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I've said it before, but I reckon that the basic pack will start selling more as time goes on and the console starts selling to a wider audience. At the start of the console's life, it's gonna be selling mainly to the hardcore Nintendo nuts who won't be willing to settle for anything but the best. Unlike the 360, there's nothing wrong with the "lesser" model. If you're not interested in Nintendo Land, then there's no real reason to buy the Premium model over the Basic one as USB storage is dirt cheap and pretty much required if you're looking to download lots of content anyway (even if you buy the Premium one, that 25GB odd of usable storage isn't going to last long anyway!) This is in stark contrast to the 360, where the "tard pack" console was severely gimped in comparison to the Pro (and buying a Basic along with a seperate HDD was more expensive than just buying the Pro model).

http://www.officialnintendomagazine.co.uk/45539/zelda-symphony-of-the-goddesses-uk-date-confirmed-tickets-available-from-14-january/ ABOUT BLOODY TIME! Nice to know that they know that we exist

They did that rolling shipment malarkey across all regions, not just the US. For what it's worth, the Premium model Wii U accounted for 90% of all hardware sales in the EU upon its launch (can't remember if anything was revealed about the other regions). Otherwise, you only have to look around at other various sources about the Premium one being constrained, with the Basic one still sitting on store shelves. Seems to be the same story across all regions (not just the US) too.

There's no one specific source for it, but its been widely reported from retailers and other sources. Here's an article where Iwata acknowledges the Premium model supply issue http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/01/07/us-nintendo-console-sales-idUSBRE90605420130107 You're comparing the end of life DS attach rate to the early life of the 3DS. Not a fair comparison. But yeah, the Wii U 3rd party sales aren't fantastic, no spin to be had there (except for ME3 and Fifa, which were sabotaged by EA themselves) The early adopters were clearly buying it for Nintendo's duo of titles. Mind you though, ZombiU does seem to have done better in Europe than in the US, going by the fact that it has constantly remained the 3rd best selling Wii U game so I guess we'll just have to wait and see about that one...

There are some extrenuating circumstances to consider here with many of these 3DS titles. RE:R was capped at the knees when Capcom announced RE6 just about a week before RE:R was released ("Hey guys! The REAL RE game is coming out in October") and they bombarded us with RE6 ads on TV instead of RE:R. KH3D is suffering from franchise fatigue and the consequence of putting off KH3 for so long (in fact the game sold better in the US than it did in Japan by quite a bit!) MGS3 3D was a massive disappointment (coming off the Naked Sample tech demo that we all thought we were getting) and was also capped at the knees (Capcom style!) by the announcement and release of the HD Colection that was released at the same price. Sonic Generations exists in the shadow of its HD counterparts as a "lesser" version made by an outside team. RE:R, MGS3D and KH3D also represent the only major 3rd party 3DS releases of this year (Theatrhythtm and Rhythm Thief are very much niche titles that weren't expected to sell much really. I don't think it's just the price that's the issue. Nintendo's 1st party titles are still selling well (especially SM3DL which is trending toward becoming the best selling 3D Mario of all time!). The problem is inherent towards the software itself and the fact that most of the 3DS' lineup was either pushed back till 2013 or still lives in Japan only currently.

The 360's supply constraints were no worse than the supply constraints for the Premium model Wii U (in fact, the split between the two models was actually very similar - as most people ignored the Basic "tard pack" to start off with). If you wanted one, you could get one. Also the 360`s best selling launch game (COD2) only did just over 250k during December. NSMBU did much better (and that's with Nintendo Land as a pack-in for around 70-80% of all Wii U owners stealing its thunder too!)

I think you might just start getting repeats of the same one. Not sure though, haven't exactly had the chance to test it! :p

Of course it's an unfair comparison, you're absolutely right. It's ridiculous spin and should be treated as such (thankfully it seems to have worked on their investors and the likes of Bloomberg though, so that should shut them up for a few weeks at least! ) This however... ... is not good at all. 3rd party 3DS games are not doing well (how the bloody hell did Angry Birds beat out everything else!?) At least KH3D beat out the Japanese version Nintendo needs to put some marketing muscle behind the upcoming 3DS titles, because these guys don't seem to be up to the task and it doesn't paint a pretty picture at all. MH3U is the perfect starting point! Go all out like you did before with the Wii one! (and give us that sexy hardware model that they got in Japan while you're at it! )

We'll probably get those at the investor's call that's happening in a couple of weeks or so. The 360 sold only 281,441 in its first December (In fact it actually even dropped from its November total of 326,000). Guess that console was a failure...

