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The Wii U Speculation Thread VI: The Undiscovered Country

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Rösti

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I belive I created that image, it's a spoof on a Two and a Half Men ad.
 
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IceDoesntHelp

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Shurayuki said:
Well joke's on you, since they're alternate universe us (with hats), you just called yourself atrocious :eek:

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actually, i love hats, i want to be with them...

(Ice, I'm not quite sure how that worked out but through a sleight of fate i happened upon your gif when i searched for that image...gj nice haha, never got to see it)
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I guess I am ):

You'd rather be a cowboy than me lover? I am disappointed.

Thanks, most people didn't like it because I used white font like an idiot.

Dreamwriter said:
Stained glass plays like Zelda 2?

Sounds a lot like the game in this video
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Good, now Nintendo won't make one. (i hope)
 
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Shurayuki

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IceDoesntHelp said:
I guess I am ):

You'd rather be a cowboy than me lover? I am disappointed.

Thanks, most people didn't like it because I used white font like an idiot.


Good, now Nintendo won't make one.
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But you're there, you're just wearing a hat! If you don't want me anymore when I'm old and fat hat then we have to talk, gotta buy the whole package sister ;P

I read japanese, i can read everything lol.
 
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snowdog1971

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-Pyromaniac- said:
Just Cause 2 looks pretty damn impressive for an open world game.
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Yup, the first one also looked pretty good...even on the PS2. It was originally a tech demo that they decided to make into a game. I think I was probably the only one in the office that liked working on it...but then that was overtime so i got paid time and a half during the week and double time during the weekend, and during normal working hours I was stuck testing the massive interactive spreadsheet that was Championship Manager so anything would have been entertaining in comparison lol.

The best thing about it is the music imo, one of the best soundtracks this gen for my money.

Blimey, that was a trip down memory lane!!!

So have I missed anything during the last couple of days..? Any leaks..? Anything exciting..?
 
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japtor

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ViewtifulJC said:
I'll always remember David Sirlin's comment about the Blue Coins.

Mario Sunshine is actually the only game in this list for which I ever had to look up secrets on the internet. After looking them up, I wondered “if I were in prison for 20 years with no entertainment other than Mario Sunshine, could I find all these blue coins without a FAQ?” Probably not, I concluded.


Maybe the worst of all collectibles
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The Triforceathon in Wind Waker made me look up a FAQ after putting to down for a few months cause of it. Glad I did though!
Kandinsky said:
Seriously man, holy shit that water looks amazing.
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Blue Storm wasn't as pretty but I always thought the dynamic wave and wake deformation was pretty impressive.
Mistle said:
the number 1 thing i'd like to see happen at E3

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Major League Eating already came out for Wii Ware.
 
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Terrell

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BlackJace said:
I think it was because of its randomness and "difficulty". Putting Mario in a tropical island setting didn't sit well for some people apparently. Anyways, I loved it.
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I think it was more that each stage was thematically similar, more than anything.

Penguin said:
Would you rather a sequel to CastleVania Judgement or Soul Calibur Legends?
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Judgment. Cuz then at least I'd have something pretty to look at.
 
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bomma_man

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Anth0ny said:
Sunshine was fantastic... for 70 stars. Those blue coins were simply awful.
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I don't really understand why every 3D Mario has to have 120 stars. I t seems so arbitrary, and a result they all have filler. Sunshine is obviously the worst culprit but the others aren't innocent either.
 
Boss Doggie

Boss Doggie

all my loli wolf companions are so moe
So I've seen photos of Iwata and Miyamoto in their youth and in the 80's-90's, but what about Reggie?
 
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StreetsAhead

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EatChildren said:
Weekends are usually pretty shitty for news and leaks. This week is the ramp up to E3, so I think we'll start getting some more serious hints and news then.
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True enough. Just thought I'd ask. I'm not sure how I feel about leaks at this point. It's only a few days left now until Konami/Ubisoft. Almost worth it just to wait it out.

DragonKnight said:
Said it before and i'll say i again: we nintendo fans need to step our fucking game up and put our money where our mouths are.

Resident Evil 6
Tomb Raider
Half Life 3
Bioshock Infinite
Bordernlands 2
Assassin's Creed 3
GTA V
Aliens CM
Darksiders II
Call of Duty: Blops 2
Cloudberry Kingdom
Castlevania LOS2
Rayman Legends

You tell me that out of all these titles that could show up on the WiiU, some of you can't even find three of them appealing? We have to do our part.
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I am interested in the bolded, depending on JPN localizations/releases.
I'm not against 3rd party games at all. Already for this year I've bough Sonic Generations, RE:R, KH:DDD for 3DS and am at least interested in Rayman Origins, Bravely Default, Heroes of Ruin, King of Pirates and a few others. Can't wait for e3 to find out what's in store for both systems.
 
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Apophis2036

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Let's start a game of Dream Nintendo E3 2012 :p.

