So... like the free month of XBL Gold you could exploit three times when you bought a 360?
Wii U Speculation Thread 2: Can't take anymore of this!!!
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So... like the free month of XBL Gold you could exploit three times when you bought a 360?
Throwaway123456789
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Speedier downloading? With my connection I'd download 1,5GB in three minutes. What kind of ancient ISDN setup are you rocking?
1.5 GB is child's play to anyone nowadays.
Agreed. I can see them totally doing what they do with 3DS eShop (free Excite Bike) and Ambassador Programm (sort of, 20 games was for a special reason).
A free downloadable game for each Wii U until the end of the year, I think we can definitely look forward to this.
And in the speculation register, I think we need to look at the early Gamecube games: Luigi Mansion (despite it's still a good candidate to new play controls) to echo LM2 on 3DS.
Smash Bros Melee, you can dream/laught, but if Nintendo is serious about getting gamers in, free SSBM download at launch? Wow it will be incredible. And not so much a money looser if you only have until the end of 2012 to do so.
Finally, NPC Pikmin, the game can be tweaked again and be playable with the wiimote or the Upad, and be a nice Pikmin fiesta for launch alongside Pikmin 3.
It takes almost a whole hour to update my PS3 with a 500mb update.
I got 16.000mb/s here.
Insanely ancient. I need to upgrade.
(I've been saying that since like a month after I got the damn setup)
The first Wii U achievement trophy (Uprize) in your Ufile user profile is "Bought Your Wii U before December 2012!"
fabricated backlash
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Well unlike that it should give people an incentive to hook up the console from day one, as well as reward early adopters right out of the gate.
Since Nintendo has been very open to this with the 3DS (excitebike 3d, Four Swords, Kid Icarus 3D, all the ambassador games... I didn't pay a single cent for those) I guess they could be offering something similar to this for the WiiU start right away.
For Nintnendo it's imperative that people connect their devices. 3DS was a good step in that regard. And with WiiU they'll have to show that they are dead serious about offering not just a me too online service but that they are willing to support this service from the get go with the dedication it deserves.
That's why I am very positive about the eshop as well. Unlike WiiWare or DSiWare, Nintendo is showing active interest in growing the plattform by offering free games on promotions, implementing features that are demanded by customers etc.
I guess when the WiiU releases, Nintendo will switch completely to an account based system, even on 3DS. cross plat. games like the new SSB will need a unified account system to fully work.
Download is 7Mbps, upload is 0.32Mbps.
Someone, anyone, no... I'll live with ancient internet.
7Mbps?!
Poor Cooky :/
E3 is going to rape your modem with all those pics getting posted :lol
I know. D:
Is there anyway to optimize it at all? (I should nag Mum to go down to the electronics store, although she's technologically illiterate, so she wouldn't get a thing.) to get a new setup.
Only possibility is to call your provider and ask if they got any better offers with reasonable prices. Inform youself about all provider in your area.
But don't worry: at least all the avatars will get disabled at E3, so that will help very much.
Just watched that episode, yeah I feel his pain.
I haven't had much of a problem with anything in the past to be honest, it's when it comes to physically downloading it's a bitch. Definitely going to look into a new setup though.
Not the same; Nintendo doesn't allow anybody to talk about it. It seems like they want do set the world on fire at E3 :lol
AceBandage
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Vita = Already out and floundering
Wii U = Not even close to being out and at the very least has Nintendo franchises to back it up
On the one hand, we have a company (Sony) who still doesn't get it. The PSP succeeded in spite of them, and yet, they are doing the same thing (only worse) with the Vita.
On the other, we have a company (Nintendo) who is being far more aggressive than they have ever been in not only securing support, but getting their own franchises to be as big as possible.
Desperate Nintendo is best Nintendo.
AceBandage
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It's not even that, though.
All this was put into play long ago when Nintendo read the market and knew that they couldn't win with something like the Wii again.
The 3DS having a slow start might have sped up a few things, but it didn't secure third party games like MH or Kingdom Hearts, and it certainly didn't give us anything from Nintendo besides a price cut and some GBA games.
This was purely Iwata, in 2010 or so, saying "We have to reach out to third parties in a way we never have before."
While Sony, I can only assume, figured they'd get that support simply because of who they are.
Nah, desperate Nintendo is dead since the 3DS has risen to heaven.
Now they are beast mode Nintendo for their next homeconsole.
After the cold reaction after last E3, they are probably feeling worried.
Everything they are doing right now doesn't seem desperate at all, those times are over. They are as aggressive as never before, getting guys from Crytek and are in talks with important third party developers; getting middle ware, doing Nintendo Direct, announcing big games like NSMB for 3DS etc.
They ate a bucket of shit with the 3DS and never want to eat shit again - there you have it, aggressive Nintendo.
Highly doubt it. According to Iwata they learned from their mistakes (Wii and 3DS)
We'll see.
Dude, I think that aside Smash Bros, not even a first-party game has been officially announced for WiiU.
AceBandage
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Well, Pikmin 3, and technically, Zelda.
If you add Zelda, then you can add Mario as well!
AceBandage
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Except that Nintendo didn't say anything about Mario on Wii U, while they did say they were going to make a Zelda and that it wouldn't take 5 years this time.
specialguy
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It's now roughly ~9 months since last E3 and ~3 months till next E3.
Amazing how time flies in a way (also amazing how slow it can move in another way!)
Amazing how time flies in a way (also amazing how slow it can move in another way!)
