Twilight Princess
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Gamekult editor on graphical differences between the Zelda Switch/Wii U version
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No, they DID put a map on the gamepad. They took it out.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SECWlFInyFM
Polygonal_Sprite
Member
There's also one going on between PS4 and PS4 Pro owners and there will be one going on between Xbox One and Scorpio owners this Winter too. I'm sure PC gamers find it amusing lol.
Yes and no. I see the (valid and unfair from a consumer perspective) point about the Wii U version not having anything over the Switch, but if these videos are to be believed - it might be because the Wii U needed any and all hardware resources dedicated to the game to get to the level its even at now. If the game comes out and its running swimmingly however. . .
Mihael Mello Keehl
Banned
All the sudden Wii U is a savior, after a long 4 years of getting shit on smh
palazuelos
Member
The game was originally developed showing a map on the gamepad. Look the video above.
ForkNetwork
Banned
Well, you know, theres a couple of million buyers that want to play the Zelda game that has been teased since 2013.
Fantastical
Death Prophet
Is there other Wii U footage besides that 15 minute video?
palazuelos
Member
Take a look to the stream I linked. But is dangerous if you are spoiler sensitive.
Fantastical
Death Prophet
Yeah that's why I haven't looked lol. I'd just like more of the beginning really but further past the 15 minutes. Just more running around / combat.
I didn't say it wasn't/didn't believe it wasn't. That video looks a bit choppy at times, too. I guess I'd like to think Nintendo didn't do this for spite, but I do agree it's BS nonetheless.
SinCityAssassin
Member
Considering the person is reviewing both versions and played the switch one before Wii U, one can assume that is the point being made.
It's not spite. It's business.
Sable~Knight
Member
Are you saying the game is better performance wise on the Wii U?
ArchedThunder
Banned
He's saying the Switch version doesn't get anywhere near as bad as the Wii U version.
Twilight Princess
Member
the way nintendo does business feels like a slap in the face though. i bought the wiiu on day 1 for zelda, only to end up with an inferior version with removed gamepad support.
Yabberwocky
Member
The Wii U version is running better than I was expecting, actually. BotW might as well be the swan song for my ol' Wii U.
The quest the poor guy is currently suffering through looks horrifically tedious, Nintendo, what the fuck.
Well... Imagine if you had bought a PS3 for Final Fantasy XV and The Last Guardian.
Twilight Princess
Member
i actually did, but there are other awesome games on the ps3 to make up for it. the wiiu on the other hand has the worst output of all nintendo consoles. and tbh, zelda is a much bigger deal than versus and the last guardian combined.
Parapraxis
Member
What? I don't think so, regular PS4 owners know PS4 Pro will be the better version, exactly what would they be "warring" over?
BarringGaffner
Member
It is not a 'miracle' it runs on the Wii U. It was built for the Wii U. It was ported to Switch.
Stop making excuses for Nintendo. It is not acceptable if it runs bad.
Stop making excuses for Nintendo. It is not acceptable if it runs bad.
Zelda wasn't even announced when the Wii U launched. Not seeing how Nintendo's done you wrong here...
TLZ
Banned
I think it's more that the system a game was announced, developed for, and publicly demo'd on is probably an acceptable place to play it. It's not rocket science. It's also not saying the Switch is unnecessary in any broad sense.
MetalliCabombination
Member
Leaving the baffling decision of buy a wii u day 1 aside, he has a point.
you buy a nintendo console expecting all their 1st party games to show up more than anything else if at all, then it gets promised a year in, to play that game you hold on to that console for years only to get a barely stitched together version because all of a sudden wii u is too weak , as if it grew weaker than when nintendo started developing it.
if they cant even deliver polished first party games theres pretty much no point their console even existing.
assuming youre buying a switch , imagine mario zelda and xenoblade all get delayed by 4 years out of the blue and nintendo announced a new switch 2 years , those games run suberly on it and drag their feet on the switch, will I find you supporting the old switch without any complaints?
TLZ
Banned
OK, but do you have real life performance comparisons? Like the same game running on both the 1060 and 480 with similar setup?
