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Smash Bros. Brawl delayed in Japan by a week U.S. till March 9th :((((((
- Thread starter Kobun Heat
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Anyone actually thinks Okami will release in march? I SERIOSLY doubt it. No wii screens or videos, and its mid january. hmmm....
nah, Okami will be may the earliest if you ask me. And it seems like a good time to release it also.
And march for brawl works for me. Will give me time to enjoy NMH and DQ Swords before my time is sucked by Sakurai's Masterpiece. Good, good.
nah, Okami will be may the earliest if you ask me. And it seems like a good time to release it also.
And march for brawl works for me. Will give me time to enjoy NMH and DQ Swords before my time is sucked by Sakurai's Masterpiece. Good, good.
Message to NOA:
As a result of the delay I will not:
-Buy any of your 1st party games that come out before march, like AW DoR. At least not until I'm all finished with Brawl.
-But any 3rd party games. I wasn't going to do this anyway. Sorry NMH.
-Visit the Smashdojo site. You don't deserve the hits.
-Turn on my Wii. Unless you put Yoshis Island or something equally awesome on the VC. HINT.
I have to focus on school anyway so it works in my favor.
As a result of the delay I will not:
-Buy any of your 1st party games that come out before march, like AW DoR. At least not until I'm all finished with Brawl.
-But any 3rd party games. I wasn't going to do this anyway. Sorry NMH.
-Visit the Smashdojo site. You don't deserve the hits.
-Turn on my Wii. Unless you put Yoshis Island or something equally awesome on the VC. HINT.
I have to focus on school anyway so it works in my favor.
the thoroughbred
Member
Surely any game development would have ended if it so close to release. They should just be testing the game now, and getting all the spelling mistakes correct. Making sure there are no faults in the coding and stuff like that. Proof-reading as they say. They wouldn't exactly be coding it, this close to release, would they?
TheKingsCrown
Banned
Seriously, my social network is going to re-establish itself JUST because of this game.Firestorm said:
Yeah, I have been going to Google and typing in different Smash Bros. searches and just pulling up the worst images (e.g., badly compressed shots of the game especially) to scare people off from the game if that's how they're going to find out about it. Clearly Nintendo only feels it in the pocketbook.
Been doing it all day on a couple different computers and I've noticed a few of the "bad" SMBB images I've been clicking have been rising a bit in the ranks.
Been doing it all day on a couple different computers and I've noticed a few of the "bad" SMBB images I've been clicking have been rising a bit in the ranks.
Rentahamster
Rodent Whores
Wow, just noticed this.
I am very sad.
I am very sad.
Cosmonaut X
Member
Yeesh... glancing over some of the reactions in this thread just serves to remind how bloody entitled many gamers feel.
MichaelEM3
Banned
While I'm pretty depressed about this, there is two good things about this delay for me:
1. I won't have to fail a lot of my first exams of the new semester.
2. It comes out just in time for my Spring Break. It shall be the best Spring Break ever.
1. I won't have to fail a lot of my first exams of the new semester.
2. It comes out just in time for my Spring Break. It shall be the best Spring Break ever.
Non-partying nerd confirmed!
Note to NOA: on February 11th, release Smash Bros 64 for the Virtual Console. This should have been done already on December 3rd (the original release date), but since it didn't happen the second Brawl date will do. They've been pretty hit and miss with their Virtual Console marketing tie-ins before (they smartly gave us Super Metroid/Metroid prior to Corruption and SMB3 before Galaxy, but nothing else), but this one should be a given.
That Sakurai GDC speech should be interesting though, at the very least. I guess that's some more Smash Bros news to look forward to in February.
That Sakurai GDC speech should be interesting though, at the very least. I guess that's some more Smash Bros news to look forward to in February.
Would you rather a game with a half assed implementation of a good feature in February or a finished game in March?
I don't get why everyone is over reacting, sure, a little annoyance but come on, it's obviously to make the game better, they wouldn't keep delaying it for no good reason.
While you wait you can go get Advance Wars, Phoenix Wright and Professor Layton.
I don't get why everyone is over reacting, sure, a little annoyance but come on, it's obviously to make the game better, they wouldn't keep delaying it for no good reason.
While you wait you can go get Advance Wars, Phoenix Wright and Professor Layton.
MichaelEM3
Banned
This must happen.Meloche said:
Hopefully the Japanese will get it near Jan 31st so that we can get a semi-confirmation.
Kobun Heat
Member
Paper Mario before Super Paper Mario, and I'm not sure if there are any other such pairings that even apply.Meloche said:
Anyway, releasing Smash Bros. on VC after the release of Brawl would be profoundly retarded -- who'd buy it? -- so I'd have to assume it hits before.
Cosmonaut X
Member
Halycon said:
A release date is not a promise.
Alpha_eX said:
Not if you're superbank...
...FIGHT THE POWA!
topsyturvy
Member
:lol :lol :lolgrandjedi6 said:So TheKingsCrown was right
so sporks was wrong and Crown was right?
