I'm conflicted. I want a XL for the bigger s reenter but behind that it doesn't seem to add much over my current 3DS. For good or Bad other products usually have a key feature for me to upgrade.
I'll keep my normal DS for now until some new colors comeoit or it falls on its last legs.
You do know that that wasn't the 720 but a 2nd model that was going to be released alongside it and be like a Romulus box only playing xbla andhqving media functions right?
The 720 is already known to be running bluray and be BC based on a few leaked doucments and other parts of Microsoft.
And the Wii U isn't a big risk from a concept level. Its honestly just applying nintendo magic on a already known to be popular format. The risk is in the execution and bye having a tablet like gamepad indirectly putting yourself in competition with other tech companies and not just Sony and Microsoft.
@MadAussieBloke
But nintendo themselves have been pretty stagnet and playing it safe with the 3DS.
@hydeks
Thats a good point. The PS3 and 360 are more mature platforms. Even on WiiU you still have a good amount of Wii and Wiiware software but if your nintendo only you probably have played all of that.
Its still to early to tell but if I were to reccomend someone buying there first console this year it would be between the PS3 or 360.
I never said the most powerful console was the or Dod the best. I was talking from a pure standpoint of what better tech allows you to do. Seeing as big of a success the Wii was in hingsight Nintendo could have easily went with the same power as the 360/PS3 and clean house.
You do realize that Call of duty doesn't push graphics right and has been working on the same graphics engine since 4 right and has minimal graohics compared to to its rivials in favor of 60 Fps.
And saying all halo games are the same are saying like all Mario games are the same man.
And if you think we hit the graphical peak you should go watch a pixar movie and then look at current games.
How so. Buy putting their wii U on develomemt on an engine that will be on the way out soon. And saying that Unreal 4 is scalable enough to run on a wii U even though they wont port the tine to it and are still trying to get Sony and Microsoft to beef up the specs for there next gen tl run ot well.
And I was surprised at how poorly skyward sword did out the tat compared to twilight princess. Was it lack of hyper or because twilight princess was ara system launch.
I'd disagree. I'm 20 and I wa t the Wii U to have more power. Knowing that the streaming to the gamepad uses a lot of the system.s power and using two gamepads casues a loss of framerate then I would want more power.
Not only that but it seems nintendo fans only look at is a case for better graohics and not things such as using more complex engines (unreal 4), having bigger worlds to explorer, better effects,etc. And having a powerful system. Is about future proofing your console to get support over a larger peroxide of time. Why do you think the Wii had major droughts in its game collection compared to the 360/ PS3. And the wii is all but dead while the HD twins look to still have a good amount of support next year as well. '
But nope onky te. Years only want power and not anyone who is interested in development or wants a console to have a decent lifespan.
Yep Microsoft owns the publishing tights to the first game so unless EA decideds to buy back the rights (it would be a lot of money) your never going to see the whole triology on anything other than the 360 and PC.
The game is still playable but you miss a lot of the emotional impact from playing all three from the start. There are few things that had over the course of the triology and some tough choices I have to make.
Plus there are a lot of cool moments on three which are kind of hinged on the older games. Shepard and Varakhan.
The comics work but there are a lot of side missions in the game that are followed up from side missions in the first game. An enemy I let li e in the fist game Tried to kill me in the third over something I did in the 2nd.
Its not being lazy but priortizing. The Wii U can run Unreal 4 because its scalable. As the engine gets closer to the E3 demo the Wii U wouldn't be able to run it.
Epic is still asking the other next gen systems for better specs so of course they're going to let Wii U stick with unreal 3.
You'd be surprised how many people don't really care about quality games and prefer quick bites of gameplay. A good software line up means nothing if no one is adopting the system.
Didn't know being confident about your platform made you a cocky douche.
And nothing that was shown at E3 looked good at all. Everything looked like it could have been run on Wii. That and Microsoft and Sony aren't afraid to take a loss to make powerful hardware ghat will last.
Not surprising. The game only started pre-production two months ago and the only reason were probably getting another samurai helmed smash bros J's because iwata at E3.
Honestly I wish he would go to another studio or just say the hell with smash bros.
When talking about what's the mainstream as well as retailers want Microsoft won. They have a mature ecosystem as well as major anmouncmemts.
