Wii U Speculation Thread The Third: Casting Dreams in The Castle of Miyamoto

Nibel said:
World Of Warcraft on a console would be shocking news.
Click to expand...

I can't even imagine how it'd play. Some bizarre touch screen implementation? That game requires a mouse and hotkeys.

I guess you could have some sort of stylus play akin to kid icarus where there's a box in the center of the screen that tracks your cursor that's surrounded by touchscreen hotkeys. Sounds ridiculous.
 
List seems fake to me, but it's fun to think about what's listed, anyway. For example...

guek said:
...world of warcraft wii u?
Click to expand...
The big argument against it on consoles has always been about not being able to use your hotbars and targeting effectively, right? Giant, reconfigurable touch screen.

Could also explain the visual choices of the newest expansion...
 
Kulock said:
List seems fake to me, but it's fun to think about what's listed, anyway. For example...


The big argument against it on consoles has always been about not being able to use your hotbars and targeting effectively, right? Giant, reconfigurable touch screen.

Could also explain the visual choices of the newest expansion...
Click to expand...

Yeah the Wii U controller makes a lot of PC games that would be impossible on 360/PS3 actually possible on a console. It's pretty exciting. I want Diablo 3 on Wii U!
 
Disorientator said:
Emm...yeah I prefer the devs finding some interesting ways to use that second screen instead of aiming for 1080p 60fps on the main screen.

Is it just me?



Actually yes, but the "core" part is a bit shady.
I'm still not sure how the console-gaming landscape will be shaped after WiiU's release.
Not so sure PS3/X360 will be "core" for that long if you know what I mean.
Click to expand...

I strongly suspect that PS3/360 will remain the baseline for HD multiplatform development until at least mid-2014, and likely until at least the holiday season that year. Beyond that point, it depends what middleware devs decide to use for PS4/Xbox 3 development and whether Wii U can run that middleware adequately; if it can and if core-oriented software sells well early on, it could become a PS2-ish baseline for next-gen development. But exclusives still aren't going to happen, for the most part.
 
Father_Brain said:
Maybe not in terms of raw GPU horsepower, but (as someone mentioned upthread) for all we know, it could require a component like a tesselator that Wii U's GPU might lack. That's the issue.
Click to expand...

The wiiu streaming feature would be the perfect way for MMOs to take off big style on consoles, hoggong the tv for far too long as you inevitably will do? Just switch to controller
 
Oddduck said:
The real reason DOAD didn't sell well is because it should have been a launch title. Many of the people who bought Street Fighter 3D at launch didn't need another fighter. If it had been a launch title, it would have taken some sales away from Street Fighter.
Click to expand...

SSFIV shipped a million, but it didn't sell very well. I would be surprised if there were even a second shipment.

It's entirely possible people just don't want portable fighters. But I am not sure the reasons matter if you're Tecmo-Koei.
 
Anyone know if it is possible for a UPad to directly communicate with another UPad?

Or is the communicate between pads need to transfer through the WiiU? Can two UPads even work on a single WiiU????
 
Since you guys are downplaying duel pixels, I'll do the same with the gaf leakers. Banning a site over a list? Might as will ban other sites too.
 
I call bull on a number of things that aren't as obvious.

Such as Rodea being a Sega game, Kadokawa is publishing it, AND Naka said he didn't want to port it even if he could. IF IT EVEN COMES OUT... :/

And why would Nintendo release a Mario Strikers game on the eShop when it can be a retail game and make a lot more money? Unless this is starting the downloadable retail games bit. So Mario Strikers and other games would be released on retail and eShop at the same time.

At the same time, Goldeneye Reloaded on the sShop and possibly NOT retail if my guess is wrong? Bullocks. Activision ain't doing that.
 
Kulock said:
Exactly! Who owns a Nintendo console that doesn't like pandas?
Click to expand...

Pandas are indeed adorable.

And I would love a western RPG on a Nintendo machine (I usually go to my PC for that fix).. but it would have to have halfway decent stealth/marksmanship mechanics to it.

Note: as we get closer to the pre-E3 leak window, this place is going to get more and more pathologically insane. I'm truly going to relish these days with you all. =)
 
DragonSworne said:
Anyone know if it is possible for a UPad to directly communicate with another UPad?

Or is the communicate between pads need to transfer through the WiiU? Can two UPads even work on a single WiiU????
Click to expand...

