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[E3 2011] NINTENDO - Post-keynote wrap-up and discussion here!
If you win a battle in Tekken, you get to draw penises all over your friend's face! And if you want, they won't disappear for a year!
Editable stages?!
I seriously could not stop laughing thinking about this. That is freaking awesome. Seriously, that should be a selling point: "Tekken - Kick someone's ass and draw penises on their face!"
there would probably be licensing fees for Blu-ray? and I guess they've established they're not really interested in doing the all in one entertainment box.
i guess there's always netflix. but anyone serious has a bd player or ps3 anyways.
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AthenorBattle Hardened OptimistThe Skies of HiigaraRegistered Userregular
edited June 2011
If it's 25 GB, it's some Blu-ray derivative. And I personally think the idea of using Netflix on that tablet and going room to room is gonna rock.
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DHSChase lizards.....bark at donkeys..Registered Userregular
edited June 2011
I think the number one thing I'm curious about aside from the games, is what is the range on the streaming display? I have to imagine it'd be roughly the same as wireless 802.11n router. I just wanna know how well it'll work for picking up Zelda and playing it in another room and such. Or the aforementioned Netflix option.
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"Grip 'em up, grip 'em, grip 'em good, said the Gryphon... to the pig."
It's probably bluetooth or something based on bluetooth and I'm not sure what kind of bandwidth it can maintain at what range. It cold be a lot shorter than you would think in order to keep a video stream like that going.
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DHSChase lizards.....bark at donkeys..Registered Userregular
edited June 2011
That's why I said I was curious, they haven't said anything yet.
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"Grip 'em up, grip 'em, grip 'em good, said the Gryphon... to the pig."
So how long until Epic announce that the Unreal engine won't work on WiiU either? :P
Arkham City is Unreal 3.
Edit: My thoughts.
About 50% what I expected, 50% surprises.
I was probably always going to get it, but the thought of Nintendo games in 1080p, and a good selection of 3rd party stuff was probably enough for me.
I'll be paying close attention.
Controller seems brilliant to me. Hope it's not too expensive. £200ish would be a good price.
Epic will announce Unreal 4 engine won't work you can see it happening. Hopefully the fact Nintendo hasn't released specs for the WiiU is that the specs are going to improve as more powerful components become cheaper over the next 6 months.
Overall for me I like the idea but im getting sick of the cheap white plastic look the console has.
The wiiu (we gotta think of something better) video, the 4 minute one of concept with people using it, defonately left me saying wow. I think it is extremely create e, and I have no clue how one would dream it up. The golf may have sold me. It is extremely impressive.
But I'm not sold on it for gaming, mainly the controller.
Casuals could eat it up if the price is right and there's a wii sports type pack in.
I seriously cannot think of anyone that thing would appeal to. As a novelty it looks cumbersome and expensive, and I can barely get my family to use a controller when it doesnt have a screen attached to it. Please tell me nobody is excited about it?
I gotta eat crow on Star Fox 64 3D. A few months ago, when Nintendo said they were scrapping 64's multiplayer, I pretty much said that 3DS online was dooooomed because nobody would support it if Nintendo didn't. Well, they scrapped the multiplayer.... for a completely different and quite possibly better online mode.
Good one Nintendo.
edit: Oops, turns out it's not online after all. I take it back, Nintendo. You're incompetent.
I gotta eat crow on Star Fox 64 3D. A few months ago, when Nintendo said they were scrapping 64's multiplayer, I pretty much said that 3DS online was dooooomed because nobody would support it if Nintendo didn't. Well, they scrapped the multiplayer.... for a completely different and quite possibly better online mode.
Good one Nintendo.
Wait, what happened here?
I haven't been keeping up with it lately, but pretty much the entire reason I wanted Star Fox 64 3D was because I have such fond memories of playing SF64 multiplayer with friends.
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RoshinMy backlog can be seen from spaceSwedenRegistered Userregular
edited June 2011
Excited? No, but mildly intrigued.
I don't like the name. WiiU, Wii U, Wii-U, or however I'm supposed to write it. Then again, I didn't like "Wii" either, but it worked out tremendously well for them, so what do I know?
My concern is the size of the controller and I can't help thinking of all the people who complained about the size of the original XBOX controller. Maybe I imagined it all, but I thought part of the point of the Wii was to have simple controls and that traditional controllers were too complex? And yet here we have a white brick with a touch screen, dual sticks, d-pad, and sprinkled with buttons.
