ShockingAlberto
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Hmm. I wonder if Square-Enix can put both versions of DQXI on this at once.
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NX Controller Rumor [Up5: Original was fake, and thus this is too]
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From nipples? Who the hell taught you sex ed?
Also a VERY bad name for the German market.
digoutyoursoul
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lol!
Aaronrules380
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Not to mention they're also in charge of marketing
backflip10019
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I mean, they have a point. Where is F-Zero?
BluePikmin11
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I found it in the latest NX GoNintendo article.
Movalpolos
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What the FUCK is going on?
TheGreatMightyPoo
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This might be the best gaf thread ever
I have no idea who that is.
Maybe he was the one who leaked everything. Tree...Treehouse...
D1renegade
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Well damn I thought this was the old thread.. 70 pages already!?
But like I said in the previous thread, this looks abhorrent.
But like I said in the previous thread, this looks abhorrent.
Maneauleau
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Is It me or is this "leaker" leaking shit in hour increments. The pace of it is so strange. If you are gonna leak it...then releasing stuff every hour makes no sense. It's a scream for attention really.
I'm curious if something another picture or whatever pops up on reddit within the hour.
I'm curious if something another picture or whatever pops up on reddit within the hour.
Yeah, I think I'll just leaf this rumour alone
Ahaha.
PapaEmeritus
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I'm dying right now- I cant stop crying laughing- LAWD
Well, it would be appropriate with amount of games that current Nintendo home console is getting...
SerTapTap
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Making dedicated hardware is the exact opposite of going all in on mobile. That is clearly not a phone.
netgrimoire
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If she a pokemon then I'm a pokemon
axisofweevils
Holy crap! Today's real megaton is that more than two people can have the same first name.
I didn't think that would happen. No miiverse drawings would be a major retrograde step.
What!?
slavesnyder
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Trii
#neverforget
I don't get it. What's this referencing?
DrROBschiz
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Are we in some kind of social experiment right now?
TheSlySoul
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I am going to laugh if Nintendo has an April 1st direct with "you saw the prototype, now see the real thing" and then it will amaze everyone. It would be genius.
SinCityAssassin
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So is it real or not? I notice this time it's not even turned on.
TheGreatMightyPoo
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Which branch of Massive do you think this leak came from???
Alcotholic
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What if "Wii X" is the name of their emulator app?
Ohhhhh shiiiit
Aswitch
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I'm totally ok with this as long they offer a more reliable solution. Similar to the Wii U where you can use a pro controller instead of using the Wii U pad on most games. Anything being strictly based on solely touch just screams inconsistency to me. As long as this rumored controller isn't a proprietary one (which is most likely), I'm fine with it so far.
Finale Fireworker
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Former television superstar and heinous sex offender Bill Cosby.
We don't know.
Janitor department
Aaronrules380
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He might be fired for speculative info, but it's less of a sure bet, and also far less likely to put him on an industry wide blacklist
Everything I learned about the human body I learned from hentai.
Entertaining the possibility that this is fake, is there any way that we can tell that this picture and the previous one aren't posted by the same person / people under different names / accounts?
Davey Cakes
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Nintendo will stick with "ii" in some way, since Amiibo, Miiverse, Miitomo, and Miis in general exist.
I personally don't believe there will be a continuation of the "Wii" line though. Basically, Mii's were birthed from the Wii era, and they have a future, but the brand they came from does not.
I personally don't believe there will be a continuation of the "Wii" line though. Basically, Mii's were birthed from the Wii era, and they have a future, but the brand they came from does not.
PapaEmeritus
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VendettaRed07
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(mat)
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I always feel like my screen is being blocked with something.
Ah shit. First post on this page. Uh... Something worthwhile... Uh... TREES.
The one that's about to be shut down
QuixoticNeutral
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This thread moved really quickly and the newest information about the authenticity/inauthenticity of the leak came in as I was writing my post. I had my doubts to begin with, especially when it was pointed out that the sticks on the controller look conspicuously 3D printed, but the NOA employee's appearance seems to seal the deal. (As for Liam Robertson, a person who exists to take apparently credible sources and misread them through the filter of a forum fanboy's understanding of the industry, he seems more inclined to be right when he says that something isn't the case than when he makes a wild guess that it is.)
Supposing the controller we've seen is at least a reasonable mock-up/guess of what we'll ultimately get, there is a lot worth talking about regardless. Here's how I've been digesting it:
- I will be pleased to see the screen return, although something of this size will be too small to fully replicate the killer feature of the Wii U, off-TV play. Miiverse, Mario Maker, and second-screen maps/inventory in the style of Wii U Zelda are here to stay.
- I hope it has a gyro. This is Nintendo, and dropping motion sensing entirely would be a huge step backwards considering how standard it has become as an aiming option in the Wii/3DS/Wii U. I really expect it to be there.
- If the standard controller has no buttons, I think Nintendo is certain to support a traditional option, up to and including compatibility with existing Wii and Wii U Pro Controllers. That said, having to buy something extra will be enough to put off a significant segment of the market and will deter games from being designed with a traditional control scheme in mind.
The nice thing about the Wii U GamePad was that you never actually needed to use a Pro Controller unless the dimensions and battery life of the GamePad were deal-breakers; I'm a fairly serious player and the GamePad sufficed for everything. On the Wii, while you needed a Pro Controller for controlling SSB or Xenoblade to be practical, it was only ever a hard requirement for N64 VC. Virtually requiring everyone in the traditional Nintendo base to buy a second controller would be a bad move.