I guess someone should get there thread posting ability back. :/
crowphoenix
Banned
Nope. I would not be surprised, but I hope it doesn't come to that. After getting my hopes up that Brawl was a launch title (Dur), the delays just keep a-coming.
Kobun Heat said:
The only problem here is that Smash Bros. is really the worst sort of game to play on the VC anyway... it's essentially entirely eclipsed by Melee and (soon) Brawl. The Mario Kart games have different tracks (at least), and the Mario Party games have different boards. However, there seems to be little reason to play SSB instead of a sequel -- yeah, the controls are different, but the core gameplay is pretty much identical or inferior to the Smash sequels. SSB is one of the very few games that seems utterly pointless to rerelease.
Cosmonaut X
Member
DavidDayton said:
Dunno - I'd imagine the difference in control, character balance & content (stages that many Smashers consider superior to their respective Melee follow-ups, for example) might be a draw, though admittedly only for the more hardcore VC buyers.
Holy Order Sol
Member
superbank said:
:lol :lol :lol
Kobun Heat
Member
Releasing Smash Bros. in the runup to Brawl's release is perfect timing -- right as hype is reaching fever pitch, they release it and get people to download it because they've got Smash Bros. on the brain and just want to have something to play before Brawl hits.
Sir Alemeth
Member
They only need a week to put Mega Man in it?...wow...I knew Nintendo was good,.. but that good?
There's that, and the fact that they didn't really even promote the fact that Super Mario Bros 3 was coming out to the Virtual Console, unless you count Charles Martinet calling a bunch of the enthusiast press as major promotion; I don't. The closest they've offered to actually using the Virtual Console as a promotion-tool was that Month of Metroid they did back in August, and even that was kind of spotty. I can't say I'm particularly impressed with the sales numbers that Nintendo has released from the service, and I think a lot of that has to do with the fact that only the hardcore really even know about it or care to follow the weekly releases. Part of the problem stems with the fact that Nintendo is dripping games out when they should be pouring them, and also that they do nothing apart from releasing a press release to let people know which games are available (without any advance notice, either) on Monday. I don't think that lack of interest in Nintendo classics is the problem here, because otherwise all thoseKobun Heat said:
Why do they not have a messaging service directly to Wiis letting people know of VC releases (obviously let people opt-out if they like)? Why is the Virtual Console never mentioned in any kind of advertisements (what little they do run, at least)? And why do they still not have a decent storage solution for people that are making use of the service? :|
But you said that releasing Paper Mario after SPM was the only real example of them missing the ball on that. Sort of true in the direct sense, but they could've tied a VC into pretty much every first party release this year. Where was MP1/2/3 when Mario Party 8 came out? Maybe a Mario Sports game for Strikers, or Snap when PBR came out, or a Wario game when WW:SM came out, etc. It's not like a VC release will ever eat into a retail release's sales, and yes I'm including the yearly updated Mario Party in that -- the point would be that it builds awareness for their titles without too much effort on their part.
Also, they could be including credits for certain Virtual Console releases with retail games, which would go a long way to getting the word about the service out there, and wouldn't really cost them all that much either. Hell they could even do it the other way around, and give mentions to Wii sequels in VC bio pages -- throw a nod to Excite Truck in Excite Bike's bio, or mention that you may want to check out Galaxy if you enjoyed Mario 64/SMB3/SMW/etc. These are just various ideas I came up with off the top of my head just now too, and I'm sure their marketing department could do better without much thought. It's like come on Nintendo, put a little effort in here.
I still play the original regularly in multiplayer (though I don't have a copy for myself... which is why I want it on the VC so badly), and it's not in the least 'completely eclipsed' by Melee. Yes the gameplay is similar, but the balance, the items, the stages, and the characters all behave very different. Throws do more damage and have more knockback, attacks are more prolonged and can't be escaped as easily, and overall the pacing of the game is quite different. Melee has more of everything and a more refined balance, which is why I ultimately prefer it. However, it doesn't in the least make Smash 64 obsolete and I anticipate I'll still enjoy playing it post-Brawl, just like I will play Melee from time to time as well.DavidDayton said:
Doesn't the Wii Shop channel scroll new titles within the mini splash screen? It tells you when the catalog was updated. They were showing off Pokemon Snap there too. Also, they make it easy to see the newest additions on the first screen when you connect to Wii Shop.Meloche said:
twilitesparklemotion
Member
This picture is awesome.Firestorm said:
Gamer @ Heart
Member
I refuse to believe Viewtiful Joe is not in this game. I just cant process it. He is too perfect for this game. I think ill place a ban bet that he's in it. 1 month. If he isnt revealed within a week after the japanese release or during a dojo update, I'll dissapear. Any takers?
The delay is sort of disappointing, but on a personal level I can't really bring myself to mind too much. I'm not going to have a lot of time to sink into it until after the spring semester, and I won't even be able to get online at all before I get away from the secure wireless network at the college.