That doesn't change the fact that it's selling to Nintendo's expectations. They forecasted that it would lag behind the Wii slightly and that's exactly what it has done. It doesn't need to be the same phenomenon that the Wii was to be a success.

Oh I will be playing it soon don't you worry. I've just started a 1-eshop-game-every-week stint in the run-up till March and Spin Cycle is on my list I've been holding off on buying eShop stuff for a while to help cover up the 3DS drought until March. Starting with Denpa Men, here's my list of "to play" titles (in order!) Denpa Men, Aeroporter, Gunman Clive, Hydroventure Spin Cycle, Crimson Shroud, Escape Vektor, Picross e2, Nano Assault EX (The latter 2 are due for release this month, so they should be out by the time I get to them at the end of February!) I also plan on picking up the last two NSMB2 DLC packs at some point too (haven't gotten round to getting either of them yet) and Nightsky if it ever gets released during this time (It's supposed to come out in January, but if Nicalis' past is anything to go by, I'm not holding my breath!)

The properties of the WiFi networks you walk past (SSID, security settings, signal strength etc) You will always get the same Denpa Man from any specific WiFi spot (they really DO live in radio waves... ever present... always watching you... )

Those Wii U sales are alright, but not amazing. The Wii did 604K back in December 2006, so the Wii U's first December is not that far off (there's only 136k's worth of difference and the Premium model was supply constrained - with people largely ignoring the Basic model at this point in its life time). Considering that Nintendo themselves forecasted that the Wii U's first quarter would be slightly behind the original Wii, it looks like they're pretty much on track to hit their forecasted shipments. That NSMBU attach rate is just nuts though! I'm also surprised to see ZombiU so low on the Wii U list. It's quite different to how it stands here in the EU where it's the current Wii U No3! NSMB2 is the biggest shocker for me though. It has just rebounded out of nowhere!

Well! One of the 5 other interested buyers has been revealed (other than EA and Warner Bros) and its...

Sorry guys, I had to post it. I just had to!

Aww hell naw! We had better be getting this 3DS model too (and preferably with the option to have a physical card version of the game instead of a pre-installed download) SHIBATA PLZ!

It's just as well that wemention Final Fantasy in this thread considering that Pokemon B&W had a better story than every single FF game released since FF7!

So I finally got Denpa Men! (starting my 1 eShop game per week run up until March now - been wanting this for a while!) My work commute is GREAT for catching many different kinds of Denpa Men! Was just going around looking for them while I waited for my overground train (loads of WiFi spots around ) I probably look like a right pillock LOL! (Luckily I have no shame )

To kick things off, here's a few designs I've seen online... Also, here's a few of mine that I took from the demo Also, Dominique is AWESOME! (AKA the new Mark - the Nintendogs dog trick show commentator!) Over to you, fellow fashionistas!

We do now http://www.n-europe.com/forum/showthread.php?p=1520977#post1520977

So I got the game thanks to the 3DSXL promotion (TOOK YOUR TIME NOE!!!) and I'm loving it so far! While I'm a bit late to the party here, some of us here have been playing this for a while... Post your clothes designs here, share your pics for all us players to download your designs (the game has a picture scanning feature that allows you to take complete outfit designs from shared .jpg screenshots taken in-game!). SHOW US YOUR FEMININE SIDE! Will share pics of MAH WAIFU later on today

Yeah, me too! Really enjoying it so far The intro is funny as hell. You carried my boxes in for me OMG YOU MUST BE A FASHIONISTA! WORK FOR ME!!!11!! Game is polished to a mirror sheen as well and is one of the 3DS's best looking games for sure (the intro vid is wow, just WOW!) Will post pics of MAH WAIFU in the main thread later on

WOOT! I finally got my code! Playing New Style Boutique right now and enjoying losing all sense of my masculinity!

Korea more important to Nintendo than US and EU combined confirmed