ShavenWolf Posted March 25, 2011 Posted March 25, 2011 Just got my 3DS from HMV, with Pilotwings and Nintendogs (for the gf... blates...) for £70, thanks to their awesome offers & awesome trade in prices!
KKOB Posted March 25, 2011 Posted March 25, 2011 (edited) It hits midnight and we're all ready to go through, but wait... the line isn't moving. Oh wait, it is moving, just not where we're standing. Seems HMV thinks you start counting backwards and decided it would be okay to let everyone at the back of line start buying their stuff first. D'oh, guys, doing so well up until this point! You should have seen the look of confusion and slight panic on the face of the security guard. The security guards argued we'd lined up to have Street Fighter signed first, which isn't exactly the way things were advertised to work. They even started letting anyone who didn't want it signed through to congregate at the tills to purchase their stuff first. This would have been mildly irritating but acceptable were it not for what happened next. By the time we got to the tills it was a mass of people everywhere. No organisation and absolutely no direction for anyone. A massive, never-ending sweaty fanboy funnel. What started out incredibly well thought out and awesome had degenerated into a poorly organised nightmare. Exactly the kind of organisational difficulty that arises when you abandon a perfectly logical number based queueing system, the importance of which was repeatedly assured by staff throughout the day. We had to get back home before the last train at 1:30am so as to avoid being stranded overnight in London, so I decided to just dump my signed copy of Street Fighter in the hands of a slightly confused employee (this wasn't his fault, he was doing a great job) and leave the line, if it could be called that, and the store. A little better organisation and acknowledgement of the number system they had in place would have gotten HMV their precious £250 or whatever it was they would have earned from me today. Instead they can go fuck themselves. I'll buy my 3DS at a later date from a good store. I'm getting really tired of being treated like complete shit at Nintendo events. For a company so renowned for quality, you expect better. I'd point the finger at HMV exclusively, but Nintendo opted to partner with their knucklehead staff so it's just as much their fault, right? The fact I gave a really positive and enthusiastic taped interview while in the line is going to come back and bite me so hard in the ass on this one, I just know it. I can agree with this entirely. Wasn't until about 12:25 that we were allowed to get the cover signed, and then told to queue up. The processing of purchases was REALLY slow. Too many people wanted to trade in their old consoles and loads of games to get the 3DS for next to nothing. It took me about 10-15 mins to buy the console, after another 15 mins of queueing by the tills, after the mess up with the initial sales. The people on the tills had too much to do, and the security and most people around didn't have a fecking clue as to what was meant to happen at midnight. I've been to GAME launches at Sound and they were MUCH better organised, the most recent being the WoW: Cataclysm launch. Still, I got my copy of SF IV signed, I had loads of fun in the queue (UMBRELLLAAAA) and got SF IV and Pilotwings and the console for £240, but I now have £40 of HMV vouchers to spend and a bag of schwag. I ended up getting out about 12:50am. In short, if anyone is considering going to a HMV launch event, don't waste your time. GAME are far superior at organising these things and HMV didn't seem to give a crap about the people queueing, they only seemed interested in the press and the 'celebs'. Edited March 25, 2011 by KKOB
Jamba Posted March 25, 2011 Posted March 25, 2011 Right people time to start putting up your QR images for your Miis :-D
ReZourceman Posted March 25, 2011 Posted March 25, 2011 Right people time to start putting up your QR images for your Miis :-D How? I don't know anything about this console it seems. :p
Cube Posted March 25, 2011 Posted March 25, 2011 Right people time to start putting up your QR images for your Miis :-D I made a thread for Mii sharing.
Shyguy Posted March 25, 2011 Posted March 25, 2011 Anyone know how to add the QR stuff? and how to play Mp3's from an SD card ?
Cube Posted March 25, 2011 Posted March 25, 2011 Anyone know how to add the QR stuff? and how to play Mp3's from an SD card ? QR: Go to Mii maker then send/receive Miis. MP3: Put music on SD card, go to the 3DS Sound and then select the folder. Be sure to check out the equalisers. The space ship tunnel one looks amazing.
