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Wii U Information Thread

Kotaku is reporting

"Nintendo president Satoru Iwata just said that a new Smash Bros will release for the company's new console, the Wii U, as well as for 3DS. No specific time frame was given, but Iwata said the game will feature cross platform compatibility."

Mock if moldy.
 
Tiger uppercut said:
Kotaku is reporting

"Nintendo president Satoru Iwata just said that a new Smash Bros will release for the company's new console, the Wii U, as well as for 3DS. No specific time frame was given, but Iwata said the game will feature cross platform compatibility."

Mock if moldy.
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They mentioned it at the conference
 
nVidiot_Whore said:
I really don't see why not.. but you could also buy the classic controller. According to PR the Wii-U controller is a classic controller + screen/gyroscope/camera.

Nintendo is just a strange company.. they have a chance here to hype the Wii U as being a valid competitor for the 360/PS3 but they of course are focusing on their "innovation." So instead of mentioning that your standard multi-platform games can work with classic controller, they bring up this oddball idea of having one Wii-U controller + everyone else having Wii-motes... as if that's something that is going to get heavy support.

I think we'll have to rely on 3rd parties hyping the possibility of Wii-U being worthy as a true "next gen" system for the hardcore gamer.. some early reports are certainly suggesting that.. but to me it seems like we'll really have to wait and see what Nintendo does with Online.

I can't see it toppling the 360 as the priority system for games like Call of Duty for example unless they have a real Live/PSN type service.
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Would it be a tough fix to add functionality for multiple Wii U controllers?
 
KKRT00 said:
Can You use more than one new controller on Wii-U? I cant find info about that.
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It's looking like it's not common, which is sort of good, in that you won't have to buy more controllers if you have a wii, and won't throttle the power of the system. However, I bet it's possible for a 4-swords sort of thing.
 
Graphics Horse said:
Console dimensions in inches:

H: 4.52
W: 17.22
L: 26.67

It's about half way house between a PS2 and a PS2 slim, impressive! Almost the same height as the Wii.
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Wii (height): 1.5 in
WiiU: (height) 1.8 in
360 S: (height): 3 in

Wii (width): 6.3 in
WiiU: (width) 6.8 in
360 S: (width): 12 in

Wii (length): 8 in
WiiU: (length) 10.5 in
360 S: (length): 10 in

Wii (volume LxWxH): 75.6 in2
WiiU: (volume LxWxH) 128.5 in2
360 S: (volume LxWxH): 360 in2
 
^ thanks, almsot 1/3 of the 360's volume if that's accurate.

So I have a question... how do we play 2 player Tekken?

I guess that requires a Classic Controller for a second player, perhaps they'll make a new stand alone version now.
 
"Wii U" hahahahahahahaa @ the name. Somehow they made the Wii name worse

sorry this is all new to me just got back from work

do we know anything about the relative power of the Wii U? That Zelda tech image looks weak
 
They better release new Classic Controllers that are wireless and don't need to be plugged into a Wii-Mote.

And if one Wii U padscreen per system is true... what if the A button gets stuck on the controller? Buy a new system?
 
its the Wu, ami. get with the times!

any idea when the roundtables are? i hurrd reggie was gonna talk bout the online...
 
is the "play on the controller instead of the tv" a feature of all games, or does it need to be specifically supported per-game? can you play wii games on the display?
 
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Amir0x said:
"Wii U" hahahahahahahaa @ the name. Somehow they made the Wii name worse

sorry this is all new to me just got back from work

do we know anything about the relative power of the Wii U? That Zelda tech image looks weak
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It's running a similar version of the IBM Power 7 chip that powers Watson, the super computer that won Jeopardy. It will crap on Xenon and Cell from a great height CPU-wise.
 
I have a 50" plasma going to waste because of my loss of vision... my eyes can only see so far and I may most of my games on macbook now which is not much.

