Who PM to whom?
ClovingSteam seems very confident in Arkam being in the industry. So I suppose he asked Evilore by PM and he answered him directly.
EDIT : Aaaaaand burn. But I wasn't that far.
Who PM to whom?
It just seems to go against everything we have heard so far.
Evil confirmed it via chat. Why would I lie about that?
So did Eatchildren pages ago. Still dont believe you until Evilore posts in the thread.
That's pretty fucking terrible news
Evilore confirmed Arkham is in the industry.
I still believe the problem(s) arkam mentioned are on the programmer side.
Has Nintendo ever given a comment as to why the main series has remained on handhelds?
It just seems to go against everything we have heard so far.
How many duct taped Gamecubes are we talking about now?
I realize that much weaker than final hardware SDK's are common, but this still astounds me.
I'm guessing that wsippel is right, but that seems one huge gulf between sdk and final hardware.
Well my guts tell me this is true. The screen, the small size if the system, the need to be affordable.
I guess Nintendo seems ok with making a modern console with older specs.
So his company sucks?
Pachter is "in the industry" too. Just saying.
Maybe the console is a tad faster than the 360/PS3, but the overhead for streaming to the controller screens means visuals on par with or slightly less than this gen's HD consoles?
In any event, 1st party games at 720p will look mind numbing even with less horsepower. Nintendo's cache of franchise benefit from fantastic design and art direction.
This could be bad for long term success with 3rd parties though.
This means nothing.
With more sources saying the Wii U is more powerful than otherwise, I'm not prepared to take the dubiously negative and poorly supported opinions of a shady GAF member as gospel.
It's funny how easily swayed people are hearing random illogical statements from an anonymous source vs. the seemingly unanimous statements
from credible and renowned industry insiders.
I guess E3 will be a good time to look back and laugh at these ridiculous shenanigans we're suffering from now.
P.s. typing on the 3DS with your finger is frustratingly slow!
Because one of the big advantages to NeoGAF is how tough they are on people falsely claiming to have inside information on something. Other forums you'll hear lots of "my uncle has a personal Wii-U dev kit and it's basically a Gameboy Color with holograms", and then someone else repeats that ("I heard the Wii-U is a GBC"), and soon it is spread around as common knowledge. Here if you say that you'd better hope that turns out close to that or your ass is grass. Especially if you're a Junior. It makes for a better discussion environment.Why all the drama over one anonymous source, especially considering the fact that there are so many other rumors that contradict it?
I'd believe stuff straight from developers before believing an anonymous rumor.
...or maybe by weaker, he means physically. As in, the Wii-U dev kit is more delicate than the ones for PS3 or 360.
It's not weaker than the 360/PS3.
Even at E3, when the system was at its weakest, it was stronger than them.
This was confirmed by ACTUAL devs.
But Nintendo could have decided to play it safe after losing money on the 3DS and opted for the lowest specced configuration to offset another potential early price cut. It's an utterly moronic decision but I wouldn't put it past them.
But Nintendo could have decided to play it safe after losing money on the 3DS and opted for the lowest specced configuration to offset another potential early price cut. It's an utterly moronic decision but I wouldn't put it past them.
4 realMy take, Wii U is massively NDA'ed, no responsible or respectable developer would dare talk about it on a public forum.
Dev kits are only in the hands of hand picked choices by Nintendo like every new platform, these guys don't casually chat on forums on future projects, if they did it would be foolish, nobody likes to be unemployed.
As someone who has never been admittedly much into Pokemon games, I have been thinking about this myself for some time - a 3D Pokemon game on a home console with better graphics would be a big success I thought - but after some rethinking, I think I can see the Nintendo's viewpoint and I have no doubt about Pokemon games on 3DS having much more potential - not only commercially - than any possible Pokemon games on WiiU.
I guess it's just:
* In the first place Pokemon is a typical game tailored on purpose for handheld consoles, that's how it originated and it works perfectly on a tiny screen like many other turn-based RPGs, and since Pokemons' fans supposedly like it this way I think there's no need to change the winning formula.
* In Japan handhelds are more popular than home-consoles and Pokemon has been selling like hot pancakes there just because of this, on a much bigger user-base than Wii and possibly WiiU, on top of that Pokemon games have helped a big deal for the success of Nintendo' handheld over Western countries, so business-wise releasing a main Pokemon game on a home-console should not be quite a smart move.
* Lower development costs and less time required for developing teams to bother with HD graphics and stuff, in this regards I reckon in Pokemon games graphics are not that important compared to other games that rely much more on 3D full-detailed worlds.
Oh definitely....I guess E3 will be a good time to look back and laugh at these ridiculous shenanigans we're suffering from now.
Everyone shutup.
It's actually impossible for Arkam's statements to be true.
If Arkam is right, buy one at launch. The revisions will go back a generation each time until it's an Atari 2600.
That doesn't make sense, though.
They'd have to go back and redesign the system.
You can't just magically make it weaker and save money.
You have to go back and spend money on R&D all over again.
.My take, Wii U is massively NDA'ed, no responsible or respectable developer would dare talk about it on a public forum.
Dev kits are only in the hands of hand picked choices by Nintendo like every new platform, these guys don't casually chat on forums on future projects, if they did it would be foolish, nobody likes to be unemployed.