EEVILMURRAY Posted March 25, 2011 Posted March 25, 2011 So, 3DS, was it worth the price? I'm going to say no at the moment. But I don't have one yet. May get one for my birthday.
Shyguy Posted March 25, 2011 Posted March 25, 2011 Thanks cube but i dont see a folder to select in it :/ do you have to make 1 on the SD card and does it need a specific name?
LostOverThere Posted March 25, 2011 Posted March 25, 2011 Man, the internal software on this thing sounds amazing? What's the most surprisingly awesome aspect of any of the included software that hasn't really bee discussed?
yesteryeargames Posted March 25, 2011 Posted March 25, 2011 Send your QR codes to the official nintendo mag they have somthing special planned for next issue ? Happy 3DS Day people
Mokong Posted March 25, 2011 Posted March 25, 2011 My local GameStop opened an hour early at 8am so I was there queing at 7, and first there... actually expected there to be a few there before me, by hey cool by me. As it was cold went back to the car and sat there watching for the security guards to arrive and open the door to the shopping centre so I could get in. About 7.30ish one other person appeared and the doors opened. So we went in and waited outside the store. Staff came round 7.45 and set everything up. Also handed out forms to fill in to win a 3DS, which I thought was a bit odd as we were there to buy it... winner isn't drawn till 15th April anyway, who know could have a 2nd, haha. 8 on the dot doors opened, I walked up the counter, Staff know me and I had everything paid off already so it was just "Hi Franklin"...*type away on till, receipt prints* "Here ya go" and off I went, haha. 3DS GET!!! Got Street Fighter 4 and Ridge Racer, only had some short goes on both, was really just messing about with the menu and setting mostly. Moving the slider doesn't seem to do much for me though, in that if I turn it down there's no real noticable difference between whatever inbetween and full till I get to 2D Gave the AR target game a go, beat it in 1min 15secs I think it was.... turned off the 3D for it though. When your looking at your own table or whatever viewing it in 3D on screen kinda seems silly. Tried the Mii maker with the camera... little disaapointed you still have to select some things like hair styles etc before taking the pic, I though the camera would do everything. It didn't produce what I was hoping for either so had to manully fix it.. though might try again and have both my Mii and the "camera Mii" on the system Set up the internet connection, downloaded the update and watched the pretty video, nice. Will be using that to show off the system. Showed it to my Sister but she didn't seem to be impressed with the 3D, said it looked funny, but when she took off her glasses she said it looked better.... anyone else have an issue with the 3D while wearing glasses? Gave SF4 a go, played a few matches, then went back and tried the online mode see if I could find a match.... found someone from Japan and of course got my ass kicked.... also need to learn the moves and such. Stuck in Ridge Racer for a bit, did one race, enjoyed it, 3D worked well game looked good... my driving skills however another story, haha. Think it took about an hour or 90mins before I got a low battery message, so I pluged it in. The docking station isn't as great as I expected, thought the console would fit in it nicely bit it's very loose. Good thing you don't need to use it to charge. Loving it though. Registered it on Club Nintendo, didn't get anything bout a t-shirt but I was likely not in the first 3000 but who knows maybe you get an email later or something. Also, gods do I hate the stupid questionaire they make you go through. Gonna register SF and RR now then get back to playing... might mess with some Mii pics later and upload some.
Cube Posted March 25, 2011 Posted March 25, 2011 Thanks cube but i dont see a folder to select in it :/ do you have to make 1 on the SD card and does it need a specific name? I think the music has to be in a folder. I put mine in a folder called "Music". anyone else have an issue with the 3D while wearing glasses? I found that it looked much better when I had my glasses on.
EEVILMURRAY Posted March 25, 2011 Posted March 25, 2011 How hard is it to get this fabled sweet spot?
Tales Posted March 25, 2011 Posted March 25, 2011 Is there anyone who could not connect to Internet with dsi or ds lite, but had no problem with 3ds?