But yeah, I'm intrigued. It's different enough to catch my interest and I want to see what the can do with this.
Also, I thought it was cute to see EA being presented as an indie publisher.
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Zxerolfor the smaller pieces, my shovel wouldn't doso i took off my boot and used my shoeRegistered Userregular
edited June 2011
To be fair, at least the Wii-U's tablet controller has an excuse to its size. The oXbox's Duke, not so much.
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MaddocI'm Bobbin Threadbare, are you my mother?Registered Userregular
I gotta eat crow on Star Fox 64 3D. A few months ago, when Nintendo said they were scrapping 64's multiplayer, I pretty much said that 3DS online was dooooomed because nobody would support it if Nintendo didn't. Well, they scrapped the multiplayer.... for a completely different and quite possibly better online mode.
Good one Nintendo.
Wait, what happened here?
I haven't been keeping up with it lately, but pretty much the entire reason I wanted Star Fox 64 3D was because I have such fond memories of playing SF64 multiplayer with friends.
The original multiplayer is gone. Its replacement looks a hell of a lot better.
I don't like the name. WiiU, Wii U, Wii-U, or however I'm supposed to write it. Then again, I didn't like "Wii" either, but it worked out tremendously well for them, so what do I know?
My concern is the size of the controller and I can't help thinking of all the people who complained about the size of the original XBOX controller. Maybe I imagined it all, but I thought part of the point of the Wii was to have simple controls and that traditional controllers were too complex? And yet here we have a white brick with a touch screen, dual sticks, d-pad, and sprinkled with buttons.
But yeah, I'm intrigued. It's different enough to catch my interest and I want to see what the can do with this.
Also, I thought it was cute to see EA being presented as an indie publisher.
It's roughly the size of a Kindle held sideways, if the measurements are anything to go by.
I have no problem holding a Kindle.
Again, though, I'll need to put hands to plastic to make sure.
Will it be reasonable for even the mighty Nintendo to release something like this at a reasonable price and not take an absolute beating on their costs?
I guess the Triple-U itself will be pretty standard stuff, but the screen in that controller will probably run a pretty penny. It may have pretty simple internal workings given that it doesn't have much internally, but it's still a touchscreen, and it has rumble, accelerometers, gyroscope, camera, etc. Nintendo's going to wind up eating a lot of cash money if that thing comes in under $300
You guys aren't thinking far ahead enough. The RTS games that will be possible to make with this have already been mentioned, but also think about stuff like fighting games with each player using a wiipad, with a camera focused on their avatar, and the tv showing a wide view of the fight.
2D platform games (like Muramasa Demon Blade), with multiple players on screen, each one with their little view of the game with the wiipad.
Poker games. Board games. Shooters (the Colonial Marines game? You have your own radar, ya know?).
And that's just stuff that I thought up yesterday.
Being able to stream games to the controller alone has me excited. I like to watch TV and play games on the couch at the same time and this has "HD" visuals, a six inch screen and proper buttons (I hate using my fingers for everything like on an iPhone). Perhaps I'm just easy to please.
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VariableMouth CongressStroke Me Lady FameRegistered Userregular
I seriously cannot think of anyone that thing would appeal to. As a novelty it looks cumbersome and expensive, and I can barely get my family to use a controller when it doesnt have a screen attached to it. Please tell me nobody is excited about it?
I'm pretty excited
I like things that are fun and I have already seen several ways that this might increase the amount of fun I have while playing
You guys aren't thinking far ahead enough. The RTS games that will be possible to make with this have already been mentioned, but also think about stuff like fighting games with each player using a wiipad, with a camera focused on their avatar, and the tv showing a wide view of the fight.
2D platform games (like Muramasa Demon Blade), with multiple players on screen, each one with their little view of the game with the wiipad.
Poker games. Board games. Shooters (the Colonial Marines game? You have your own radar, ya know?).
And that's just stuff that I thought up yesterday.
Actually you know what would make sense to me? Single click, simple games, story, charm, casual crowd....
Sierra adventure games.
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Zxerolfor the smaller pieces, my shovel wouldn't doso i took off my boot and used my shoeRegistered Userregular
I gotta eat crow on Star Fox 64 3D. A few months ago, when Nintendo said they were scrapping 64's multiplayer, I pretty much said that 3DS online was dooooomed because nobody would support it if Nintendo didn't. Well, they scrapped the multiplayer.... for a completely different and quite possibly better online mode.