It just came to my that I can still collect a good library of Wii games and wait to play it on the Wii U controller :D

So happy :)
 
So I dissected the IBM press release a bit and it says it has a ton of eDRAM on the processor, which is only present on IBM chips starting in the Power7 line. I'm no tech-head so I don't know what to make of that concretely, but I'll leave a note here in case the tech-heads like wsippel and brain_stew want to elaborate.
 
Totally underwhelming in terms of performance. The pad looks like sound tech, but as others have mentioned it could potentially be replicated elsewhere with PS3/PSvita.

Can't understand why Nintendo would want to release this early to market with yet another underpowered machine. The plus side is it uses all the old Wii accesories and is also fully BC with games.
 
Zhengi said:
Thanks for the answer. I'm definitely excited for the new system and wonder how developers will use the new controller.

Also, is the screen on the controller a touch screen? I saw that picture with Zelda on the TV screen and the inventory on the controller. It would be sweet to just touch the item I want without bringing up the inventory screen and have Link switch to that item.
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Yes, touch-screen is confirmed for the controller!

Appollowexx said:
Totally underwhelming in terms of performance. The pad looks like sound tech, but as others have mentioned it could potentially be replicated elsewhere with PS3/PSvita.

Can't understand why Nintendo would want to release this early to market with yet another underpowered machine. The plus side is it uses all the old Wii accesories and is also fully BC with games.
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Amir0x said:
Yeah. Doesn't look particularly beyond anything we've seen this gen.

Hope they're just getting used to the tech
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http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=432965 contains details about the CPU. Watson quad-threaded CPU potentially. Easily outpaces PS3/360 if Watson... which with the EDRAM seems to be the case.
 
Amir0x said:
"Wii U" hahahahahahahaa @ the name. Somehow they made the Wii name worse

sorry this is all new to me just got back from work

do we know anything about the relative power of the Wii U? That Zelda tech image looks weak
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Maybe a generation above 360/PS3. Also, the console may include bacon.
 
evangd007 said:
So I dissected the IBM press release a bit and it says it has a ton of eDRAM on the processor, which is only present on IBM chips starting in the Power7 line. I'm no tech-head so I don't know what to make of that concretely, but I'll leave a note here in case the tech-heads like wsippel and brain_stew want to elaborate.
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It's running the same processor tech found in Watson according to Engadget, which pretty much means it's some type of Power 7. Which, like I said, craps on Cell and Xenon from a great height.
 
Amir0x said:
do we know anything about the relative power of the Wii U? That Zelda tech image looks weak
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Not much. Some talk from IBM presumably about the processor (though with EDRAM), nothing concrete about the GPU. Nothing on RAM. According to B3D the bird and zelda demos are native 720p. Some talk from the Darksiders dudes about how it's more powerful than the other two platforms, but not by how much, and nothing we couldn't have guessed already.
 
Is there a thread on smash bros? I think the 3DS/ WiiU thing is interesting (Transfarring?), but what more interesting is that Sakurai is working on it; I though he was tired of the series.
 
obonicus said:
Not much. Some talk from IBM presumably about the processor (though with EDRAM), nothing concrete about the GPU. Nothing on RAM. According to B3D the bird and zelda demos are native 720p. Some talk from the Darksiders dudes about how it's more powerful than the other two platforms, but not by how much, and nothing we couldn't have guessed already.
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Ah so we're still basically at square one.

Really this news is all bizarrely tempered by some weird flaws. One controller at a time? Such a short length use from console? They didn't show any games other than a few tech demos? Third parties announced what, a bunch of ports?

What a bizarre unveiling. I'm not even sure about controller focus. If only one of these screen controllers can be used at a time, is the system a traditional controller system or not? What about the suckers who get stuck with wiimote duty?

I'm really confused about Nintendo's strategy here. For once, actually flabbergasted.
 
from the reports I only heard good things about the Controller's Screen
but wish Nintendo would also release a deluxe expensive version with an OLED type screen I would buy 2!
 
