Topic: The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild

@Dreamliner

There are comparison videos all over youtube. The graphics look just slightly different. Hard to say better/worse though.
If it is better/worse, it's like 5% better/worse.
Switch version has slightly better framerate during taxing moments though it seems.

@Dezzy Lol, it wasn't a hope. I was just saying every surface looked better in that one screenshot. I think it's cause the lighting and depth of field / draw distance effects on the Wii U E3 build were bad.

@Haru17

I think that particular scene it was just the different light angle. Normal mapping doesn't react with directional light (the sun) when it's in shadow.

I'd imagine gameplay and press footage to be different. I think it was Mario Odyssey (Maybe not) that had glitchy press footage.

I'll have to look but I like the side-by-side gameplay footage stuff...

What exists now shows the Switch to be better but colors are wildly different.

I personally don't mind side quests as long as they're engaging and add something to the world, add some seasoning to the overarching story, or have a nice little subplot of their own. "Kill X monsters in XX seconds" doesn't really do that for me, for example.

How can you be against all sidequests @gcunit ?

Generic fetch quests can be annoying when they're overused. But some games have great sidequests that are mini stories of their own. Witcher 3 and Mass Effect 2 are both essentially 80% sidequests and 20% main story.

Are these the iron boots?

I am totally fine with having iron boots as long as Link at least gets an upgrade or something that allows him to walk faster outside of water. The slow-walking segments of the Goron Mines in TP were kinda tedious for me.

I don't know if someone has posted this already but it seems that Beedle really is in the game:

I was pretty sure that the guy in the previous picture was him due to his bag/portable shop looking like a beetle but it's good to have a confirmation.

So a 3GB install is required on the Wii U... Don't have that much space left. Wii U doesn't accept SD cards or anything like that?

@Octane Time to buy a Switch!

@Spanjard It's sold out everywhere, on top of that I'm not paying €350 for a Zelda machine, excluding the accessories and whatnot. No thank you, I rather wait until there are more worthwhile games out for the system.

@Octane

I think the SD card reader only works in Wii mode.
Regular USB sticks work as additional hard drives. They've repeatedly said that won't work very well but it's always been fine for me.
May be different in an open world game due to the dynamic loading. I dunno.

@Dezzy Shame, still have a couple of SD cards laying around. Maybe I'll delete some of that Pushmo stuff, I really don't want to delete any save files.

@Octane You should be able to just delete a game and leave the save data so if you ever want to play again, you can just redownload the game from eShop and continue your game. Save data files are really small too so I doubt you have to resort to deleting any of them.

@Late The only game I've downloaded is Pushmo iirc, the rest is just save files. I'll need to check how much space I've left though.

Still no news as to whether or not the Wii U gets any special versions of the game?

@Late
That's definitively Beedle, look at his face in the sign he carries around. It's his face in Wind Waker.

At this point is very unlikely - I checked a number of online shops and all I could find was the plain regular version. Actually, I couldn't find much info on the WiiU version, full stop - some online retailers still show the temporary cover art and the placeholder date of April the 1st, but the page for the Switch version is updated with full details everywhere.
I went ahead and pre-ordered my copy for the WiiU, something I never do but with all the emphasis on the Switch I fear that the WiiU version will be printed in relatively small quantities.

@spizzamarozzi Europe is always a bit behind. Nintendo, while obviously focusing on the Switch version, has this updated Wii U version tucked away in a corner at the bottom of the page;