Dream E3 -

Tech specs revealed, custom Radeon 6770, very fast four core CPU, 2GB's of Ram, 1TB HDD.
They show off UE4 running on Wii U with an exclusive third party game revealed.
They show off CryEngine 3 running on Wii U with an exclusive third party game revealed.
Retro announce a new IP and it's out in the launch window.
F-Zero and Starfox Wii U are launch games to go along with Pikmin 3.
Video showing Zelda, Mario Universe, Metroid, Smash Bros and Mario Kart is shown.
Blops 2, Resident Evil 6 and GTA V announced for the system.
All third party games run at 1080p native, 60 fps locked with extra PC like graphical effects.
Core Controller revealed with support for every game announced if your not into the tablet.
Nintendo Network is as stable for online gaming as XBL.
Nintendo Network is free.
Wii U store available on day one with almost every major NES / SNES / N64 / GC games.
Play any of those games wirelessly away from the main console on the tablet.
Achievement / Trophy like system revealed.
Console out in October for launch of Resident Evil 6 and GTA V.
$300 launch price.
 
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Roo

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Apophis2036 said:
Let's start a game of Dream Nintendo E3 2012 :p.

Dream E3 -

Tech specs revealed, custom Radeon 6770, very fast four core CPU, 2GB's of Ram, 1TB HDD.
They show off UE4 running on Wii U with an exclusive third party game revealed.
They show off CryEngine 3 running on Wii U with an exclusive third party game revealed.
Retro announce a new IP and it's out in the launch window.
F-Zero and Starfox Wii U are launch games to go along with Pikmin 3.
Video showing Zelda, Mario Universe, Metroid, Smash Bros and Mario Kart is shown.
Blops 2, Resident Evil 6 and GTA V announced for the system.
All third party games run at 1080p native, 60 fps locked with extra PC like graphical effects.
Core Controller revealed with support for every game announced if your not into the tablet.
Nintendo Network is as stable for online gaming as XBL.
Nintendo Network is free.
Wii U store available on day one with almost every major NES / SNES / N64 / GC games.
Play any of those games wirelessly away from the main console on the tablet.
Achievement / Trophy like system revealed.
Console out in October for launch of Resident Evil 6 and GTA V.
$300 launch price.
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lol
Dream... indeed
 
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Anth0ny

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bomma_man said:
I don't really understand why every 3D Mario has to have 120 stars. I t seems so arbitrary, and a result they all have filler. Sunshine is obviously the worst culprit but the others aren't innocent either.
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I thought SM64 was fine. Galaxy 2 was good too, but they probably could have taken out some of the more repetitive stars (Prankster comets) and had 120 total instead of 240.
 
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Gahiggidy

My aunt & uncle run a Mom & Pop store, "The Gamecube Hut", and sold 80k WiiU within minutes of opening.
Apophis2036 said:
Let's start a game of Dream Nintendo E3 2012 :p.

Dream E3 -

Tech specs revealed, custom Radeon 6770, very fast four core CPU, 2GB's of Ram, 1TB HDD.
They show off UE4 running on Wii U with an exclusive third party game revealed.
They show off CryEngine 3 running on Wii U with an exclusive third party game revealed.
Retro announce a new IP and it's out in the launch window.
F-Zero and Starfox Wii U are launch games to go along with Pikmin 3.
Video showing Zelda, Mario Universe, Metroid, Smash Bros and Mario Kart is shown.
Blops 2, Resident Evil 6 and GTA V announced for the system.
All third party games run at 1080p native, 60 fps locked with extra PC like graphical effects.
Core Controller revealed with support for every game announced if your not into the tablet.
Nintendo Network is as stable for online gaming as XBL.
Nintendo Network is free.
Wii U store available on day one with almost every major NES / SNES / N64 / GC games.
Play any of those games wirelessly away from the main console on the tablet.
Achievement / Trophy like system revealed.
Console out in October for launch of Resident Evil 6 and GTA V.
$300 launch price.
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- Pikmin 3 has a very impressive online mode.
 
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CrAzYLeGzLU

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Have they ever came out and said if streaming games to the UPad is a feature that's built into the hardware/software or is it something the devs can choose to implement?
 
Portugeezer

Portugeezer

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CrAzYLeGzLU said:
Have they ever came out and said if streaming games to the UPad is a feature that's built into the hardware/software or is it something the devs can choose to implement?
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Nope. But it should be optional to developers, now if Nintendo will make it optional is another story.

It's one of the selling points of the system, but so was motion on Wii and many games used no motion at all.

edit: oh right, I was talking about UPad uses during gameplay. Streaming alone is probably built into the hardware.
 
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EatChildren

Currently polling second in Australia's federal election (first in the Gold Coast), this feral may one day be your Bogan King.
CrAzYLeGzLU said:
Have they ever came out and said if streaming games to the UPad is a feature that's built into the hardware/software or is it something the devs can choose to implement?
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Streaming games to the pad, as in, while the TV is in use and thus having the main game on the pad? I think that will be pretty universal, and likely coded into the firmware.
 
