Rumor: Wii U final specs

This thread comes at a perfect time to squash enthusiasm for Nintendo's Sept 13th Wii-U public unveiling conference

Don't worry, Iwata will save the conference by talking to a chair.

Iwata: What Mr. Kutaragi? You want me to stick the wiimote where? I can't do that to myself. You're getting worse than Biden.
 
Am I crazy or are these pretty much the same specs that have been posted on this board literally dozens of times? I think the only difference is the nomenclature on the CPU.
 
Its not true and that chart is hella mis-leading. Nintendo did little for the overall industry as a whole...

The lack of elaboration coupled with the dots at the end of your sentence make your statement seem weak. Just for future purposes.
 
I see this complaint all of the time and feel like I'm missing something here. Can't you just do hdmi to your tv then use optical from your tv to feed the channel to your system? That's what my family does for their Sound system.

The vast majority of TVs will only output stereo when doing this.
 
I'm going to be honest, while I feel these specs are laughably poor, and the wii u will not be the runaway success that that wii was, I think this is smart long term thinking by Nintendo.

They will be profitable from day one and will almost definitely keep the company and it's IP's on a stable path all the way to the wii U's successor.

Im almost certain the PS4 will be Sonys last console, and I'm pretty convinced that post-Durango, games will only be a small part of future Microsoft consoles.

I also believe that the adoption of more off shelf PC parts in consoles will eventually push the market and AAA Development more towards the PC, especially with the adoption of ouya-like devices for the casuals.

All in all, I honestly think nintendo will be the last man standing in the traditional console space, but it will be a much much smaller market in 6 years time.

Nintendo might seem like they are only thinking of today, but they may very well be thinking much further ahead than anyone else.
 
High Definition is the best contribution to the overall gaming industry

Who cares about a new playing style and introducing shitloads of people who never played games before to them and expanding the market
 
Heres some specs you guys will enjoy:

If the Wii U was identical power-wise to the original Wii, but with an HDMI port, had the same online as the original Wii, and still used motion plus (no gamepad), id still pay 300 bucks for it no problem. As long as they are going to make more first party Nintendo games and the occasional weird game like Muramasa etc, id pay whatever, even with little to no increase in power. Even with no upgrade to online. Just HDMI and the promise of more games is good enough for me.

So for me, anything above a standard Wii with an HDMI tacked on is beyond good enough.

This is the power of first party Nintendo games.

That's not the power or Nintendo first party. That's just the power of good games in general. Say either of the three console manufacturers released a platform that was actually weaker than their current ones. If it had good games to play that I can't get anywhere else, I'd buy it. I'd be bewildered at the fact it was weaker, buy I'd still buy it.

That's the power of good games. Who they come from doesn't matter
 
Would you like to provide actual points of data or articles that provide their own data to disprove this?

http://seekingalpha.com/article/115107-2008-gaming-industry-data-growth-not-stopping-just-slowing

And this is just US. The implication that the industry would somehow be on life support without the Wii is just, well......insane.



The lack of elaboration coupled with the dots at the end of your sentence make your statement seem weak. Just for future purposes.

Weak? What in the hell are you going on about. This is an objective conversation. There's right and wrong. Black and white...
 
I'm going to be honest, while I feel these specs are laughably poor, and the wii u will not be the runaway success that that wii was, I think this is smart long term thinking by Nintendo.

They will be profitable from day one and will almost definitely keep the company and it's IP's on a stable path all the way to the wii U's successor.

Im almost certain the PS4 will be Sonys last console, and I'm pretty convinced that post-Durango, games will only be a small part of future Microsoft consoles.

I also believe that the adoption of more off shelf PC parts in consoles will eventually push the market and AAA Development more towards the PC, especially with the adoption of ouya-like devices for the casuals.

All in all, I honestly think nintendo will be the last man standing in the traditional console space, but it will be a much much smaller market in 6 years time.

Nintendo might seem like they are only thinking of today, but they may very well be thinking much further ahead than anyone else.

Interesting post and as big of a Nintendo fan that I am this makes me sad. I think you're right in that it may well be Sony's last console, which would be a shame.

I think the console industry will be very different in 6 years time and if Nintendo wants to play the last man standing game, their current approach is surely the way to do that.

Getting caught up in a technology race with the other two and PC's is a battle they cannot win, but doing something you can't do on other machines, that could be what saves Nintendo in the end.
 
I see this complaint all of the time and feel like I'm missing something here. Can't you just do hdmi to your tv then use optical from your tv to feed the channel to your system? That's what my family does for their Sound system.

