The Wii U Speculation Thread V: The Final Frontier

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Alright, if anyone remember any juicy rumors from their mind (games, wii u features, etc) Please do share. I need some kind of brainstorm for my bingo chart.
 
abasm said:
You can have both. Post-processing anti-aliasing is super fast and cheap, hardware-wise, and does an excellent job of reducing jaggies. If you're really picky about super-sampling, then you might as well buy a nice PC, because no console developer is going to prioritize it.
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Already ahead of you on that.. PC for the best of upper-end gaming, Nintendo for the best of console gaming. It's always been that way for me. :)
 
BY2K said:
I'm gonna get crazy here.

Here's my final E3 prediction; The Public reveal of the UE4 Tech Demo will be on stage at the Nintendo Press Conference.
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If they are truly serious about getting hardcore gamers on board then this would prob be the best thing they could possibly do.

I think Epic will want to show it off running on a beast PC with a GTX 680 tho, basically the best it can possibly look.

Would love to see it tho.
 
Here's my completed E3 Bingo card

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Oh, and BY2K, although I think you're crazy, there is an Epic quote (I think it's Mark Rein) about the Wii U which might help make your case. I can't remember where it came from, but Rein was asked something along the lines of "What did you think of the Wii U when you saw it at E3 last year?" and answered in a very evasive manner, implying he'd seen it before that. If you wanted to read too much into it, it might be stretched to imply that they've been partnering with Nintendo on the Wii U from early in its development.
 
Nibel said:
We will see a new OSX, a new iOS probably, a new Macbook Pro/Air and if we are lucky we might get to see iTV/iPanel - at WDCC in June.

Apple will never create a console.
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Hmmm i'm not so sure...I mean that meeting with Valve seemed pretty eyebrow raising. If not an actual home console (which I believe they will do), at the very least they will release a controller add on for the iOS devices.

IMO of course, IMO.
 
BurntPork said:
Anth0ny's not going to be convinced by anything less than an announcement at this point. Trust me; I can read reactions like this after having gone through it so many times.



You said it's a 360 and Wii duct taped together. That's like 360 +10% (396?).
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I stated in a rough sense its like a 360 with a Wii(the tablet) added on.

Lets not be so literal eh? Because you are not gonna get flat out straight answers from me until the unit is in everyones hands
 
We all know were not getting tech specs, a release date or a price at E3.

Do people think the power will be able to be worked out from people seeing exclusives videos tho ?.

Will tech guys on here be able to say 'yeah thats under 500 gigaFLOPs or a 1 terraFLOP GPU' or will we have to wait until someone buys one and rips it open ? ;).
 
Donnie said:
You should know better than to post something like that on this forum :D
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I know :(

Apophis2036 said:
We all know were not getting tech specs, a release date or a price at E3.

Do people think the power will be able to be worked out from people seeing exclusives videos tho ?.

Will tech guys on here be able to say 'yeah thats under 500 gigaFLOPs or a 1 terraFLOP GPU' or will we have to wait until someone buys one and rips it open ? ;).
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Direct Feed Footage and not offscreen junk would offer the best chance to compare and contrast power
 
Apophis2036 said:
We all know were not getting tech specs, a release date or a price at E3.

Do people think the power will be able to be worked out from people seeing exclusives videos tho ?.

Will tech guys on here be able to say 'yeah thats under 500 gigaFLOPs or a 1 terraFLOP GPU' or will we have to wait until someone buys one and rips it open ? ;).
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wait what? release date? I heard that they wouldn't announce price at e3 but release date?
 
antonz said:
I stated in a rough sense its like a 360 with a Wii(the tablet) added on.

Lets not be so literal eh? Because you are not gonna get flat out straight answers from me until the unit is in everyones hands
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:^(

But you are at least confident that IQ will improve even with the tablet.
 
Nintendo will never do a "full reveal", what do you think will be the black holes of this years presentation besides price?

My guess is "launch date is TBA", and "we're not announcing the full launch line up yet".
 
