The CPU in Wii U should be very good at things such as tree traversal and dealing with complex structures, far far better than Cell. It would probably run something like MS Word or a Web browser wonderfully. Skyrim for example should not pose it a problem. Cell actually struggles running a full TCP/IP stack.
Crammond, Braben, Mitsuji...????? He does know who Miyamoto is right?
I don't know, as soon as you see a new Apple product, you get queue lengths going around the block at midnight.
With the Wii and PS3 launches, you had machines on E-bay going for thousands due to short supply. My new toy this Christmas is going to be a 3DS disguised as a Christmas present for my daughter.
I think that the general idea was to create a DS type experience on a grand scale, and also allow the use of the console when the TV is being used for other things, like, well, watching TV.
Well you are by far the top poster in this thread too.Odd thing is that the newbie doesn't even have a Wii U thread (they have a new Tombraider one). I was looking forward to wumming it, but it does not seem to exist!!!
I care deeply because I care for the direction in which gaming is going. In any case, do you not think that it's odd that the newbie does not have a Wii U thread?
Yep, the one thing we've always agreed on. It's going down the pan.
I don't look at the newbies myself, I suppose it is a little strange and get what you are thinking, but I personally think the Wii-U has been under publicised and it's proper strange the brand awareness is less than even the 3DS was at first.
It's going to be good at things needed in Mario games. Shite at anything needing complex A.I/Physics at lots of characters. As I said, it's a good thing those are two areas that have stalled.
Well Miyamoto is always studied in these courses, but he wouldn't know any of the real legends.
I purchased one, and I hate myself for being such a sucker for shiny new gadgets.
In fairness RDR is actually a pretty good game, and as far as current developers go Rockstar aren't the worst, but do these courses think that a game being modern means it's automatically better? Christ, gaming would improve if people started making games more like the old ones.
Probably not. You're guaranteed at least one odd moment with each Nintendo Direct though
Well the overall packages might be ok ,but actual game mechanics are the worst aspects of Rockstar games. That might have changed if I actually accepted the job there though
Seems not to have any real SIMD/vector units either. At least Xenon has 3 quite powerful VMX units actually improved on the one in the Cell PPE. Is the use of these in XB360 for video decoding a part of what's getting Microsoft into trouble with Motorola in their patent dispute?
I would recommend downloading the Rayman Legends demo. It's fantastic! Dungeon Rock is well funny.I've been impressed with it to be honest, more-so than I thought I'd be (although I was expecting the worst). The console is sleek and well built, as are the controllers. I got the ZombiU bundle with a Wii Remote Plus (never bought one of these for Wii) and New Super Mario Bros. U.
Haven't really played ZombiU much yet, literally for about 20 minutes to see what it was like. I can tell it's going to be very hit-and-miss already, but it's difficult and will last me a while when I get into it. If you like survival horror like the original Resident Evil games, you'll probably love it.
New Super Mario Bros. U doesn't really offer much different to previous games in the series, but my first night with the Wii U on Thursday was with the girlfriend and two mates playing four player with some beers. Like with the Wii, it was amazing fun. Haven't laughed so much in a long time.
Graphics wise, it's as good as anything I've seen before, which was the one thing I expected it to do as good if not better
OS is a bit slow for now but I think they're working on improving that in an update eventually, but it's not annoying slow. Interface is nice, everything is bright and fluid. GamePad works great and is very comfy despite being quite big. It already feels like the next step in gaming and I'm sure Microsoft and Sony will copy it in some way come late 2013 or sometime in 2014. However, if Nintendo's somewhat average powered console for the current time costs £300 , then if we're seeing a major upgrade these ones are going to have to be over £500 to break even.
For anyone interested, I'd definitely buy it online and probably from ShopTo. Don't feck about with the Basic pack, get one of the Premium ones.
Sports, TVii’s Saving Grace
Nintendo TVii is plagued by a laundry list of other faults that will need to be ironed out in the future too, like stuttering menus, lengthy load times and the fact that DVR support isn’t currently available. (Or Hulu. Or Netflix.) Comments you make will also get double-posted to Facebook twice if you’ve got it and Twitter linked and you tie TVii to both. Really, what we’ve been given access to today is more like Nintendo TVii Beta, a glimpse of what the service could offer someday.
But there is one saving grace for TVii right now, in its current form – sports. Watching a live game with TVii running on the GamePad is very, very cool. I actually tested this out before heading over to NBC’s comedies, catching parts of the Poinsettia Bowl on ESPN and the end of the Timberwolves vs. Thunder NBA game.
A full record of every play in the game, in order, with stats and visual aids.
Watching both games rocked. I’m not personally a fan of any of the teams who were playing, but the streaming, constantly updated info on the GamePad screen made me feel more invested. For the football game, a display of the field gave a diagram of every single play, letting you scroll back and forth through the entire game and see every run, pass, fumble and field goal. And comment on any of them, any time after they’d happened.
For basketball, a similar court diagram gave you a visual indicator of where shots had just been launched from on the floor and whether or not they made it through the net. Constantly-updated “moments,” each available for commentary, keep a continuous scroll on the right side of the GamePad screen as well. I was impressed with the speed – when Westbrook went to the line to shoot a free throw and made it, the GamePad said exactly that and invited your comment. When he hit the second one in a row, the post about him making the first shot auto-updated itself to read that he’d made both.
It may seem to be a subtle thing, but even a not-so-much-of-a sports fan like myself could see the appeal here. I can’t wait to see how the Miiverse, Facebook and Twitter explode during huge live events like the Super Bowl.
For basketball, see where every shot in the game was launched from in one image.
The Potential is There
And so concluded my first evening with Nintendo TVii. Will I use it again? I think I will, especially to show my friends and family how it interacts with sporting events and connects you to other Wii U-owning fans watching the same games along with you. But I’d like to see Nintendo address some of the issues I encountered here when rolling out future updates for the software. We know they’re coming, as DVR support, Hulu and Netflix integration are still being prepped. So maybe, when those updates arrive, they can also give us a menu option that lets us toggle off things like “I commented on a TV Moment. I commented on a TV Moment. I commented on a TV Moment.”
Because, if they do, I may be more likely to want to comment on more TV moments.
The verdict: Nintendo TVii is kind of incomplete, definitely clunky and maybe more of a hassle than it's worth in its current form. But the potential is definitely there.
Don't you have a Xbox or ps3 for that?
Yeah but if Im going to pay £300-£400 on a Wii U id like to have the option of buying the majority of next years top games on it. Seems pointless to buy it then spend the majority of time/money on the ps3.
Seems pointless to buy a console to play games you can already play on your existing console.
Don't see why TBH, until the 3DS/PSP2 thread was made I never saw anyone here say that they owned a DS.
Yeah, that's a great price there.
He sort of has a point, I've been saying it all along.... without the main Nintendo software, why on earth would you want one? All of the 3rd party stuff seems to run worse than on the XB360.
It needs real Nintendo software full stop, because there is nothing outside of that.
I meant that I don't see why that not many people on here has one means anything.
I'm not standing outside the shops, so I've no idea. I do know people with one though, more than I did the Wii, not that that means anything. I don't yet own one no, but PS3 apart, I haven't bought a console on release in ages.
