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Title: Do Nintendo really want to lose the console war in England?
Post by: avengah on November 26, 2001, 06:13:14 AM
I don't understand - surely it is commercial suicide, making us wait until March. Fony's horrible Gimpstation 2 will have won, and mopped up all the blood too by this stage.

Anyone know the official line on why we are being made to wait?

Cheers,

Matt

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Title: Re: Do Nintendo really want to lose the console war in England?
Post by: avengah on November 26, 2001, 06:21:45 AM
That was supposed to say England, by the way - it seems to have been cut off the topic page.

Cheers,

Matt

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Title: Re: Do Nintendo really want to lose the console war in England?
Post by: Mario Maniac on November 26, 2001, 10:20:43 AM
In America, the GameCube is already out! It arrived on November 18! I WANT ONE SO BAD! PlayStation does suck and so does the crappy Xbox!

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Title: Re: Do Nintendo really want to lose the console war in England?
Post by: avengah on November 26, 2001, 12:11:54 PM
Yeah - it's silly! Why do the Americans have to get it FOUR MONTHS before we do? What is the logic? The way I see it, Nintendo are virtually giving the war to Sony by not releasing it here before Christmas. Ridiculous and silly.

Cheers,

Matt

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Title: Re: Do Nintendo really want to lose the console war in England?
Post by: Sonic on November 26, 2001, 12:26:49 PM
I personally am dissappointed in SOME of the game cubes games. However (on a side note ) I am really sick and tired of people bad mouthing the PS2, how many of you actually played it?

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Title: Re: Do Nintendo really want to lose the console war in England?
Post by: Red Ninja Koopa on November 26, 2001, 03:55:13 PM
We know how you feel avengah. Japan had it before us so we were jealous of them! I don't know why Europe gets it later. Like I understand the translation,. but England is english!

P.S. That Gimpstation thing was funny! But do you really like Crap Box?

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Title: Re: Do Nintendo really want to lose the console war in England?
Post by: Toddathon on November 26, 2001, 05:50:13 PM
What do you mean?  Nintendo GameCube's already out along with Luigi's Mansion, Waverace Blue Storm, etc.  Yes NGC does rule, and the Gimpstation 2 sucks, cause they're all sports games and crap.  Nintendo will always rule, but Nintendo Game Cube: No Mario title, no excitement!
Title: Re: Do Nintendo really want to lose the console war in England?
Post by: avengah on November 26, 2001, 07:16:19 PM
It might already be out if you happen to live in America, but for some silly reason it's not out in England yet (which is what I put before).

This can only serve to put people off, and boost rival companies' sales as people go to buy Christmas presents etc.

Cheers,

Matt

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Title: Re: Do Nintendo really want to lose the console war in England?
Post by: red_yoshi on November 26, 2001, 08:11:55 PM
look nintendo is not going to fail because England did not get it yet... most gamers are probally in Amarica or Japanor even Canada but really for a huge company like Nintendo to loose millions of dollors and fans just because England gets it late... well that is what you ment on the topis isint it.

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Title: Re: Do Nintendo really want to lose the console war in England?
Post by: xXPCMXx on November 26, 2001, 09:14:41 PM
This may sound harsh but honestly Nintendo doesnt really care about getting it out in Englad right away.  The 2 biggest markets in the world are Japan and the US - England Aulstralia Canada and the others are like a bonus.

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Title: Re: Do Nintendo really want to lose the console war in England?
Post by: goodie on November 26, 2001, 10:07:03 PM
Hey, I got an idea! Maybe you could import a GameCube from the U.S. Then you wouldn't have to wait so long.
Title: Re: Do Nintendo really want to lose the console war in England?
Post by: avengah on November 27, 2001, 08:00:45 AM
Without England there would be no US. This is, to put it simply, a joke and a slap in the face to Nintendo's English fans. I would have thought England did make them enough money...? There are a lot of people here, the population density is higher than in America.

Cheers,

Matt

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Title: Re: Do Nintendo really want to lose the console war in England?
Post by: frostbite on November 28, 2001, 03:10:48 PM
England is smaller than Texas!

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Title: Re: Do Nintendo really want to lose the console war in England?
Post by: avengah on November 28, 2001, 11:32:03 PM
Did you read my post? I said "Population DENSITY". Texas is very spread out, whereas England is very crushed together, so the number of people per unit area is higher. This ends up with America being a lot bigger than England, but not actually having proportionally that many more people in it.

Cheers,

Matt

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Title: Re: Do Nintendo really want to lose the console war in England?
Post by: xXPCMXx on November 29, 2001, 08:33:52 PM
Yes there are a lot of people there - and maybe your density is higher BUT if Nintendo made a lot of money in England dont you think they would make it more of a priority than a year after it is released in Japan?

-PCM

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Title: Re: Do Nintendo really want to lose the console war in England?
Post by: cjrs3509 on November 30, 2001, 10:29:56 AM
xXPCMXx:
"England Aulstralia Canada and the others are like a bonus."

Canada is a bonus? Actully, if you read how many Gamecubes were sold, 100,000 Were in canada.....75,000 were in USA

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Title: Re: Do Nintendo really want to lose the console war in England?
Post by: avengah on December 01, 2001, 12:12:17 PM
I reckon they could easily sell close to that number here in England - the demand is huge! Plus they charge more. £200 is worth more than $200, so Nintendo are taking the **** out of us by both cost and delays.

Cheers,

Matt

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Title: Re: Do Nintendo really want to lose the console war in England?
Post by: frostbite on December 01, 2001, 04:17:27 PM
http://www.classicgaming.com/tmk/board/topic.asp?topic_id=41475&forum_id=500&forum_title=General+Mario+chat

that post will explain all. america has a different tv system than europe

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