Exactly, that one is still opened. Meaning the rumour itself has nothing to do with this, but the fact that the recent thread was a copy/paste is.
Weird that it took 350 post to close it, but hey...
Wii U Speculation Thread The Third: Casting Dreams in The Castle of Miyamoto
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Exactly, that one is still opened. Meaning the rumour itself has nothing to do with this, but the fact that the recent thread was a copy/paste is.
Weird that it took 350 post to close it, but hey...
Isaac, in Golden Sun: Dark Dawn.
Basically this:
In adult form.
EDIT: Beaten, but whatever bitches!!!
bgassassin
Member
It would fit with Alberto's info.
http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2011-10-20-xbox-360-battlefield-3-better-installed
If Nintendo is going after a "certain group" like they claim, they are the ones that have to adjust accordingly.
Much better than I could have said it.
ColdBlooder
Banned
Wouldnt it be easier to have a dedicated 1 or 2gb cache for data like hybrid drives do? Or already load the most important stuff into the ram while you're doing stuff in the menu? I do belive there are possibilities to generate short loadtimes without hdd install
Vicetrailia
Banned
Whatever happened to the Wii U using IBM's Power 7?
bgassassin
Member
For a disc drive? I'm not sure how that would be possible.
With system memory? I'm assuming that's one of the things they've been trying to avoid, though someone can correct me on that. Loading it to the flash, is more likely.
I expect Nintendo to have short as possible load times, but the increase in things like texture sizes make sticking to what they may have had a year ago a possible issue before Wii U even gets going good.
TheGreatMightyPoo
Banned
Couldn't be more true.
Back to the Wii U, how many quality first party games will have to be at out this year(assuming the November date is correct) for you guys to be really pumped???
axisofweevils
Holy crap! Today's real megaton is that more than two people can have the same first name.
For those that can't resist, there's yet another thread about the Next Gen being weak here.
I already dropped "the ps4 will be on par" bomb.
http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=469615
I already dropped "the ps4 will be on par" bomb.
http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=469615
ColdBlooder
Banned
USB drive speed depends ALOT on the controller used and the device used that connects to the usb port.
How many MB/sec do you get on your xbox 360?
USB 3 is not easy. Nintendo would have to make an "official" Hdd, or else there will be alot of confusion. ALOT of lazy companies sell their USB2 drive with a sticker on the package that says "USB 3 Compatible!" and the consumer in the end wonders why its so slow. Belive me, not every customer knows that USB3 connectors are blue and have a second set of connectors on the inside.
Another problem is that some USB3 drives still are pretty slow and only slightly faster than USB3. "Official USB3 complaint" sticker is a nice selling feature aswell
I have a WD MYbook USB3 drive wich can hit 100mb/sec read and write, but it cost quite some money. (Ok its a 2 TB drive...)Making an official "512GB Externel Nintendo HDD" wich has some speed behind it would be a good way to avoid it. If they just allow HDD install and let the costumer, that is not as "good informed" as we, the nerds/geeks, buy and connect any drive, then there will be confusion. Heck in very few instances the drive may not even work (Even though very unlikely, but hardware incompatibility CAN happen. I had this once with an external drive... Worked fine on my dads pc. Wouldn't work on mine).
Well lets sip some coffe and wait for E3. We should know alot more after June 5th!
Sick burn, dude. High five.
GameplayWhore
Member
A year or so ago, IBM stated that the Wii U used a Power Architecture based CPU. It was reported as "the same technology the powers the Watson". Some people interpreted that specifically as meaning the actual chip in the Watson, which is the Power 7.
That was merely an assumption. The only thing that has been confirmed is that the CPU is Power Architecture based.
Edit: It's like if AMD announced that the Wii U used x86-64, and somebody referred to x86-64 as "The technology behind the Oak Ridge Jaguar, the third most powerful supercomputer in the world". This would be technically true, but some people would
frankie_baby
Member
Its just as likely as it always was
TheGreatMightyPoo
Banned
And people claim Nintendo fans are the only defensive ones, hahaha.
I don't get why many think ANY of the the next systems automatically will be 6-7X more powerful than what we have now.
There comes a time where its time to focus more on other stuf than shoving the most expensive parts in a kit.
Not to mention in this economy...
An IBM rep said that the Wii U would "feature the technology used in Watson", and people started assuming that there was just going to be a Power7 CPU in the console. There obviously isn't, but the CPU will likely inherit some technology from the Power7, most notably the eDRAM cache, but possibly also a variant on the Power7's VSX AltiVec unit, and perhaps the out-of-order pipeline. It might end up being something like a heavily stripped-down Power7, but they certainly aren't going to put an 8-core server chip in there.
