Wii U Speculation Thread of Brains Beware: Wii U Re-Unveiling At E3 2012

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MDX said:
DownWithTheShip has informed us that the company he worked for received dev kits back in January. Working backwards, 2010, putting the dev kit together. What could Nintendo have used to put together the dev kits, and what technology, back in 2010 or 2009, was present or introduced that they deemed it possible or worthwhile, to launch a next gen console in 2012? For example, Power7 was discussed back in 2009, did they see something special about that?
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My guess would be considering how concurrent these things seemed to be developed, IBM and AMD probably proposed ideas based on what they were developing at the time that could benefit a console in the future. Then from there the first dev kits used parts that could sort of emulate those ideas.

Like with the GPU, VLIW4 seems to be AMD's new direction and Cayman was available on the market by then. Using VLIW4 would reduce transistors needed in a comparable VLIW5 GPU. Which would help explain why they can get away with overheating dev kits.
 
hmm very interesting.

Maybe he works for a company that produces 3rd party peripherals? Or maybe supplies middleware?

That's all I can think of...what other type of company would require a Wii U dev kit?
 
DownWithTheShip said:
We don't develop games so having one early doesn't make much of a difference.

I wont get in trouble.
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hmmmmmmmm what now?

I work at a company that doesn't make games and we errrrrrrr have a WiiU somewhere. Let me see if I can find out more........
 
guek said:
hmm very interesting.

Maybe he works for a company that produces 3rd party peripherals? Or maybe supplies middleware?

That's all I can think of...what other type of company would require a Wii U dev kit?
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Non-games. (netflix, iPlayer) maybe? I don't want to unmask the Stig though.
 
Graphics Horse said:
Non-games. (netflix, iPlayer) maybe? I don't want to unmask the Stig though.
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You most likely have never heard of the company. Doing anything with game companies is a new thing for us.

Honestly, i'm not even sure what we would do with a WiiU. Probably sent to us just because we're involved, or to show us the fruits of out labor.
 
DownWithTheShip said:
You most likely have never heard of the company. Doing anything with game companies is a new thing for us.

Honestly, i'm not even sure what we would do with a WiiU. Probably sent to us just because we're involved, or to show us the fruits of out labor.
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I see, very curious.
 
Fruits of your labor?

Fruits of your labor??

Oh you sly dog. I got it.

You work at a blueberry farm. Your company helped solved the quantum batter blueberry flux enigma. The Wii U will make waffles after all!
 
guek said:
Fruits of your labor?

Fruits of your labor??

Oh you sly dog. I got it.

You work at a blueberry farm. Your company helped solved the quantum batter blueberry flux enigma. The Wii U will make waffles after all!
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You got it!

The WiiU runs on blueberry power ;)
 
DownWithTheShip said:
You most likely have never heard of the company.
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Sarcasm, because:

Probably sent to us just because we're involved, or to show us the fruits of out labor.
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guek, you got it wrong. It's Apple!

Edit: BurntPork knows what's up (I mean the Zelda avatar).
 
bgassassin said:
My guess would be considering how concurrent these things seemed to be developed, IBM and AMD probably proposed ideas based on what they were developing at the time that could benefit a console in the future. Then from there the first dev kits used parts that could sort of emulate those ideas.

Like with the GPU, VLIW4 seems to be AMD's new direction and Cayman was available on the market by then. Using VLIW4 would reduce transistors needed in a comparable VLIW5 GPU. Which would help explain why they can get away with overheating dev kits.
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So WiiU will be a parallel processing beast?
 
This is getting interesting. If Nintendo working with a company that is implementing something non game related in their console.
 
EloquentM said:
This is getting interesting. If Nintendo working with a company that is implementing something non game related in their console.
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There are a lot of companies involved with making every console. You usually only hear about what the big ones are doing (graphics, CPU, RAM, etc). Just because it's not specifically game related does not mean it won't benefit games, or the developers creating those games.

Door2Dawn said:
You guys realize hes just jerking your chain right? Come on.
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i'm not.

It doesn't matter that much anyway, as where I work isn't really important to what people want to know about the system. It doesn't reveal anything.

My only hope it to get my hands on the system. That was my reason for posting in the first place. And if I do get my hands on it I would be happy to update this thread with that info.
 
DownWithTheShip said:
There are a lot of companies involved with making every console. You usually only hear about what the big ones are doing (graphics, CPU, RAM, etc). Just because it's not specifically game related does not mean it won't benefit games, or the developers creating those games.
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That's insightful but you're killing the possibilities of my imagining what your company does ={
 
DownWithTheShip said:
We don't develop games so having one early doesn't make much of a difference.

I wont get in trouble.
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You should really stop narrowing it down any further, or else you probably will. I don't mean to scare you or anything, but the more you tell about your company, the easier it gets to find out who your employer is.
 
Thunder Monkey said:
I doubt someone would do that just to lose their account.
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I certainly wouldn't want to lose my account over this. I never said I new secrets about the system. The only thing I know that you don't is what company I work for.

If an admin asked me where I work and didn't give the information out, I would be happy to provide them with that info.

wsippel said:
You should really stop narrowing it down any further, or else you probably will. I don't mean to scare you or anything, but the more you tell about your company, the easier it gets to find out who your employer is.
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That's probably good advice.
 
wsippel said:
You should really stop narrowing it down any further, or else you probably will. I don't mean to scare you or anything, but the more you tell about your company, the easier it gets to find out who your employer is.
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You ruined it! ;//
 
BurntPork said:
You ruined it! ;//
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I have pretty good memory, so I remembered something that makes me believe he isn't making stuff up, and I just don't want to see anyone getting in trouble over something like that. I'm as curious as anyone in this thread, but that simply isn't worth it. Also, if he was called out, he wouldn't post impressions anymore. ;)
 
DownWithTheShip said:
I certainly wouldn't want to lose my account over this. I never said I new secrets about the system. The only thing I know that you don't is what company I work for.

If an admin asked me where I work and didn't give the information out, I would be happy to provide them with that info.



That's probably good advice.
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But why would a company not making games.... get the devkits?

Would they not just get final models when ready for production?
What use would a devkit version be to them?
 
too many companies involved in these kinds of things.

Nintendo has to get many materials and special parts from all over

special pastics or rubber for one of many pieces of the WiiU
screws, metals, wires... whatever

it is nice just to have someone posting something there may be many others on here who cannot post about what they know.
 
DownWithTheShip said:
Sorry, no. Information is pretty tight right now and revealing something like that could get me fired. I've actually gone online trying to see if there were any articles about my companies involvement but haven't been able to find anything. If I do find something I would be happy to say where I work, since it would be public knowledge at that point that we are involved.

I found out in December of last year that we are invloved with the development of the system.
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You work at DARPA, don't you? I won't ask you to answer. Just ignore my post and I we will take that ad confirmation that DARPA is conducting R&D work on Wii U.
 
Hero of Legend said:
I thought it was a sort of meme, but I'd like to know as well if you know of the real origin story.
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my guess is a huge thread of lies that came true in the past

believe became a huge meme around here

Drinky Crow has some really messed up threads to mess with Nintendo Fans

Thursdayton? I think
 
FownWithTheShip, do you live/use to live in Portland, Oregon? You have a fairly strong interest in F1, right? And you Read/ comment on Reddit quite a lot, yes?

Just curious...
 
Ubermatik said:
FownWithTheShip, do you live/use to live in Portland, Oregon? You have a fairly strong interest in F1, right?

Just curious...
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I do not nor have I ever lived in Portland OR. I do have an interest in F1 as it kicks ass.
 
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