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[Howard Alan Treesong]

"Drink the Tablet Kool-Aid: OU YA!"

[maxy]

Chief technical officer, Oles Shishkovtsov, explains why Metro’s sequel won’t be appearing.

“[The] Wii U has a horrible, slow CPU,” explained Shishkovtsov. “We had an early look at it, we thought we could probably do it, but in terms of the impact we would make on the overall quality of the game – potentially to its detriment – we just figured it wasn’t worth pursuing at this time. It’s something we might return to. I really couldn’t make any promises, though.”

Despite Nintendo’s console offering Metro: Last Light new experiences to its players with it dual screens, when asked Shishkovtsov was adamant that the Wii U would ever seen Metro: Last Light when asked directly.

“We had an initial look at the Wii U, but given the size of the team and compared to where we were last time, just developing for the Playstation 3 is a significant addition.”

http://www.nowgamer.com/news/1687689/wii_u_has_a_horrible_slow_cpu_says_metro_last_light_dev.html

This launch is certainly fun to watch.

[Eel O'Brian]

Over the years, how many times do you suppose we'll be seeing "It's just not powerful enough to run it, sorry" quotes translated into  "_____ Not Coming to Wii U, Lazy Devs Are Lazy" threads by Nintendo fans?

[bork]

Over the years, how many times do you suppose we'll be seeing "It's just not powerful enough to run it, sorry" quotes translated into  "_____ Not Coming to Wii U, Lazy Devs Are Lazy" threads by Nintendo fans?

Probably not so much once the next Playstation and Xbox systems are released.  Then it's just going to be Nintendo fans foaming at the mouth over the 1-2 Mario/Zelda/Metroid/Smash etc releases that come out every year and the few decent third party Wii U-only titles that come out...pretty much a repeat of the Wii.  And the Game Cube before that.  And the N64 before that.

Look at all the people who didn't give a shit about Bayonetta who are getting hard-ons over the sequel being on Wii U.

I know it was certainly past due for a new Nintendo system, but I don't understand why they didn't make something much-more powerful or even waited to see what Sony and MS do.  They're clearly going to win Japan but the rest of the world doesn't give a shit about Monster Hunter rehashes and Dragon Quest online ports.  Where is the Wii U's "Wii Sports?"

[maxy]

I think as long as the WiiU is on the market,even today at the end of this gen there are plenty of people that cry lazy lazy worthless devs when PS3 something is not up to 360.

[Sho Nuff]

Also, "well, that didn't take long":
http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=500599

Sweet fucking lord, that thread.

you dull porker, anything done in the company of others is entertaining. that you chose to squander your halfwit family's free time playing this shitty dissonant fugue of corporate cynicism instead of, i dunno, making fucking pinterest crafts or trying to trick your youngest into drinking beer or whatever you gobsmacked yokels do, makes you utterly persecutable in your complete immorality. i hope your next box of twinkies is full of aids.

[Hitler Stole My Potato]

Over the years, how many times do you suppose we'll be seeing "It's just not powerful enough to run it, sorry" quotes translated into  "_____ Not Coming to Wii U, Lazy Devs Are Lazy" threads by Nintendo fans?

They're already doing it over at GAF in that thread about Metro's developer's comments about the Wii U CPU.

[ToxicAdam]

Nintendo fans really don't care. It's just something they say on message boards to engage in system wars discussions and to pass the time until the next wave of games in 10 months.

 All they really want are mascot games, sparkles, rounded edges and bright colors.

[Eel O'Brian]

oh, i think at least some of them care, you can't fake the kind of alex jones conspiracy stuff which rolls so naturally off their tongues

[Sho Nuff]

The horrible BD load times + lack of a large cache to store your game data is really going to hurt this thing. There's no room to put install data on the tard pack version.

[tiesto]

Oh wow, I didn't even know this has a BD in it... thought Nintendo would go with DVDs again. Still, this sounds like a disaster but I do see myself getting one, not like I have any other interesting game-related things to buy (lol vita).

[maxy]

Tard pack reserves like 4GB for OS purposes.

If nothing from that is reserved for system cache...

Oh wow, I didn't even know this has a BD in it... thought Nintendo would go with DVDs again. Still, this sounds like a disaster but I do see myself getting one, not like I have any other interesting game-related things to buy (lol vita).

25 GB discs,no blu-ray or dvd playback

[bork]

25 GB discs,no blu-ray or dvd playback

AGAIN, Nintendo?     Wouldn't having blu-ray and DVD video playback on the tablet screen have been a nice feature?

[archnemesis]

Nintendo: Paying for licenses?! Never!!

[Sho Nuff]

Remember, this is the company who removed MP3 playback from the Wii because they didn't want to pay licensing fees

[Joe Molotov]

25 GB discs,no blu-ray or dvd playback

AGAIN, Nintendo?     Wouldn't having blu-ray and DVD video playback on the tablet screen have been a nice feature?

Nice features cost money, bro.

