Nintendo Conference

[L. Scofield]

No specs?

 

[Teasy]

Metro Last Light with the Wii U controller sounds awesome. The EA guy just hinted that BF3 might also be on it.

I'm guessing that the Wii U is capable of a significant leap above 360/PS3 graphics and that the ports of AAA games aren't really pushing the envelope. Probably Nintendo doesn't want to actually reveal exclusive games until next E3 so as not to overshadow third parties.

I'm confused though, is there a separate console that wirelessly sends video to the controller or is it actually all a portable, hand-held system? I'm guessing the former.

It was said several times in the conference that what you see on the controller is all streamed from the console.

 

[rabidrabbit]

They did mention HD several times, so most certainly the console hardware will be new, at least updated for HD resolutions.
Just doesn't seem to be the leap in power I was expecting, well, it'll be up to Sony and MS then.

 

[Nesh]

Wait. They showed PS3/360 quality games at the end, EA talked about high def visuals and no new console announced.
Is there a new console? A Wii with HD output? Are they going to show us at TGS? :
No new console? High def and improvied visuals on WiiU screen?
What happened there I am not sure

Basically it was a new peripheral announcement so far

 

[-tkf-]

Metro Last Light with the Wii U controller sounds awesome. The EA guy just hinted that BF3 might also be on it.

I'm guessing that the Wii U is capable of a significant leap above 360/PS3 graphics and that the ports of AAA games aren't really pushing the envelope. Probably Nintendo doesn't want to actually reveal exclusive games until next E3 so as not to overshadow third parties.

I'm confused though, is there a separate console that wirelessly sends video to the controller or is it actually all a portable, hand-held system? I'm guessing the former.

As i understand, the Console does all the work (there is only one) and the tablet, ehmm Wii U is "dumb" getting all wireless from the console. Clever

 

[-tkf-]

Wait. They showed PS3/360 quality games at the end, EA talked about high def visuals and no new console announced.
Is there a new console? A Wii with HD output? Are they going to show us at E3?

As is Nintendo fashion, hardware is not important only money, ehmm the experience is.

There is a new console somewhere and it powers everything and the reason EA was there, Nintendo now has "current" hardware that can run EA´s Current games

 

[rabidrabbit]

"It must just be a Wii repackaged"

This forum is now officially stupid

Hope that tech demo is really representative of games, it looked fantastic to me. The third party games will be early ports so I wouldn't expect them to look much different to the 360/PS3 versions.

Hey! No need to call names! That was just speculation on my part before I saw the footage of the new games.
Engadget seems to have some info on the console already, a picture at least...

 

[Nesh]

As is Nintendo fashion, hardware is not important only money, ehmm the experience is.

There is a new console somewhere and it powers everything and the reason EA was there, Nintendo now has "current" hardware that can run EA´s Current games

They should have some beefed up console somewhere hidden. Unless they have something else under their sleeve.

The epilogue of their conference raised questions than answer

 

[patsu]

Vindicated ! the tablet use case. We spoke about THQ's uDraw tablet too.
Lot's of ideas from Nintendo's Wii U trailer.

Both Vita and WiiU controller can easily be a universal remote.

 

[nintenho]

A few minutes ago on e3.nintendo.com they had a demo of the WiiU being used but it was just with a regular Wii. So I guess it can be used with the current Wii console and with it's successor.

Did they say anything about the size of the next console?

 

[Nesh]

I wonder what the price is going to be for the controller.
Sony can use the Vita in similar ways if not identical. The price tag though is what will prohibit expanding the Vita to WiiU uses

 

[hoho]

Anyone noticed if the screen was multitouch or not?

 

[Teasy]

Wait. They showed PS3/360 quality games at the end, EA talked about high def visuals and no new console announced.
Is there a new console? A Wii with HD output? Are they going to show us at TGS? :
No new console? High def and improvied visuals on WiiU screen?
What happened there I am not sure

Basically it was a new peripheral announcement so far

Are you serious?

 

[Nesh]

A few minutes ago on e3.nintendo.com they had a demo of the WiiU being used but it was just with a regular Wii. So I guess it can be used with the current Wii console and with it's successor.

Did they say anything about the size of the next console?

They didnt mention anything about the new console. Its a mystery

 

[patsu]

I love that combined Wiimote + WiiU use for golf game. That was the problem for John Daly ProStroke Golf. I looked up to joke with friends, and forgot where the ball was when I looked down again.

 

[rabidrabbit]

A few minutes ago on e3.nintendo.com they had a demo of the WiiU being used but it was just with a regular Wii. So I guess it can be used with the current Wii console and with it's successor.

Did they say anything about the size of the next console?

In the picture it looks smaller than Wii.
Edit: Actually it's bigger, I remembered the Wii larger than it really is.

 

[tongue_of_colicab]

Wait. They showed PS3/360 quality games at the end, EA talked about high def visuals and no new console announced.
Is there a new console? A Wii with HD output? Are they going to show us at TGS? :
No new console? High def and improvied visuals on WiiU screen?
What happened there I am not sure

Basically it was a new peripheral announcement so far

I'm sorry but did you actually pay any attention? It's obvious that there is a whole new console behind all this, they just didnt announce it because just as with wii, its all about the controller. Just showing a new box and telling everybody its ''uber fast'' isnt going to do anything. Anyway, they showed a whole bunch of videos and from what I could tell it looked like pc versions of those games so no way it's just a souped up wii with a hdmi connector. As those games are just ports/early versions I'm pretty sure the new system is quite a bit more powerfull that ps360.

Something I'm more interrested in though is controller battery life & price. It certainly doesn't look like your average 50 dollar controller (even if in reality it probably doesnt even take 10 bucks to build a normal controller)

 

[liolio]

Kotaku has a picture of the new console.

 

[Teasy]

Hey! No need to call names! That was just speculation on my part before I saw the footage of the new games.
Engadget seems to have some info on the console already, a picture at least...

Sorry man but common.. It was clear when they showed the short Zelda tech demo and when reggie said "this is what the new system can do" and showed that flight demo that this thing is leagues ahead of Wii,

 

[bkilian]

Huh.. I don't get it...

The graphics they showed with the bird flying didn't look that much better than the current Wii graphics. The water effect wasn't great, they were using alpha to coverage on the tree, looked like no AA.

The Darksiders footage also looked like it was very low poly.