Game

[Olivia Wilde Homo]

ShockingAlberto's basically said although Wii U is "easily" better than the two current HD twins ("by a country mile" were his exact words), the "generational leap doesn't apply to it." Likened the gap between Wii U and PS4/720 to "Witcher 2 on low settings" versus on high settings, and likened the gap between Wii U and PS3/360 to Xbox versus PS2.

We really need a :smh emoticon badly.  This post is disgraceful.

Johnny Nightfraud never forget.

[Takao]

It's a Google grudge.

On the Google side Sony's actually pretty cool. Make pretty looking phones with good cameras, and their Google TV... TVs were a pretty great deal when they came out. Shame Sony may axe that division altogether... Would rather they get out of gaming.

Gaming actually resembles something akin to profit for Sony. They also have the most versatile display of first party might. Why would you want that axed for a decade long money sink that has seen Sony being upstaged by the South Koreans?

[pilonv1]

ShockingAlberto's basically said although Wii U is "easily" better than the two current HD twins ("by a country mile" were his exact words), the "generational leap doesn't apply to it." Likened the gap between Wii U and PS4/720 to "Witcher 2 on low settings" versus on high settings, and likened the gap between Wii U and PS3/360 to Xbox versus PS2.

We really need a :smh emoticon badly.  This post is disgraceful.

Johnny Nightfraud never forget.

I found this one

[TakingBackSunday]

Whenever I see "smh" I imagine a guy facepalming while doing so

[Momo]

I sometimes imagine "smh" as "so much hate" and picture a very angry man

[T-Short]

Gaming actually resembles something akin to profit for Sony. They also have the most versatile display of first party might.

As in "might release a game every 6 years or so" 

[Damian79]

I am really glad Sony got rid of the resistance team.

[Tasty]

Gaming actually resembles something akin to profit for Sony. They also have the most versatile display of first party might.

As in "might release a game every 6 years or so" 

  No, just SCEJ.

[Takao]

I am really glad Sony got rid of the resistance team.

Sony never owned Insomniac, and I get the feeling the latter will wish they were in the future.

[Huff]

Well, their EA partners console game will fail. But their facebook games will save them!

[Mr. Gundam]

Well shit. Weeeoooo is getting an Avengers motion-control game.

It's all over, folks. Nintendo wins this round.

[Damian79]

Weeooooooo might be $300?

[Tasty]

Depends on the responses they get. Nintendo flat out said that the reason 3DS was $250 is because of surveys like that one.

[Trent Dole]

I thought it was going to be $350. They could get away with it for the holiday season easily at least.

[maxy]

whimsy

[Momo]

0 - Fuck off

[Phoenix Dark]

I literally cannot wait for next month when it's confirmed without a shadow of a doubt that the WiiU is barely stronger than a PS3. Just to see the collective Ntard hivemind move the goal posts from "it's going to be twice as powerful as current systems, and competitive with next gen ones!" to "well regardless of whether it's as strong as a PS3 or a PS4, at least I get to play Mario in HD"

[pilonv1]

So it's a lower res iPad with 1/100th the functionality?

[Damian79]

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So it's a lower res iPad with 1/100th the functionality?

Pretty much.  A 50 dollar version of the ipad.

[maxy]

Not sold separately.

[Damian79]

That you cannot buy without a white PS3.

What do you mean?  I am confused.

[Barry Egan]

WALK IN THE MIDDLE OF TRAFFIC: ONLY ON WIIU

[Damian79]

Wii U is white and has PS3-level tech inside :|

So why just not say 360 thats white and has ps3 level tech?

[Eel O'Brian]

what the hell kind of jacket is that, it looks like it has three or four hoods and a partial cape

[cool breeze]

I literally cannot wait for next month when it's confirmed without a shadow of a doubt that the WiiU is barely stronger than a PS3. Just to see the collective Ntard hivemind move the goal posts from "it's going to be twice as powerful as current systems, and competitive with next gen ones!" to "well regardless of whether it's as strong as a PS3 or a PS4, at least I get to play Mario in HD"

you joke but that latter statement is the only reason anyone is interested in the Wii U, myself included.  Although it would be nicer to see those Zelda and Mario games looking better than current consoles.

[Takao]

Well, their EA partners console game will fail. But their facebook games will save them!

Insomniac's games strike me as ones that were heavily aided by being published by a hardware manufacturer. Spyro probably would've just been another Gex, Ratchet would be dead, and Resistance would've been 1 game.

[Tasty]

how would you, Link Zelda Gannon, design NEXT-GEN Mario? does Mario really need next-gen, bumpmapped, HDRed, motion blurred, DOF'd, stencil shadowed, bokeh filtered graphics?

Yes yes yes and more yes. The environments would look amazing.

As for Mario himself, I dunno, just use his Galaxy or Brawl model. It's pretty much how Mario should look. Maybe add more polys so his nose is a perfect sphere or something.

[magus]

if you are making a 2D mario game,make it 2D like rayman origins,if you are doing it 3D galaxy was just fine,no reason to use cellshading

i mean a good way to think about it would be to confront it with other cartoony like game on PS3/360 but this generation is full of lame super-realistic game because those are the one where you can show the polygons and the only one i can think off is ratchet & clank

[cool breeze]

Real talk:

how would you, Link Zelda Gannon, design NEXT-GEN Mario? does Mario really need next-gen, bumpmapped, HDRed, motion blurred, DOF'd, stencil shadowed, bokeh filtered graphics?