None of this is concrete, since they really haven't shown their hand since last E3 and have supposedly made a lot of changes to the console. But at last check the "Upad" was a dumb streaming terminal, designed to just talk directly to the console and receive video back from it. There's not much in the way of processing going on, besides video and basic controls, so at last check the pads probably won't independently talk to each other. They have to communicate through the console base.

They said at least two pads could technically work on the Wii U, but were only focusing on only one for their original showing for various reasons, and weren't even planning to sell separate pads in stores. That's probably one of the biggest changes we're likely to see this upcoming E3.
 
DragonSworne said:
Anyone know if it is possible for a UPad to directly communicate with another UPad?

Or is the communicate between pads need to transfer through the WiiU? Can two UPads even work on a single WiiU????
Click to expand...

Iwata said that they were thinking about that possibility in case you wanted to bring your Wii U controller over to one of your friends house and play there.
But with what Ideaman said about the system, RIGHT NOW, it looks less likely to happen.
We'll have to wait till E3 but I'm preparing myself for a slap in the face in that deparment :(
 
ShockingAlberto said:
SSFIV shipped a million, but it didn't sell very well. I would be surprised if there were even a second shipment.
Click to expand...
Though, they shipped an extra 100k at some point later apparently, since after announcing and putting the game on their site at 1.0 million, the last number had it at 1.1 million.
 
Del in an actual videogame related thread. What is going on! Also, wtf is up with your avatar?
 
Has anyone read the Wii U article in the UK Official Nintendo Magazine issue 80? The magazine is on sale now.

Kid Icarus Uprising is just one of three massive reviews in this month's
ONM. We also deliver our verdict on the new Pokemon Wii game -
PokePark 2: Wonders Beyond - and you can read our review of Metal Gear
Solid 3DS.

We're also celebrating Nintendo's glorious past with two special features.
First up, we reveal our 100 greatest Nintendo games ever and we also
mark the 15th anniversary of the N64.

That's the past and the present sorted, what about the future? Well, you
reveal how Nintendo's next console is really shaping up in our special Wii
U feature.
Click to expand...
Source: http://www.officialnintendomagazine...w-in-new-issue-of-official-nintendo-magazine/

I doubt there's anything juicy in that feature seeing as it would have been reported already, but it would be nice to know what they have written seeing the magazine is "official". Issue 74 of Nintendo Gamer magazine will have an exclusive look at Assassin's Creed III on Wii U, hopefully there are some screen shots of the Wii U version to look forward to. Goes on sale this Friday (23rd of March).
 
Rösti;36178862 said:
Has anyone read the Wii U article in the UK Official Nintendo Magazine issue 80? The magazine is on sale now.
Click to expand...

So they will basically print this thread :lol

Which is why it says "Well, you reveal"!
 
Kjellson said:
Y'all gonna eat crow when WoW is announced for Wii U. Mark my words.
Click to expand...

Blizzard have been pretty open about the fact that they're interested in bringing WoW to consoles

The games industry hasn't had much luck getting MMOs off the ground on consoles, with Square Enix's Final Fantasy XI proving a rare exception to the rule. At DICE last month, I asked World of Warcraft lead producer J. Allen Brack what was stopping the genre from transitioning over.

"I think there's a lot of reasons," said Brack. "There's not one thing. One is, it takes a long time to develop an MMO. The lifecycle of consoles being what they are, you have to really time when your console's going to come out, what its projected lifecycle is going to be with when your game is going to be, which is challenging."

"In the case of WoW, we talk about it all the time," he said. "How would we bring WoW to the console?"

Brack immediately pointed to one huge problem: World of Warcraft's "footprint" (the total hard drive size for the game, patches and all) is around 15GBs. That's a pretty big memory commitment. Some Xbox 360s, for example, don't even have a hard drive and many of them are limited to just 20GB.
Click to expand...

"I think it's unlikely that WoW comes to the consoles," he said, dashing hopes and dreams. "It is something that we talk about on a pretty regular basis, but someone is going to figure out how to make an MMO on a console and they're going to be wildly successful. I have no doubt about that."
Click to expand...

http://www.g4tv.com/thefeed/blog/po...world-of-warcraft-all-the-time-prospects-dim/

It's pretty clear that it's going to have to be a perfect scenario for someone to land that game on their console. The system would have to ship with a harddrive/storage device that could hold WoW's footprint. The manufacturer would also have to let them release updates whenever they wanted.
 
