I'm not expecting a lot at GDC, because it's confirmed that the booth will have a lot of 3DS units.
Guess they'll be showing off Kid Icarus/Luigi's Mansion 2/Spirit Camera and possibly Paper Mario/Mario Tennis.
Hopefully something emerges from this Nintendo/AMD/Crytek partnership.
Haha,
Seriously though I want them to spill the beans on some basics myself, but to spill too much so close to E3 would kind of ruin the impact E3 would have. They don't want to have information overload at E3 either so sometimes they announce things ahead of E3 to get it out of the way before the main event. Maybe they will announce they are using Steam/Origin for the backbone of the Nintendo Network. That would be exciting no? That's been speculated before and it's wouldn't come as a big suprise to get it out of the way before E3. The Re-revealing of the Wii U at E3 has to have maximum impact to make people forget how awful last E3 was when it was first shown. To do that the big guns aint coming out till then imo.
Speaking of which, I reckon Nintendo at GDC may show some new stuff for 3DS - i.e. launch dates, footage and details for already announced games and new unannounced games - keeping secretive about WiiU until E3.
I would like them to show off WiiU just because I cannot stand the hype anymore, but thinking of it rationally, right now it's 3DS that needs more steam in order to keep the momentum - that's to say they need to announce some big titles for Q3 and Q4 2012 - furthermore IIRC they stated it clear that they were going to reveal WiiU at E3, so I wouldn't put my hopes too high.
I'm not expecting a lot at GDC, because it's confirmed that the booth will have a lot of 3DS units.
Guess they'll be showing off Kid Icarus/Luigi's Mansion 2/Spirit Camera and possibly Paper Mario/Mario Tennis.
You don't think they'll stop by $129? GameCube skipped it, but that was disaster mode, not end-of-generation coasting.
Sony going away wouldn't mean a long-term monopoly any more than when Sega went away. Hell, if we went to the extreme and pretended every PS3 sale was instead an additional Wii sale, it would still only be ~PS2 level dominant.
Damn, I know I read it somewhere... can't find it.When did this happen? Source?
It's not 57% faster, it's 57 times faster. But it's an 8051 clone - an 8bit microcontroller from 1980. Those things are still in use, as USB controllers and such, but completely irrelevant here.Does it really matter?
http://source.theengineer.co.uk/ele...rovide-high-speed-performance/2005836.article
Spec talk, a polish company blew intel tech out of the water. 56 percent faster then intel at the same clock frequency.
It may be too late for Wii-U to impliment this but what about ps4 or xbox3?
It's not 57% faster, it's 57 times faster. But it's an 8051 clone - an 8bit microcontroller from 1980. Those things are still in use, as USB controllers and such, but completely irrelevant here.
I think Nintendo will do fine with the games we know about this year for 3DS, the competition in the handheld market isn't a problem really, 3DS has already started to roll down the mountain, by this time next year, it will be an unstoppable cartoon-ishly big snow ball, all they really need to show us is a new Zelda for the thing, and I think people will be more than happy.
Wii U on the other hand, has to win over the PS360 users as much as it can in the 18months following this e3, if it can hit ~12m units before Xbox3 comes, Nintendo has a high chance of leading next gen, especially if PS4 is a 2014 console, but Nintendo will need that head start, so devs can focus on creating their new tools for it, and down porting to the HD twins and cross porting to the Xbox3, it's the only logical route for the devs to take at that point, unless I'm overlooking something.
-Misread your post, thought you meant they should focus on 3DS at e3, I agree with you 100%
As for now 3DS's outlook for 2012 is good, but aside from Animal crossing - but mainly in Japan to some extent - there are no games expected to be big sellers like Mario Kart 7, Super Mario 3D Land and Monster hunter 3G.
Luigi's mansion and Paper Mario and may turn out to be great games and Kid Icarus has got the potential to grow up to be a popular IP, but they're hardly appealing to mass market and Nintendo should have more tricks up its sleeve if it wants to keep steadily the lead in the handheld market; OK, for the time being 3DS is faring well but Nintendo cannot rest on its laurels, by November-December 2012 3DS will need something else than Mario kart 7 and SM3DL, and the new 2D Mario game could do the trick, and I expect them to make some other surprise between GDC and E3.
On the other hand, WiiU supposedly isn't going to launch before June, so simply they don't need to hurry to leak anything until E3, by the way I suppose they don't want to give away any informations beforehand not to give their competitors time to take the appropriate steps to counter them.
As for now 3DS's outlook for 2012 is good, but aside from Animal crossing - but mainly in Japan to some extent - there are no games expected to be big sellers like Mario Kart 7, Super Mario 3D Land and Monster hunter 3G.