What? Aren't your surround speakers connected to a receiver? Send the Wii U HDMI to the receiver. Or send the Wii U HDMI to the TV with the Audio Return Channel back to the receiver.

The vast majority of TVs will only output stereo when doing this.

I think lots of TVs optical out is made for TV tuners. But shouldn't the Wii U have it's own optical out? Toslink cables are outdated anyway.
 
I don't really see how PS4 will be Sony's last console. Even if they run into more financial trouble they have assets they can sell off right? Playstation is profitable for them right now.
 
I'm going to be honest, while I feel these specs are laughably poor, and the wii u will not be the runaway success that that wii was, I think this is smart long term thinking by Nintendo.

They will be profitable from day one and will almost definitely keep the company and it's IP's on a stable path all the way to the wii U's successor.

Im almost certain the PS4 will be Sonys last console, and I'm pretty convinced that post-Durango, games will only be a small part of future Microsoft consoles.

I also believe that the adoption of more off shelf PC parts in consoles will eventually push the market and AAA Development more towards the PC, especially with the adoption of ouya-like devices for the casuals.

All in all, I honestly think nintendo will be the last man standing in the traditional console space, but it will be a much much smaller market in 6 years time.

Nintendo might seem like they are only thinking of today, but they may very well be thinking much further ahead than anyone else.

How do you know this?

If they're going to sell the thing at $250, I can't see how they will have much margin, if any.
 
I don't really see how PS4 will be Sony's last console. Even if they run into more financial trouble they have assets they can sell off right? Playstation is profitable for them right now.
It wasnt last year or in the last quarter. Its one of their best sectors though which just shows how much shit they are in
 
Frankly, I think the 1GB of RAM is disappointing but workable with 2GB being ideal, but combined with the CPU power, it's going to be crushing. GPU will probably be good enough, but I think we all expected some compromises there for the form factor since day 1.
 
Weak? What in the hell are you going on about. This is an objective conversation. There's right and wrong. Black and white...

You come across as unconvincing when you 1.) do not support your assertions after being confronted with an effective visual and 2.) end sentences trailing with ...

Not sure how the non-sequitur about objectivity relates to my comment.

Just some advice from a reader perusing this thread. Carry on.
 
Frankly, I think the 1GB of RAM is disappointing but workable with 2GB being ideal, but combined with the CPU power, it's going to be crushing. GPU will probably be good enough, but I think we all expected some compromises there for the form factor since day 1.

I'm not sure how much the form factor actually affected what they wanted under the hood; Nintendo's been trying to keep a tight lid on just how big the system is, but I've seen them in person and they are very surprisingly long, to the point where I think some concerns about how they'll fit into home theater setups are warranted.
 
People still bitching Nintendo isn't learning from their mistakes and go out guns blazing in the tech race. It may be everyone else isn't learning. The often more successful platforms aren't the most cutting edge techwise in every department... it's an unnecessary cost risk these days and mainstream public isn't that smart, nor do they care about having the absolute best of something... and in the current tech climate of what is on-top, it is probably more important than ever to not spend so much on home console systems when everything is going portable these days.
 
People still bitching Nintendo isn't learning from their mistakes and go out guns blazing in the tech race. It may be everyone else isn't learning. The often more successful platforms aren't the most cutting edge techwise in every department... it's an unnecessary cost risk these days and mainstream public isn't that smart, nor do they care about having the absolute best of something... and in the current tech climate of what is on-top, it is probably more important than ever to not spend so much on home console systems when everything is going portable these days.

While there are some questionable aspects about their decision making, I highly doubt many people really doubt that this console will be a total failure. But what's disheartening is exactly what you pointed out. Its not the best.
 
I'm not sure how much the form factor actually affected what they wanted under the hood; Nintendo's been trying to keep a tight lid on just how big the system is, but I've seen them in person and they are very surprisingly long, to the point where I think some concerns about how they'll fit into home theater setups are warranted.

Yea I don't really understand the form factor concerns...the system looks almost awkwardly long. It's not as small as most people seem to make it out to be
 
People still bitching Nintendo isn't learning from their mistakes and go out guns blazing in the tech race. It may be everyone else isn't learning. The often more successful platforms aren't the most cutting edge techwise in every department... it's an unnecessary cost risk these days and mainstream public isn't that smart, nor do they care about having the absolute best of something... and in the current tech climate of what is on-top, it is probably more important than ever to not spend so much on home console systems when everything is going portable these days.

if so much is going portable these days then how is your moderately priced home console going to compete with phone devices.