ColdBlooder
Banned
Not enough cores! It would be just on par with current gen!
Needs 1 million or my digital watch has more power
GameplayWhore
Member
Not enough cores! It would be just on par with current gen!
Needs 1 million or my digital watch has more power
Nonsense. 224162 cores fit comfortably within a 7 megawatt power envelope. Much more than that would certainly run too hot for the average living room.
ColdBlooder
Banned
But my living room is the size of a football field! MY living room is next gen! Not that tiny last gen crap "standart appartment size"... So my game console needs to be next gen aswell
Fixed
Why must you tease us so, lherre, why must you tease us so?
GameplayWhore
Member
But my living room is the size of a football field! MY living room is next gen! Not that tiny last gen crap "standart appartment size"... So my game console needs to be next gen aswell
Japanese football fields are much smaller than American football fields*, and Nintendo is a Japanese company, so they're kinda screwed there. Luckily, the next Xbox is likely to take advantage of the 57600 square foot form factor.
* I heard this on Kotaku, so it must be true
TheGreatMightyPoo
Banned
Brand new mascot IP from EAD Tokyo.
Plinko
Wildcard berths that can't beat teams without a winning record should have homefield advantage
My personal choice:
Star Tropics returns and is done by Retro. Better than Uncharted graphics, a wide variety of environments, and the yo-yo returns as a weapon.
My realistic choice:
F-Zero Returns for Wii U.
lordfroakie
Member
Final Fantasy 7 3DS or Final Fantasy 15 coming to Wii U
One or the other would be way, way more a megaton than Kid Icarus was.
It's not even on the same magnititude, it's...it's Dragon Quest IX-like.
R
Rösti
Unconfirmed Member
IBM Watson documentation, for anyone interested: http://www-03.ibm.com/innovation/us...ite_Paper_POW03061-USEN-00_Final_Feb10_11.pdf
As for Watson, it uses 2,880 POWER7 cores divided over 90 IBM Power 750 servers. The IBM Power 750 Express server has the following specifications (shortened):
As noted by other posters, it's very easy for some people to completely blow things out of proportions if an IBM spokesperson says that Wii U features the same technology as in IBM Watson. As exemplified with the above specs, this would be utterly ridiculous; soccer moms carrying a good 50 kg home (just as an example), and that's not even IBM Watson (which probably requires a Heavy Equipment Transporter (HET) or similar for transport).
A heavily modified POWER7 processor is feasible, though an IBM PowerPC 476FP Embedded Processor Core has been suggested as well (don't remember who talked about it, but it was in relation to the Cu-45HP deal).
As for Watson, it uses 2,880 POWER7 cores divided over 90 IBM Power 750 servers. The IBM Power 750 Express server has the following specifications (shortened):
Source: http://www-03.ibm.com/systems/power/hardware/750/specs.html
As noted by other posters, it's very easy for some people to completely blow things out of proportions if an IBM spokesperson says that Wii U features the same technology as in IBM Watson. As exemplified with the above specs, this would be utterly ridiculous; soccer moms carrying a good 50 kg home (just as an example), and that's not even IBM Watson (which probably requires a Heavy Equipment Transporter (HET) or similar for transport).
A heavily modified POWER7 processor is feasible, though an IBM PowerPC 476FP Embedded Processor Core has been suggested as well (don't remember who talked about it, but it was in relation to the Cu-45HP deal).
The internet would break.
But if they were ever to remake FFVII, my money would be on 3DS.
tkscz
Member
Rösti;36786675 said:
I still speculate that it will be based off Power7, but won't have the 4-way SMTs, unless they find a way to keep it cool. 4-way SMTs might be pointless for gaming but hey, we don't know. I also say final model will go with a quad core over a tri-core. Quad cores are more balanced, Nintendo is all about balancing hardware.
axisofweevils
Holy crap! Today's real megaton is that more than two people can have the same first name.
Bg, you're too good at hiding info. I got nothing out of that to suggest you know something. The only conclusion I can make is if you post ANYTHING it must be true!
If Nintendo add USB3.0, they'll have to do it on all ports or it won't be able to be relied on because I guarantee people will be plugging them into the 2.0 ports if their are mixed ones.
OK, just thought about that and if Nintendo do a proprietary drive then they could customize the plug right? Does the spec allow for that?
The GPU that IGN/Fudzilla are claiming the PS4 uses is a step down from last year's target box specs.
Now... what are the latest on the Wii U hardwares? lol
Seriously, 1 weekend and 45 pages go by
there were lastyear's target leaks???
