Mihael Mello Keehl
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Theres footage of it?
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Wii U Thread - Now in HD!
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Page before this like everyone is quoting it!
http://www.gameinformer.com/b/featu...ntendo-land-39-s-balloon-trip-attraction.aspx
Silent_Ocarina
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I think the game is just called Balloon Trip Breeze.
GameInformer mentioned that Nintendo wanted players to be competitive with this game over Miiverse. I wonder what that means.
Not many people speculating about this one it seems. IdeaMan, do you know if it's a hardware or software secret?
well that's a lie
Mihael Mello Keehl
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Shin Johnpv
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I have to disagree sadly, Hunters was pretty much the exact opposite as great for me. It's the only Metroid game I've never finished, just couldn't bring myself to do so.
blu
Wants the largest console games publisher to avoid Nintendo's platforms.
It's the dark secret of homebrew.. Oops, sorry, wrong thread.
Just improve on SS's motion controls and you will be happy.
There is always room for improvement, though, I guess.
Didn't see this until it was quoted
Getting excited now, because it seems like Nintendo have done something really unique with the OS/online implementation. Any more ideas on this Ideaman?Thrillhouse
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Seeing that balloon flight-trailer makes me wonder what good the second screen does when touch screen is used as main controll method? Couldn't this game idea be done better or just as good with the Wii-mote?
ScreenSplitter
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You'd be surprised how much is bitching and whining over tech details. Hint: It's about fifty percent.
Balloon Breeze looks cool, shame it isn't multiplayer.
That's gonna happen with a few of the games.
From what I've played, Donkey Kong is a game that could have been done with just a Wii-mote as well.
SolidSnakex
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At the very least they need to have some sort of leaderboard system, even if it's just among people on your friends list (sort of like Autolog in NFS). Same thing goes for NSMBU. If they don't want to do actual online play, then at least keep the times among your friends so you have actual competition to go up against.
I think it'll be able to use the pad, yup.
Make it optional, is all I ask. It's fine if they want to improve it for the people who like motion controls, but the part of the WiiU that appeals the least to me is the 'Hey! Keep your wiimotes! '. I'm quite done with motion controls, and I'm hoping it's just an alternative control scheme.
ScreenSplitter
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Well yeah, options are always nice. It annoyed me more with Spirit Tracks/Phantom Hourglass, but it's just as bad for both. Having Nintendo tell us "This is the best, only way to play the game" when there's a much more tactile, tried and tested approach sitting right there is pretty insulting.
IsntChrisL
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Just like the other games, this is but one mode of it. Calm down.
It's backwards compatible with Wii games but we don't know if the GamePad will support Wii games... or VC games for that matter.
ScreenSplitter
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But the common sense thing is that they will... right? I know it's not a huge thing, but it's a fairly big selling point for me.
I think anyway that the Wii Pad has a "TV" button which just switches the display to the Wii U Pad, whatever you have on there.
KillerTravis
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Thursday will be a very sad day for anyone expecting more than half an hour of Nintendoland and NSMBU, and another half hour about price, date, launch titles and overall strategy.
ScreenSplitter
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This is all I'm bothered about. Would be nice to know something concrete about the thing we could be buying two months tomorrow.
Smiles and Cries
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don't get your hopes up, the TV button changes channels no stream Wii games
we don't know if it streams Wii games because you need a line of code for the software to stream
if they find a way to do it I'll be very happy to play Xenoblade on the gamepad
unfortunately, long term projections in technology sector are based almost entirely on past performance. And Nintendo's recent past performance (stock price-wise) has been poor due to a combination of factors which I'm not going to elaborate upon at all
The good news is, long term projections are usually unreliable guff. There's too much you cannot factor in technology companies. There's no way to predict an overnight success. You can only vaguely predict a success full stop. If this weren't the case then we'd all be rolling in the cash we made buying Nintendo stock right before they announced Wii.
Edit: and imho you'd be silly not to buy Nintendo stock right now. It's going to go up very soon regardless of whether WiiU is a phenomenal success.
Dreamwriter
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No, but they've never had a final E3 before launch without announcing/showing some games outside of launch period either. And they've never announced new non-launch-window at the press conference where they announce pricing and release dates.
Sorry, Nintendo is considering the Wii Remotes a key part of the Wii U experience, and there's no way mainline Nintendo franchises will ignore them. Motion controls were what made the Wii super popular, and they are here to stay.
