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

weird said:
Wrong thread sorry
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No, no this IS the right thread! Please stay, you must join us!

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I'm actually going batshit insane due to the lack of news.

Fuck man, E3 is going to be HUGE. They've somehow hyped their conference without saying ANYTHING at all...!
 
So, what games do we think will be launch titles?

I think a Trauma Center/Team game is inevitable.
They're medical games that feature ambulances.
Ambulances have sirens.
Sirens go "Wii U Wii U Wii U".
 
Rösti;36506169 said:
It's not Flanker, but a general white paper about IBM's Cu-45HP: ftp://public.dhe.ibm.com/common/ssi/ecm/en/tgd03009usen/TGD03009USEN.PDF

From the 22nd of July 2010. Could perhaps put us in a righter direction.
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Yeah, I posted the specs from that a few pages back but it doesn't lead us to too many specifics. I can't find much more on Infotech Enterprises' involvement with Nintendo (if any) either, aside from the general information from their website posted by wsippel.
 
StevieP said:
Nobody's been able to find more on Cu45HP Flanker :(
lol
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The man in question is working for Infotech, with global headquarters in Hyderabad, and AMD have an antenna there... Maybe there's a giant brainstorming regarding the Wii U CPU & GPU in India since several years... Well, tons of IT brand have antenna/headquarters/offices there.
 
IdeaMan said:
Mister Yu is working for Infotech, with global headquarters in Hyderabad, and AMD have an antenna there... Maybe there's a giant brainstorming regarding the Wii U CPU & GPU in India since several years... Well, tons of IT brand have antenna/headquarters/offices there.
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wsippel has said that the Wii U GPU was done in Hyderabad.
 
Cross development between the CPU and GPU?
Now THAT would be something.
That goes beyond just getting them running good, that goes into scary "We can have no bottlenecks" territory.

But, would Intel and AMD really work together?
 
AceBandage said:
Cross development between the CPU and GPU?
Now THAT would be something.
That goes beyond just getting them running good, that goes into scary "We can have no bottlenecks" territory.

But, would Intel and AMD really work together?
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Intel has no involvement with any of the consoles.
If you meant IBM and AMD - they are already working together on the 360S's SoC, and they are certainly working together at the East Fishkill plant.
 
Heavily optimized hardware is totally one of Nintendos strongpoints. This will propably happen this time aswell :) Gamecube was a miracle machine. So small yet so powerful...
 
StevieP said:
wsippel has said that the Wii U GPU was done in Hyderabad.
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Maybe parts of the design, but not all the GPU. And as i've said, there are tons of IT brand in Hyderabad, it's a silicon valley even more concentrated in one area, i've nearly went there for learning purposes, it's not because there's a society specialized in audio that have an office at the place, that it means they're working for the DSP part of a hypothetic GPU designed entirely there, for example. It could be coincidences. Or there's a link yes, we don't know for sure.

Still interesting to speculate and investigate on of course, nice find of yours in one of your message today :)
 
An article from Gamasutra concerning the demands of some game developers for Next Gen.

To sum-up, they want more power & a way to make more money through online stores/digital distribution/apps, more freedom, yadda yadda.

A rather short-term-following-of-the-current-trends mix of 15x Xbox360 and applications stores/stream if you like. I sense a lack of imagination and thinking outside the box, which the industry needs a lot in my opinion, after reading that actually.
 
SomeDude said:
Wii U will be Nintendo's last console.
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You're saying that Nintendo will learn from their Wii U controller and make future portable systems that work alone or with a TV forgoing the need for a home based console?

I see your point. We used to be restricted to calculators that plugged into an outlet, computers for chat, surfing the internet, etc, but now we can do those things on our phones.
 
AceBandage said:
Cross development between the CPU and GPU?
Now THAT would be something.
That goes beyond just getting them running good, that goes into scary "We can have no bottlenecks" territory.

But, would Intel and AMD really work together?
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Anyone would work together under the right circumstances
money
 
IdeaMan said:
An article from Gamasutra concerning the demands of some game developers for Next Gen.

To sum-up, they want more power & a way to make more money through online stores/digital distribution/apps, more freedom, yadda yadda.

An opportunist & rather short-term-following-of-the-current-trends mix of 15x Xbox360 and appstore if you like. I sense a lack of imagination and thinking outside the box, which the industry needs a lot in my opinion, after reading that actually.
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You are right the industry needs to change as far as thinking outside the box etc but as far as the industry is concerned they dont.

This is where Nintendo loses the industry. Nintendo says we have to be different in order to generate interest and to stand out. Meanwhile both Sony and Microsoft will end up selling 2/3-3/4 the sales of the Wii while being "too similar" for Nintendos tastes.

In the end Nintendo outsells them by a small margin for all the work Nintendo did to be different the results really dont support Nintendos notion. They got shit support and a console that died 2 years before they even bothered to release the replacement.
 
So I'm guessing that a 28nm process for the GPU has now been ruled out..? Thraktor's post about his opinions of the GPU on a 28nm process sounded quite feasible. Or do you think that there'd be production problems on something so new to be ready on time in enough volume..? Or perhaps AMD and Nintendo have decided that it's too risky as it's pretty much untested..?

Was hoping for a 28nm process to enable an 800Hz clockspeed, and 640 SPUs at 800Hz would give us 1024 GFlops :o(

Mind you, if it's 640 SPUs at 600Hz that would still give us 768 GFlops which is nothing to be sniffed at lol.
 
IdeaMan said:
Sega is restructuring and there will a "reduction of number of titles"

Here's the announcement in english



So Aliens Colonial Marines for Wii U shouldn't be concerned. I hope that there wasn't a small/niche/exclusive and unheard of title for the Big N system planned that got canceled in the process.
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It's pretty sad the state Sega and THQ are in, but it would be so rad if Nintendo managed to hire the teams of Nagoshi, Naka, Kamaya, Mikami, Suda 51 and Itagaki. That would be a power house of Japanese devs that would cause a serious stir in the industry. Could you imagine that much potential all under one label? Drool...
 
MadOdorMachine said:
It's pretty sad the state Sega and THQ are in, but it would be so rad if Nintendo managed to hire the teams of Nagoshi, Naka, Kamaya, Mikami, Suda 51 and Itagaki. That would be a power house of Japanese devs that would cause a serious stir in the industry. Could you imagine that much potential all under one label? Drool...
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They pretty much have half of Squaresoft, Sonic Team, Hudson, and few others.
 
antonz said:
In the end Nintendo outsells them by a small margin for all the work Nintendo did to be different the results really dont support Nintendos notion. They got shit support and a console that died 2 years before they even bothered to release the replacement.
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Come on man, try harder than that.
 
MDX said:
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Come on man, try harder than that.
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How am I wrong? Nintendos deliberate actions to be different resulted in everyone buying basically a 3 year lifecycle console.

I own every single console Nintendo has ever made and was one of the first people in the original thread confirming dev kit issues. That doesnt change the fact that Nintendo more often than not is its own worst enemy not Sega, not Sony.Nintendo
 
Square-Enix... it would be nice to see a big S-E game (not Dragon Quest X) on a Nintendo home console. Crystal Bearers is the best example of wasted potential and I liked Chocobo's Dungeon. Such a fun little game. It's still a B-team effort though.

ASTROID2 said:
Whats wrong with that guy.
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His back
 
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