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qizah
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There's a demo of FIFA13 on the NA eShop. I think this is the first demo to hit the store.
Anecdote of the day:
I was in Costco, browsing the game section, and overheard a couple of moms talking about the Wii U. They actually seemed to know it was a new console type of thing (one said "there's a new Wii out now, it's the Wii U"), and were lamenting not having pre-ordered it because it's been hard to find.
I was in Costco, browsing the game section, and overheard a couple of moms talking about the Wii U. They actually seemed to know it was a new console type of thing (one said "there's a new Wii out now, it's the Wii U"), and were lamenting not having pre-ordered it because it's been hard to find.
Check your TV for overscan settings.
superchunk
Member
Depends on the game. So far the 3rd party games have all been distinct save files per NNID user... but Nintendo games have been shared across all uses. (NSMBU has 3 save files shared for all users as an example).
I own NSMBU, ZombiU, NintendoLand, and COD.
That's a known problem, the Wii U interface expects the TV to not cut off the sides of the image ("overscan"), while Wii mode displays everything with heavy black borders around the image.
This is normal, just live with it in Wii mode until Nintendo eventually does or doesn't fix it. Enabling overscan will not only greatly reduce image quality in Wii U games, but will also reduce visible area by quite a bit.
What do you mean? The Gamepad screen seems great to me. Maybe could use a higher resolution, but that's just me being greedy
Higher res, multi touch, haptic feedback, better battery and longer range would be nice. I'm convinced they're gonna release an updated pad at some point
Alex
Member
The picture quality on the screen is pretty eh, it's a fair bit below anything else I use except... the DS/3DS line :lol But games are all fitting to it natively whereas you're getting iffy upscales on the tv with some of the lower res ones. Also, shrinking it down will hide some the aliasing and blemishes, especially on some of these over extended, end of cycle games.
It mostly makes me wish it was a function with the Wii somehow. Wii games looked HORRENDOUS on my television, if I could have had them on a nice native display, I would have played more, but there was no fuckin' way I was lugging a giant CRT into my house for it when I was so thrilled as we chucked the last one around the time it (the Wii ) came out. I actually don't think I would have played Xenoblade if I couldn't have run it on Dolphin. It was just a fucking sea of vague, aliased shit off the actual Wii. Game needs a 1080p Wii U port, would also give it a second chance at life after the horseshit it had to go through with localization.
It mostly makes me wish it was a function with the Wii somehow. Wii games looked HORRENDOUS on my television, if I could have had them on a nice native display, I would have played more, but there was no fuckin' way I was lugging a giant CRT into my house for it when I was so thrilled as we chucked the last one around the time it (the Wii ) came out. I actually don't think I would have played Xenoblade if I couldn't have run it on Dolphin. It was just a fucking sea of vague, aliased shit off the actual Wii. Game needs a 1080p Wii U port, would also give it a second chance at life after the horseshit it had to go through with localization.
Wrestlemania
Banned
I was quite surprised by how well this worked, actually. It barely works at all on the 3DS, but I find it works really well in ZombiU.
I feel like the 3DS XL is much better in this respect (finger input) than the regular 3DS as well.
In general, I think the GamePad screen is "good enough" for what Nintendo is trying to achieve with it. It's not Vita quality, but it's also not terrible.
How long has it been like that? Mine didn't change for about 48 hours. I tried everything, and the change ended up being completely random.
It is not even close to being terrible. Anyone who suggests otherwise is talking nonsense.
It was like this at launch (US), fine the next day and for the next few days, then I went away on vacation and it's been like this since I got back (even after updating)... For like 3 days.
I guess it'll take some time. Nintendo is going after the casual after Wii Fit U and a couple of other casual titles have released.
Nintendo fans are going to drive the sales now, the casuals will continue to drive it in spring/summer 2013 and so on
I know a lot of people who will eventually get a Wii U if there's stuff like Smash Bros., 3D Mario, Metroid, Donkey Kong, Kirby and Zelda.
