Portugeezer
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So simple it could be done on the 3DS.
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So simple it could be done on the 3DS.
dat middle column
Yup.. pretty solid!
I need to make a crude icon representing Reggie flatulence.. for when we hear third-party B.S.
test_account
XP-39C²
I like the use of your avatar, I'd like to see someone make an E3 bingo card consisting solely of member avatars.
I wonder if I'll be on any cards this time around.
Anyway, making one is too hard, so I won't.
I would have switched Reggie, but this is fine.
Anyway, making one is too hard, so I won't.
Better?
I would have switched Reggie, but this is fine.
Fantastical
Death Prophet
It's fun coming up with all these great concepts for the Upad in 3rd party games that will never happen.
DragonKnight
Member
Better?
Sticking with this one.
Dion Blaster
Member
Shouldn't Reggie just be the middle BINGO square? I mean, he's inevitable.
Shouldn't Reggie just be the middle BINGO square? I mean, he's inevitable.
Or change it to "new Reggie meme".
bgassassin
Member
Wii U's GPU runs on three goombas because Nintendo was too cheap to use pikmin.
Be alot better to have realistic expectations than some delusion its going to be special. Its a Suped up 360 and much of the suped up is dedicated to making sure the tablet can run properly. Its basically a 360 with a Wii Tacked on
Gianni Merryman
Member
Yeah, UPad would be just perfect for RTS games such as SimCity, and the support from Blizzard could be potentially something great, as much as I am not keen to pay a monthly fee to be frank.
At any rate, more realistically I am not that sure Blizzard would give too much support to a home-console - and I'm pretty sure Microsoft may have tried moneyhatting them previously -, since their target platform is the PC and they're banking on it, unless they should believe they could expand their marketshare significantly to justify the effort put into it.
shadyspace
Banned
What is wrong with you?
Are they winged at least?
They are too cheap to buy redbull for them to drink.
bgassassin
Member
Yep. They are your standard World 1-1 SMB goombas. This company will never learn.
AceBandage
Banned
Er, that's hardly accurate at all, actually.
It's quite a bit more than a 360 in terms of what it can do and what the games will look like.
It was never going to be a massive difference, but I'm not sure why people thought that in the first place.
But it's not just a repackaged 360, either.
Fourth Storm
Member
Damn, I would've thought they'd use Shy Guys. Too high latency, I guess...
-Pyromaniac-
Member
It's a 360 and 3 Wiis taped together.
What about checking the box?
Spieler Eins
Member
Where does that even come from?
his interview about wii u at e3 last year
I wouldnt say its quite a bit more. It will offer nicer textures and such but we have developer sources who say it still has trouble reaching 60 FPS at 720P when using the tablet. So a gen later we still cant master the art of 720P. The tablet is a resource drain that they basically boosted the power of the 360 to make up for.
AceBandage
Banned
It can barely reach 720P and 60FPS when displaying a 480P image along side it.
720+480=1200
And they don't HAVE to use the tablet.
You're absolutely convinced that the tablet is going to take a ridiculous amount of power to run and that most, if not all games will use it for complex 3D. Why?
Fourth Storm
Member
AceBandage busting out the calculations!
The obviously flawed calculations...
Gahiggidy
My aunt & uncle run a Mom & Pop store, "The Gamecube Hut", and sold 80k WiiU within minutes of opening.
Well, what are the odds Nintendo came up with a fanless cooling system? Like that sub from The Hunt For Red October?
Im convinced almost no games will use the tablet properly and the tablet will be a waste of manufacturing budget that could have brought the machine closer to the next gen instead of closer to the 360.
The only way it could be fanless is if Pachter is right about it being a "Wii HD" and nothing more.
Fourth Storm
Member
Oh lord, reminds me of those bygone days in the Revolution speculation thread where liquid cooling kept getting brought up over and over.
Ah, so naive...so innocent...
AceBandage
Banned
Implying that Nintendo chose the screen over raw power~
Implying that they set a manufacturing budget and the tablet takes much more than the 4-6 dollars of the budget that the wii mote did for the Wii. The battery pack alone is 2-3 Wiimotes
bgassassin
Member
They would have been an improvement over the goombas.
I think that's kind of unfair. It would be one thing if Wii U couldn't achieve that without the controller, but this is normally the case while using the controller. And even then I bet that's just using the GPU as a standard GPU.
AceBandage
Banned
Uh.... huh.
You're starting to sound like specialguy.
My hype is dying, but it may be because of school. Someone get me hyped again
Mario Universe will look pretty.
Ah, so it's more that you're extremely pissed off about the controller.
Personally, I highly doubt that Nintendo would have chosen to make a more powerful console if they had gone with a different controller. They probably would have just gone for a cheaper price. Also, I doubt that the controller added more than $50 to the cost, so it's not like we would have ended up with some hex-core, underclocked 7850-based beast of a console otherwise.
AceBandage
Banned
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