Luigi's mansion and Paper Mario and may turn out to be great games and Kid Icarus has got the potential to grow up to be a popular IP, but they're hardly appealing to mass market and Nintendo should have more tricks up its sleeve if it wants to keep steadily the lead in the handheld market; OK, for the time being 3DS is faring well but Nintendo cannot rest on its laurels, by November-December 2012 3DS will need something else than Mario kart 7 and SM3DL, and the new 2D Mario game could do the trick, and I expect them to make some other surprise between GDC and E3.
On the other hand, WiiU supposedly isn't going to launch before June, so simply they don't need to hurry to leak anything until E3, by the way I suppose they don't want to give away any informations beforehand not to give their competitors time to take the appropriate steps to counter them with their new consoles - i.e. they may implement some WiiU's new features on the fly on PS4/NextBox - so most likely they'll have their lips sealed until E3.
No, actually hoping he loses some of the vitriol. It would be good for him too.Are you trying to act like a psychologist or something?
I guess I like being an optimist.Nah, he'll just do what we all do.
Clear our GAF cookie and F5 while thinking of great things to post, but unable to do so.
Monster hunter 4?
I don't think they'll launch Monster hunter in 2012.
First of all, enough evidence of it methinks is that MH3G is going to be launched in Western countries in fall 2012 - it would make more sense for several different reasons to release MH4 worldwide instead if it was about to be released in a few months - so I think in the meantime they'll probably keep milking it in Japan releasing a budget edition to prepare the ground for Monster Hunter 4, that may hit the shelves in Japan by May 2013 - but it could be even later than that.
Aside from this speculation, just think that pretty much all we have from MH4 is just a short teaser; for all we know it could have nothing to spare with the final build, and if we have to assume they're doing it up from scratch, with a completely new engine and new gameplay features from Tri, in my understanding they're going to need more than only a year to complete the game's development, unless they rushed it(and I think that's not the case).
It's not that hard for the 3DS to keep the lead in the handheld market, since there is no competition ;-).
I know there is the Vita, but I doubt that it will ever be a threat to Nintendo, Sony knew this as well, that's why they've decided to cater to a different (niche) market.
Nintendo can't be too much self-confident and take the success for granted, and the supposed lack of competitors should not be an excuse for a poor effort software-wise, people are not going to buy 3DS without games just for the sake of it - even if Vita was discontinued theoretically - it takes more than that.
It's not just the Vita - by the way many of us, me included, considered back in the day PSP doomed for good, yet it fared quite well in Japan overall, so I wouldn't write it off too early - or IPhone, IPad, smartphones or tablets; regardless of what its competitors do, in order to keep the lead, Nintendo ought to bring out new good-quality games on a regular basis, never leaving any hole in 3DS's line-up schedule like they did with Wii, that was the best selling platform yet it has had a very imbarassing lack of software for some long periods.
No we dont, but seeing as theyre supporting normal Wii Remotes, and theres already two iterations of that one, I cant see them making a third. Also Wii Remote Plus is fine as it is, they just need to make Motion Plus a requirement (also wont happen).
They have 2 teams. MH4 was developed alongside 3G, Its entirely possible.
Edit: I expect a Pokemon game in september.
people say that about everything that isn't E3. "guys don't expect much, it's just an investors briefing" lol. I expect plenty more details on the wiiU regarding anything that isn't about games.I'm not expecting a lot at GDC, because it's confirmed that the booth will have a lot of 3DS units.
They have 2 teams. MH4 was developed alongside 3G, Its entirely possible.
You may be right there, I am not dismissing any possibility it may be out by end 2012 altogether, although to say it all I am not even expecting any footage of MH4 at E3: way too early, moreover they still have to make the most out of Monster hunter 3G, building up too much hype on MH4 right now may divert attention from the game that's been selling already better than Capcom's expectations and may keep selling for more months to come, unless a new game should be drawing near.
A new main Pokemon? I don't think so.
A sort of port from DS? Maybe.
A Pokemon spin-off(Pokemon dash, Pokemon A/R, Pokemon snap)? Maybe
It will be 2 years since the last big Pokemon game, It's coming.
Nintendo can't be too much self-confident and take the success for granted, and the supposed lack of competitors should not be an excuse for a poor effort software-wise, people are not going to buy 3DS without games just for the sake of it - even if Vita was discontinued theoretically - it takes more than that.
It's not just the Vita - by the way many of us, me included, considered back in the day PSP doomed for good, yet it fared quite well in Japan overall, so I wouldn't write it off too early - or IPhone, IPad, smartphones or tablets; regardless of what its competitors do, in order to keep the lead, Nintendo ought to bring out new good-quality games on a regular basis, never leaving any hole in 3DS's line-up schedule like they did with Wii, that was the best selling platform yet it has had a very imbarassing lack of software for some long periods.