Yeah, if you look it that way, they basically are a lazy student, who thinks that he's better than others. Nintendo is the one that is really trying. I think that the Wii U is really going to blow a lot of people away, not in terms of graphics and maybe even not in terms of innovative ways to play your games, but it's also about the network and other types of entertainment, besides video games. Everything distributed online and available in the cloud, not with fancy BluRay-Disc players or huge hard drives.
As someone who has a very small monthly bandwith cap (25gb/month), I would actually prefer everything not be stored on a cloud. I'd take a huge hard-drive instead.
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Koizumi stated his section is working on technologies for the Mario HD. Not too different than how Aonuma spoke of his same section.
+ Mario and Zelda for Wii U are basically no brainers which don't need any confirmation from Nintendo in my opinion.
Rösti;35848697 said:
Nice post!!
Edit: (cos my day at work seem to long and I did a mistake)
Ok if you take a custum build PC (bold part) for testers use it has 4GB RAM running UE3 Games
PS3/X360 have 512MB RAM running UE3. (1/8 th of it)
If you take a custum build PC (bold part) for testers use it would have 8GB RAM running UE4 Games (that should be the case)
Then simple math is telling us what???
WiiU/PS4/X720 will need to have a minimum of 2GB RAM for running UE4. (1/4 th of it)
So if Nintendo is doing everything to not only double the RAM of the HD twins and it looks like it then it should be fine running UE4
2GB -> WiiU ... sounds like I have heard that ...haha
UE4 on WiiU = confirmed
))Anyone else expecting lines out the wazoo for the Wii U demo stations this year? Stampedes from the opening of the doors?
I'd love to see a repeat of '06. YouTube videos lasting several minutes long, where the filming crew starts at the demo station and takes all of that time to walk to the end of the line. It'd be hysterical to see history repeat.. all part of Nintendo establishing buzz about their new console.
I also wonder what kind of ad campaign they have up their sleeves. "Wii Would Like to Play" is going to be tough to beat.
I'd love to see a repeat of '06. YouTube videos lasting several minutes long, where the filming crew starts at the demo station and takes all of that time to walk to the end of the line. It'd be hysterical to see history repeat.. all part of Nintendo establishing buzz about their new console.
I also wonder what kind of ad campaign they have up their sleeves. "Wii Would Like to Play" is going to be tough to beat.
Ubisoft Toronto will announce a AAA project soon
With the multi-port and active support of Ubi to Nintendo, we may expect this game on Wii U
With the multi-port and active support of Ubi to Nintendo, we may expect this game on Wii U
Good find!
Splinter Cell on Wii U.. damn, if they go the old SC route again with all those gadgets just like in Chaos Theory, then they could do crazy stuff with the uPad.
Wait a sec: 512MB * 4 = 2048MB and not 4096MB
EDIT: Oh wow, Splinter Cell would be fucking amazing! *.* You could do so much with the uPad, the gimmicky stuff would really work in a game like that. Solving puzzles via the touchscreen, moving the uPad around for all the different cameras. Sending a drone somewhere and watching a live feed of the stuff it's recording o the bottom screen,...
You guys are right about my previous post "Wii U = Vita", it was just some sort of feeling, not a prevision.
That said, the main difference is probably about first party support, in any case. I mean: also the Wii was "more or less" only first party-based and it was able to sell a lot of HW and SW...
That said, the main difference is probably about first party support, in any case. I mean: also the Wii was "more or less" only first party-based and it was able to sell a lot of HW and SW...
or mobile devices lol
An interview from CVG of Epic's Mark Rein about the next gen console performances, their interaction with manufacturers to push them in the hardware department, etc.
Not really fresh news, Rein stated that multiple times, but it's still a reminder and worth a quick read.
Its catch-phrase "If next-gen consoles aren't bleeding edge, Apple will beat them" lack of wisdom, but we could hope that Epic has a convenient & easy & usable channel (through NOA, US Big N studios, Epic Games Japan, etc.) to apply this kind of pressure to Nintendo, it's not too late.
Not really fresh news, Rein stated that multiple times, but it's still a reminder and worth a quick read.
Its catch-phrase "If next-gen consoles aren't bleeding edge, Apple will beat them" lack of wisdom, but we could hope that Epic has a convenient & easy & usable channel (through NOA, US Big N studios, Epic Games Japan, etc.) to apply this kind of pressure to Nintendo, it's not too late.
Because they want to keep their jobs at all costs?
no need to use logic in times like these.
cloned reggi nintendo ninja was what i was baiting for with my post
tkscz
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I wouldn't doubt they already are. Like you said before, Nintendo was trying to stabilize "a popular engine" to run on the WiiU's V5 dev kit. I still think it's the cryengine 3, though I am aware that even if right, you can't tell me. Still, I feel that Epic is who is pushing Nintendo do even attempt that, Nintendo in the past, wouldn't give a shit about game engines from 3rd parties. So someone is pushing them.
Wouldn't it be good if they try to co-operate with Epic and do something together, just to increase their image with the core gamers. A Nintendo game with the technical part done by Epic. There would obviously be a few people saying that Nintendo isn't able to make good looking games themselves(tse), but the majority of people would be interested. Retro Studios + Epic + Miyamoto=Win.
i don't get why u guys won't try to understand this. this isn't new. i mean is this your first Nintendo console your following? the Wii was the same. the GC was the same. nothing is new here people, we have less then 3 months left for the love of god.
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