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General => Video Game Bored => Topic started by: Cerveza mas fina on August 08, 2012, 05:38:34 PM

Title: WiiU - some questions
Post by: Cerveza mas fina on August 08, 2012, 05:38:34 PM
1. Do you need a tv even to play with this? I mean is it just possible to play game streaming only? I dont own a tv and not really planning on getting one soon.
2. Whats the max distance of the streaming?

Shits got me thinking this could be a cool thing to chill out on the couch on next to the missus, bit better then ghettoing it with the Vita or putting the laptop on my lap.
Title: Re: WiiU - some questions
Post by: Cerveza mas fina on August 08, 2012, 05:45:11 PM
Wait i forgot it doesnt have games.
Title: Re: WiiU - some questions
Post by: Tasty on August 08, 2012, 05:46:53 PM
1. I think it's on a game-by-game basis, but most games should have it.
2. I think a room or two away. Not very long.
Title: Re: WiiU - some questions
Post by: Cerveza mas fina on August 08, 2012, 05:53:58 PM
Just something about the controller clicked with me you know, that comfy couch handheld/tablet feel but with a big screen and real games.
Title: Re: WiiU - some questions
Post by: Huff on August 08, 2012, 06:00:20 PM
How do you not have a tv?
Title: Re: WiiU - some questions
Post by: etiolate on August 08, 2012, 06:01:01 PM
insert polish joke here
Title: Re: WiiU - some questions
Post by: Cerveza mas fina on August 08, 2012, 06:14:36 PM
I dont watch tv. I had a tv a year ago yo play games and watch movies but I sold it when I went backpacking.

I havent had cable hooked up in like 10 years though.
Title: Re: WiiU - some questions
Post by: D3RANG3D on August 08, 2012, 06:25:28 PM
Just something about the controller clicked with me you know, that comfy couch handheld/tablet feel but with a big screen and real games.

 :kylielaff
Title: Re: WiiU - some questions
Post by: Phoenix Dark on August 08, 2012, 06:38:51 PM
Just something about the controller clicked with me you know, that comfy couch handheld/tablet feel but with a big screen and real games.

(http://i.imgur.com/O5a2E.jpg)
Title: Re: WiiU - some questions
Post by: Verdigris Murder on August 08, 2012, 06:48:37 PM
I'm buying one for my daughter, who should be about three when it goes on sale, she also has a 90 year old great grandmother to play it with.

Which is basically both ends of Nintys target audience spectrum.
Title: Re: WiiU - some questions
Post by: AdmiralViscen on August 08, 2012, 11:36:07 PM
i queefed reading this
Title: Re: WiiU - some questions
Post by: Eel O'Brian on August 08, 2012, 11:37:25 PM
just get a microsoft surface and buy a 360 controller
Title: Re: WiiU - some questions
Post by: Owl-faced Wizard on August 08, 2012, 11:40:05 PM
I'm buying one for my daughter, who should be about three when it goes on sale, she also has a 90 year old great grandmother to play it with.

Which is basically both ends of Nintys target audience spectrum.
Nobody buys a console for a three year old girl, deceiver.
Title: Re: WiiU - some questions
Post by: EmCeeGrammar on August 09, 2012, 12:47:22 AM
Its entirely up to the developer, which means you'll have to research every game to see if it has a non tv option.  Mass Effect 3 has like, a touch interface for position your squadmates and touch screen icons for fast powers usage, but you can opt out and just play it on the pad.  Just to bring things down to earth, the battery life on the controller is 3-5 hours and the touch screen is resistive tech. 
Title: Re: WiiU - some questions
Post by: Takao on August 09, 2012, 12:51:51 AM
Its entirely up to the developer, which means you'll have to research every game to see if it has a non tv option.  Mass Effect 3 has like, a touch interface for position your squadmates and touch screen icons for fast powers usage, but you can opt out and just play it on the pad.  Just to bring things down to earth, the battery life on the controller is 3-5 hours and the touch screen is resistive tech.

