Nintendork

Mental, I thought they just used the little one for playing Mega Drive. Anyway.. to draw this thread to a close: who has a degree in either business, media, marketing or economics? Anyone? No, so shaddap. *thread dies*

GameStation has a television?

I went to a specialist sports college, it had a sports centre built next to it.. everyone was very proud of it. Princess Anne even flew in on chopper to open the £750,000 astro turf pitch. It had the equipment, it had the facilities and it had the students. The staff were the problem.. people aren't interested in sports anymore, they don't motivate kids to do it anymore. It's not encouraging, it's about performance and district trials. The problem is not with celebrating.. it's about making the kids in the first place want to do it. In my day a lolly pop was enough of a bribe to make us do it, but now kids are too lazy. Sports day isn't the way to do it though. It alienates those who are shit directly, and doesn't celebrate them. Political correctness is the problem there.

360 faceplates have a purpose, they give a large system a sense of personality and style. If I had a 360 I would custom mod the whole thing with stickers and spray paint. These have no purpose as they contribute nothing to the gaming experience.. and barely heighten the aesthetic value.

Pieces of shit.

I enterred the retard group, we got something for doing 800 metres. It took some of us 20 minutes just for a laugh. Some of us were rolling around. It is quite bad.. because it really encourages celebration of physical ability. Where is maths day celebrating the geeks? It's in the toilets getting it's head flushed that's where. I think it should be there, but to compliment other forms of achievement too. All that parental pressure too does nobody any good.

Saterday? Toosdy? HAHAHAHA WHAT DAY? You have a point, don't take yourself too seriously with the theatrics but this is the most authentic rant I've seen in a while. You should have some models and demos explaining your points. This would increase it's popularity and educational value. I think the saying the early bird catches the worm applies here.. I think it's wrong, but they can get money out of it.

American culture? Pfft.. didn't you know most UK schools have cancelled sports day since they fear that parents might sue for dehydration or sun stroke? The most ridiculous thing to get banned at my school was.. erm. Fights Organised fights were banned, if you knew about one and you didn't tell you'd get suspended.. if you planned one you'd get suspended and if you were involved in one you'd get suspended. That's about all I cared for. On a side note they tolerated smoking as long as you did it responsibly.. not profiteering.. putting out your butts and not forcing other kids to breath in your smoke.

Perhaps an attempt was made to catch the criminal.. and people used it for comic value? When questioning the plausability of it.. I figured they were shooting this for an hour or two. They had several cuts (and we must assume some went wrong, location.. lighting etc, poses) This guy could have walked around the block after noticing them.. timed it perfectly and had their car. But conversely that car is pretty shitty for a bunch of rich kids.. and it's hardly worth going to prison for stealing a car like that.

Nicely, I can't wait for the snow to come so I can nick a McDonalds tray and go sledding in Castle Park. I am not a huge fan of winter because there's very few places underground or inside where we can skateboard in the UK. Should be able to drive by then though which means indoor parks will be a mere 30 minutes away. Raining here:

No you're being ignorant. and i'm being childish w00t

The chick in the Snow White video was quite hot.. she had some European thing going on which you don't see in British girls. I always thought they were too passionate about their music.. in an Elton John kinda way. Thus waiting for Deftone's Saturday Night Wrist.. their follow up to their third album [self titled] which I think I am the only one who liked. Don't buy much music tbh.

OBJECTION! Looks like that scan's been cropped.. I don't see the area were Corp. should or could be included. (How Phoenix Wright esque) But your knowledge of Asian gaming magazines impresses, school boy error on my part.. I should have noticed from the characters that it was not Famitsu.

A black guy living in that neighbourhood? You'd be lucky, just look at it. I reckon it's legit. They deserve that shit, and that guy deserves a car for balls.

Mr. T says: Quit yo' jibba jabba fool!

Erm, that's not as bad as some places.. it's far from a scam. For a Premium 360 you had to buy 5 full price shitty ass launch games. Most people bought a core pack, wireless controller and hard-drive seperately because of it. I guess you should have read any terms and conditions.

MTV generation listen up. Wanna be cool rich kids? Wanna be hip like people who are black? Then copy black culture! Get your rich parents to buy you a pimped up car and then act like a fucking idiot with it. Video it and post it on YouTube for your 15 seconds of fame with hilarious results. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nn4BAkEz-F4 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8cGyeYtvb4M Give it a month and this will be catching on in the UK, cars will crash.. people will die and the Daily Mail will run a campaign to increase the legal driving age. You heard it here first.

Because I am. So how much does everyone think this marketing stunt cost? I'm thinking 5 figures in UK currency.

OMG IGN IS GOSPEL. BEST GAMING SOURCE EVER. Most games coverage with the smallest amount of staff award goes to: what a suprise, IGN. Oh yeah, how's Katamari Damacy for the DS going? Nice cockup that was IGN. edit. WHY DO YOU CARE WHAT IT IS CALLED? Are you just pedants? Or is it merely a funking case of lets have a witch hunt against Nintendork and every mistake he makes. It's one funking word.

Don't argue with God, it is all knowing. Fact is that many Google results for "Umbrella Corp. Chronicles" (314,000) prooves that A. I didn't make it up and B. that's probably the name. Besides, how can you know this as fact without quoting sources (as I did)? It's just a working title anyway. Famitsu scan, highly regarded gaming magazine from Japan which got the exclusive details on this game directly from Capcom Japan. Check mate.

Lets all have a hearty discussion over this. [/sarschasm]

Nobody said that Nintendo would start promotions on December 8th. But if people see Wii on TV now, they will go into the store asking for it and they can't get it. If they see it on TV in 3 weeks, they will be able to go into the store, play a copy.. and place a pre-order based on that experience. Also demos take time to make, compile and press. Shopping used to be done a week before Christmas.. nowadays it slips into November. It's still October.. what's the point in getting it out before the busy period starts..? Only losers do their shopping in October/November. I'm doing mine in December. Tesco sells technology, I was merely using it as an example. To sum up, the idea that people want to play the Wii a month in advance is obvious from the point of internet geeks. But average joe has a short attention span, shops late november early december. This is when adverts will roll, when shops will get displays and units.. and when the majority of pre-orders will be made.

Do Tesco advertise a product before it's in the supermarket? Do they say by one get one free next week on Pepsi? Nah Marketing early removes the hype.. you have to hit consumers in the rush.. the Christmas shopping lights aren't up yet.. they go up 2nd week of November where I live. Christmas shopping hasn't started.. it will do after Halloween (a big holiday for people buying food and crap) They aren't missing oppurtunities really.. your point that not many people know about it yet is valid.. they don't need to yet. In 2 weeks when people start Christmas shopping properly, and hype starts in the press, on the TV and radio. When the lights go up and adverts start rolling on TV, that's when to hit them with the console.

The chonicles of an umbrella sounds really shit. Also the first I heard of it, when the Japanese developper announced it.. he referred to it as Biohazard: Umbrella Corp Chronicles. That's the Japanese name.. there are lots of reasons why there may be confusion in the press with regard to the Eastern name. Because the press are really bad at translating.. they could have simply missed out the corp. bit.. it happens all the time in the press. Umbrella Corp. Chronicles flows a lot better if you ask me, but that's what I'm gonna call it until I see box-art or an official announcement from Capcom Europe/America. Google Umbrella Corp. Chronicles: http://www.google.com/search?client=safari&rls=en&q=umbrella+corp+chronicles&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8 I didn't make it up, hundreds of established websites are referring to it as Umbrella Corp. Chronicles.