Ollie Pooch
In a perfect world, we'd all be homersexual
Initial update - picked up the game last night. Sorry should have clarified! Loving it, by the way. Playing on the GamePad is fantastic.
Also, I certainly wouldn't say the console is "shit" but it certainly needs work on the software side. Nintendo and online are really a frustrating combination. It's confusing to me that they've released a system which is obviously supposed to compete with tablets and current devices but haven't made any effort to make it speedy and responsive like you'd expect. It's like they designed it in a vacuum. Compared to say, the Vita and its snappy menus it's like night and day. The updates are unbelievably slow and huge, menus are sluggish, etc. Definitely needs a lot of work, and polish.
Oh. That's....weird. Was the Wii U unplugged whilst you were away?
TheDrowningMan
Member
If your TV has a full pixel mode or similar, it certainly won't reduce visible area. It will correctly replicate the source and eliminate the overscan.
That's exactly what I wrote.
Overscan = Cutting of about 5% of the edges of the picture ("zooming in") = reducing visible area significantly as well as reducing image quality by additional interpolation.
Overscan is terrible and should have been eliminated (at least for digital inputs) by TV manufacturers years ago. The problem with the Wii U is that while the regular interface doesn't expect overscan to be present, the Wii mode only outputs an "overscan safe" image that can't be adjusted.
mindblown!
gonna try that tomorrow!
anyhow i just finished NSMBU
bowser final battle was good, but 3D land is still the best one among the recent 2D-ish games
3DL >>>>>>> NSMBW > NSMBU >>>>>>> NSMB2
taking into account both galaxy games it would be
3DL >>>> SMG2 >>> SMG >> NSMBW > NSMBU >>>>>>>>>> NSMB2
No, it was in red light (standby) mode.
chertipros
Member
Where are you from?
Fox Mulder
Member
What do you mean? The Gamepad screen seems great to me. Maybe could use a higher resolution, but that's just me being greedy
Calling it shitty was probably much, but it's poorly compared to pretty much anything with a touch screen in 2012. No multitouch, and smartphones are at a point where screens are scrutinized for resolution or if you can see individual pixels.
It does what Nintendo wants it to do, and the gamepad's battery life is already pretty short to have a great screen.
TheDrowningMan
Member
Yep.
Ollie Pooch
In a perfect world, we'd all be homersexual
That's me, pretty much. Played a bit of BLOPS2 on it last night and ended up switching to the Gamepad - guess I just prefer portables
It allows me to pretend I'm playing a non-shit portable CoD.Sacrificing multitouch for stylus control is worth it to me. Miiverse wouldn't be as good without the doodles. Then again I hardly use gestures on my phone (I use them a lot on my laptop's trackpad however).
awesome! Now is there a way to view drawings at original res? D:
Cheesemeister
Member
No idea, as I'm in Kyoto. I'll have to check the local Tsutaya and Don Quixote to see if they're selling at midnight.
Don Quixote doesn't sell at midnight. Had an errand last night there, so while I was there I asked them. Have to wait until morning "around 7", they said.
Mihael Mello Keehl
Banned
One thing im jelly of from the JPN launch is goddamn MonHun and DQX beta. I wanna play
StreetsAhead
Member
It's tomorrow! It's tomorrow!
Gonna go to Aeon at 9AM and fight Otaku for one of the 24 premium bundles.
Gonna go to Aeon at 9AM and fight Otaku for one of the 24 premium bundles.
i'm going to bump this from the graveyard for a reason.
we know that in 7 days (starting the 18th) 243,000 copies of NSMBU were sold
the data collected by schuelma is from the 21st November, therefore we have data for 4 days
we can then say that about 1 person out 9 who purchased NSMBU connected its Wii U to the internet in the first 4 days*
that's about 10,27%
* not taking in consideration multiple users for the same copy
AndyMoogle
Member
You are also not taking into consideration the fact that you don't have to own the game to post in a community.
oh, you are right, i didn't take that into account!
or that not enough people cared to connect the console to the internet or actually managed to do it.
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