360 and PS3 are outdated pieces of technology, the PC gaming world has moved far beyond these two systems in power and graphics…
Nowadays, outpowering either one of these two systems is no big deal at all…
In other words, the WiiU is going to be sold early and at a low price point, just like the Nintendo Wii because of this…
Personally, I’m not bothering with the WiiU until they come out with the must buy game…
Speaking of games, thanks to Sonichuman, I picked up Radiant Dawn and New SMB… they’re fun… just don’t have time to sit down and play them like I want to…
I can believe the report…especially about them porting existing titles from 360 and PS3 to the system to keep costs down. Like I said earlier in the E3 thread if developers notice that they they can make the same amount of money regardless of the power of the system then they’re not going to put that much work into it. Which again means that even if the Wii U maybe stronger than those systems but 3rd party multi plat games are going to pretty much look the same save for maybe Wii U’s excusive gameplay features. This again means that is Sony and Microsoft want to try to cut Nintendo out of 3rd party support this coming generation then several things are gonna have to happen. 1 being their console will have to be powerful enough to make it worth maybe cleaning up the graphics/adding more exculsive content on their games…and obviously it’s going to have be a bigger gap than between 360 and PS3. 2 is going to be hope that the Wii U doesn’t gain as much traction when it’s out on the market by itself for a couple of years. If Wii U actually gains a solid core install base then again why should developers spend that extra money on its games for PS4 and Nextbox when they can still get their point across for less?
Nintendo has it’s own challenges it has to deal with…one of them being their biggest double edged sword, their fanbase. Nintendo is the only company out of the big 3 that actually has to change their release schedule for it’s games now to revolve around the third parties to give them a chance to stand out. I find that both incredibly interesting and sad. Their are people out their who litterally seem to ignore anything else that comes out on a nintendo system unless it has Nintendo’s name on it as publisher…then they might THINK about it. If any of Nintendo’s main line franchises are coming out that month than other games coming out that month for the system are pretty much screwed.
It was nice to see Zelda in HD can’t really picture Mario in HD though. I would def buy 3rd party tittles for the wii u over other systems as long as no huge quality gap exist.
Supposedly Nintendo may still hasn’t announced all of their games coming out this year. I swear to god man…lol. If I can find the article I read that at I’ll post it but I’m not even going to get my hopes up especially because whatever they’re coming with missed it’s best opportunity to even be cared about.
This is coming from NoE and some people in the gaf thread are saying don’t trust them (I don’t know the exact reason…though I’m curious as to why). Dunno what to think now guess we’re just gonna have to wait for a complete official word on it.
The reason GAF is saying not to overreact over the FC report is because it solely discusses 3DS when he says the “more refined” FC part. People were jumping to conclusions as usual over there and saying Wii U has FCs when we don’t know that for sure yet.
As for the one controller argument, I think it should have at least two enabled, but the reasoning behind one is very likely to be the wireless streaming. As we saw with the controller, that stream is flawless and ridiculously fast. It takes a lot to achieve that kind of streaming (which is why Remote Play on PSP/PS3 sucks hosewater), so doing it twice may cause input lag, which would be bad. I’d be lying if I said I wouldn’t be disappointed with one Wii U controller (two I’d be fine with), but if it’s a technological limitation I’d accept it as nothing else I’ve seen delivers streaming at that level. If it’s price or some other BS then fuck that, I’ll happily buy another controller if it means multi tablet controller support.
On the horsepower, I’m taking the “wait and see” approach. Their dev kits aren’t finalized and Nintendo’s gone out and said they’re still adding to it. Furthermore, we don’t know if multi tablet support, or heat limitations or what have you are gonna be factors in the final performance. I for one would be happy with “more powerful than PS3” as it appears to be, since people thinking PS4 or the next Xbox having the leap that PS2 to PS3 had are insane. Developers are not gonna pay the skyrocketing production costs it will take to produce games at that level on a console, especially SCE who is currently bleeding money and despite this decided to again take a hit on Vita. That sort of thing is awesome for us, but bad for them and I seriously doubt they’ll be able to support that kind of money hemorrhaging for PS4. I think Wii U and the Sony and Microsoft successors are gonna be more like Xbox/PS2/GCN than this current iteration.
People are gonna bitch about this (already see it in the comments) but really…I already have 5 different machines in this house that I can play a DVD on. I’d be nice if it had it but if it keeps costs on the system down then I couldn’t care less. Blu-Ray I can understand since they’d have to pay royalties to Sony. Netflix will probably be available on the system anyway just like everything else so eh. Thoughts?
When I tried to describe what the system looked like to customers in the pictures from the conference…I described it as a Fat Wii. That doesn’t exactly look to be the case though…It actually looks closer in size to the Wii than I thought but more elongated
errr…glad you guys didn’t do that. And planning for this console was in effect 5 years ago. Also sounds like Nintendo is going to try to pull a Sony with the long life the PS2 had well into the PS3’s life. This could work so long as they don’t try to pull Wii backwards compatibility out a year or so into the Wii U’s life cycle…awesome face
Getting a new laptop this week hopefully, so not going to be buying games. Also Best Buy is running a sale on HDTV’s, figured now is a good time as any to get one since mine keeps fucking up and I’d like to be like…up to date. So going to save and get me one of those.
When I return to Wii hording, I want to find RE0 and Okami.
Just basically talking about if they plan to do any big changes to the Mii’s going forward. So far they said it’s going to be like the ones on the 3DS. I hope you can actually earn more stuff to put on them like you can on the 3DS as well. Seeing people’s creations when the Wii first started out was fun.
That doesn’t mean that the Wii version is being scrapped but they’re looking into having some Wii U functionality wih their game. Can we at least have a screen shot or something on this game? It’s been like what…5 years in development since it was announced?
Maybe, hell we could play AE later if you want. I’ve just been playing Shadows this week and figured I should apply my new Cammy knowledge at some point.
this halfway sounds like ‘lower your expectations a tiny bit guys’. Like I said before…I’m not expecting it to be xbox Live…if it can at least meet PSN then that’s fine since I’m expecting online services to be free. If any of the game companies would actually work something in that would allow you to watch what someone else is playing besides being a co-op or fighting game. I highly doubt that idea will come to fruition anytime soon though.
We already knew this though. I swear though next time Iwata comes up on stage and announces smash bros. is coming I’m just going to assume that he’s the only one who knows that it is. I halfway wish they hadn’t announced it myself because now I’m going to be wondering what guest characters will make it this time until it releases in like 4 years…unless they try to power through it like they did Melee.
Ninja Gaiden Wii U Looks to Ninja Gaiden DS
Don’t know how I feel about this…
Killer Freaks From Outer Space - Viral Alien Conspiracy Montage
no real gameplay footage. Just stuff cut up in to look like standard alien conspiracy stuff…with an alien here and an alien there.