What is tedious about it, without being too spoilery?
How is this "business"?
Well yes, it is certainly a slap in the face for fans who actually believe in buying consoles before the things they want are released.
Mihael Mello Keehl
Banned
Sure but some people is easy they didnt care for the wii u, shit on it, didnt buy it and all the sudden buying a wii u version...
azak
pretty done
Member
WTF? It was announced exclusively for Wii U and developed for Wii U for yeaaaaaars.
Insane damage control. It's okay to admit your favorite gaming company fucked up.
Twilight Princess
Member
i was completely wrong in believing that nintendo can deliver a library at least on par with the gamecube.
Pops Maellard
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Did they though? It doesn't make it better (if anything, it's worse), but this was clearly a business decision. Nintendo focused on the Switch version, stripped some basic features from the Wii U version so the Switch remains clearly superior, and didn't really do much else with the Wii U version once it was running reasonably well.
On topic, what's up with the lighting/colors in the Wii U version? Last time I saw this I assumed it was an improperly set up capture device, but all of the Wii U footage from today shares the same washed out look.
Heh
TheGreatMightyPoo
Banned
Fucked up by making a game too ambitious for the hardware, sure.
It happens to the best of them.
See Perfect Dark.
Pops Maellard
Member
The Wii U has an incredible library, and to be fair you technically can play Breath of the Wild on it as well. And in all fairness, the Switch version looks like a technical disaster as well. While perhaps not quite as bad as the Wii U version, Switch BoTW is still incredibly aliased, low res, has poor texture filtering, and dips far too frequently for a game that doesn't look amazing. I'm more excited for my Switch and BoTW than I have been for anything media related in the past decade, but on a technical level it looks terrible.
LinkSlayer64
Member
Remembers...
Final Fantasy XV
The Last Guardian
KH3
hehehehe...hehe...AHHAAHAH
(I don't buy a console for a game that isn't released yet cause I'm not foolish, which is why I didn't get a PS3 until this past year)
MetalliCabombination
Member
Jesus .
Nintendo can do no wrong.
Ubisoft downgrades a game on hardware they werent even sure of when they started developing and it has bugs, gets universally shunned to the point where they have to make public apologies , delay production of their next big game , give out the season pass expansion for free.
Nintendo announced this game for their own hardware that they shouldve been perfectly knowledgeable of , delayed it multiple times, downgraded the visuals significantly, the product comes out unpolished and with unacceptable levels of performance to make the newer console look better, but hey, they have the season pass ready! and people should be grateful because nintendo was too ambitious?
are you shitting me?
TLZ
Banned
And that is why, my friend, I will always want and hope Nintendo go with more power to show off their games in all their glory. Go toe to toe with Sony and MS and compete with your great and unique exclusives. And not f up with some bs stubborn mistake like the n64 (tiny storage carts) and gamecube (lesser storage mini discs and no media play I.e. DVD and CD). I will wait and hope someday it happens. Maybe 50 years from now, if any of them still existed.
lvl99 Pixel
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A Zelda designed for the Wiiu running on the Wiiu is a miracle? I bought a Wiiu for this game many years back, so its a bit disappointing that it runs this way.
Its worse than the Twilight Princess delay, not only because TP actually ran well, but because we also had Wind Waker on gamecube prior to that.
Speaking of corporate apologism, it is now your fault if you buy a console to play a game on it.
It's business because Nintendo has abandoned the WiiU as a platform moving forward, and it would not be in their best interest to highlight anything in their next flagship title that might make people think that the dead system they are sunsetting has any advantages which the new system does not. Nintendo is a company that loves to manage perceptions, and their targeted message now is "Buy a Switch, Goodbye WiiU."
Who is apologizing for Nintendo being shitty?
LinkSlayer64
Member
it is your fault if you buy it for a game that hasn't been released.
It is, you should never buy on promises unless you can handle dissapointments.
Some people find it hard to believe, but my Wii library is even smaller than my GC library. Of course my WiiU library is the smallest. I don't even have one!
To me, Nintendo's inability to release console games I want to play is the norm.