Nintendo Wii Fanboy

Funny, I would think people with modded wiis would just pirate it anyway, but maybe I'm just weird.

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If the Wii was region free, I would have preordered mine as soon as the first delay was announced and Japan was getting it before we did. Not kidding.

Stupid Nintendo. How come the DS is region free and the Wiii isn't?

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Madness?

THIS!

IS!

SPARTAAAA!

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I'd never pay five times what a game is worth so I can play it a month early. Hell, if I knew Brawl would get an 80% price drop after it's American release date, I'd wait even longer.

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It looks so pretty.... like it's taunting me.
I hate this delay, it is so hard to resist the Brawl Spoilers out there, i mean i already have spoiled myself quite majorlly with the Final Smashes and the complete Roster. *sigh*
I wish it would come out fast but i would defintiely not play that price to play it, i could wait if it meant getting it at a decent price. plus i think i would just be overly confused with the japanese text, lol.

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I have a Japanese Wii but it would be daft to buy Smash Bros. Brawl for $250. That's more expensive than the Wii (which is cheaper in Japan than in the US, unless the horrifically low dollar has dropped in value too much). I am perfectly content playing Melee and Fire Emblem right now. I'll get the US version of Brawl (if NOA doesn't mess up Ike's sexy manly voice) for $50 because my sister would prefer it. If supply can't meet demand, I'll wait the week it will take for more copies to be printed.

Play-Asia raised the price from $65 to $70, ohmygosh. I wouldn't too much mind paying $75 ($70 + shipping) for the game because it is sure to get a hell of a lot of use, but my sister will be angry because she doesn't know Japanese. Waiting a month and paying only $50 for a game which might see a many hundreds if not a few thousand hours of use isn't the worst option.

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Hmm... I would easily pay double to get Brawl at this point. Not 5x the price, but maybe a bit over $100. May seem crazy, but I'm desperate.

Now, if I could've gotten it December 3rd despite the delay, I would've paid $300, no joke. Once again, I seem insane, but seriously, Melee alone can be my only game and I'd be relatively happy, at least it has been until Brawl has gotten me hyped.

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For me the biggest thing is language. The NA release of Melee has both English and Japanese modes. I'm hoping for the same with Brawl; for this reason I'd rather wait for the American release.

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I would pay $49.99 for Brawl. That's it. I love Smash but there's very little "extra" fun that I would get by having it a few weeks early. I could use that money to buy a whole lot of other stuff.

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Eh. To me, the game is worth $0 in Japanese. Supposedly, this game is the most story-heavy of the SSB titles. I would wait another six months if Nintendo added, say, Midna as a brawler and lowered the price by $15. Why buy something in a foreign language? How could you enjoy it? Besides, the game now costs as much as an entire Wii console. I'd just screw SSBB and buy myself Fire Emblem Radiant Dawn, No More Heroes, and Resident Evil Umbrella Chronicles to hold me over until March, or whenever the next delay is. I mean, don't get me wrong. I love Brawl. It's the number one game I need to play in 2008. But there comes a point where I draw a line. This is that point.

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If the Wii weren't region locked, I woud be willing to pay exactly $0 to play S2B2 a month early. I hope whichever stupid, American, non-Japanese reading, fatass otaku shells out a quarter thousand of his saved up birthday money from grandma to be the first retard in his parents basement to play the game will still feel totally awesome in four short weeks when his peers have paid a fifth as much to be able to read the menus and play against each other in region-locked, online, With Friends matches.

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I just found it on eBay for a Buy It Now price of $70, I'd play that if my Wii could handle Japanese.

And all you people complaining about the Japanese... since when has Smash Bros been very text heavy? Besides, it is not that hard to learn at least enough Japanese to follow along. I am self taught, Japanese is many times simpler than English with all our weird grammatical rules that are randomly broken.

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I could afford the $70 copy but I wouldn't enjoy it being all Japanese...(the names, stickers, options,etc.)
and after that I wouldn't be able to pay for the English version

It seems like its worth it to wait 35 days to get the English one(and itd be $50)

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A lot of Japanese games now adays use English text anyway. Just look at the Roster screen.

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$50. No more, but I'll pay less. I still have to go through just about every game I own (I don't really finish games so I'm still going through whatever I buy on deals).

The month-long wait for Brawl will be occupied by No More Heroes and other releases of the past year.

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"The high bid for this auction is currently $242.50, which means it's almost as expensive as a Wii, and the bidding doesn't even end for another two days. That's madness."

Look at the high bidder. His name has three asterisks in the middle and his gamerscore, er, rating is "0." It's a fake ebay user ID used by some people to try to stop scalping. This happened (and might still be happening) to people trying to scalp Wii's. Most copies of Brawl will probably go for less than $100.

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i would pay $70 for either english or japanese version. hell, ddr and guitar heroes cost that much, and i wonder, which game is best? actually, i think i'd rather have the japanese version, for coolness factor. as long as i can still play wi fi with other americans with the japanese version. is any player currently smashing on wi fi outside japan on a japanese wii?

i wonder why nintendo does not increase the price of the game for the first week or two? it seems that would increase profits.

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Drakhen stole my line...
Anyways, whoever pays that much for this game is a dumbass. It is my most wanted game, but I would never pay anything over 50 bucks for it. Plus, don't people have other things to do instead of play Brawl? I mean, I'm absorbing the info for it like a sponge (last nights FS video was AMAZING!!) but I have other hobbies to occupy my time. Other videogames to play, friends to hang out with, basketball, etc. So I'll wait to play the sweetest videogame ever.

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I wish I was:

1) Rich
2) An impatient idiot

Then I'd have a copy of Brawl right now! :D

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id pay retail.

seriously, for a roughly 200 dollar difference, I can wait a month, easy. i never understood people who bought things like this on ebay at inflated prices. cause i know youd look back later when it's not rare anymore and be like "wow, that was stupid spending 250 dollars on that when its worth 29 now".

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If I had a compatible Wii I would've imported for $75 easily.
But screw $250 with the NA Wii.

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I don't think I'd pay that much for it even if I had a Wii that could play it. I don't even know Japanese!

Has there been any shots of custom made stages? I wanna see some cool shit.

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I've already paid up £250.74 JUST for a copy of Brawl and a japanese Wii, that's like 500 of your american dollars.
AND IT'S WORTH EVERY LAST PENNY DAMMIT.

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i'd rather wait for the game to be released in NA
i only import when the game is never coming out in english

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justnow -- I agree, just wait a couple of weeks. Patience won't kill anyone. :-)

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It's actually a really great game but i wouldn't call it a massive jump over Melee, heck the Wifi is struggling to find anyone and that's the biggest draw for me, SSE is yet to prove itself.

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