Nintendo Plays Hilarious Joke on Fanboys

US release schedule for fourth quarter is Wii free.

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Nintendo Plays Hilarious Joke on Fanboys
Nintendo has just announced its fourth quarter (US) release schedule which features not one but zero Wii titles.

Now, calm down fanboys! Before you start hyperventilating and crying like babies, just understand that they are having a joke with you. Wii is also to be released in the fourth quarter of 2006, but the company just thought it would tease us all a little, by only telling us about GBA, DS and GameCube titles.

From the absolutely hilarious press release: “The fourth quarter of 2006 will herald a new era for Nintendo with the launch of its remarkable new Wii™ home video game system. But that's not what this news item is about! How could that be, you ask? Perhaps the secret to the launch information for Wii is somehow encoded in the text of this news item. You might want to pore over it for a few hours before staying up all night to debate phraseology and comma placement with your friends online. Or maybe it's all just a scam to get you to read the other games we have launching this fall. One of the two.”

Okay, ha ha ha ha, funny guys! So let’s have a look at what they have got:


FINAL FANTASY® V ADVANCE – GBA, 6 Nov

Nintendo DS
Oct. 9: Clubhouse Games™
Oct. 16: Nintendogs™ (Dalmatian)
Oct. 23: Magical Starsign™
Oct. 30: Pokémon® Ranger
Oct. 30: Children of Mana®
Nov. 6: Elite Beat Agents™
Nov. 13: Yoshi's Island™ 2
Dec. 4: Custom Robo™ Arena
Dec. 4: Kirby™ Squeak Squad

Nintendo GameCube - The Legend of Zelda®: Twilight Princess – ‘this fall’.


The japesters sign off to say that an enhanced version of Twilight Princess will “...also will be a launch title for Wii. That will all happen on … Oh look, we're out of space.”

Gah! Look at what they did.

Wii will no doubt be releasing in November, with current best guesses having it pegged for earlier in the month, most likely a couple of weeks before Sony’s PlayStation 3 launches on November 17.

Comments

Joji 25 Jul 2006 15:39
1/11
Elite Beat Agnets in November? I thought it was supposed to be in August. I'll have to check the japanese import then.

Either way there's a nice selection of games on the way for xmas, my wallet will be crying in pain and joy.

RiseFromYourGrave 25 Jul 2006 17:04
2/11
well, it made me laugh. theyve said already, september is the month of the release date unveling. so im not exactly disappointed, im just still waiting for september.
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BlackEyedFish 25 Jul 2006 18:39
3/11
Perhaps the secret to the launch information for Wii is somehow encoded in the text of this news item.
I doubt it; but there are three titles with two I's in (like Wii) which you could translate to the three launch zones of Japan, US, and Europe. To save anyone from having to work it out, the three titles are
Oct. 16: Nintendogs™ (Dalmatian) Read: Japan
Oct. 23: Magical Starsign™ Read: America
Nov. 13: Yoshi's Island™ 2 Read: Europe

I seriously doubt that nintendo have encoded their Wii launch schedule into the DS Launch schedule. But there's my speculation.
jdej1973 25 Jul 2006 20:56
4/11
Well is like they Say Japan,, America, Europe
There are several ways

October 7, Japan
November 7 - America
December 4 - Europe

or there are exactly 7 days in between some dates and is repeated 5 times and the date between Nov 13 and Dec is actually 5 weeks too. Now we know that the wii launch is actually 5 weeks before ps3. Now for the dates hehe

October =10, November = 11, December = 12

there you go
October 10 - Japan
October 11 - America
October 12 - Europe

All dates are exactly 5 weeks before ps3

hehe I think I solved the puzzle

lol
BlackEyedFish 25 Jul 2006 22:26
5/11
I have no idea how you arrived at any of those conclusions.

jdej1973 wrote:

October 7, Japan
November 7 - America
December 4 - Europe


Where do these dates come from?

jdej1973 wrote:
Now we know that the wii launch is actually 5 weeks before ps3.


How do we know that?

jdej1973 wrote:
October 10 - Japan
October 11 - America
October 12 - Europe


Assuming that the Wii launch is actually five weeks before the respective ps3 launches these dates are wrong

the ps3 launches (according to wikipedia) in

November 11 - Japan
November 17 - Europe and US
November 23 - New Zealand

So even your specified launch terrotiries are wrong.



jdej1973 25 Jul 2006 23:27
6/11
Rhino - For what I understand Sony stated that the PS3 will be released Nov 17 Wolrdwide.

Follow Nintendos Joke Weekly Intervals, here is
From Oct 9 - 16 = 7 Days
From Oct 16 - 23 = 7 Days
From Oct 23 - 30 = 7 Days
From Oct 30 - Nov 6 =7 Days
From Nov 6 - 16 = 7 Days

Now how many days are in a week exactly 7 Days if you look thats 5 weeks

Now to the second part
From Nov 16 - Dec 4 = 5 Weeks

So that means that Nintendos new machine will be releasing exatcly or close to 5 weeks before Nov 17 (PS3 launch worldwide)

Now if you add the 5(7days intervals) + 5 (weeks total) . Thats equals 10 which is October. 5 weeks before nov 17 is Oct (Second Week)

Now lets look at the days.
They stated that Wii will launch worlwide it could be 1 day apart.

October = Month number 10 Change it to a day
November = Month number 11 (do the math)
December = Month number 12 (keep Following)

Days (10,11,12) We know that the month will be october and if you reduce the 5 weeks from Nov 17 it will take you exactly to the weekend of
October 10
October 11
October 12

Don't need to be genious to figured that out. I guess that Brain Age game do help a lot lolol
I guess you should re-read the news again they do mention Nov 17 for PS3
jdej1973 25 Jul 2006 23:30
7/11
I made a mistake in a calculation Please replace Nov 16 for Nov 13

Thanks
majin dboy 26 Jul 2006 01:24
8/11
seriously,some of u guys have far to much time on ur hands. and i know we all like to jump on the smallest piece of Wii news,but these calculations and speculations are pointless.

The Wii will be here soon,thats it.listen to my words brethern,

"we will be able to actually buy a nintendo Wii within the next few months"

this statement is the only one that matters regarding the Wii and when it will be realesed.
RiseFromYourGrave 26 Jul 2006 02:20
9/11
yep, and the exact dates should be ours in less (maybe much less) than 2 months.
jdej1973 26 Jul 2006 11:37
10/11
A lot of time in my hands? lol It took me only 15 minutes to figure that out. and you call that time in your hands? I have a job, very big one. I'm aprogrammer soit means that you can't waste time trying to figure a solution fora problem. You must be
jdej1973 26 Jul 2006 11:38
11/11
quick and fast.
sorry I hit enter by mistake when i was typing lol
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