Console Specs: (am I up to date?)
CPU: 3.5ghz 3 cores? IBM power7-based custom /w 32MB edram.
GPU: If 40nm; based on HD4870 ~1.2Gflops / If 28nm; based on HD7770 ~1.2Gflops
Ram: >1GB; most likely looking at 1.5GB GDDR3 (unless GDDR5 prices work out better in the long run as GDDR3 will likely be scarce during this consoles life span.
HDD: Minimum 8GB flash, my best guess however is 16GB flash to ensure Gamecube downloads + DLC.
If Nintendo doesn't reveal any new information about Wii U at GDC, I wonder what Reggie was referring to when he in interviews with CNN and GameTrailer at CES said they would share more information between then and E3. It's unlikely however that they won't bring any news to GDC, seeing the wonderful opportunities they are being given.Damn, I know I read it somewhere... can't find it.
It will be 2 years since the last big Pokemon game, It's coming.
Rösti;35274564 said:If Nintendo doesn't reveal any new information about Wii U at GDC, I wonder what Reggie was referring to when he in interviews with CNN and GameTrailer at CES said they would share more information between then and E3. It's unlikely however that they won't bring any news to GDC, seeing the wonderful opportunities they are being given.
Usually Nintendo rolls out the bad news before E3 like the Wii name so we can get used to it, so this time I think it might be the price :/I'm sure it'll be the week before E3 before we get anything.
In that case I'm going with the impossible. Perhaps some things will be announced (new online service etc), but E3s where it's going to be at. The final form, the new name, the price and release date and the games will all be revealed there.
Usually Nintendo rolls out the bad news before E3 like the Wii name so we can get used to it, so this time I think it might be the price :/
Awesome game, but at first glance I instantly thought of Super Rub-a-dub on PS3: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v6e-dCHLGh0 Which is also an awesome game.I want a sequel using the U pad.
Its been a long time with little to no information. I couldn't care less really about its power, I just want to know about games.Is this actually their most secretive console release yet? Or is it just me that's much less hyped about it than previous releases? (I'll get it launch day, no question about it, just not a nintendo fanboy anymore like I used to be). I mean we know about the wiipad/subscreen, and we've seen some techdemoes and some third party games that aren't even exclusive (just the experimental thing by Ubisoft). What else? Zilch. And it's going to be with us in eight till ten months time.
I keep saying it, but it's true: HD Zelda and Mario! For games that are consistently outstanding gameplay wise, we're going to have a real visual treat when Nintendo reveal what their EAD teams are working on.
I do believe the 32MB of edram was associated with the GPU and not the CPU. The CPU supposedly has 3MB of L2 Cache broken up in an asymmetrical way. IE something like 1.5MB to the main core and 756KB to each of the other cores. Though we've had no word on how it breaksdown and those amounts are just examples.
I just had a thought (i guess averybody else but me thought about it)
a day off, beeing home, open up a beer, play a game on my wii u, fiance comes home, just put that fully fledged hd game on the tablet, put headphones on, more beer.
BEST.THING.EVER.!
Power is no longer a concern for me.
Seeing what developers have achieved using current generation hardware, and how far they can push the systems and their component parts, I am in full confidence that we'll get some amazing looking games (especially first party titles) on the Wii U.
Having a system that's, say, only 2x as powerful would be incredible regardless of competition.
I keep saying it, but it's true: HD Zelda and Mario! For games that are consistently outstanding gameplay wise, we're going to have a real visual treat when Nintendo reveal what their EAD teams are working on.
It honestly won't matter to me if we see the power of the NEXTBOX being 6x the current generation and Nintendo's efforts turn out to be weaker than expected, because the results will still be phenomenal.
I just had a thought (i guess averybody else but me thought about it)
a day off, beeing home, open up a beer, play a game on my wii u, fiance comes home, just put that fully fledged hd game on the tablet, put headphones on, more beer.
BEST.THING.EVER.!
Thats not of my concern. Devs should think abbout that one. (splitscreen, alternate option menu, i mean come on dat shit worked on one screen before!)What if the game has 2 screen features??
And save some. :3Yup.
Wii U is gonna ruin a lot of relationships.
Didn't someone a few pages back say that Nintendo has it's own event in march? he speculated that they would give more info there, which makes sense if there is such an event, anyone know what I'm talking about?
Thats not of my concern. Devs should think abbout that one. (splitscreen, alternate option menu, i mean come on dat shit worked on one screen before!)