[Hitler Stole My Potato]

The WiiU will last that long simply due to boasting unequivocal domination of Japan.
And the strength of Nintendo IPs.
Any and all Western third-parties could drop support for the system tomorrow and Nintendo could still coast along with their first-party efforts and Japanese third-party interests (both exclusive and otherwise).
#1 in Japan and #3 everywhere else (#2 if Sony continues to struggle financially) isn't such a bad deal. Nintendo will still be making mad profits. And that doesn't even factor in their domination of the portable space.

Frankly, it's a GOOD thing the WiiU is so underpowered. Guarantees more support from the Japanese development community that way.[/u]

 

Fucking. Brilliant.

[Tasty]

To be fair, having the disc drive spinning a bunch could cause it to fail. It's a solved problem but Nintendo goes for reliability and cheapness over nice features.

Sometimes it works out.

Sometimes.

[Eel O'Brian]

focus on what's important as a consumer and gamer

mad profits

[Joe Molotov]

Any and all Western third-parties could drop support for the system tomorrow and Nintendo could still coast along with their first-party efforts and Japanese third-party interests (both exclusive and otherwise).

>>Implies this hasn't already happened.

EA support is lol, Ubisoft released AssCreed 3 and Red Steel 3, but where's Far Cry 3? (on the 360/PS3/PC, of course)

[Phoenix Dark]

The stuff about one game save can be fixed with future games, correct?

Alas the hardware fuck ups are here to stay

[Don Flamenco]

To be fair, having the disc drive spinning a bunch could cause it to fail. It's a solved problem but Nintendo goes for reliability and cheapness over nice features.

Sometimes it works out.

Sometimes.

disc drives are not that fragile.  they'd have nothing more than a normal failure rate. 

It wasn't a decision in your best interest, it was a decision in their best interest. 

[D3RANG3D]

 

[Himu]

the last two days have been amazing

drinky

[Tasty]

To be fair, having the disc drive spinning a bunch could cause it to fail. It's a solved problem but Nintendo goes for reliability and cheapness over nice features.

Sometimes it works out.

Sometimes.

disc drives are not that fragile.  they'd have nothing more than a normal failure rate. 

It wasn't a decision in your best interest, it was a decision in their best interest.

My Wii's disc drive busted twice. Second time I never bothered to fix it. Normal failure rate is probably unacceptable to Nintendo.

[mjemirzian]

Lazy Devs Are Lazy" threads by Nintendo fans?

Pretend mind reading is a video game forum staple along with presenting opinions as facts. So expect to see about as much as usual.

[Himu]

Guys.

Guys.

Look what Wii U hath wrought.

http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showpost.php?p=44558402&postcount=514  :'( :'( :'(

Just came here to post that.

I want nothing to do with this godforsaken fanbase anymore, I want off. Someone let me off!

WII U

[Cerveza mas fina]

Guys.

Guys.

Look what Wii U hath wrought.

http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showpost.php?p=44558402&postcount=514  :'( :'( :'(

Just came here to post that.

I want nothing to do with this godforsaken fanbase anymore, I want off. Someone let me off!

WII U

Drinky 

[Cerveza mas fina]

ZombiU already looks better than Metro 2033, so this doesn't bug me too much.

 

[Bebpo]

I completely forgot this came out.  Is the thing selling? 

[SantaC]

ZombiU already looks better than Metro 2033, so this doesn't bug me too much.

 

nintendo fanbase is really the worst on the internet. Way worse than Apple, and thats quite an achievement.

The Wii U could been a turd in a toilet by Reggie and it still would be the greatest system by nin fans.

[SantaC]

didnt they also remove the component output on gamecube later in its life?

[Sho Nuff]

Remember, this is the company who removed MP3 playback from the Wii because they didn't want to pay licensing fees

What?

http://www.destructoid.com/wii-photo-channel-drops-mp3-playback-in-favor-of-aac-format-next-month-54066.phtml

[Great Rumbler]

For all the things that Nintendo's been on the leading edge of, there's just as many things that they're so incredibly far behind on. Nothing new here.

[SantaC]

For all the things that Nintendo's been on the leading edge of, there's just as many things that they're so incredibly far behind on. Nothing new here.

too bad they stopped wowing us with the actual games.

[pilonv1]

Has anyone encountered a bunch of dicks in the public area or whatever?

Closest is this

http://i.imgur.com/0HjFo.jpg

Also

http://goo.gl/7O3Dk

PSA: All Stars Racing Transformed Has Game-Ending Bug

What can you say about launch day games? They’re usually the sloppiest, trashiest bits of data to hit a system if they’re not from a first party developer. It’s unfortunate that this is so with All-Stars Racing Transformed on Wii U. It seems a bug has been reported that essentially makes the game unplayable.

Those starting off the tour mode in single player find themselves at an impasse on the first boost challenge stage when the checkpoints you must pass through to extend time fail to load, essentially making the level on all difficulties unbeatable. There’s no getting around the stage either, leaving Wii U owners high and dry on the game.