Good one Nintendo.
I'm pretty sure the new battle mode with the killcam pics is still offline only. Unless they've announced something new that I didn't know about.
Re: Everyone dreaming up fantastical additions to third-party ports ... I guess you're far more optimistic than I am. If the WiiU was designed to more easily accommodate ports and versions of games from third-party developers who were reluctant to built Wii-specific versions, then why should we expect those same developers to all of a sudden be so excited about building WiiU-specific versions of their multiplat games? Because of "innovation"?
You guys aren't thinking far ahead enough. The RTS games that will be possible to make with this have already been mentioned, but also think about stuff like fighting games with each player using a wiipad, with a camera focused on their avatar, and the tv showing a wide view of the fight.
2D platform games (like Muramasa Demon Blade), with multiple players on screen, each one with their little view of the game with the wiipad.
Poker games. Board games. Shooters (the Colonial Marines game? You have your own radar, ya know?).
And that's just stuff that I thought up yesterday.
Actually you know what would make sense to me? Single click, simple games, story, charm, casual crowd....
[strike]Sierra[/strike] Lucas Arts adventure games.
'Random utterly unpredictable thing killed you! Hope you saved LOL!' will not fly with today's market. And should never have flown with yesterday's. Fuck you Sierra!
If the WiiU was designed to more easily accommodate ports and versions of games from third-party developers who were reluctant to built Wii-specific versions, then why should we expect those same developers to all of a sudden be so excited about building WiiU-specific versions of their multiplat games? Because of "innovation"?
Because it's just like you said: They had to build specific versions for the Wii from the ground up, with completely different engines, art assets and code, and add the motion sensing technicalities on top of that. Development teams are bound to a budget, which was used up for the most part on man hours trying to make stuff happen on the underperforming Wii. Porting in this case isn't just copying and pasting code.
One of the reasons we love that as a platform is we've already created technical engines to make those games work, we have all the HD art assets and now it's [about] creating a user interface, which demands creativity and thought - it's not the expensive part of the game development process. So in terms of developing for the Wii U, it's a tremendous opportunity which we think has good leverage for our investment dollars. We don't see development costs increasing for the foreseeable future.
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FiggyFighter of the night manChampion of the sunRegistered Userregular
You guys aren't thinking far ahead enough. The RTS games that will be possible to make with this have already been mentioned, but also think about stuff like fighting games with each player using a wiipad, with a camera focused on their avatar, and the tv showing a wide view of the fight.
2D platform games (like Muramasa Demon Blade), with multiple players on screen, each one with their little view of the game with the wiipad.
Poker games. Board games. Shooters (the Colonial Marines game? You have your own radar, ya know?).
And that's just stuff that I thought up yesterday.
Now think up some cool stuff involving one Umote per console, because that's how it's going to be. It's been all but confirmed that the console is only currently intended to use one new controller.
With that in mind, there would be no controller to price. It's a console/controller bundle, and it's not out of the question that we'll see $499 as a price point.
You guys aren't thinking far ahead enough. The RTS games that will be possible to make with this have already been mentioned, but also think about stuff like fighting games with each player using a wiipad, with a camera focused on their avatar, and the tv showing a wide view of the fight.
2D platform games (like Muramasa Demon Blade), with multiple players on screen, each one with their little view of the game with the wiipad.
Poker games. Board games. Shooters (the Colonial Marines game? You have your own radar, ya know?).
And that's just stuff that I thought up yesterday.
Actually you know what would make sense to me? Single click, simple games, story, charm, casual crowd....
[strike]Sierra[/strike] Lucas Arts adventure games.
'Random utterly unpredictable thing killed you! Hope you saved LOL!' will not fly with today's market. And should never have flown with yesterday's. Fuck you Sierra!
There is a bear! What should you use? What do you mean that pie that you used hours earlier in the game? You mean that since I used the pie too early, I have to start over from the beginning? Nothing else can be used on the bear? It just kills me now, over and over!?!?
Make that Advance Wars. The BW characters suck. The screen in your hands should give you GBA Vision for commanding your mooks while you take direct control of a unit on the TV.
Combine that with online play, and BAM! Natural Selection for kids! BEST GAME EVAR.
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I seriously could not stop laughing thinking about this. That is freaking awesome. Seriously, that should be a selling point: "Tekken - Kick someone's ass and draw penises on their face!"
i guess there's always netflix. but anyone serious has a bd player or ps3 anyways.
