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Wii U Speculation Thread of Brains Beware: Wii U Re-Unveiling At E3 2012
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AceBandage
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Oh Ubisoft.
Your games aren't always so good, but man, you can't keep your mouths shut, and we love you for it.
The 3DS has amazing potential. In theory, it can push (slightly) less polygons, but more textures and shaders than the Wii. It even does tesselation, though no games use it (so it might not work well). That potential gets almost halved because it has to do many things twice while rendering 3D. Still, it has amazing potential, and Metroid Prime could look fantastic and work really well with the 3D screen. I'm not sure whether I'd prefer a Metroid Prime 3DS or Metroid Prime U.I never finished Prime, but I did play bits of it. There's the chance they can...and add more shaders and effects to boot. But then again it looks like most 3DS games look far less complex than Wii games, but with better shaders, masking that fact. Could be because the games are early.
The 3DS' hardware is pretty nice, and I do think it reflects the hardware design the Wii U will take. Pick a small box and small power consumption, and squeeze all the power out of it you can get.
Metroid Prime is the one game for Wii U that I WOULDN'T want the hud to disappear to the second screen lol. They handled that so brilliantly.
AceBandage
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No, but they would put Scanning on the screen. So good.
Scanning in Metroid using the 2nd screen would be pretty cool but at the moment the wii u can't do AR unless you hold the controller backwards and use a tv as the viewfinder which would be incredibly awkward.
2006:
Apple gets away with selling laptops for twice as much as everyone else, so PS3 costing $600 shouldn't matter!
Don't have photoshop, but this pic remindedme about how bad I would love a follow up to Link's Cross Bow training. Am I the only one?
Jesus, being on rails...can't imagine TEH GRAPHIXAceBandage
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This seemes to be the case for all Nintendo hardware-related threads. That, and begging them to go third party.
No new news?
Yeah... This basically confirmed that I really don't want this tablet.
As good as the mock ups look (And they look fantastic). I just think the Wiimote would be better suited.
Oh well
-Pyromaniac-
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I feel the total opposite of you, Wiimote = meh, this looks like this something I can get into.Yeah... This basically confirmed that I really don't want this tablet.
As good as the mock ups look (And they look fantastic). I just think the Wiimote would be better suited.
Oh well
Thanks for posting those, but I'd love to to see the Wii U Zapper and a first-person mockup. Those two things are important for the idea I got. Done using MP3 screenshots will be just fine. I wish I was any good at Photoshop myself.
My idea is to use the Wiimote + Nunchuck for the controls in the game, but use the tablet screen mounted onto the zapper for scanning/thermal visor/morph ball mode.
My idea is to use the Wiimote + Nunchuck for the controls in the game, but use the tablet screen mounted onto the zapper for scanning/thermal visor/morph ball mode.
Ah, kinda meant motion controls, sorry. The front facing camera is a limitation for that reason.
Rocket Scientist
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Mockups made me jizz.
AceBandage
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Yeah... This basically confirmed that I really don't want this tablet.
As good as the mock ups look (And they look fantastic). I just think the Wiimote would be better suited.
Oh well
I think both control options will be available for many games.
AceBandage
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Considering what they showed at E3, no way that's happening.
Freezie KO
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I don't think the Wiimote will go away, but it likely will be de-emphasized to show the consumer why they need to purchase the new shiny console.
I really think with how Sin and Punishment, Mario Galaxy 2, and FPS games are using the remote, the pointer functionality is just beginning to be explored. I'd hate to see what is essentially a giant DS screen be emphasized over the remote. The new controller has really killed a lot of hype for the new Nintendo console for me.
I really think with how Sin and Punishment, Mario Galaxy 2, and FPS games are using the remote, the pointer functionality is just beginning to be explored. I'd hate to see what is essentially a giant DS screen be emphasized over the remote. The new controller has really killed a lot of hype for the new Nintendo console for me.
bgassassin
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I guess that depends on if I consider that target to be powerful in the first place. I don't know how many people would consider 640 ALUs to be powerful, but considering what's available I don't think "powerful" is the label I would use. And that's what I've been expecting it to be around. And as I've already told you, that's what I've been doing. And yes a 32nm or 28nm GPU makes a lot of sense in that regard.
