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Wii U Community Thread
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Smiles and Cries
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Not really. The second screen thing was added really late in the development cycle (for launch titles, at least). The majority of the kits only had 1 controller port
Engines and game logic. As great as all that dedicated logic might be at what it was designed to do, it constantly needs to be told what to do and how. Extremely simplified: The IO processor knows when you pull the trigger on the gamepad and the audio DSP knows how to play a gunshot sound, but only the CPU knows what the button press means, which sound effect to play and how much ammo you have left.
Well, in the geographical sense it is important. Not everyone can plop down on their friends couch for local MP. While not every game is suited to online multiplayer, it's a pretty basic feature these days.
I don't doubt Nintendo will have some competence with it this time round, but there's no excuse their usual "we just don't feel like we need it" PR horseshit line in this area,
if they decide to use it.
Yeah, I don't remember where it was said, but Reggie did say sometime during E3 that it's not supported at launch because of none of the initial lineup of games uses it.
In the last Q&A aknowledge that Nintendo can't compete in snatch exclusive content from third parties in the same level as MS =(
I guess if Nintendo don't works more closely with third parties they will suffer from the same Wii fate, they will able to snatch some key IPs from Japan though, they are better in that.
Also exclusive publishing/co-developments and stablishing more second parties subsidaries is Nintendo strong point.
I guess if Nintendo don't works more closely with third parties they will suffer from the same Wii fate, they will able to snatch some key IPs from Japan though, they are better in that.
Also exclusive publishing/co-developments and stablishing more second parties subsidaries is Nintendo strong point.
Dreamwriter
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"He explained that developers would need to figure out how to use a second screen on the WiiPad before incorporating a third."
Yeah...I'm sure pretty much anybody making a card game or a football game or whatever won't have any problems figuring out how to use two Gamepads in addition to the TV screen.
However, since you won't be able to buy additional Gamepads, it's not really a big deal, because I think I'm the only one of my friends planning to get a Wii-U at launch. By the time games come out that use the second controller, at least one of my friends will probably have a Wii-U, so we can then make use of the feature.
Yeah...I'm sure pretty much anybody making a card game or a football game or whatever won't have any problems figuring out how to use two Gamepads in addition to the TV screen.
However, since you won't be able to buy additional Gamepads, it's not really a big deal, because I think I'm the only one of my friends planning to get a Wii-U at launch. By the time games come out that use the second controller, at least one of my friends will probably have a Wii-U, so we can then make use of the feature.
Certain games just won't have very active online communites down the road. We see online modes shut down constantly, is it worth it to focus effort into building a competent online mode and to keep servers up for games that only 6 concurrent players at a time will be on a year down the road? I'm not saying that Pikmin would necessarily be like that, but we see it happen pretty frequently.
I wouldn't like to see that honestly, we're talking about a company that spent half a billion dollars on advertising a peripheral.
Maybe that's not alot of money? It is to me, anyway
I don't know much about online infrastructure, but to anyone that does: aside from statistics and stuff, WiiU is operating on P2P, right?
lol, wait, there are still 20 other questions to be copied/pasted here
no, seriously, i see there are like tons of people who don't even dare to read a thread in the gaming section now so this way we can talk about this QA with them.
Yep, I don't tend to go into the main gaming forum much so posting news here is appreciated.
I don't think we've heard one way or the other yet. It may be on a game-by-game basis.
No, expected. Hearing about three pads though... interesting
edit... or did he mean three screens total?
brochiller
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I can, Beyond3D has gone so far down hill over the last few years, so sad..
Dreamwriter
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Most XBox 360 games are peer to peer, meaning they don't need a server for anything but matching players (which is why I always refused to pay for the service just to play online). And as long as Nintendo handles the matchup servers themselves, then the developer has nothing to do to keep their game working forever, or at least until Nintendo decides to shut down their online.
It'll be fine regardless, I just don't believe it'll be as ambitious as say XBL. Not even close really.
gamergirly
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Alot of online sites have. IGN used to be a good place at one point
GameplayWhore
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Frankly, I know that it's English-specific, but I would really love if somebody used N, S, E and W as their face buttons. Then I wouldn't have to guess "wait, was the X button on the bottom, top or left side of the buttons?". I'd just know because they're the cardinal directions that have been drilled into my head since I was 3 years old.
GameplayWhore
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wtf is a WiiPads? JOYSTICK!
Hah! Sometimes I want to /trout people for thinking that "wiipad" and "wiimote" are actual words. Things have names, people!