That's 3DS and Vita battery life, what the fuck did Nintendo put in that controller?
Title: Re: WiiU - some questions
Post by: Eel O'Brian on August 09, 2012, 12:55:34 AM
can you plug the controller into a charger and play while charging?
Title: Re: WiiU - some questions
Post by: frod on August 09, 2012, 03:06:48 AM
Its entirely up to the developer, which means you'll have to research every game to see if it has a non tv option.  Mass Effect 3 has like, a touch interface for position your squadmates and touch screen icons for fast powers usage, but you can opt out and just play it on the pad.  Just to bring things down to earth, the battery life on the controller is 3-5 hours and the touch screen is resistive tech.

That's 3DS and Vita battery life, what the fuck did Nintendo put in that controller?
WHDI streaming.
Title: Re: WiiU - some questions
Post by: Takao on August 09, 2012, 03:09:07 AM
I've been on this forum too long. My gut instinct for that acronym was "WHimsy Digital Interface" before googling.
Title: Re: WiiU - some questions
Post by: Cerveza mas fina on August 09, 2012, 03:28:40 AM
I must have been drunk when I made this thread sorry.
Title: Re: WiiU - some questions
Post by: cool breeze on August 09, 2012, 03:43:43 AM
The low-latency wireless video streaming is pretty impressive.  I think it's restricted to the same room, but there are cases where the controller screen reacts faster than the TV (to be fair, they could be wimpy TVs).  If it were a PC accessory, I'd totally pick one up; low resolution and all.  Or even if it supports wireless streaming of Wii and virtual console games (and gamecube? or is that gone?)
Title: Re: WiiU - some questions
Post by: frod on August 09, 2012, 03:53:45 AM
The low-latency wireless video streaming is pretty impressive.  I think it's restricted to the same room, but there are cases where the controller screen reacts faster than the TV (to be fair, they could be wimpy TVs).  If it were a PC accessory, I'd totally pick one up; low resolution and all.  Or even if it supports wireless streaming of Wii and virtual console games (and gamecube? or is that gone?)

Gamecube is gone.

Check out this: http://www.asus.com/Multimedia/Wireless_Kit/WAVI/ (http://www.asus.com/Multimedia/Wireless_Kit/WAVI/)
Title: Re: WiiU - some questions
Post by: Momo on August 09, 2012, 05:43:17 AM
:lol
Title: Re: WiiU - some questions
Post by: Diunx on August 09, 2012, 11:16:41 AM
You don't have a TV?!?

Do you need me to send you some monies?

I don't have a tv either.
Title: Re: WiiU - some questions
Post by: Brehvolution on August 09, 2012, 11:50:22 AM
weeeeeeeeeeeeeee-ooooooooooooooooo
Title: Re: WiiU - some questions
Post by: Joe Molotov on August 09, 2012, 12:02:54 PM
You don't have a TV?!?

Do you need me to send you some monies?

Times they are a changin'.
Title: Re: WiiU - some questions
Post by: demi on August 09, 2012, 12:27:16 PM


How is WiiU less ghetto than a Vita?
Title: Re: WiiU - some questions
Post by: Cerveza mas fina on August 09, 2012, 01:15:01 PM
Borys being poor is confused that people can opt not to have something.
Title: Re: WiiU - some questions
Post by: Joe Molotov on August 09, 2012, 01:32:23 PM
Borys will always have that PSP to remind him of where he came from.
Title: Re: WiiU - some questions
Post by: Cerveza mas fina on August 09, 2012, 01:57:08 PM
 :lol
Title: Re: WiiU - some questions
Post by: naff on August 10, 2012, 11:09:07 PM
I duno about Europe but here you can pick up some piece of shit 32" HD set for a few hundred. That+360 would probably be similar to opening prices on WiiU, and would still be far better than playing on that junk 480p screen, and from what I understand not all games are going to support pad only play.
Title: Re: WiiU - some questions
Post by: Phoenix Dark on August 11, 2012, 05:31:20 PM
Borys will always have that PSP to remind him of where he came from.
:lol