Could you quote this? The link doesn't work for me.
Oh hang on, the whole site doesn't work for me! Was it juicy? Maybe the ninjas arrived
evilromero
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Not so fond of Balloon Trip. Hope we can use the analog stick and buttons.
I'm hoping it'll be this straight forward with some hype teasers at the end but knowing Nintendo they'll leave public guessing launch dates by casually announcing that games will be released in launch window, some magic dimension in the distant present.
Ken Masters
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will the conference on thursday be streamed live?
I don't think we've heard of any news if we're getting a livestream or not. We might have to resort to livebloggers to get our fix >_>
ScreenSplitter
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*groan*
Kotaku using an incredibly frustrating system, with incredibly poor reporting.
Kind of a strange way of thinking. I'm pretty sure they had a vision for the game and made the game they wanted. Its funny that you think its insulting that Nintendo wouldn't give you your desired option when all games don't give you all options to play them. So do you find all games insulting?
Oh and Touch Screen Zelda Controls >>> Normal
Having to never line myself up on a cardinal direction to pick up a pot is such a sweet release.
software, it's indicated in the post (OS, dashboard, etc.). It seems as an example than third-parties still don't know the real dashboard, they have a placeholder since a long time now.
They will discover a lot of what constitutes the "software layer" (the functions of the system and how they are presented) of the Wii U the same time as us.
Didn't see this until it was quoted
Of course the hype is generated in our minds and could be pretty mediocre when we actually see it, but I am interested to see what could have been considered so secret by Nintendo that they really wouldn't want a competitor knowing about it.
Maybe they have a deal with some third party of some magnitude integrated into their system ...say......Steam..
OK thanks. I was wondering if it was hardware due to some mention a while back of devkits being all enclosed or some such. Strange that they would keep an OS secret though - they aren't really things people want to copy.
Gianni Merryman
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Good point.
Indeed this would be a first time as far as I can recall; at least back in the day, before Wii launched, at the very least we had already seen some screenshots of Metroid prime, Brawl and we were shown some footage of the upcoming stuff in the pipeline.
IntelliHeath
As in "Heathcliff"
Yeah, Brawl was supposed to be Launch Title, IIRC. I don't think we will expecting any new trailer for SSB4. I meant they just started with developing. I bet that they wouldn't show anything until E3 2013 despite that they have completed prototype engine.
stupidvillager
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Could you quote this? The link doesn't work for me.
Oh hang on, the whole site doesn't work for me! Was it juicy? Maybe the ninjas arrived
This is where things get tricky from the foundry perspective. A foundry might be willing to give a Tezzaron the information. But consider this: “Nintendo’s going to build their next-generation box,” said Patti. “They get their graphics processor from TSMC and their game processor from IBM. They are going to stack them together. Do you think IBM’s going to be real excited about sending their process manifest—their backup and materials—to TSMC? Or maybe TSMC will send it IBM. Neither of those is ever going to happen. Historically they do share this with OSATs, or at least some material information. And they’ve shared it typically with us because I’m only a back-end fab. I can keep a secret. I’m not going to tell their competition. There’s at least a level of comfort in dealing with a third party that isn’t a competitor.”
They way he words it, it sounds like AMD and IBM send there chips/designs to them(Tezzaron) and then they fab it. Look up 3D, 2.5D chip stacking.
It was already confirmed, actually!
Nice. Now we just need the ability to have a single personal account on both the Wii U and 3DS.
That actually makes a lot of sense in a weird way. Had Nintendo announced some great OS features at E3, sony and microsoft would have had time to whip up something similar to it (a copy if you will ;-)) in time for the launch window.
Ur correct, Tezzaron would be an OSAT and this guy is saying they would usually be provided with the info. I don't have the context of the report/article though so I'm not sure what this implies.
Edit: the link worked now. Certainly seems strange that he's talking about 3D stacking and Nintendo if they're unrelated. Could be a good find there buddy
stupidvillager
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Stacking seems to be the specialty of Tezzaron, so I dont think it would just be a turn of phrase. Whether he has info and if they are doing anything I dont know, he could just be using Nintendo as an example.
oh god yes
I've heavily edited my post as the link worked
Could be a nice find as I'd doubt he'd mention Nintendo specifically if they weren't relevant to his point.Have we heard anything before about 3d chip stacking in WiiU? Pretty sure I read something about in the Durango/Orbis speculation.
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