Versus XIII=XV=Wii U
I wouldn't consider that a megaton, but I'm sure the Sony fanboys would be heartbroken. Why wouldn't Square put their games out on a Nintendo platform? They like money.
Prerequisite: WiiPad get's haptics
Megaton: New Wii-U Kirby THAT ACTUALLY FEELS LIKE PANTS.
Apparently only for NeoGAF Gold Members...Like AzaK I'll have to consider everything BG posts as gospel now, Portal Wii-U confirmed, friends.
But 7 coming to Nintendo after the "Betrayal" would still be pretty big (also...7 remake is the biggest super-megaton), and there are already heated debates why 15 should never come to Wii-U ever.
Fourth Storm
Member
USB drive speed depends ALOT on the controller used and the device used that connects to the usb port.
How many MB/sec do you get on your xbox 360?
USB 3 is not easy. Nintendo would have to make an "official" Hdd, or else there will be alot of confusion. ALOT of lazy companies sell their USB2 drive with a sticker on the package that says "USB 3 Compatible!" and the consumer in the end wonders why its so slow. Belive me, not every customer knows that USB3 connectors are blue and have a second set of connectors on the inside.
Another problem is that some USB3 drives still are pretty slow and only slightly faster than USB3. "Official USB3 complaint" sticker is a nice selling feature aswell
Making an official "512GB Externel Nintendo HDD" wich has some speed behind it would be a good way to avoid it. If they just allow HDD install and let the costumer, that is not as "good informed" as we, the nerds/geeks, buy and connect any drive, then there will be confusion. Heck in very few instances the drive may not even work (Even though very unlikely, but hardware incompatibility CAN happen. I had this once with an external drive... Worked fine on my dads pc. Wouldn't work on mine).
Well lets sip some coffe and wait for E3. We should know alot more after June 5th!
Great post. With all the ridiculous add-ons Nintendo have released over the years, one would think an official Wii U HDD would be a no-brainer. Combining that with some cloud storage as a backup would be my preferable scenario.
GameplayWhore
Member
Isn't it somewhat likely anyway that FFXV will come out for pretty much everything that sits in the living room?
You mean he's actually in the game?!!! I thought it was just fan art.
Could we get Tactics on there too?
Also congrats on member Shurayuki.
Yup. Garet as well.
Also congrats on member Shurayuki.
Yup. Garet as well.
When we consider that Nintendo published Baten Kaitos Origins in ALL regions, I think that's almost an indicator that Bandai Namco released the rights to the series.
ColdBlooder
Banned
I could see could savegames happening. But only that. Online storage capacity would be too expensive for anything else but that wouldn't matter IF your purchases would FINALLY linked to your (NiN) account. When your WiiU breaks down completely you wouldn't have to fear any losses. Once BigN sends you your new WiiU you could just redownload your purchases and the system would download the saves from the cloud. Losing savegames would finally be a problem of the past
The thing is, I could see them trying to bring one or two different IPs back from retirement for each generation going into the future.
Maybe now that the Icarian experiment is done and successful, it wouldn't surprise me one bit to see them announce a huge, gigantic, epic, scrumtrulescent, new console entry to the series.
(ps: where did avatars go?)
http://www.destructoid.com/this-is-totally-a-viral-video-not-an-ad-for-nintendo-3ds-225497.phtml
Not sure if this was posted, and really off topic, but anyone seen the awesome viral 3DS video?
Not sure if this was posted, and really off topic, but anyone seen the awesome viral 3DS video?
AceBandage
Banned
That's amazing. Nintendo digging deep on their marketing this last year.
Wow, how very un-Nintendo like
Fourth Storm
Member
I could see could savegames happening. But only that. Online storage capacity would be too expensive for anything else but that wouldn't matter IF your purchases would FINALLY linked to your (NiN) account. When your WiiU breaks down completely you wouldn't have to fear any losses. Once BigN sends you your new WiiU you could just redownload your purchases and the system would download the saves from the cloud. Losing savegames would finally be a problem of the past
Very true. The actual cloud data space per user would not end up being that much. Then there's the amount of Flash storage internal to Wii U. Last I heard, it was kotaku which placed it at 8GB? I wonder if this has increased since.
brochiller
Member
This is awesome. Hopefully this is the direction they'll be taking with marketing for the Wii U.
test_account
XP-39C²
Is it known that WiiU will have USB 2.0? What about HDMI? I guess that will be 1.4. And what about sound, will it support Dolby TrueHD etc.?
tkscz
Member
Nintendo of the 90's actually. Back when they knew how to advertise.
Edit: WOO-HOO I'm a member now, goodbye junior status.
It kind of reminded me of the N64 age yeah.
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