Fucking google, I couldn't search for "/trout", even in quotes, because the search effectively removes the slash. Bing does the same thing. Are there any search engines out there that are at ~2005 Google levels of effectiveness anymore?
edit: specUlation threads are weird when you can post two messages five minutes apart and find them right next to one another. D:
Fourth Storm
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I like it! Perhaps for the future Neogaf game console. haha
Cerebral Assassin
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Wiimote is clearly what it should have been called, it's an awesome name.
A GAF game console?
Will it have a tri-SLI'd GPU and a 12 core CPU?
Sold at a $800 loss, because who cares about making money.
And no games because it uses a weird undocumented API and is hard as hell to develop for.
Also comes with no cables, have to buy proprietary GAF-branded cables made by Monster separately.
Also, no controller.
Have to buy your own.
Also games will never take full advantage of the hardware because they come on CDs.
I never really understood the idea of why companies need to shut down matchmaking services especially for a large publisher like EA, which can probably afford web servers to be purposed for very many things that an extra daemon for a legacy title would be a blip in resource cost.
Always a bit saddened by the scheduled and expected disappearance of physical support, i liked my game boxes, cartridges & discs. Well, i guess you trade those material ownership nostalgic feelings with more convenience and flexibility
Me too. I'll still buy most of my stuff in boxes I think. I do purchase stuff through the 3DS eshop but they are generally smaller titles that I wouldn't get anything resale and frankly don't care about after I've played a bit of them.
I guess in our hearts of hearts we knew this was the case. Now it can be put to rest, even though, personally I'd be happy with more power and a US$50-$100 additional price bump.
What Nintendo does is look at a system and do their own take on it. Sometimes that bombs the fuck out, other times it's pure genius. Time will tell with this ugly as sin, piece of shit, how the hell can it work MiiVerse crap?
Yeah, it's good to see Iwata being sane and knowing that he can't out pay MS. Was't the GTA DLC something like 50 million? Madness.
Fourth Storm
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I've heard it's going to launch w/ Dudebro III (pre-alpha version). Also, it'll play Mario but only in banner ads which drop down during Dudebro.
It'll be called the Splorgenborg but changed after Capcom threatens to sue.
Emily Rogers (Is she a trustworthy source? I've seen her name around recently) seems to believe that Retro is bleeding developers again, or soon to be after the Wii U project is complete, which is going through a rough road due to gaps in positions:
http://emilyrogersblog.wordpress.co...-studios-rocky-development-for-wii-u-project/
http://emilyrogersblog.wordpress.co...-studios-rocky-development-for-wii-u-project/
It's expected, as explained here, and Iwata himself told it also in its twitter
I'm not even sure it's activated on the dev kits yet, it wasn't the case during May. But it's still reassuring to see them talking about this feature, acknowledging its existence, and telling future games will use it.
ViewtifulJC
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Retro and Naughty Gods will make all the games, except for when Treasure will team up with Platinum Games to craft Star Fox Unlimited
Nah, every game will be a new version of Metroid X StarFox.
ShockingAlberto
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She's gotten some things right like Pikmin 3 being moved to Project Cafe, no harddrive for Wii U, and new Super Mario Bros for 3DS right. She's also gotten some stuff wrong.
Regardless of her legitimacy, that list of people (in the article) who left Retro is very fucking sad, and it makes you wonder if Retro could even make another Prime game that was up to the quality of the trilogy.
It doesn't even make sense. How would not letting Retro do another Metroid game punish people who don't work for Retro anymore?
Exterminieren
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Is Emily Rogers the one who claimed to leak shots of Endless Ocean WiiU and Pikmin 3 before E3 last year?
If so, she's full of bunk.
If so, she's full of bunk.
Well, the turn-overs in this industry are a common practice, even in famous studios where you would think every employees feel good and blossom. With experience, i'm less worried about departures, in the PC rpg little world for example, a lot of old school gamers tends to be focused on 3 or 4 "big names" like Tim Cain, believing that their leave/resignation will 1) make the future games of the company they left sucks 2) automatically meaning that their new project in their new studio will rocks. And it wasn't as simple as that. TLDR: even in a scenario where half the people from Retro would leave, i'm sure, with the close monitoring of Nintendo + new talents attracted by their reputation, their next title will reach a satisfying quality.
I don't know, but I always laugh at the "hiveminding" against Nintendo fans I see on a constant basis.
Doc Holliday
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Ugh ever since E3 it's been nothing but shitty news for the Wii U wtf?1
Get used to it when you differ from the majority.
This sounds familiar, the one who's a girlfriend of a Nintendo employee or something?
Maybe it meant "show them that we don't give a shit.", Not that that should bother them though.
Glorified G
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nvm,. Missed the "seeked out another developer" part.
Nice to know there will be a harddrive in the Wii U (At least one SKU)
He's probably just talking about onboard flash.
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