- We should be thinking about what the analogue to the Wii Nunchuk may be. If this is a good approximation of the real thing, it's small enough that I could imagine it fitting a clip-on shell that adds either (a) physical buttons and/or a D-pad on the shell itself, or (b) a physical overlay on the screen where the buttons act in the same way as a capacitive stylus, although I worry that would be a bit squishy. (We're expecting a capacitive glass screen like the one in the image, yes? Resistive screens like those on the DS line have great precision, but are no longer intuitive to a whole generation of people raised on the responsiveness of iPhone-like screens.)
That's assuming that people dissatisfied with the tactility of on-screen haptic buttons will be provided an option at all. Yes, Nintendo gives even less of a damn about third parties than I do, but I have trouble believing that they would undermine their own first-party library and fail to provide a device that supports their more precision-demanding IPs. Alternatively, 2D Mario may be taking a break for a good long while (although the release of Super Mario Maker seemed to herald this anyway) and we are definitely not getting Bayonetta 3. Scroll-wheel shoulders + physical sticks + virtual buttons are just fine for Splatoon, Zelda, and Mario Kart if you adapt them properly, though, and even Metroid could work.
Something to keep in mind about Nintendo's own first-party output is that even on the Wii U, it has moved dramatically towards reducing the use of face buttons (usually to maintain Wiimote support). Their platformer library—SM3DW, NSMBU, DKCTF, and so on all have configurable two-button schemes, while even Mario Kart has moved functionality to the shoulder buttons. Pikmin 3 and Mario Maker's editor both implemented "shoulder + touch screen" schemes. And it's not hard to see how a button-heavy game like Xenoblade X uses a scheme that could benefit from reconfigurable, context-dependent on-screen controls. Mainly, the games that get screwed are the fast and frantic ones that pack in a whole lot of button functionality, like SSB and Bayonetta.
Also, if the basic controller is somehow reconfigurable/extensible, it remains for us to ask what the advantage of such a minimal design would be. Maybe it's just mobile-with-sticks—lightweight, easy to carry in your pocket, good enough for web browsing and shovelware mobile ports, possibly even functioning as a literal phone if an even more expensive option exists (like an iPhone to the standard controller's iPod)—but aside from the innate mass appeal of simplicity, an advantage the Wiimote shared, it's hard to see why you wouldn't have buttons in the standard layout at all.
Supposing the controller we've seen is at least a reasonable mock-up/guess of what we'll ultimately get, there is a lot worth talking about regardless. Here's how I've been digesting it:
- I will be pleased to see the screen return, although something of this size will be too small to fully replicate the killer feature of the Wii U, off-TV play. Miiverse, Mario Maker, and second-screen maps/inventory in the style of Wii U Zelda are here to stay.
- I hope it has a gyro. This is Nintendo, and dropping motion sensing entirely would be a huge step backwards considering how standard it has become as an aiming option in the Wii/3DS/Wii U. I really expect it to be there.
- If the standard controller has no buttons, I think Nintendo is certain to support a traditional option, up to and including compatibility with existing Wii and Wii U Pro Controllers. That said, having to buy something extra will be enough to put off a significant segment of the market and will deter games from being designed with a traditional control scheme in mind.
The nice thing about the Wii U GamePad was that you never actually needed to use a Pro Controller unless the dimensions and battery life of the GamePad were deal-breakers; I'm a fairly serious player and the GamePad sufficed for everything. On the Wii, while you needed a Pro Controller for controlling SSB or Xenoblade to be practical, it was only ever a hard requirement for N64 VC. Virtually requiring everyone in the traditional Nintendo base to buy a second controller would be a bad move.
- We should be thinking about what the analogue to the Wii Nunchuk may be. If this is a good approximation of the real thing, it's small enough that I could imagine it fitting a clip-on shell that adds either (a) physical buttons and/or a D-pad on the shell itself, or (b) a physical overlay on the screen where the buttons act in the same way as a capacitive stylus, although I worry that would be a bit squishy. (We're expecting a capacitive glass screen like the one in the image, yes? Resistive screens like those on the DS line have great precision, but are no longer intuitive to a whole generation of people raised on the responsiveness of iPhone-like screens.)
That's assuming that people dissatisfied with the tactility of on-screen haptic buttons will be provided an option at all. Yes, Nintendo gives even less of a damn about third parties than I do, but I have trouble believing that they would undermine their own first-party library and fail to provide a device that supports their more precision-demanding IPs. Alternatively, 2D Mario may be taking a break for a good long while (although the release of Super Mario Maker seemed to herald this anyway) and we are definitely not getting Bayonetta 3. Scroll-wheel shoulders + physical sticks + virtual buttons are just fine for Splatoon, Zelda, and Mario Kart if you adapt them properly, though, and even Metroid could work.
Something to keep in mind about Nintendo's own first-party output is that even on the Wii U, it has moved dramatically towards reducing the use of face buttons (usually to maintain Wiimote support). Their platformer library—SM3DW, NSMBU, DKCTF, and so on all have configurable two-button schemes, while even Mario Kart has moved functionality to the shoulder buttons. Pikmin 3 and Mario Maker's editor both implemented "shoulder + touch screen" schemes. And it's not hard to see how a button-heavy game like Xenoblade X uses a scheme that could benefit from reconfigurable, context-dependent on-screen controls. Mainly, the games that get screwed are the fast and frantic ones that pack in a whole lot of button functionality, like SSB and Bayonetta.
Also, if the basic controller is somehow reconfigurable/extensible, it remains for us to ask what the advantage of such a minimal design would be. Maybe it's just mobile-with-sticks—lightweight, easy to carry in your pocket, good enough for web browsing and shovelware mobile ports, possibly even functioning as a literal phone if an even more expensive option exists (like an iPhone to the standard controller's iPod)—but aside from the innate mass appeal of simplicity, an advantage the Wiimote shared, it's hard to see why you wouldn't have buttons in the standard layout at all.
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