BurntPork said:
:^(

But you are at least confident that IQ will improve even with the tablet.
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Of course there will be IQ improvements. That said it of course also falls on studios to put in the IQ improvements. If they dont make better textures etc for the Wii U for instance its not gonna be any different
 
boyshine said:
Nintendo will never do a "full reveal", what do you think will be the black holes of this years presentation besides price?

My guess is "launch date is TBA", and "we're not announcing the full launch line up yet".
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"Transfer your VC and Wiiware games to Wii U? Not my problem"
 
We have to get price and release date. I've been thinking that's a given. I would understand if it was coming out next year, but this baby is ready to come out of the oven. They need to let the whole world know when, and how much.
 
boyshine said:
Nintendo will never do a "full reveal", what do you think will be the black holes of this years presentation besides price?

My guess is "launch date is TBA", and "we're not announcing the full launch line up yet".
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Nintendo has already announced that launch details won't be shared.

I also imagine, they probably won't share console specs and how much internal memory you can expect
 
Izick said:
We have to get price and release date. I've been thinking that's a given. I would understand if it was coming out next year, but this baby is ready to come out of the oven. They need to let the whole world know when, and how much.
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They already said dont expect date and price at E3, unless they plan a september conference, but that shit is too close to launch for that kind of information, I need to put in a 4 day break. 2 days before launch to camp out and 2 days after launch to game.
 
antonz said:
Of course there will be IQ improvements. That said it of course also falls on studios to put in the IQ improvements. If they dont make better textures etc for the Wii U for instance its not gonna be any different
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Obviously.

And GAF will judge Wii U's capabilities based on the ones that don't look any better (or in some cases worse) than 360 versions.
 
antonz said:
I would not say the jump is as small as GC to Wii.

That said UE4 being debuted by MS or Sony would be done delibertly to make a power statement
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It'd be hilarious if it backfired and most people couldn't tell the difference.
Conor 419 said:
What'll you guys do if Gears 4's announced for the Wii U?
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:laughs:
Power Stranger said:
Hmmm i'm not so sure...I mean that meeting with Valve seemed pretty eyebrow raising. If not an actual home console (which I believe they will do), at the very least they will release a controller add on for the iOS devices.

IMO of course, IMO.
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There was no meeting with Valve.

(...unless Gabe was lying about never meeting Tim Cook)
 
AGITΩ;37973503 said:
They already said dont expect date and price at E3, unless they plan a september conference, but that shit is too close to launch for that kind of information, I need to put in a 4 day break. 2 days before launch to camp out and 2 days after launch to game.
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Really? That's ridiculous. Unless this is coming out in 2013, I'm still not sure how or why they wouldn't have solid numbers yet.
 
Does anyone else think that there is a memory reset every 10 pages or so in this thread lol ?.

Ideaman and BG have both said that the Wii U hardware will be at least twice as powerful as the Xbox 360.

Thats a 480 gigaFLOP GPU, 2GB of Ram and a faser clocked 360 like CPU.

That is a GPU 40 times more powerful than the original Wii and 17 times more Ram !.

It will also run in HD and use Direct X 11 like features, which will allow downscaling of the big third party engines like UE4 and Cry Engine 3.

Calm down people it will be more than fine hardware wise :).

I wish they would just put head to head numbers on the main E3 screen to show it's twice as powerful as that would stop all the 'on par with PS360' threads when people look at third party ports of things like Batman and AC III.
 
Apophis2036 said:
Does anyone else think that there is a memory reset every 10 pages or so in this thread lol ?.

Ideaman and BG have both said that the Wii U hardware will be at least twice as powerful as the Xbox 360.

Thats a 480 gigaFLOP GPU, 2GB of Ram and a faser clocked 360 like CPU.

That is a GPU 40 times more powerful than the original Wii and 17 times more Ram !.

It will also run in HD and use Direct X 11 which will allow downscaling of the big third party engines like UE4 and Cry Engine 3.

Calm down people it will be more fine hardware wise :).

I wish they would just put head to head numbers on the main E3 screen to show it's twice as powerful as that would stop all the 'on par with PS360' threads when people look at third party ports of things like Batman and AC III.
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I don't recall anything about the Wii U using DX11. I just recall it being comparable to DX11.
 
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