Chances are that whatever enhancements nintendo have in there are in the form of GPU ISA modifications. And since nobody writes GPU assembly, particularly not native assembly, all the enhancements will be available through the shader compiler. IOW, some high-level shader code will just 'automagically' get performance gains on the U-GPU.
He looks... intrigued
Edit: Reading what Rösti posted about Havok... does that technology is hardware or software based?
Maybe stupid question... we know it is free for developers that are working on Wii U games but what stop them from not using it on other projects?
His point is that almost all games need physics and animations, which is why Nintendo selected those two packages. Havok Cloth and other Havok solutions are more specialized and many games simply wouldn't need them, so it didn't make sense to license those packages for every developer.Rösti;36971432 said:
If you're doing a bald marine COD type game. Why would you need cloth. Sure, you might have a few banners and flags but you could just animate those.Rösti;36971432 said:
Threepeat of a minor news link? We're officially out of the meme hellstorm and in Thread the Third territory again, wooooo!
So I wanted to say my own view of a few things. I am still a few pages behind but whatever....
-I hope Nintendo has acheivements for Wii U day 1 and on 3DS by the end of the year. I would rather them be like Trophies with the whole RPG element but as long as people can view mine acheivements and I can view others then I'm cool. If they don't have them I will be severely dissapointed since I like them alot, but I'll still get Wii U day one lolz.
-Since they had it in Wii (for almost all titles) and 3DS they must have a fully featured Activity Log! I love the Wii's and especially 3DS's Activity Log. I NEED MAH PLAYTIME TRACKING. Severely dissapointed this wasn't in Vita or in any other systems.
-I really don't care about graphics. As long as its on par with PS3 then I'm fine, and it apears to be quite abit more powerful, dat Zelda tech demo
-Actual Account names for both Wii U and 3DS and ability to have content on more than 1 system & be able to deactivate a system from a website incase yours break.. i know they already confirmed accounts for Wii U but they still could use friend codes and I can't remember if they are confirmed for 3DS (But I think it is.) If it does go on 3DS then will it override friend codes? Friend Codes are already on 3DS, it could get confusing...
Alot of people were complaining when when NES games they bought for the Wii couldn't work on 3DS aswell. But I can't help to think it was because of the Wii's limited online ways, and they have already set this up on the 3DS meaning that any NES game you buy on 3DS can infact be played on Wii U.
-Digital version of all retail games. I don't really care, because I like physical games but it could be useful for something like Animal Crossing. That way I don't have to put the disc in each time...
-And please Nintendo, let me costumize the music on the Wii U menu. PLEASE! It was cool at first but the Wii Menu music got old fast.
-And for the love of the Triforce, have folders! FOLDERS!!!
I wanted to respond to the posts about acheivemnts a few pages back, then got into my wishlist for the system..so there.
*Goes back to playing Pokemon. *
I live in canada, our selection sucks balls compared to america so streaming is hardly an option. Then you throw in things like data caps, and the fact that I enjoy owning physical things for some reasons, and I don't know, maybe I'll prefer completely streaming in a year or 2.
to answer your question, I'd want it. LETS DOOOO ITTTT.
So I wanted to say my own view of a few things. I am still a few pages behind but whatever....
-I hope Nintendo has acheivements for Wii U day 1 and on 3DS by the end of the year. I would rather them be like Trophies with the whole RPG element but as long as people can view mine acheivements and I can view others then I'm cool. If they don't have them I will be severely dissapointed since I like them alot, but I'll still get Wii U day one lolz.
I would be really interested in seeing how Nintendo would approach achievements though. More than anything, I'd like to actually be able to do something with achievements. Maybe unlock promotional materials or something cool like that. As-is now, I really don't care about achievements at all.
-Since they had it in Wii (for almost all titles) and 3DS they must have a fully featured Activity Log! I love the Wii's and especially 3DS's Activity Log. I NEED MAH PLAYTIME TRACKING. Severely dissapointed this wasn't in Vita or in any other systems.
I love how Steam handles this and hope all three console manufacturers do it next gen. When checking out a game, now I'll regularly look it up on Steam, look at which of my friends has played that game, look up who has the most hours on the game, and ask them if the game is any good. I need to be able to do that on consoles.
-I really don't care about graphics. As long as its on par with PS3 then I'm fine, and it apears to be quite abit more powerful, dat Zelda tech demo
-Actual Account names for both Wii U and 3DS and ability to have content on more than 1 system & be able to deactivate a system from a website incase yours break.. i know they already confirmed accounts for Wii U but they still could use friend codes and I can't remember if they are confirmed for 3DS (But I think it is.) If it does go on 3DS then will it override friend codes? Friend Codes are already on 3DS, it could get confusing...
Alot of people were complaining when when NES games they bought for the Wii couldn't work on 3DS aswell. But I can't help to think it was because of the Wii's limited online ways, and they have already set this up on the 3DS meaning that any NES game you buy on 3DS can infact be played on Wii U.
If they're unifying accounts between the Wii-U and 3DS they damn well better unify Virtual Console libraries.
-Digital version of all retail games. I don't really care, because I like physical games but it could be useful for something like Animal Crossing. That way I don't have to put the disc in each time...
Nintendo's thinking about this, but they don't want to piss off retailers.
-And please Nintendo, let me costumize the music on the Wii U menu. PLEASE! It was cool at first but the Wii Menu music got old fast.
-And for the love of the Triforce, have folders! FOLDERS!!!
I wanted to respond to the posts about acheivemnts a few pages back, then got into my wishlist for the system..so there.
*Goes back to playing Pokemon. *
It does not make much economical sense to speedup all code for a given (e.g. Wekiva) architecture - picking a successor architecture would be the natural choice then. For a given architecture, though, they could try to improve deemed-critical (by the client) aspects of it, which would then be exposed via the compiler (as that's really the only stage in the pipeline that could expose said enhancements).
That's essentially semantics, as most individual instructions (i.e. all except those heavily reliant on fat microcode implementations) can be deemed 'fixed function'.
Rösti;36971432 said:
You'll have to ask the journalist who wrote that.
wouldn't be anything new