This seems to affect all Wii U consoles that downloaded the update patch for the game upon boot up. Deleting the update data causes the system to redownload it upon booting up the game, and taking it offline will cause the system to complain at you to get an Internet connection to play the game.

If you’re deciding still which version to get, we highly advise staying away from the Wii U port until further notice. Hopefully Sumo Digital and Sega are on top of this and working up another patch, but such a gross oversight on a release game is reprehensible and lazy. Come on, Sega, this isn’t 2006 anymore.

[Sho Nuff]

WEEEOOOO~~~

[DCharlieJP]

GUYS BUT REMEMBER!

at this point in time X360's across the nation were freezing all the time and after a week or so we started seeing RROD's! THATS WAY WORSE

it's not like Wii U's are freezing all the time or an.... oh.... wait....

i'll give it 1-2 weeks, and then we'll see the same hardware issues.

This thing is a clusterf0ck of epic proportions and it's going to Vitaton total.

Mariowned.

[Don Flamenco]

it doesnt have the VitaDie virus.  thats the sad part, itll sell.

but yeah, i havent seen gaf this nuts in a long time. 

[MrAngryFace]

blargh thanks for the heads up on Sonic Racing- was looking to buy that for WiiU :/

[DCharlieJP]

The big issue for the Wii U , at least in Japan, is the 3DS.

The 3DS is a beast. The Wii U ? um... not so much.

I expect Wii U to splutter out the gates here and then splutter on for a year or so and then Nintendo will probably force everyone into buying the machine with a couple of titles like Advance Wars U, Metroid U, Yoshi's Island U etc....

and of course - a hefty price cut a few months before X8 and PS:Orb

[pilonv1]

Level of competition was different in 06/07 when RROD was at it's peak. People wanted 360s, no one wants a Wii U when there's 4000 other devices they can play games/watch netflix on.

[BlueTsunami]

Played with the WiiU at Best Buy and the only Demo they had going was Rayman which seemingly doesn't even use the controller screen for anything interesting... just level selection. Good jon, Nintendo. I've never been so unexcited about anything since forever. I've been thinking about getting it just to play the backlog of Wii games but even then I'm all meh.

[pilonv1]

Gamepad is only used in Rayman in that Nintendo sanctioned co-op way where the players using controllers are deemed to dumb to play a platformer themselves and need an extra person to finger waggle blocks/items/enemies for them.

[Tasty]

Euthanize everyone in this video.

[BlueTsunami]

Gamepad is only used in Rayman in that Nintendo sanctioned co-op way where the players using controllers are deemed to dumb to play a platformer themselves and need an extra person to finger waggle blocks/items/enemies for them.

Oh man that's awful. Relegating the gamepad to purely co-op functions is hilari-bad in that it sort of makes the solo gamer feel like the odd man out with what is supposed to be cool gamepad functions. I guess if they designed the game around the pad being used for co-op and solo mechanics the branching in design would be pretty large to handle but still as a demo it just felt a little same old and didn't differentiate itself from the PS3 and 360. Something like ZombieU should be a playable demo.

[MrAngryFace]

well its like the second screen on the 3DS- rarely used in any meaningful way except in weird ass multi-user edge cases.

[pilonv1]

Here it is in video.

[Takao]

Euthanize everyone in this video.

"Everything you'd want in a connected system we have"

 

[MrAngryFace]

except none of your fucking nintendo accounts link together god damnit nintendo you need the ecosystem to extend BEYOND the device

[Eel O'Brian]

"unless, you know, you want to be connected"

[Tasty]

Euthanize everyone in this video.

"Everything you'd want in a connected system we have"

 

FUCK

[MrAngryFace]

Its good to know that even your goodwill can be broken with enough stupidity, Andrex

[Olivia Wilde Homo]

I have little doubt that after a feeble, half assed attempt to fix these problems, Andrex will come crawling back, refusing to acknowledge this brief period of treasonous behavior.

[MrAngryFace]

To be fair there are a few things the WiiU does that I like and think are just plain good ideas- and i've tried to say as much, cause these days I like the advancement of the industry, but damn.

[BlueTsunami]

Fuck the gamepad shit I want to go balls deep into escapism. Give me the option to use Oculus Rift with Durango 720 and Fallout 4. This is something I will poopsock with.

[Olivia Wilde Homo]

To be fair there are a few things the WiiU does that I like and think are just plain good ideas- and i've tried to say as much, cause these days I like the advancement of the industry, but damn.

While they can't fix the hardware, Nintendo will eventually fix the numerous software issues.  It will just take way more time than it should.

[AdmiralViscen]

Why didn't they call this Wii DS?

[pilonv1]

weeeeedeeeeees

[AdmiralViscen]

Why didn't they call this Wii DS?

Because saying "Wii Dis" sounds fucking stupid.

What does Wii U sound like like?