Need for Speed: Most Wanted Wii U Demo!Dat EA support.[Alex Ward of Criterion Games]
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lunchwithyuzo
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Man, who would've thought Criterion of all EA teams would've been the one to come through on a Nintendo console? Gamecube 2 indeed!
BruiserBear
Banned
Funny to think back to last fall when they announced the Wii U version was coming in the Spring, and there was at least one guy shouting all over a thread about how the U version was already DONE as he had heard from "sources", and the delay was just EA being assholes to Nintendo. lol
Now we hear right from the developers mouth that they didn't start serious work on the U version til October of least year.
It seemed pretty clear the PC version was the lead platform from the beginning. At E3 last year that was the only version of the game that was shown playable.
So it seems all the console versions were ported from the PC in this case, but I think they're just saying that in the case of the Wii U version they were able to "turn some settings higher" than they could on the 360/PS3, mainly due to the extra RAM.
Watching the two videos it looks very similar to the 360/PS3 version to me, but the ground textures do look a bit better.
This is how Criterion does things. They don't slack, and they don't crap out bad ports. If they put their name on something, you can be sure it's going to be solid work. I expected nothing less for the Wii U version. It's one of the reasons they're one of my favorite developers.
Now we hear right from the developers mouth that they didn't start serious work on the U version til October of least year.
It seemed pretty clear the PC version was the lead platform from the beginning. At E3 last year that was the only version of the game that was shown playable.
So it seems all the console versions were ported from the PC in this case, but I think they're just saying that in the case of the Wii U version they were able to "turn some settings higher" than they could on the 360/PS3, mainly due to the extra RAM.
Watching the two videos it looks very similar to the 360/PS3 version to me, but the ground textures do look a bit better.
This is how Criterion does things. They don't slack, and they don't crap out bad ports. If they put their name on something, you can be sure it's going to be solid work. I expected nothing less for the Wii U version. It's one of the reasons they're one of my favorite developers.
They did.
Smoothice65
Member
Yeah I thought the same thing, but who knows. Cant wait to play this on the Gamepad !
Delusibeta
Banned
That's what the co-driver mode is for.
The one thing that bothers me about Criterion or actually EA games in general (exept EA sports) is their lack of split screen local multiplayer. This should be a standard function in every racing/ snowboard / shooting game. I dont know if its official EA policy of not including it or what it is.
Online population is not a problem because this game has horrible online. Unless you prefer doing retarded jumps and donuts over actual racing, don't touch the online. Criterion fucked up horribly with the online and refuse to fix it. Your Criterion playlists fucking suck, fuck you Criterion.
test_account
XP-39C²
In general, bad news pretty much always thrumps good news. I wonder why that is actually.
In a general case, it isn't really feasible for Nintendo to do that. A game engine will have updates all the time by the company offering it; Nintendo would have to continually update their own branch of the code, and develop/test against any new changes that are made.
Besides most major releases will be rolling their own engines (such as this one for example). Developers like to roll their own engines because they get better support that way (no waiting days/weeks for support, when the dev is sitting next to you). Even for EA with the frostbite engine, it's used for many games across many studios, but it's still internal to EA, so they have a vested interest to support their internal studios, they don't need to hold anything back.
Unity and other smaller engines are great for start ups/Indy's, but won't get you the same place as an engine like what you see in the AAA games. AAA engines like Unreal are great, but you're just one of many licensee's that have to fight for support.
megabytecr
Member
THIS x 1000000!!
I like racers but not crazy about them, I have S&S All Stars Racing. Will wait for more info but if all turns out to be true then all Wii U owners should support this kind of effort. I am IN!!
Take note UBISOFT!!
Was Rayman Legends + Lego City
Now NFSMWU + Lego City
The Horror the horror
Banned
I hear you, but I don't want for her to be stuck exclusively on the Gamepad giving me driving instructions. At some point, she'll want to be doing the driving herself, and I'm asking if that portion of the game is casual accessible.
No news spreads like bad news. People gravitate to bad news, this is why people slow down to see the carnage from a car crash. Human nature I guess...
Most negative things trump positive things. its natural.
Relaxed Muscle
Member
So basically...not identical?
mugurumakensei
Member
Arkam came in and implied that while TW 14 is not Wii U, TW 15 will be. I dont know why they are skipping a year but there you have it.
According to a guy in that thread, he was hinting at Tiger Woods 15 coming to Wii U.
As for this, this was confirmed months ago, it's just this is the first time we saw any footage of the Wii U version and nobody knew if it would be a lazy port or a good port, from what we see here, it seems like a better port than most of us expected.
frankie_baby
Member
think you've just got it the wrong way round
Delusibeta
Banned
No, she drives, you turn off traffic and bash the cops using the gamepad.
I would guess time constraints. Though that would be a pretty odd reason.
shouamabane
Member
It looks nice. Loading in any car that quickly and changing day to night like that is impressive.
Pop-in is noticeable. I'd like to know how the draw distance was "tweaked" for Wii U.
Pop-in is noticeable. I'd like to know how the draw distance was "tweaked" for Wii U.
mugurumakensei
Member
Not necessarily. He has insider info yea, but he could work at another co and have his own contacts. I dont think John Harker works at multiple companies, but hes aware of goings on at several.
christmas 2011
That's true though harker is much more cryptic than Arkam.
They seemed to be talking about owning consumer units, not dev units. That, along with reading the Iwata Asks about the hardware, helped them to understand the philosophy behind the platform and how to take advantage of it.
doniewhalberg
Member
Well they said they got the hardware about then, and also they didn't come back to work on it until around the new year, but doesn't matter, if it's good, it doesn't matter how long it took them to do it.
A little bit.
When you find a car it is stock. Then, you have a choice between five races to complete, if you come in first or second you unlock a mod, which are Nitrous, Racing/Off-road Wheels, different body mods, and different gear ratios for top speed/acceleration. You're able to change upgrades on the fly though.
It's nothing like the way Underground treats it.
Question is do we call them ports if they release at the same time as the other versions or just versions?
Just WiiU version then again dunno where those games are coming out. Maybe this is related it to tomorrow The Nintendo Direct ?
You know him? Ask him how many SPU/Gflops WiiU GPU has, lol
And if there were RAM bandwidth issues...
And if it has a horrible slow CPU while you're at it.
SapientWolf
Trucker Sexologist
They patched up the performance.
60fps on the Wii U would be a nice surprise but I'm not expecting it.
DragonSworne
Banned
Awesome, I'll be buying this game 
Christberg
Member
Sounds good. Looks like it's replacing Rayman's purchase to me.
About damn time somebody actually decided to not half ass a port. If this is the reason for the delay, my answer is yes, you may have my money.
About damn time somebody actually decided to not half ass a port. If this is the reason for the delay, my answer is yes, you may have my money.
Awesome, I'll be buying this game
Looks like me too. Burnout 2 remains my favorite race game on a Nintendo platform, and i've never been interested in NFS... But since this is made by the same people and seems to be a crossover between Burnout and NFS, and is one of the first ports that got a decent effort, it looks like i'll be on board. I also got the student license of Renderware (by Criterion) for a postgrad project, 10 years ago.