ReZourceman Posted March 25, 2011 Posted March 25, 2011 Is there anyone who could not connect to Internet with dsi or ds lite, but had no problem with 3ds? I could with the DSi enhanced games (Pokemon Black) but not on normal DS games or at all on my DS Lite. 3DS is fine.
nekunando Posted March 25, 2011 Posted March 25, 2011 The post has been and gone and no games have been delivered this morning When Parcel Force arrive with the 3DS, I'll just have to make do with the AR games for now..
Jimbob Posted March 25, 2011 Posted March 25, 2011 I'm sure N-Europe won't be putting this launch story on the main page. Got to HMV Oxford Street at just before 11am or so. Turned out to be 5th in line which was pretty sweet. HMV even came out and gave us numbered wristbands which meant we could go off and do our own thing and our place in the line would be guaranteed. Arrived back at HMV and hung around for several more hours until the doors opened, until then everything was going smoothly and HMV/Nintendo had great control over the crowd. Atmosphere was amazing, friendly Nintendo PR people and freebies everywhere. Time to go in! Awesome, a day of waiting has finally paid off. The first guy in line is treated like a king and whisked off to purchase his 3DS while the rest of us, right at the front of the holding pen watch some tacky battles between relatively unknown music artists, the producer of Street Fighter and some random customers who had signed up to be selected earlier in the day. It hits midnight and we're all ready to go through, but wait... the line isn't moving. Oh wait, it is moving, just not where we're standing. Seems HMV thinks you start counting backwards and decided it would be okay to let everyone at the back of line start buying their stuff first. D'oh, guys, doing so well up until this point! You should have seen the look of confusion and slight panic on the face of the security guard. The security guards argued we'd lined up to have Street Fighter signed first, which isn't exactly the way things were advertised to work. They even started letting anyone who didn't want it signed through to congregate at the tills to purchase their stuff first. This would have been mildly irritating but acceptable were it not for what happened next. By the time we got to the tills it was a mass of people everywhere. No organisation and absolutely no direction for anyone. A massive, never-ending sweaty fanboy funnel. What started out incredibly well thought out and awesome had degenerated into a poorly organised nightmare. Exactly the kind of organisational difficulty that arises when you abandon a perfectly logical number based queueing system, the importance of which was repeatedly assured by staff throughout the day. We had to get back home before the last train at 1:30am so as to avoid being stranded overnight in London, so I decided to just dump my signed copy of Street Fighter in the hands of a slightly confused employee (this wasn't his fault, he was doing a great job) and leave the line, if it could be called that, and the store. A little better organisation and acknowledgement of the number system they had in place would have gotten HMV their precious £250 or whatever it was they would have earned from me today. Instead they can go fuck themselves. I'll buy my 3DS at a later date from a good store. I'm getting really tired of being treated like complete shit at Nintendo events. For a company so renowned for quality, you expect better. I'd point the finger at HMV exclusively, but Nintendo opted to partner with their knucklehead staff so it's just as much their fault, right? The fact I gave a really positive and enthusiastic taped interview while in the line is going to come back and bite me so hard in the ass on this one, I just know it. That sucks dude, sorry to hear. I mean, why organise it so well at the start of the day then allow it to crumble at the end. Give out wrist-bands, then tell you that you are first to have SFIV signed. Na, i agree with other people. GAME have far better organisation skills for launch events, and this calamity just goes to show why HMV are cutting jobs and closing stores. They are completly useless at most things, except recommending crappy music and charge 3x the amount as their online store for the same item.
ReZourceman Posted March 25, 2011 Posted March 25, 2011 3DS Sounds....is....amazing. Oh my god. Got to leave soon but I'm hurriedly whacking out some music on an SD card to take with.
Serebii Posted March 25, 2011 Posted March 25, 2011 I am in lesbians with this console How hard is it to get this fabled sweet spot? Not hard at all, and its much larger than I thought it'd be
Cube Posted March 25, 2011 Posted March 25, 2011 I could with the DSi enhanced games (Pokemon Black) but not on normal DS games or at all on my DS Lite. 3DS is fine. It'll be your router security settings. DS Lite only supports WEP, not the more common (and better) WPA.
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