Not only are Wacom tablets inductive (a technology patented by Wacom IIRC) and only works with a special pen as pointed out above, they're also really expensive. And the Wacom tablets with screens under them cost over $1000.zomgbbqftw said:
ThoseDeafMutes said:
Why would you do that? said:
Regular Wacom tablets like the professional Intuos series don't support multitouch. I assume you mean the Bamboo series? In this case, all Wacom did was to put a standard capacitive digitizer on top of a inductive digitizer. While it is possible to do that, and layer all that on top of a screen, it would be way too expensive for a controller. Not to mention the cost of a replacement stylus, and the fact that Wacom patented battery-less stylus design to hell and back, and you probably see why it's simply not feasible. It would be nice, I agree wholeheartedly. But it won't happen.zomgbbqftw said:
magicalsoundshower said:
Luigiv said:
Me too.Xavien said:I miss bits as a marker of technological levels in consoles
"your console sucks cause its only 8-bit"
I remember reading that there are multi-touch resistive screens that work by layering on more than one digitizer (touch panel) but I need to look into that.zomgbbqftw said:
zomgbbqftw said:
I wouldn't be so sure. Which platforms UE supports depends mostly on the featureset. There seems to be nothing on the horizon in that regard WiiU shouldn't support. Epic might require OpenCL, or 64bit multicore support, or geoshaders, but WiiU does all that. The only potential issue that comes to mind is RAM, but we have absolutely no idea how much RAM WiiU has. More than 512MB, if Ubisoft's statements are anything to go by.jambo said:
Britprog said:
I wouldn't say impossible but it's certainly improbable. Even if it's far weaker downports should be possible since a lot of new or upcoming technologies involve things like tesselation, super realistic lighting and rendering methods and other such things that you can tone down or turn off to revert to above 360 level quality for said elements without much effort and at the same time dramatically increase performance without necessarily making the game butt ugly in the process. Since all systems will be at HD resolutions rather than anything higher (outside PC gaming), that evens the field further in how good things can look. Even physics wise it shouldn't be that difficult to implement different levels of detail for destroyable objects, so that on PS4 and the Nextbox you may get insane amounts of detail with individual brick pieces of a collapsing building or whatever, if they're really much more powerful, while on WiiU you'd have something simpler yet with the same gameplay result, and still pretty, like Crysis or BC2/BF3, potentially while hiding inadequecies with less taxing effects like extra dust or whatever else.AceBandage said:
Alextended said:
onipex said:
Eh, I'll agree to disagree. Imo, pinching is essentially a slider too in terms of the level of zoom. Sure, you can touch anywhere at the same time and zoom right there but it's not exactly a hassle to just tap where you want once and then use the slider to zoom in there. Single touch gestures can also be involved depending on the gameplay and what it needs or doesn't need for other mechanics. For example, my sister's crappy laptop lets you do a repeated swirl clockwise/counterclockwise to zoom in/out, or something like that, if I remember right. Let's not forget that the Wii's controller also has buttons, unlike Apple's devices, so you could just use a couple of those for zooming right where you're touching too in such genres. The same for other functions that are done with multi touch gestures when using products in need of that.PortTwo said:
I think he just wanted to pimp the game. But hey, it deserves it all the attention it gets.AceBandage said:
AceBandage said:
DragonKnight said:
AceBandage said:
Whether a dedicated event occurs or doesn't occur you can be sure WiiU will be promoted left and right and center with all one could possibly want to find out about it. Except the actual specs, I think they didn't even release the 3DS specs? I don't get why anyone would think they'll just launch the console without any further information until then. There will certainly be events, adverts, presentations, and a load of hands-on time from every outlet out there. This isn't the Sega Saturn launch or something. We'll know everything about it long before we can purchase it from Nintendo, third parties, and the media, that's for sure. That will include the launch window games too of course.DragonKnight said:
DragonKnight said:
There is no source, but it's Nintendo's usual modus operandi. Especially considering the fact that there might not even be another E3 before this thing launches. If that's the case, they have to do something later this year. Probably in late September or early October.DragonKnight said:
DragonKnight said:
Alextended said:
AceBandage said:
What members of the press are still confused? Just tell me so I don't have to even consider reading them, ever. Who still thinks it's a controller only? How was that not clarified enough? The press got to play it! The conference could have been better but I can't comprehend how anyone even remotely interested in games can still be confused. Did some mainstream publication write about it with all the facts wrong or what? All I see is people making a fuss about "the confusion" but I've yet to encounter something like that outside anecdotal "yeah my friend thought it's a controller too until I explained it to him" or whatever else. Was it a bad presentation? Sure. Is there confusion? Noway. The mainstream public will be even less confused since they weren't watching the thing unfold in real time, they'll just read some random gadget or lifestyle or whatever other magazine's report or see it presented on TV. Hell, there's barely any information to begin with in order to be actually confused. There are no conflicting reports or whatever and we still got more information than people expected, since it's so early. Of course they plan to reveal more, of course they plan to pimp every single aspect of the system as the next best thing. The additional information will come as they had already planned to unveil it, in what form that is remains to be seen. This "confusion" will affect nothing imo, the system has barely been presented beyond a first taste, just as the plan was, so they will be presenting all aspects of it between now and the launch as they most certainly planned to do all along. From controls, to actual games to the graphics it can output to whatever they finally decide about the number of controllers, to how they'll accomodate backwards compatibility and the usage of Wii controllers and accessories with Wii U games, to the online features as they get done, to everything. How/why would they not?DragonKnight said:
Alextended said:
Matt said:
Smiles and Cries said:
I would say its more than likely that is will happen.. Wiiu looks to be comparable to the pos3/x360. This is also the message that Nintendo PR have put out there. I see no reason that they would put high end chips in this console when the focus is on the controller. If the goal was to get third party 360/ps3 games on the console, why would they need more power than these consoles? The next gen console are still at least 3-4 years away for ms and sony.AceBandage said:
USC-fan said:
Actually, resistive screens are typically more accurate as well, in addition to being compatible with simpler styluses. Now I don't know what kind of resistive screen the WiiPad uses and it might certainly be possible to create a capacitive one with equal accuracy, but the extra manufacturing cost plus the cost of the capacitive stylus (most of which seem to have pretty wide tips) would not be insignificant and you have to ask yourself if it's really worth it. Certainly not for "pinch to zoom" as far as I'm concerned. (See Alextended's post.)PortTwo said:
USC-fan said:
