Wii U

Mattey1 said:
HDDVD maybe? lol
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No lol about it... HD-DVD would provide enough space, and would be cheap as hell to license, if it even needs much licensing any more. Nintendo have a habit of using weird formats anyway, so it would make sense to use something a bit off the map.
 
Princey said:
I think next gen I'll stop supporting the Xbox after 10 years as they seem to be forgetting their original audience and I'll have a Wii-U for the fun, querky games and have my PC for hardcore games.
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So a remake of Halo, Halo 4 next year, Gears of War 3 which are all classic Xbox type exclusives which are played with a controller are them forgetting their audience?

If you use a PC now for 'hardcore games' then consoles probably aren't going to sway you from that regardless of the Manufacturer.
 
Nexus said:
So a remake of Halo, Halo 4 next year, Gears of War 3 which are all classic Xbox type exclusives which are played with a controller are them forgetting their audience?
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I love Halo and enjoyed Gears 1 & 2 but want somethign new - they're overused and becoming like CoD now. And unlike Nintendo IPS - which constantly surprise and add things new - the CoDs of this world are nothing more than tired retreads. If Halo 4 turns out to be great i'll be there like everyone esle, but Reach was the first in the series I couldn't be bothered to finish and if anything each game has got steadily worse since the first.
 
I'm not really that impressed, the Wii felt like a party console because you can just wave the controller around and generally look like a **** but it would be a laugh. The controllers for the Wii were versatile and Nintendo to their detriment has overlooked this.

You can't hold that hideous, over-sized controller in a party or social situation. And good luck buying extras for your buddies. So where's all the appeal gone? The Wii was sold on the back of being seen as a social, agile and versatile console, but none of this can be seen with the U. You can't get your grandad to have a go on this without confusing the **** out of him.

This has all the makings of a MASSIVE failure.
 
Warbie said:
I love Halo and enjoyed Gears 1 & 2 but want somethign new - they're overused and becoming like CoD now. And unlike Nintendo IPS - which constantly surprise and add things new - the CoDs of this world are nothing more than tired retreads. If Halo 4 turns out to be great i'll be there like everyone esle, but Reach was the first in the series I couldn't be bothered to finish and if anything each game has got steadily worse since the first.
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Nintendo's lineup mostly appears to be remakes of Nintendo franchises using either 3D in the case of the 3DS or the new controller with the Wii U.

I don't really see how that's much different or any less gimmicky than Microsoft focusing on integrating Kinect into games.

At the end of the day, most 'hardcore' games seem to focus around FPS. They may be sequels but there looks to be plenty of good ones in COD, Battlefield, Far Cry etc...

A new game has to try pretty hard to break those.
 
I think that's the thing though - the Wii was designed to get new people playing games and doing it together. Now it's all about "U", a console designed to get those same people playing different types of games but having an experience designed just for them on their own.

Or something.
 
KNiVES said:
I'm not really that impressed, the Wii felt like a party console because you can just wave the controller around and generally look like a **** but it would be a laugh. The controllers for the Wii were versatile and Nintendo to their detriment has overlooked this.

You can't hold that hideous, over-sized controller in a party or social situation. And good luck buying extras for your buddies. So where's all the appeal gone? The Wii was sold on the back of being seen as a social, agile and versatile console, but none of this can be seen with the U. You can't get your grandad to have a go on this without confusing the **** out of him.

This has all the makings of a MASSIVE failure.
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I've certainly been thinking about that.

It get's a little ridiculous with the amount of accessories.

So if you want a game of Wii U Sports Golf with friends... You've got to put a Wii U Controller on the floor and hope that nobody steps on it... then you've got to have a Wiimote each (or share), possibly with the Nun-chuck as well. You've then also got the likes of the other one they demoed to use in shooting games.

How many freaking controllers are you going to need to play the thing and where are you going to store them all?

The Wii spawned plenty of Fails where people had flinged the Wiimote into something. I wonder how many broken and considerably more expensive Wii U controllers we are going to see.
 
Nexus said:
Nintendo's lineup mostly appears to be remakes of Nintendo franchises using either 3D in the case of the 3DS or the new controller with the Wii U.
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The difference is each game tends to add something new and inventive. Mario is a great example - there have been 10s of games but none can be described as a reshash. Galaxy is a great example. What was it, the 10th flagship Mario game? and yet it was more creative and felt fresher than anything else i'd played that year.
 
I'm quite interested in this, as I don't own a Wii, but do have a 360 and PS3.

The main sticking point for this personally is price. The 3DS alone is >£150, so that controller must be £200+ on its own? Then add the console, you're looking at £350-£400 entry. They say it'll be competitively priced, however I see that meaning that the console itself will be ~£150-200, then the controller will make up the rest of the price.

Unless it has some proper A+ titles, I'll stay away. My 360 and PS3 can keep me occupied for a few more years still!

Dave
 
I like the fact that this might get the MS/Sony rolling on their new consoles a bit quicker rather than excitement for the Wii U itself. I get the feeling that by the time this is released we will be seeing some demo's and games from the new gen from the others which will look quite a bit more impressive and will turn a lot of gamers off after the Wii situation (I am referring to the slow drip of quality titles and a complete lack of mature titles, whether this changes with the Wii U or not it will hold in some peoples minds).
 
Yeah, I definitely think Microsoft will do an E3 reveal of their next Xbox in 2012. Sony will hang fire a year more.
 
DaveyD said:
I'm quite interested in this, as I don't own a Wii, but do have a 360 and PS3.

The main sticking point for this personally is price. The 3DS alone is >£150, so that controller must be £200+ on its own? Then add the console, you're looking at £350-£400 entry. They say it'll be competitively priced, however I see that meaning that the console itself will be ~£150-200, then the controller will make up the rest of the price.

Unless it has some proper A+ titles, I'll stay away. My 360 and PS3 can keep me occupied for a few more years still!

Dave
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The controller won't cost anywhere near as much to make as a 3DS.

For a start the controller is really just a screen with a Wii remote on each side.

There is no GPU or CPU hardware in there to run the games, it just receives the images from the main console.

The only real expensive part of the controller is the screen, the rest is just normal stuff.
 
Why are Nintendo so secretive about the hardware specs of their products? We still don't really know what the CPU/GPU/RAM/Optical Drive capacity of the Wii U are. If they are decent why not say? It makes the specs seem like low-end if everybody dodges questions about them.
 
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