THANK YOU! I was very excited to see a Wiimote 2. A generation ahead of the original. I still hope they come up with something like that one day.
But on the bright side, the second screen is MUH easier for devs to use. It's alll optional and if they want completely traditional controls then they can do that as well. This controller will be better for multiplats but... Wiimote :'(.
A rebranded Wiimote will most likely happen, so who knows?
That was true some time ago... have you seen the last wii boxes and the 3ds ones? they are huge with a lot of wasted space... they should learn from Apple (and the others who copied them)
How much?, seriously lets bet..
PS3 came out in 2006 with significantly lower specs than WiiU will have and it cost $600-700, yet you're betting that WiiU could have been made in 2006 for slightly more than $349, seriously give me free money!
I mean in 2006 the best PC GPU's were 320 SPU R600 based GPU's, and that was a highend PC GPU.
If Link were to have a fairy companion, I'd love to be able to control her via the tablet. She could scout ahead in dungeons, go through cracks and small holes in walls to access other areas, communicate with other characters, etc.
Thunder Monkey
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I consider it powerful... for a videogame console.
More than enough power to pull off a game I've had in my head for years. So that makes it powerful. To be perfectly honest the GCN was enough power to pull off the game in me noggin. But times a change.
See you say you aren't trolling but this post is bizarre.
Seriously, I believe you aren't trying to troll. But the fact is saying that WiiU's performance would have been possible in 2006 for $349 (even without the controller and even assuming your 50% more powerful assumption is correct) is just wrong, totally wrong. PS3 was a hot console that cost $650-$700 to make, now add 50%..
Also WiiU won't only be 50% more powerful, not a chance.
AceBandage
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Never heard of it...
Sounds amazing. It's ideas like this that make me believe the Wii U is going to be huge.
AceBandage
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Ah, I see.
bgassassin
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I agree when looking at it from that angle. I was coming from the angle of what I expect the other consoles to be.
AWES...I don't care.
Error Macro
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I already don't like using dual analogs for FPSes, but this image just reminds me how much I HATE the layout of the U Pad. Having the
Well, at least I stumbled across parts of the 3DS SDK along the way, and it seems Nintendo didn't strip the GPU down - geometry shaders and gaseous object rendering are still there as far as I can tell. Wrong system, but better than nothing...
I'm not really worried about the U pad. Nintendo is pretty adept at making comfortable controllers.
AceBandage
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Well, at least I stumbled across parts of the 3DS SDK along the way, and it seems Nintendo didn't strip the GPU down - geometry shaders and gaseous object rendering are still there as far as I can tell. Wrong system, but better than nothing...
Yeah, one of the devs said that fog/gas was hardcoded into the 3DS GPU a while ago.
bgassassin
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Well, at least I stumbled across parts of the 3DS SDK along the way, and it seems Nintendo didn't strip the GPU down - geometry shaders and gaseous object rendering are still there as far as I can tell. Wrong system, but better than nothing...
Haha. I only said that because of your post. But that is interesting to know if it makes devs lives a little easier.
I really don't want smaller, I want more power, and if it means they need to make it bigger, make it bigger. I have no problem having my original PS3 Phat. Even if they trimmed it to PS3 slim size minus the internal power brick it'd be big enough for more grunt.
If they're going 28nm purely for size/cooling then yeah colour me disappointed.Wow, Nintendo disappoints everyone again
I agree. The HUD is what gives you the sense of claustrophobia.
lwilliams3
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Well, at least I stumbled across parts of the 3DS SDK along the way, and it seems Nintendo didn't strip the GPU down - geometry shaders and gaseous object rendering are still there as far as I can tell. Wrong system, but better than nothing...
That's good to know. Thanks for the info.
AceBandage
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The hell man.
Do you have a death grip on your 3DS?
Do you have a death grip on your 3DS?
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