"Shine Get!" is gone for the America version

[Drunk Hobbit]

In the SMS demo out in stores it just says "Shine!". :(

[Crono]

SMS DEMO??!
Where?!

[Drunk Hobbit]

At some stores. EB I think. I haven't gone looking yet but quite a few people have played. It's paired along with a SFA demo.

[Crono]

Hmm. Awesome. I wonder if the EB near me has it...prolly not but I'll check anyway.

Oh and I think "Shine Get" sounds much better than just "Shine"

[Joeiss]

I really don't think it matters. ;)


But did anybody think that Nintendo wasn't going to change it?

[gekko]

Sucks for you guys. My version says Shine Get!

[Tombor]

A friend of mine I used to work with at EB said they got their demo in today. I think its because EB has a "Vendor of the Month" thing with Nintendo next month and they got one with Sega this month (hence Beach Spikers also being on the disc). They have to sell so many units of new Sega or Nintendo products. This month is Sega and they have to sell VF4, Beach Spikers, NFL 2k3, NCAA 2k3, Crazy Taxi 3, and Sega Tennis. So if an EB saleman bumrushes you with Sega product now you know. They've also been given varying chain wide targets for Star Fox and Mario Sunshine. The store he's at has to sell 83 Marios and 100 total Sega games.

I don't want to start a fight or anything, but where I live and from my time working there I can't remember more than 10 people actually owning cubes. And the ones who did owned Xboxes and PS2s and only had Cubes for Resident Evil and after a month or so we got a ****load of REs and Cubes traded in. I guess they've been selling again thanks to Sunshine's looming release though.

I also wouldn't want to stray to much further from topic, Dan I think vaguely remembers how I used to be at CS, but DAMN Nintendo screwed us over when it came to promotional stuff. My last full month there, June, the big N was Vendor of the month because of the Platnium Advance and ED. We barely made quota but without the help of Nintendo promotional materials. In the end we didn't sell many EDs. Maybe 20. Mostly GBAs. And mostly because DBZ came out. Anyway all Nintendo sent us was an ED standee and a demo with Wresltemania X8 and some video footage of Timesplitters 2. In comparisson Microsoft during Xbox Vendor of the Month in July offered free copies of Halo and Xboxes and gobs of other games to stores that did well, a Halo sticky thing for our window doors (its a strip store), Payton Bobble Heads for Fever 2003 pre-orders, a ****load of promo boxes for Xbox stuff like Buffy and Knights of the Old Republic, and a demo for our Kiosk. All before the promotional stuff started.

Anyway.... every EB should have the demo disk. If you live in the Miamisburg/Centerville Ohio area and go to the EB around the corner at K-Mart Ronnie probably left it in the system.

[Drunk Hobbit]

At the EBs near me there's not really much promotional stuff at any times. They had an xbox kiosk set up forever but that's all they ever had.

Soft Etc seemed to be very pro-Nintendo. (At least the one I go to in Manhattan is.) Most of the people in there are buying GameCube products. Last time I was in some guy bought 8 wavebirds. The one I go to in Queens pushed GameCube to the rear of their store with PS2 and Xbox up front. My friend likes to laugh at this. :(

Game Express has a single tv with all the consoles hooked up to it which the two guys behind the counter play. Last time in there one of them declared its been comfirmed Rare's bringing Conker to Xbox and PD0 to Ps2. Very pushy to try to have you buy a WaveBird.

CompUSA had a PS2 kiosk (think I broke it accidently), an Xbox one, and a GameCube one. But for some reason the GameCube kiosk after 15 min is up Mario's voice says "Thank you for playing Nintendo 64".

I went into another store recently (forget the name) where up front they had a GameCube kiosk with ED, RE, TS2, and something else. ED is not really a game to be played in a store. Started it and left it for a while and when I came back was still in the opening cut-scene. Also were pushing the Platium GBA.

Will probably go to one of these places and try out Mario and SFA.

[gekko]

Nintendo not good with marketing? Noo... when did this start? :rolleyes: They never really have been good. Hell, that stupid Raven chick and her robotic buddy made me more interested in Xbox than "Clean in better than dirty" did with SMS.

As for stores in my area, none are good at marketing anything. No EBs near me, but the ones I've been to have always sucked. Funcoland and GameStop near me, neither does much with the way of marketing.

However, they did do well with DC. Best Buy always had cool stuff with DC. Funcoland had a midnight launch. And the other Funco I go to had Sega's launch party. But the recent systems, they haven't done much of anything.

[Tombor]

The EB I worked in never got kiosks from anyone but Microsoft. We had, luckly, old TVs and RF switchboxes from the previous owner who was doomed from the start a used game store. Microsoft sent a kisosk a month into launch. We basically had used PS2s and Gamecubes hooked to old TVs running games. Usually "featured" titles.

