stuwii Posted December 22, 2006 Posted December 22, 2006 in video games is it better than tetris with the game boy?
blender Posted December 22, 2006 Posted December 22, 2006 you pay with blood and sweat. Nothings free
Spark Posted December 22, 2006 Posted December 22, 2006 I've had better free gifts, but most of them were of a sexual nature.
pedrocasilva Posted December 22, 2006 Posted December 22, 2006 Didn't SNES come with Super Mario World bundled at launch? I think that's a good match, despite being a very diferent genres. Wii Sports might be the best multiplayer game bundled with a console at launch though, no doubt.
Zell Posted December 22, 2006 Posted December 22, 2006 Its not really free, just bundled. Wii is only something like $210 in Japan, where wii sports does not come with it.
The Bard Posted December 22, 2006 Posted December 22, 2006 Many many better freebies, Super Mario World, Street Fighter 2, Super Mario 64... I haven't played Wii sports since the day I got Wii...
flameboy Posted December 22, 2006 Posted December 22, 2006 yeah I don't think it was free either... the wii would have been £150 without it I'm sure.
raven_blade2006 Posted December 22, 2006 Posted December 22, 2006 Wii sports is addictive. Espescially tennis.
flameboy Posted December 22, 2006 Posted December 22, 2006 games dont cost 25 to make.. who said they did?! I think Nintendo added £30 on to the cost of the unit for it! for more profit, just based on how much cheaper the JAP wii is compared to EU and US.
solitanze Posted December 23, 2006 Posted December 23, 2006 Theres no such thing as a free lunch... This game isn't free and even if it were, it is far from being the best freebie ever.
fanman Posted December 23, 2006 Posted December 23, 2006 who said they did?! I think Nintendo added £30 on to the cost of the unit for it! for more profit, just based on how much cheaper the JAP wii is compared to EU and US. It's £112 in japan, £127 in america, around £170 in the rest of europe and £180 in the UK. It's hard to tell whether it was free or not with the inflated EU prices, but I was expecting it to be much less than £180...
solitanze Posted December 23, 2006 Posted December 23, 2006 That famous day they announced the pricing, they instantly lost 10 million plus sales...
Guest Jordan Posted December 23, 2006 Posted December 23, 2006 That famous day they announced the pricing, they instantly lost 10 million plus sales... Solitanze are you a complete jack ass? Jeeze.
dabookerman Posted December 23, 2006 Posted December 23, 2006 No. The artbook that came with Castlevania, now thats an awesome freebie.
The3rdChildren Posted December 23, 2006 Posted December 23, 2006 We could have done a lot worse. I doubt we'd all be buying it unless it was packed into the console, afterall.
conzer16 Posted December 23, 2006 Posted December 23, 2006 Well considering how well Wii Play sold, If Wii Sports was bundled with a Remote + Nunchuk for ~€65 (extra tenner for nunchuk) instead of being a pack in, then the Wii would've cost > €270/£180 and nearly everyone would've bought WiiSports.
DCK Posted December 23, 2006 Posted December 23, 2006 All Marios pretty much own it, as does Tetris, but that doesn't make it any less awesome. I wouldn't have picked it up if it didn't come bundled and that would've been a real shame.
LazyBoy Posted December 23, 2006 Posted December 23, 2006 I don't know if you can call it a freebie, but I reckon it's one of the best games i've ever played. No other game i've ever owned have I shared with more people. I know people will look down on it because of it's extremly simplified gameplay, and unremarkable graphics, but i've played the game with 5 year olds and 70 year olds, and i've had fun. And to me that's the sign of a good game. Probably the best pack-in ever.
Charlie Posted December 23, 2006 Posted December 23, 2006 games dont cost 25 to make.. Try adding on a few zeros. Well considering how well Wii Play sold, If Wii Sports was bundled with a Remote + Nunchuk for ~€65 (extra tenner for nunchuk) instead of being a pack in, then the Wii would've cost > €270/£180 and nearly everyone would've bought WiiSports. WiiPlay only sold well because the controller was packed in with it, no one would've bought it otherwise. That famous day they announced the pricing, they instantly lost 10 million plus sales... No they didn't, it sold out worldwide.
Teppo Holmqvist Posted December 23, 2006 Posted December 23, 2006 No they didn't, it sold out worldwide. You should have already learnt that trying to use *logic* against solitanze is pretty pointless. After all, he lives in his own faery tale land that has its own bizarre laws and rules.
c0Zm1c Posted December 23, 2006 Posted December 23, 2006 it sold out worldwide. Indeed. If anything has lost Nintendo sales, it's their inability to keep up with demand. As far as I'm concerned, the people bitching about the price - and in most cases not just the price - never intended to buy a Wii anyway. They're the ignorant 'it's just a Gamecube with a gimmicky controller' type people.
Jasper Posted December 23, 2006 Posted December 23, 2006 That famous day they announced the pricing, they instantly lost 10 million plus sales... Does anyone agree on having th 'most utterly stupid remakrs competition' of 2006? I'de vote for this gay, since he obviously has forget anything that happened around him and thinks the trees can talk and tell him the future. They told him by telling stupid remarks he could win something. The tree doubted what exactly he would win, but it was or a spanking or a million dollars. A Bbush told solitanze it was the first one. But to the point: no, it's not. First, I agree it's not a freebie but a price-pusher for Nintendo (and it's not really worth the value of 40€). Second, the NES had Mario Bros. and Duck Hunt. At least, I thought that was a launch freebie. If not, the launch game for SNES did the job of being the better freebie. And my Nintendo64 came with, erm, nothing. Just like everyone else's. mario 64 was not a freebie with your console. So no, I don't believe it's the best freebie ever. And I don't believe it's a freebie either...
fanman Posted December 23, 2006 Posted December 23, 2006 We could have done a lot worse. I doubt we'd all be buying it unless it was packed into the console, afterall. Wiisports comes with it to show people to new to wii the innovation and possiblities with wii and gaming in general. Mostly targeted at non-gamers, partly why I think it wasn't included with the wii in japan, because it has already happened with the DS. People in the west are still unsure about the whole thing. It's not as if nintendo spent millions developing a new game only to think, dam, no one will buy this shit, lets pack it in with the console to recoup our losses. I ceratinly would have bought it anyway, and I think it's wonderful. It really shows of what the wii is capable off, whereas, despite the fact that it is a brilliant game none the less, zelda doesn't.
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