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bgassassin

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japtor said:
No clue about GPU stuff, but I'm kind of thinking of an analogy with video encoders. Like there's hardware specific for encoding functions these days on some chips, I don't know how much space/transistors they take up, but I'm pretty sure they're more efficient at the task than general compute processors like regular CPUs or in this particular case, programmable shaders.

Perhaps they could make some stripped down shader units primarily for whatever effects (tesselation, lighting, blah blah), rather than necessarily making magic new hardware. It'd kind of fit in with the argument that if they had something special it'd already be in use in their other GPUs, since this would be sort of cutting down something existing to make specialized hardware rather than creating something new from scratch, whereas on higher end hardware they could just throw on more standard general use hardware.

But that's all just crazy speculation.
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Speculation of all kinds is what the WUST was founded on. ;)

What I'm wondering is if there is a way they could efficiently do displacement maps without going for raw power and doing it through what's currently available.

CrAzYLeGzLU said:
Have they ever came out and said if streaming games to the UPad is a feature that's built into the hardware/software or is it something the devs can choose to implement?
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It's optional. Not long after E3 someone from Nintendo said they hope developers don't feel they are obligated to use screen.
 
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TheChits

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I was playing through Onimusha 3 again today. So, uh, what are the chances that Retro is working on a new Onimusha for the Wii U? That would sure be something

I know it will never happen, but a man can dream. Don't judge me
 
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HylianTom

Banned
My hunch? We're going to see a small little symbol on the corner of game boxes indicating that a game can be played on the uPad independently from the TV.

For example, look at the upper-right on this box:
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There will be a little uPad symbol on there if it's a uPad-only-enabled game.

At least.. that would be my own theory.
 
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Smellycat

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HylianTom said:
My hunch? We're going to see a small little symbol on the corner of game boxes indicating that a game can be played on the uPad independently from the TV.

For example, look at the upper-right on this box:
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There will be a little uPad symbol on there if it's a uPad-only-enabled game.

At least.. that would be my own theory.
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That would be very confusing. These symbols indicate if these peripherals are used in that particular game. Having a symbol of the uPad by itself doesn't make sense, because all of the games will make use of it.

It doesn't indicate that the game can be played independently from the TV.
 
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Gahiggidy

My aunt & uncle run a Mom & Pop store, "The Gamecube Hut", and sold 80k WiiU within minutes of opening.
Even when they don't allow you to play the full game on the screen alone, I'll bet most developers eventually make mini games or side quests as wuc only modes. If only to compete for time with other games and apps.


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Edit. Holy smokes, am I enjoying a good cup of coffee right now.
 
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HylianTom

Banned
Smellycat said:
That would be very confusing. These symbols indicate if these peripherals are used in that particular game. Having a symbol of the uPad by itself doesn't make sense, because all of the games will make use of it.

It doesn't indicate that the game can be played independently from the TV.
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In that case, how about a little TV symbol with a cross through it? :p
 
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Dreamwriter

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Nintendo made such a big deal about the screen-switch feature, I'd bet it is a hard requirement, and nobody will be able to ignore it. But it can't be a firmware feature, because different games will have to act differently - for example, if a game put its HUD entirely on the second screen, it would have to move it to the game screen when the game was moved to the controller.
 
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Gahiggidy

My aunt & uncle run a Mom & Pop store, "The Gamecube Hut", and sold 80k WiiU within minutes of opening.
HylianTom,

I do wonder, though, if we will hear about people that enjoy their wii u without even having it hooked to a tv set?
 
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TheExplodingHead

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Hiltz said:
I wonder if Apple would take issue with Nintendo using the uPad/Upad name even though its for a different type of electronics product.
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Highly doubt it, Apple dosen't have the "Pad" name locked down. Although I doubt it'll be called the Upad by Nintendo, they'll probably call it the Tablet Controller or something.

Also, weird to see this in community.
 
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HylianTom

Banned
Gahiggidy said:
HylianTom,

I do wonder, though, if we will hear about people that enjoy their wii u without even having it hooked to a tv set?
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Nintendo's going to have to be very clear about set-up and such.

Then again, I have confidence that Nintendo can include clear enough set-up instructions. If one can set-up a Wii, sensor bar and all, then a Wii U shouldn't be too big a problem.
 
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Gahiggidy

My aunt & uncle run a Mom & Pop store, "The Gamecube Hut", and sold 80k WiiU within minutes of opening.
You know somebody is going to end up carting the console to a Starbucks and hooking it up to one of their complimentary outlets to play in the corner.
 
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HylianTom

Banned
Gahiggidy said:
You know somebody is going to end up carting the console to a Starbucks and hooking it up to one of their complimentary outlets to play in the corner.
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I do look forward to seeing what kind of mainstream coverage the U gets, both positive and negative.

Also looking forward to news reports showing people lined-up around the country!
 
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Apophis2036

Banned
Where has Ideaman gone lately ?, maybe his sources aren't talking anymore after the guy who leaked the controller changes was fired.

Looks like we are done for leaks, ah well just over a week to go now ! :).
 
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