If you really believe mobile is so strong then it only makes sense to release powerful hardware to differentiate from the lower powered mobile market.
 
Oh please. Sony and Microsoft would die for those audiences -- it isn't that they don't want them, it's that they can't get them.

The suggestion that Sony is purposefully limiting themselves to a small, unprofitable subsection of gamers is absurd.

You cannot talk about the industry without talking about iOS and Facebook anymore. I understand that the world is nicer if we can just talk about the home consoles you happen to personally care about -- and in game discussion threads, you can -- but any industry analysis is pathetically myopic without handhelds, mobile platforms, and F2P/browser gaming included at this point.

The age when we could discuss the "gaming industry" and implicitly only be talking about home consoles is long since passed. If you'd like to remain blindered, you'll have to talk to someone else.
You seemed to have missed the point, again. They haven't done anything more than half-assed attempts at accessories to cash in on some of that market, hardly dying. They want those users but are only wanting to go an arms length to get them. You won't see a "wii" from MS or Sony this coming generation. Sorry.


Its not about limiting yourself at all, its knowing who your target audience is.There is nothing unprofitable about the main sector Sony or MS is going after. Again profit is dependent on the manufacturer and what they put in there products. Its Sony's own fault that they weren't able to cash-in say like the 360 has.


Nobody said anything about excluding FB/IOS or whoever.

Maybe im just "myopic" but I can easily discern between the CoD player who buys a 360/PS3, the Mother who buys her child a Wii, the 17 year old girl who is all about Farmville, etc. Its different markets in one industry, not that hard a concept to grasp.
 
So if I want it to play games online with it, 3 USB ports since 1 of them will be taken with the ethernet adapter. Thanks N.

I game over a 802.11N connection with no problems whatsoever. Matter of fact, I'll be playing Guild Wars 2 on my laptop, my son will be playing COD on the XBox and the wife will be streaming whatever the hell she streams with no hiccups. Xbox is hooked to an 802.11N bridge and everything else is pure wireless.
 
High Definition is the best contribution to the overall gaming industry

Who cares about a new playing style and introducing shitloads of people who never played games before to them and expanding the market

And those consoles didn't even make that contribution. PC gaming had this going on in the 90's. I don't know why there was such a fuss.
 
I game over a 802.11N connection with no problems whatsoever. Matter of fact, I'll be playing Guild Wars 2 on my laptop, my son will be playing COD on the XBox and the wife will be streaming whatever the hell she streams with no hiccups. Xbox is hooked to an 802.11N bridge and everything else is pure wireless.
College dorm wifi is unbearable.
 
Did you actually read the article aside from the title? Because the content doesn't support your side of the argument at all.

Yeah I did. The Industry is a lot bigger than Nintendo, and alot of third parties wouldn't particularly miss them in an absence.

Seriously, what do you think the Wii/DS did for IW and COD? Or EA and Madden? Or RS and GTAIV?
 
You seemed to have missed the point, again. They haven't done anything more than half-assed attempts at accessories to cash in on some of that market, hardly dying. They want those users but are only wanting to go an arms length to get them. You won't see a "wii" from MS or Sony this coming generation. Sorry.


Its not about limiting yourself at all, its knowing who your target audience is.There is nothing unprofitable about the main sector Sony or MS is going after. Again profit is dependent on the manufacturer and what they put in there products. Its Sony's own fault that they weren't able to cash-in say like the 360 has.


Nobody said anything about excluding FB/IOS or whoever.

Maybe im just "myopic" but I can easily discern between the CoD player who buys a 360/PS3, the Mother who buys her child a Wii, the 17 year old girl who is all about Farmville, etc. Its different markets in one industry, not that hard a concept to grasp.

So MS spending 500 million to advertise the kinect is an arms length?
 
Yeah I did. The Industry is a lot bigger than Nintendo, and alot of third parties wouldn't particularly miss them in an absence.

Seriously, what do you think the Wii/DS did for IW and COD? Or EA and Madden? Or RS and GTAIV?

You think the industry won't miss Nintendo, that is insanity.

Nintendo is an institution for video games... just because they aren't rocking the COD's and GTAIV... they have been one of the longest lasting video game companies, their franchises are synonmous with video games as anybody else... every generation needs to have what Nintendo provides... family friendly gaming as much as the need for supposed "mature" violent content.
 
But the important question is: Will it have F-Zero?

Yes, as a minigame. :-(

Disappointing specs, I was quite surprised how powerful the 3DS is (unless you compare it to the Vita), but this is underwhelming. No chance that we see Xbox 720/PS4 ports on WiU.
 
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