A thing EB loves to do is constantly change around store layouts. Gamecube used to be stuck in narrow wall space between Game Boy Color and used PSX games. When the District manager saw our numbers and noticed that anything not cheap and not next-gen wasn't selling well- margin and sales were exceedingly high on DC, N64 and PSX stuff- we rearranged the store to put all the next-gen stuff up front. PS2 had always sold well, and numbers picked up for it. We moved Gamecube and GBA to the front and both picked up sales wise. Xbox sky rocketed.

In comparisson, the Funcoland and Gamestops in the mall aren't that much better. Funcoland stopped letting people try out games about a year ago. There are 2 TVs that have an Xbox and a demo disc running and a PS2 has some marquee 1st party thing in it. They have a GBA kiosk on the counter. Gamestop actually converted their old Dreamcast kiosk to a Gamecube one, and they have the same looming Xbox one we have. Last I saw running on the Gamecube one was Courtside. The Xbox kiosk just runs the laser light show when you put a CD in. They have one of the LCD screen PS2 kiosks in a corner with a jampack.

It seems like Toys R Us is the only one Nintendo actually gives up a lot of stuff for. At least here. They got a Gamecube kiosk that runs a new game every few weeks. Best Buy has a TV with a Gamecube lingering over their meager Cube selection with Spiderman still in it last I saw. The CompUSA in this area only has a coupe TVs running videos and an Xbox kiosk with no interactive demos.

I've noticed with the EB mall stores in Cincinatti that none of them really try putting out the marketing POP stuff companies send every month out. I guess it depends on the manager. My manager was new to EB and was excited about trying to impress the District Manager. Now he's just a shell of a man who doesn't care if no one buys Sega Tennis this month. A damn shame...

[Drunk Hobbit]

That reminds me. Went to the huge Toys R Us in Times Square the other day. GameCube, PS2, and Xbox are pretty much evenly divided. Colorcoded with purple, blue, and green accordingly. Each has a light thingy shining onto the floor. GameCube's has their characters and PS2 and Xbox have their logos. I've never seen so many cubes in one place before. Hundreds piled onto of eachother covering entire walls. Xbox had some weird thingy with a dome in the middle of their section. I think the kiosks were there. GameCube had two with the standard SSB:M, SA2, BR, etc. I don't remember PS2's kiosks but they did have all the add-ons with speakers and harddrive and whatnot on display. There were three GBAs set up with both mario games and wario. There were also a bunch of TVs setup talking about Advance Wars and displaying footage. There were two PSOnes setup with the attachable screen.

[GameKinG]

Its odd nintendo's advertsising isnt top notch when they use an award winning advertising company.

[DarkDemonic726]

They have it to buy at gamesstop.Yesterday i was there and they had the demo avaible for purchase.it had a bunch of demos on it encluding video demo of star fox, metroid prime and a playable version of Marine Bay for SMS

[bobcat]

*reads topic*
*cancels US version order and places one for Japanese version*

No Shine Get? Why? It adds to the wackiness of Mario :(

I'm disappointed already

[Jason1]

My EB in the mall is so small, they dont have any kiosiks up. Babagges on the other hand has 1 for each of the 3 systems. I wonder if they have the demo up yet...I might have to try to get to the mall this weekend...Anyone know if Wal-Mart or K-Mart has these up?

[JamesDark]

I agree with Danny on the fact that ED is not a game to be played in stores. It'd be smart of Nintendo to have some of the more exciting and combat-oriented parts of the game up for show.

I was at La Ronde a few weeks ago (big amusement park) and my friends and I went to the Nintendodome. There were about 50 GameCube kiosks. We sneak into the "18 and over" section (:rolleyes: ) that had RE and ED. Beforehand I had been telling my friends how great ED was, but all 4 of 'em hated it and thought it was so boring from what they had played. I don't blame them, seeing as they were thrown into Alex's first chapter with no idea what they were supposed to do and nothing to maim or hack at.

[gekko]

Originally posted by JamesDark
We sneak into the "18 and over" section

Nintendo has a pr0n section? *gasp* I WANNA GO!

[Joeiss]

What... You want to see Princess' peach?





That's just wrong.

[Jason1]

I PLAYED SMS!!!!!! Babbages surprised me and actually had the demo up. I got a good 20 minutes of play, and 2 levels. The first was the one where you beat the piranah at the top of the windmill. The graphics, while they wont blow you away, are still pretty. The controls seemed a little more difficult than Mario 64, but that could've just been the mucked up public controller...anywho, the water looks good, I like mario's new spin move, the camera can get in the way, but its not hard to adjust. Didnt have time to play starfox, watched my bro play a little, and it looked Goregous. The first part of the demo you are the girl fox flying on the dinosaur. You have to shoot at this flying boat that is ahead of you, while it was raining. The rain was what really impressed me, this is by far the best looking rain I have ever seen. You could actually tell some drops were farther away than others. Well there are my short impressions now go out and PLAY!

[Jonbo298]

*reads topic*
*reads first post*
*decides to cancel SMS Pre-Order and get Animal Crossing*
*reads on*
*:hmm: Maybe I will go test SMS first*
*the end:D*