Topic: Nintendo's 3rd party footage culled from other systems...

what about that japanese bird video peoples??

its weird but the Evil killer Rabbids actually scare me. If the gameplay looks like this then i might not be able to play it.

@GuardianAcorn

Confirmed to be made from an early development kit.

All the Nintendo first party stuff, the bird demo and Tekken were clearly on the Wii U. Ghost Recon Online is shown here being played on the Wii U and I'm sure you have seen the Wii U Zelda demo being shown with controllable cameras and lighting effects.

As for if the games will look better or not... well shouldn't we expect exclusives and first party games to look better? That's generally true already even without console fights. Exclusives tend to look better than cross platform games. I would also expect cross platform games to be more or less the same as cross platform games have been for this entire generation. Very similar across the HD consoles and PC with maybe a different character or a console specific gimmick. Surely the "hardcore" gamer won't change the way (s)he buys games.

They don't really care that much about which one looks marginally better. It's all about what extra character on that fighter game do I want more or which console most of your friends own. Sometimes it's "I just built an awesome PC and I want to test it out" or maybe it's an FPS and you really just want to play it with a KB and Mouse. I would think that with the Wii U the graphical advances will mean equally as little when it comes down to it. I would expect people to buy a game on the Wii U because their friends own Wii Us or because they like the Wii Remote for shooters or because they like the way they can keep playing when someone wants to watch the footy.

/rant

(edit: changed edited "kick " to awesome so it made sense)

Keep in mind, Skywake, that not even Ubisoft knows what the final kits will look like. Nothing is final at this point. But either way, I'm looking forward to the software and I'm going to have a great time using that new controller.

To be fair, like they said, this early footage is about on par with visuals on the new systems.
That's good considering early HD dev kits for the other HD consoles didn't look this great.

I'm still kind of worried that they refuse to really dive into details....and comments like "when polygon counts don't matter.."
It's kind of how they explained things with the Wii "you know graphics don't matter..." Pretty much saying, don't get your hopes up.

Though speculation aside, it is exciting to see what it will do a couple years from now.
1st part software is what my main eyes is on. My other eye is on 3rd party exclusives. Let's see it!
Get creative with that controller.

@komicturtle92 oh, I didn't pay much attention to that screenshot. I thought it was some sort of in-joke or something. My comment was purely on this thread up-until before that screenshot was posted

Well nintendo world report just said that ghost recon wont be retail and will be a DL title. since the PC version is free i was hoping for it be a pack in title. im guessing now that it will be some sort of freenium game now.

Hey! I didn't write that!

The trailer was supposed to give an impression of the kind of content we could expect on WiiU. So it doesn't matter if this was actually footage from another console.

It would matter though, if the footage shown is better than what WiiU will eventually get. However, the opposite is probably the case.