out for more than a few weeks, we just don't see this happening. Then again, more bizarre things have happened before.

#139351 Wii Mini

Posted by Eggplante! on 27 November 2012 - 05:30 PM in General Gaming

This will probably be the Wii's last remodel ( excluding color variants and bundles), considering they've cut pretty much every corner they can. The only thoughts I could imagine for another remodel would be to make the console memory smaller, which sounds possible. But not for an entire new remodel, maybe in the really late days of the Wii ( 2014ish?), they downsize the memory.

Nintendo will continue selling the original Wii (in full-size or 'mini' form) until holiday 2013. They'll probably announce final production just after next holiday season this year and kill the console so that they can compete in every market - last-gen and next-gen - against Microsoft and Sony's consoles (assuming they're out next year). Also, after that season, Nintendo will be able to say that the Wii has surpassed the 100,000,000 mark of units sold, assuming they can get another two and a half million out by then. That should be doable because they've been doing about 3-5 million units per year for the past little while.

#137606 Wii Mini

Posted by Eggplante! on 24 November 2012 - 03:55 PM in General Gaming

Don't forget, the Game Boy Micro came out a year after DS when they stopped making GBA games, but that was also a pretty big failure so who knows.

#132486 Wii-U box not sealed

Posted by Eggplante! on 18 November 2012 - 01:43 PM in Wii U Hardware

Hey guys - the confusion seems to be the black versus white unit. We've got a bunch of units floating around here at Eggplante, and our white ones have no protective tape, but the black ones all do. Our guess is that the black one smudges and scratches easier.

In any case, there is nothing to worry about. All the packages are unsealed, as is usually the case with Nintendo hardware, and there is only tape on the black units.

#132852 Wii-U box not sealed

Posted by Eggplante! on 18 November 2012 - 06:54 PM in Wii U Hardware

It seems like Nintendo is going cheap on as much as they reasonably can given the fact that they're losing money on the Wii U (the first time they're losing money on their hardware). Things like the trays in the box aren't colored and numbered like the Wii, there really should be tape on the white Wii Us if the black ones have it, etc. it's very interesting.

#133971 Is your gamepad rattling?

Posted by Eggplante! on 19 November 2012 - 06:54 PM in Wii U Hardware

If Apple had made this, the device would have design tolerances so small, the buttons would be perfect. But then Wii U might cost $549, not $349.

#133645 Is your gamepad rattling?

Posted by Eggplante! on 19 November 2012 - 12:58 PM in Wii U Hardware

Its actually not the gyro and accelerometer that is the culprit for most of the noise. The stylus as well as the face buttons make a lot of noise when the GamePad is shaken.

#134578 Is your gamepad rattling?

Posted by Eggplante! on 20 November 2012 - 10:34 AM in Wii U Hardware

Not trolling at all. It'll help by making sure you don't hear it. Just like the user above me said with the sound on, you barely notice anything.

If you guys would like me to stop posting, I have no problem doing that

Like I said, I'm here to be a member.

#134466 Is your gamepad rattling?

Posted by Eggplante! on 20 November 2012 - 08:04 AM in Wii U Hardware

These might help: http://www.eggplante.../19/kunai-wiiu/

#130199 Anybody who wont get wii U at launch day?

Posted by Eggplante! on 15 November 2012 - 02:31 PM in Wii U Hardware

Following Nintendo's trend, we won't see a price drop on Wii U until 2015. The Wii stayed at the original price from November 2006 to September 2009, nearly three full years.

It will also depend on supply and demand. If we have the same shortages with Wii U that we did with Wii, there is no way Nintendo will be cutting the price in the first two years, and it certainly won't be happening within months.

#130950 Anybody who wont get wii U at launch day?

Posted by Eggplante! on 16 November 2012 - 02:09 PM in Wii U Hardware

It is very much necessary to remember that Nintendo has had Wii U in development for about three years, if not longer. That includes salaries of a research and development staff for three years, in addition to prototype manufacturing (each prototype can cost anywhere from $2000 to $100,000, believe it or not), design, software development, and testing.

Then there's actually building the Wii U itself and hoping to make some money on it.

#137096 Which games do NOT include Club Nintendo points?

Posted by Eggplante! on 23 November 2012 - 06:38 PM in Wii U Games and Software

(Post deleted - everything I said was inaccurate :S)

#138485 bluetooth headphones compatible?

Posted by Eggplante! on 26 November 2012 - 12:40 PM in Wii U Hardware

The jack on the GamePad will work with a headset (headphones and mic). I reviewed the Tritton Stereo Headset for Wii U (great set) and found it to be excellent. You can also hear yourself talk which is nice.

Check out Eggplante.com for the review!

#160883 retirement

Posted by Eggplante! on 19 January 2013 - 06:39 PM in Wii U Games and Software

This is a really interesting discussion. A couple of decades ago, Pepsi and Coca-Cola had about the same market share and it didn't seem to be changing for a while. So Pepsi decided they would save a bunch of money and not advertise for a while, thinking people already made their minds up and had their preference set. Well, over the next five to ten years, Coca-Cola's market share grew to nearly 80% or so, and Pepsi has never come all the way back to parity with Coca-Cola.

I think the same thing could happen if Nintendo were to abandon Mario. Sure, Zelda, Donkey Kong, Kirby, and Luigi could hold up the company, and perhaps it would be good to have a break from our favourite little plumber for a while. But without the character at least seemingly in development in a new game, Nintendo could be in for a lot of trouble. That doesn't mean that big-N needs to release a new Mario game every six months, but they can't explicitly say they're not developing any Mario games or people will be up in arms. Of course, they could just leave it for a few years between major releases, but they already do that. It's been years since a major Mario game like Galaxy 2.

#138188 CNN interviews Reggie Fils Aime.

Posted by Eggplante! on 25 November 2012 - 05:31 PM in Wii U Hardware

Don't forget that CNN doesn't necessarily "slip up" so much as the poke the fire a bit. Even the slightest bit of controversy is big news.

Not that Reggie would ever do it, but if he was the type to get super mad and yell that Wii U is better and storm off screen would be bigger news than a little interview like this.

#135139 HDMI picture and AVMulti out

Posted by Eggplante! on 20 November 2012 - 09:25 PM in Wii U Hardware

The Wii U will only support one output of audio/video signal at one time. However, any HDMI port that is built to spec (anything on a TV by a name brand manufacturer) will be able to receive incoming audio. TOSLINK is available in addition to HDMI for devices that support it (some Blu Ray players and other home theatre equipment) but it is not necessary. HDMI is designed to carry both HD video signals as well as full surround audio signals.