One thing I thought was pretty cool is that Gearbox is using the pad as a motion tracker for colonial marines, so you actually look down at the pad to see the MT and read whats around you.
I mean it wouldn’t make me buy it, but still, it’s a pretty cool idea.
EDIT: Here it is
Tank Tank Tank gave me a huge BattleTanx nostalgia boost. Remember when vehicular combat was awesome?
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Supposedly leaked specs for the Wii U Devkit:
https://www.velocitygamer.com/e3-2012-wii-u-tech-specs-supposedly-leaked-have-a-look-at-them-here/
Between Pikmin 3, ZombiU, and whatever Retro Studios is working on I’ll probably think about getting a Wii U at some point. Not sure how soon after release, though.
Why do the consoles keep using tri core PPC processors? 1.5GBs of RAM sounds nice though.
The game doesn’t look that bad, honestly.
Severely dissapointed with Nintendo’s Conference. Was expecting a new Retro game, Starfox/F-Zero, and Monolithsoft’s new game. At least Retro’s project seemed like a given. The “launch window” games look good; but add up the facts that they confirmed the black WiiU is a tease; all the first party games at launch (as well as third party probably) will be 720p and Pikmin is the only confirmed 60fps game(Nintendo, why U no take advantage of the fancy hardware?!); and finally that Nintendo will be super-filtering all communication in the “MiiVerse” leading to delays up to thirty minutes between messages, and I can’t get excited by the console.
They really dropped the ball this E3, and I’ll probably just wait until they have a good selection of games, and a colored version. I’m bored of black and white electronics, I haven’t had a colored gaming device since the Gameboy SP because I got pretty much all Nintendo consoles at launch and the PS3 Slim shortly after it came out. (I also have a hand-me-down 360 that’s a replacement of a launch console.) I think I’ll be fine waiting this launch out until something really worthwhile surfaces. It just sucks with such a powerful console they didn’t go all out and show at least something that couldn’t work on the other ones (I believe the leaked specs, so it really pisses me off that Nintendo doesn’t give a shit about using it properly before the next consoles show up. I mean how could NSMBU, Pikmin or “NintendoLand” possibly stress the hardware enough to warrant 720p30fps!? Even on current gen ie. Xbox and PS3 hardware!)
I was slightly disappointed with their press conference, and subsequently the 3DS Demonstration, as they could have pushed more core titles out for WiiU. Not necessarily all first party either. Nintendo’s conferences have a tendancy to leave one yearning for more because the potential is there. In fact, I think Ubisoft had a better WiiU showcase than Nintendo did.
But it may just be the case that an F-Zero, StarFox, or Metroid may not currently in the works, or that there is simply not enough content to show. Or perhaps Nintendo is focused on developing a quality product, that much like the BMS team, prefer to keep things underwraps until the game is basically finished. Why spend time on creating a demo build when you could be focusing on making the best quality product you can.
I trust Nintendo’s judgement, and I look forward to what they will present in the future.
Those are all excellent concepts, whether you’re joking or not. Though what I don’t get is why kids keep crying for GTA style Mario. That’s just a ridiculous idea that Nintendo would never buy into.
This is pretty much how I feel about the conference as well. I gather from interviews that Retro themselves specifically told Nintendo that they weren’t to reveal anything about the game they were working on, and I would assume most of the core franchise games are either too early in development to share or not yet in development.
Not only that, but I get the impression they wanted to focus on what the Wii U tablet could do, and without a core franchise game being more or less complete at this stage (which is unlikely so far from console release) they couldn’t have given us anything more than “Hey, we’re making another one.”. Hype inducing, but not terribly productive. Announce whatever Retro is making between now and launch and the fans will hype it plenty with or without E3.
Personally, I see Pikmin 3 as a core franchise and, maybe I’m alone here, but I’m extremely excited for that one. Ok, so it isn’t the next Metroid game, but it’s been 8 years since the last one and people have been waiting for Nintendo to revive this franchise ever since.
They spent too much time on Nintendoland, and the 3DS lineup, while looking decent, wasn’t terribly well presented. The 1 hour showcase was really everything they told us during the 10 minute conference segment stretched out way too long. (Yay Luigi’s Mansion though).
Overall, an adequate, but not great conference. It accomplished what it needed to, demonstrating the Wii U potential, while hitting all the bases. Pikmin 3 for the core franchises, Arkham City for 3rd party support, and Wii Fit U for the casual market.
Announce anything hype inducing (Retro Studios) between now and launch, and I think they’ll do just fine.
NintendoLand sounded like a hardware bundled showcase game in the vein of WiiSports to me. I can’t really see a lot of deep content coming out of just twelve worlds made up of minigames. It wouldn’t be anything I’d buy into anyways. Odd way to close out a show to be sure.
Edit: Pikmin 3 is not going to feature online multiplayer co-op. Something to do with too many Pikmin onscreen at once.
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Fixed. I was on my phone when I made that last post and I didn’t notice that I double posted. My apologies.
WiiU is going to encounter a lot of problems once next gen starts. The WiiU runs on pretty much the same graphics as the ps3. Once the next gen consoles get under way WiiU will be left in the dust because developers will be working on higher end products and I cant imagine that they will want to program the game to lower standards for the WiiU.
So just like the last Wii the only games that will be made are ones that really just focus on nintendo products.
Uh, no. The WiiU uses a GPU 2 generations or so ahead of the PS3’s.
I wanna make a bet that Watch Dogs will end up on WiiU.
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