Would companies even bother trying to get WoW?
I mean, if this was a few years ago, sure.
But the game is losing members at an alarming rate.
 
AceBandage said:
Would companies even bother trying to get WoW?
I mean, if this was a few years ago, sure.
But the game is losing members at an alarming rate.
Click to expand...

Well, there's always Blizzard's upcoming MMO. I'm sure manufacturers would want that on their platform. Especially if it's connected to the PC version.
 
I'm assuming this is old (and I apologize in advance) but I'll post it for those who haven't seen it.

Kojima's thoughts on Wii U. He says Wii U is a unique situation:

http://www.shacknews.com/article/72928/kojima-says-wii-u-a-special-case-requires-unique-software

Kojima Productions' Project Ogre is still a bit mysterious, other than it running on the Fox Engine and dealing with heavy subject matter. One thing we can say, though, is that the game probably won't hit Wii U. Studio head Hideo Kojima recently commented that if he makes a Wii U game, it will be tailored to the device.

"Wii U is kind of a special case," Kojima said via translator at a press Q&A last week. "The way the player interacts with the device is very different than any other device out there. So if I were to make a game for the Wii U, it would have to be a unique game."

That's not to say that the Fox Engine itself is incompatible with the Wii U, though. Kojima was careful to couch his remarks by pointing out that his new game engine is flexible. "I don't want any misconceptions that [the Fox Engine] is specific to a certain hardware platform, because it's not," he said. "The way we envision it, it's more this platform that isn't mounted to a particular hardware."
Click to expand...
 
AceBandage said:
Do you like Chinner?
Click to expand...

I do like Chinner...
SuV6os.gif
 
AceBandage said:
Eh, I don't see Titan taking off.
It's likely going to be a really bad casual game.
Click to expand...

Only time will tell. They seem like one of those companies that's able to make a success out of anything. It's obviously going to have a ridiculous amount of hype just based ont he fact that it's their MMO follow-up to WoW. Plus, if you manage to get one of those MMO's on your system, then there's little doubt that Blizzard would be open to releasing their other titles on the system. That would be the big catch.
 
You may see Solid Snake in the new Smash Bros., but that's it guys, pack it up!
Kojima is still a bro, though *checks his Twitter to see what he's eating again*
 
Runner 2 might come on Wii U (again this might also be old news)

http://www.joystiq.com/2012/03/19/runner2-delayed-until-november-gaijin-thinking-about-wii-u-ve/

Gaijin Games has told Eurogamer that Runner2, which we recently played in a very early state, will be released in November of this year, despite originally being slated for "early 2012." As Eurogamer notes, that puts the PSN/XBLA game somewhere within the Wii U's release window. Accordingly, co-director Mike Roush told the site that a Wii U release is "definitely something we're thinking about."

Gaijin's plans for the PS3/Xbox releases were made before the announcement of the Wii U. "When we made these decisions we never knew about Wii U, he said. "So rather than us 'leaving Nintendo', it's that these decisions were made a year ago," Roush said. "We would never leave Nintendo, we love them to death."
Click to expand...
 
SolidSnakex said:
Blizzard have been pretty open about the fact that they're interested in bringing WoW to consoles

http://www.g4tv.com/thefeed/blog/po...world-of-warcraft-all-the-time-prospects-dim/

It's pretty clear that it's going to have to be a perfect scenario for someone to land that game on their console. The system would have to ship with a harddrive/storage device that could hold WoW's footprint. The manufacturer would also have to let them release updates whenever they wanted.
Click to expand...

All those things are possible on a system like Wii U and with nintendo's recent openness to online, but I still don't see it ever happening.

It would blow my mind though. I'd probably be sucked back into 6 months of that damn crack addiction too.
 
You must log in or register to reply here.

Similar threads

Castle of Heart: Retold announced
1
76
RedC replied
Switch 2 version of Hogwarts Legacy removes region loading and improves the castle
9
2K
Mr Hyde replied
The Switch 2 contains the local streaming tech of the Wii U GamePad, which is how GameShare works
11
720
jshackles replied
Name a franchise where the third game was the best.
2 3
143
4K
Shubh_C63 replied
Revenge of the Savage Planet | Review Thread
Review 
16
326
Aguero9320 replied
Top Bottom