I do not want this kind of Mario (nor Zelda):

[IMG]http://i.imgur.com/arebs.jpg[/img

Cell shading seems like the only good idea, no?

Easy answer is "make it look like pixar film quality"

Sad how few examples of cartoon-y platformers we have.  As much as I like Banjo Nuts and Bolts I don't like the style they went for.  The second Ratchet game for PS3 (I'm completely blanking on the name) looks really nice.

As for Mario himself, I dunno, just use his Galaxy or Brawl model. It's pretty much how Mario should look. Maybe add more polys so his nose is a perfect sphere or something.

I haven't played Brawl in a while but I remember it looking slightly off with detailed overalls and stuff.  Galaxy looked great because of its simplicity, closer to the old art styles.  Sunshine looked nice too.

It's really the spin-offs (kart, party, sports), NSMB games, and Mario 3D Land that stick to the boring homogeneous look.  That's why I'm hoping whatever Mario for Wii U exists, there's some creative spark besides "we need a Mario on the Wii U."  Galaxy totally had that.

I have no idea what that would be. 

[cool breeze]

It'll never happen and it's a dumb idea to boot, but it could be cool if the entire game is one long continuous level with a logical flow between each themed area.  Like Jak and Daxter 1 mixed with Mario Galaxy (so it doesn't turn into a collectathon).

[Steve Youngblood]

So, someone bring me up to speed a little here. Do we have a pretty good idea of the tech inside the Wii U at this point, or are we still just at the "pick which dev offering vague tidbits you want to believe" stage. Because, reading this last page, it seems like people here are increasingly convinced that the leap over 2006's tech isn't going to be very substantial. I'm just curious as to how confident we are at that assessment at this point.

[maxy]

3 ducktaped 360s is my guess

1.5GB RAM
3-5x stronger GPU
CPU--little faster or about the same,but backed with some Nintendo shit

Should be fine 720p machine

[Flannel Boy]

CPU--little faster or about the same,but backed with some Nintendo shit

Whimsy cores?

[maxy]

yeah whimsy cores

[Sho Nuff]

Why is that man standing in traffic

[Van Cruncheon]

oh god, the wii u hardware

[Phoenix Dark]

the neogaf thread is gold, pure gold

[Tasty]

Glad I've avoided that wall of shame.

[Phoenix Dark]

I wonder what I'd find on a top posters list for the Pokemon thread...

[Shaka Khan]

Who the hell is HylianTom and why does he spam so much in all the speculation threads? Does he actually have something of worth to share?

[Tasty]

I wonder what I'd find on a top posters list for the Pokemon thread...

My badge of honor.

[Phoenix Dark]

I remember when I used  to spend a lot of time on HylianTom's zelda website, Nintendo Dojo, GC Cafe, etc. Oh man

[Shaka Khan]

I remember when I used  to spend a lot of time on HylianTom's zelda website, Nintendo Dojo, GC Cafe, etc. Oh man

Damn.

[Tasty]

E3 is going to be utterly amazing   

[Sho Nuff]

Oh E3

Dear god please don't let me have to go

PLEEEEEEEEEEASE DON'T LET ME HAVE TO GO

[Tasty]

Oh E3

Dear god please don't let me have to go

PLEEEEEEEEEEASE DON'T LET ME HAVE TO GO

What is it, five years running? You're the new guy, you have to go.

[Vertigo]

I'm surprised the utterly obnoxious Acebandage is not higher on that list of shame.

[Barry Egan]

E3 is going to be utterly amazing   

oh god, the wii u hardware

uh-oh.  a storm cloud forms over the land of the nintendo nerd. 

[Trent Dole]

oh god, the wii u hardware

It's sub-current HD gen twins, isn't it?

[Momo]

Oh E3

Dear god please don't let me have to go

PLEEEEEEEEEEASE DON'T LET ME HAVE TO GO

[Damian79]

I would still go to E3 Sho Nuff, the other two might also reveal their hardware.

[maxy]

It would be absolutely hilarious if one of the other two announced tablet like controller at E3...they had plenty of time to develop one


Sony:PS3 with a tablet controller!!!Coming this holiday!!!

Nfans:WTF WTF WTF WTF

gaf would crash in a second

[maxy]

It would be funny at E3.

Nfans are not a very forgiving bunch.

[cool breeze]

I still don't get why that's a bad thing 

A second screen for consoles/PC could be great, and unless Nintendo changed a lot from E3, there's a lot of room for improvement.

[Sho Nuff]

And I'll have a far better time sitting at home watching it unfold on my screen as I swig beer

[Cerveza mas fina]

It would only be cool if that MS/Sony tablet was super powerful and actually WAS the console.

[Takao]

I hope MS's conference is as bad as it sounds. It'll help with the depression that'll be inflicted on me after Sony's...

[maxy]

Internet Explorer,now on Xbox

wuuuuuu

It would only be cool if that MS/Sony tablet was super powerful and actually WAS the console.

or console(powerful base station) + portable tablet(for XBLA like games at least)

Sony should've done that with Vita/PS4.Everything seems to be going into "needs touchscreen(tablet)" direction,so why not go a step further?

[Owl-faced Wizard]

He downloaded Steamgaf.

[Phoenix Dark]

I hotlinked it from some Ntard