Appollowexx said:
Totally underwhelming in terms of performance. The pad looks like sound tech, but as others have mentioned it could potentially be replicated elsewhere with PS3/PSvita.

Can't understand why Nintendo would want to release this early to market with yet another underpowered machine. The plus side is it uses all the old Wii accesories and is also fully BC with games.
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PSvita as a PS3 controller would hardly be ideal when the duel shock would be the preferred option of most gamers.
I can't see many devs bothering to offer PSvita support, and even if they did, not enough core users would take advantage of it anyway.
 
Amir0x said:
Ah so we're still basically at square one.

Really this news is all bizarrely tempered by some weird flaws. One controller at a time? Such a short length use from console? They didn't show any games other than a few tech demos? Third parties announced what, a bunch of ports?

What a bizarre unveiling. I'm not even sure about controller focus. If only one of these screen controllers can be used at a time, is the system a traditional controller system or not? What about the suckers who get stuck with wiimote duty?

I'm really confused about Nintendo's strategy here. For once, actually flabbergasted.
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why don't you watch the whole thing at http://e3.nintendo.com

3rd party Wii U clip http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-G9AR9bwlKk
 
Amir0x said:
Ah so we're still basically at square one.

Really this news is all bizarrely tempered by some weird flaws. One controller at a time? Such a short length use from console? They didn't show any games other than a few tech demos? Third parties announced what, a bunch of ports?

What a bizarre unveiling. I'm not even sure about controller focus. If only one of these screen controllers can be used at a time, is the system a traditional controller system or not? What about the suckers who get stuck with wiimote duty?

I'm really confused about Nintendo's strategy here. For once, actually flabbergasted.
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On Nintendo's official website, they show multiple controllers (4 at a time) all having unique views and data screened to them at the same time in multiplayer. So no. There's a link to it on a site that must not be named, but you can also find it on Nintendo's official site.
 
gamergirly said:
Would it be a tough fix to add functionality for multiple Wii U controllers?
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Unfortunately it might be an issue of hardware; really depends on how it's designed, but they may only be including enough hardware to push video to one controller at a time.

But they also might be being somewhat vague because a final decision on what hardware is to be included hasn't been made.

Thoraxes said:
On Nintendo's official website, they show multiple controllers (4 at a time) all having unique views and data screened to them at the same time in multiplayer. So no. There's a link to it on a site that must not be named, but you can also find it on Nintendo's official site.
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Can you provide such a link, since it directly contradicts Nintendo's PR?

Someone else thought they saw such a video.. but they were mistaken.
 
Appollowexx said:
Totally underwhelming in terms of performance. The pad looks like sound tech, but as others have mentioned it could potentially be replicated elsewhere with PS3/PSvita.
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The difference is, every Wii-U will be shipped with this pad. Developers can't really do that kind of thing with the PS3 because they have to make sure it plays just as well with a normal pad. They would be splitting their customer base otherwise.

I'm sure it could be done to a certain degree with the Vita, but Wii-U is designed completely around this control system. Although, I don't really know enough about the tech to know how much of an advantage that would be in comparison to the Vita and PS3 being used in a similar way.
 
The name is horrifyingly awful. Everything else seems promising, though the only 3rd party game that interests me so far is Tekken.

The controller looks a bit cumbersome, but hopefully developers will make use of all the different control options.
 
Jumping in the middle here, any word about the online?

Edit: Ah nvm, more info on this by the end of E3.
 
i wouldn't be completely devastated if the single-controller limitation gave us a renaissance of single-player-focused games.
 
I wanna know if it's possible at all to just turn the screen off. You know, to save power. Obviously a lot of games will use that thing for HUD purposes or whatever, but in something like the NSMB Mii thing they were showing the screen was used to duplicate the display on the TV. I don't see why there wouldn't be an option to straight-up turn the screen off when there's no need for it to be used. This thing will probably have a decent battery (maybe anyway) but a little power saved never hurt anyone.
 
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