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I don't care that I haven't beaten chapter 3 in Story Mode in GX. Crush my balls in again, I dare you.
(I will also accept a new StarFox rail shooter that doesn't suck ass. This requires it to be made by Treasure.)
Epic will announce Unreal 4 engine won't work you can see it happening. Hopefully the fact Nintendo hasn't released specs for the WiiU is that the specs are going to improve as more powerful components become cheaper over the next 6 months.
Overall for me I like the idea but im getting sick of the cheap white plastic look the console has.
But I'm not sold on it for gaming, mainly the controller.
Casuals could eat it up if the price is right and there's a wii sports type pack in.
Good one Nintendo.
edit: Oops, turns out it's not online after all. I take it back, Nintendo. You're incompetent.
Wait, what happened here?
I haven't been keeping up with it lately, but pretty much the entire reason I wanted Star Fox 64 3D was because I have such fond memories of playing SF64 multiplayer with friends.
I don't like the name. WiiU, Wii U, Wii-U, or however I'm supposed to write it. Then again, I didn't like "Wii" either, but it worked out tremendously well for them, so what do I know?
My concern is the size of the controller and I can't help thinking of all the people who complained about the size of the original XBOX controller. Maybe I imagined it all, but I thought part of the point of the Wii was to have simple controls and that traditional controllers were too complex? And yet here we have a white brick with a touch screen, dual sticks, d-pad, and sprinkled with buttons.
But yeah, I'm intrigued. It's different enough to catch my interest and I want to see what the can do with this.
Also, I thought it was cute to see EA being presented as an indie publisher.
Needed somewhere to put that Xbox logo
The original multiplayer is gone. Its replacement looks a hell of a lot better.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E5vtXFEjo6Y
It's roughly the size of a Kindle held sideways, if the measurements are anything to go by.
I have no problem holding a Kindle.
Again, though, I'll need to put hands to plastic to make sure.
Will it be reasonable for even the mighty Nintendo to release something like this at a reasonable price and not take an absolute beating on their costs?
I guess the Triple-U itself will be pretty standard stuff, but the screen in that controller will probably run a pretty penny. It may have pretty simple internal workings given that it doesn't have much internally, but it's still a touchscreen, and it has rumble, accelerometers, gyroscope, camera, etc. Nintendo's going to wind up eating a lot of cash money if that thing comes in under $300
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2D platform games (like Muramasa Demon Blade), with multiple players on screen, each one with their little view of the game with the wiipad.
Poker games. Board games. Shooters (the Colonial Marines game? You have your own radar, ya know?).
And that's just stuff that I thought up yesterday.
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I'm pretty excited
I like things that are fun and I have already seen several ways that this might increase the amount of fun I have while playing
Actually you know what would make sense to me? Single click, simple games, story, charm, casual crowd....
Sierra adventure games.
I would buy 2 copies of each and every single one.
I'm pretty sure the new battle mode with the killcam pics is still offline only. Unless they've announced something new that I didn't know about.
Re: Everyone dreaming up fantastical additions to third-party ports ... I guess you're far more optimistic than I am. If the WiiU was designed to more easily accommodate ports and versions of games from third-party developers who were reluctant to built Wii-specific versions, then why should we expect those same developers to all of a sudden be so excited about building WiiU-specific versions of their multiplat games? Because of "innovation"?
'Random utterly unpredictable thing killed you! Hope you saved LOL!' will not fly with today's market. And should never have flown with yesterday's. Fuck you Sierra!
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Now think up some cool stuff involving one Umote per console, because that's how it's going to be. It's been all but confirmed that the console is only currently intended to use one new controller.
With that in mind, there would be no controller to price. It's a console/controller bundle, and it's not out of the question that we'll see $499 as a price point.
There is a bear! What should you use? What do you mean that pie that you used hours earlier in the game? You mean that since I used the pie too early, I have to start over from the beginning? Nothing else can be used on the bear? It just kills me now, over and over!?!?
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Make that Advance Wars. The BW characters suck. The screen in your hands should give you GBA Vision for commanding your mooks while you take direct control of a unit on the TV.
Combine that with online play, and BAM! Natural Selection for kids! BEST GAME EVAR.
You're dead to me, Nintendo. DEAD.
Please don't go. The drones need you. They look up to you.
In an alternate reality :
I need four Wiipads to play?
You're dead to me nintendo
Heh. Imagine the console just including a Wiimote.