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Wii U Speculation Thread 2: Can't take anymore of this!!!
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I mentioned it a buncha pages ago, I think it was bgassassin who mentioned that off of something he heard (if I remember). So he'd have to speak on it.
Fourth Storm
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I believe he did hear some rumblings and then the Circle Pad Pro kind of supported that, as it was revealed to have analog triggers. I think it was a cheap and stupid move to ever take them out of the Classic Controller Pro. Now, those owners are going to be SOL when it comes to the inevitable Gamecube VC titles.
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F-Zero duh.
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Wants the largest console games publisher to avoid Nintendo's platforms.
Fixed.
Well, I get the impression these types of titles gain you respect with the core crowd, if you know what I mean.
Add Wave Race.
F-Zero or StarFox if we're talking things that can happen fast and be well received. Mario, Zelda & Metroid are the big guns though, especially Mario if they continue with the design processes they started with Galaxy and use all of Wii U's ability on the game. Pixar-like could be well within it's grasp thanks to its art style and direction in concept renders from the Galaxy days.
Only 12 player online? Thirty players or bust.
Also death race mode. Thirty player online death race or bust.
And X-Cup. Thirty player online X-Cup and death race or bust.
Ooh, and a track editor...
GameCube was launched at a loss, but was profitable after a few months.
Bigger. Bigger is better. I'm imagining colossal levels. Planetary objects that are dynamically changing. And of course, great core platforming. Whoo hoo!
Fourth Storm
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If we're talking what I realistically expect to look good and make launch. Then I think Wave Race by Monster Games could be a good showcase. Pikmin 3, I think will come early next year and look very nice. I'm hoping NSMB gets a nice little facelift and looks great in motion. The assets certainly scale well in dolphin, so adding a bit more detail could go even further. I have no idea how far along Retro's Wii U game is, but it's sure to look fantastic. We'll probably see 3D Mario at e3, but it won't come out until late 2013. And it won't be Super Mario Galaxy 3.
As always, there will be gaps that 3rd parties hopefully fill in. I'm optimistic that support from Ubisoft, EA, THQ (RIP), and Japanese companies like Sega and Capcom will be present in the early months in order to not "miss the bus" like they did on Wii. Iwata has stated his awareness for how important it is for 3rd parties to establish hit titles at the beginning of a system's life in order to grow a healthy userbase.
As always, there will be gaps that 3rd parties hopefully fill in. I'm optimistic that support from Ubisoft, EA, THQ (RIP), and Japanese companies like Sega and Capcom will be present in the early months in order to not "miss the bus" like they did on Wii. Iwata has stated his awareness for how important it is for 3rd parties to establish hit titles at the beginning of a system's life in order to grow a healthy userbase.
You have to make sacrifice if you want constant 60FPS in 1080p online.
Hero of Legend
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That would be nice.
I just want lots of RPGs period. Symphonia 3 would be lovely.
But at least we got the almighty Monolith Soft on our side underway with a Wii U game as we speak. One RPG to rule them all.
Shgame that Xenoblade came SO late, to NA at he very least. At least the localization gives us hope for the Wii U game coming over.Monolith haven't made many RPGs for consoles lately, but Nintendo did bring both of theirs (BKO and Xenoblade).
That would be nice.
I just want lots of RPGs period. Symphonia 3 would be lovely.
But at least we got the almighty Monolith Soft on our side underway with a Wii U game as we speak. One RPG to rule them all.
Monolith haven't made many RPGs for consoles lately, but Nintendo did bring both of theirs (BKO and Xenoblade).
I hope Monolith's game is at E3. I also hope it's Xenoblade related. I mean imagine their wizardry on a way more capable console, Xenoblade looks great as it is but HD/Better textures and higher poly-counts would..wow. *Dreams*
12!? More like 32. Fuck yeah.
Been away from thread for just 1 day and we already have bg suggesting hardware has been bumped for a final or near final kit. Too much to handle!
With grace and decorum.
And I assume change for the better?
Again, hints that its a real change upwards, or just a real change along the lines of "We're now using NVidia and not AMD" type of thing.I don't know how much clearer that was.
I've gotten indications that this is a "real" change and not tweaks like lherre mentioned for the other kits. If you are asking about specifics, I've gotten nothing in that regard.
I agree, click run is moronic.
30 players online or nothing at all.
Fourth Storm
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I'm taking a wild guess that bg has heard the latest dev kits fully support two wireless upads. That suggests either some hardware improvements were made or it was capable of this all along and Nintendo was just so oblivious to the need for the feature, they didn't realize it...
This is a bad post and you should feel bad for posting it.
OOOOOOOOoooooooooh get out.
FIRE FIELD, BIG BLUE, MUTE CITY, LIGHTNING... AND PLENTY OF OTHERS I CAN'T THINK OF RIGHT NOW.
I think Im gonna fire up GX when I get home.
Yes please (can't post it often enough), but I'm still unsure who could do it.
Fourth Storm
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It is quite mesmerizing, and I'm not huge into racers. I have a feeling you'll have a bit of time. The next F-Zero will likely be developed internally, and I don't believe that series is where they are putting their resources atm. It would be a great mid-generation core title, though.
How can you all stand this neverending Wii U specualtion any longer? I've had my fair share for the last couple of month, but now I just can't take it anymore. There are questions that bug me, but I won't think or speculate about anything WII U related until the final, official facts are shown at this years E3, for the sake of my sanity.
Refreshment.01
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Pushable thumbsticks are an intuitive way to add more input options without complicating button layout more, a philosophy that goes with Nintendo way of thinking so is puzzling why they don't bother with it. The sticks need to be there so adding button functionality to them is a good solution.
Also why reduce the matter to one or the other? Nintendo needs to put both in the Ucon analog triggers and depressible thumbsticks.
Masochists, all of them.
Shin Johnpv
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I still hope/think it's going to ship with a Wiimote+ and nunchuck in the box.
some screenshots of what
Ok, so over in the latest NextBox rumor thread there's actually some halfway believable intel that MS is going with an HD7000 series GPU.
Assuming that's true, how much more powerful is that over the hardware Nintendo is speculated to go with?
Assuming that's true, how much more powerful is that over the hardware Nintendo is speculated to go with?
Can you really determine anything from it being an HD7000 series? That's a fairly broad spectrum of power.
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