They showed that they will have arguably the two biggest games this holiday season in halo and call of duty with exclusive content on one of them.
A lot of people use the Nike+ line so having a product that intergates then is a smart move. Have seen a few non gaming websites I go pick up on that.
Smartglass to the mainstream media was the higloht of the show and they had some nice support behind it. (All Microsoft games, ubisoft,EA, media partners)
They showed off a major content win in getting all of espn as well ss content partners like sesame street as well as nick ans stuff like sesame street kinect.
With that and showing ally of interconnected between there main platforms (xbox,Windows 8 ,Windows phone 8) as well as supprpting other platforms such as ios and aneroid Microsoft is poised to won he holiday season.
Or are you one pf those people who think E3 is still about gamed when its quickly becoming an event comparable to CES.
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Re: Mobile Publisher Believes Nintendo Ecosystem May 'Fall Apart'
@EvisceratorX
Well point and shoots have gone down tremendously in sales with the high end delta and micro market thriving.
Expect the point and shoot market to die even more when stuff like the nokia pureview tech becomes mainstream.
Re: Mobile Publisher Believes Nintendo Ecosystem May 'Fall Apart'
@Hyperstar96
I my 3ds broke rightnowi can't redownload all my stuff can I.
Re: Mobile Publisher Believes Nintendo Ecosystem May 'Fall Apart'
It is true nintendo has a pretty crappy ecosystem if you want to call it that.
Hell they still have no untied ID between their systems.
Re: JAY Z Named As Executive Producer of NBA 2K13
No Yeezy no buy.
Re: FIFA 13 Confirmed for Wii U
I like the sound of the player manger. Hopefully its like the new mls s.art tracked.
http://www.sbnation.com/soccer/2012/7/19/3169816/mls-smart-soccer
Re: 3DS XL and New Super Mario Bros. 2 Boast Big Sales in Japan
Huh this doesn't sound all doomy like the media tells me.
Re: E3 Confirmed for Los Angeles Until 2015
E3 this yearwas pretty dissapointing but I'm guessing that was because E3 2013 is going to be awesome.
Re: Katsuya Eguchi: Wii U Design Philosophy is For Everyday Life
One thing I like about the Wii U is the variety of control schemes and hopefully devs use them all and can balance them well.
Re: Full 3DS Retail Downloads Have Teething Troubles
Oh nintendo
Re: Talking Point: What Games Are You Playing This Weekend? - Issue Four
360
Bulletstorm
Mass Effect 3
Kameo
3DS
Kid Icarus
link's awakening
Re: Michael Pachter Doubts 3DS XL's Powers of Revival
I'm conflicted. I want a XL for the bigger s reenter but behind that it doesn't seem to add much over my current 3DS. For good or Bad other products usually have a key feature for me to upgrade.
I'll keep my normal DS for now until some new colors comeoit or it falls on its last legs.
Re: Nintendo Confirms Financial Loss for First Quarter
Obligatory DOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOMED
Re: Yves Guillemot: Nintendo's 'Created Something Good' with Wii U
@brucelebnd
You do know that that wasn't the 720 but a 2nd model that was going to be released alongside it and be like a Romulus box only playing xbla andhqving media functions right?
The 720 is already known to be running bluray and be BC based on a few leaked doucments and other parts of Microsoft.
Re: Square Enix Presents the Bravely Default: Flying Fairy Collectors Pack
Mother of God
Re: Yves Guillemot: Nintendo's 'Created Something Good' with Wii U
@luminalace
Developers and people who only want one system.
Re: Yves Guillemot: Nintendo's 'Created Something Good' with Wii U
I love she. Yves gets on stage.
And the Wii U isn't a big risk from a concept level. Its honestly just applying nintendo magic on a already known to be popular format. The risk is in the execution and bye having a tablet like gamepad indirectly putting yourself in competition with other tech companies and not just Sony and Microsoft.
@MadAussieBloke
But nintendo themselves have been pretty stagnet and playing it safe with the 3DS.
@hydeks
Thats a good point. The PS3 and 360 are more mature platforms. Even on WiiU you still have a good amount of Wii and Wiiware software but if your nintendo only you probably have played all of that.
Its still to early to tell but if I were to reccomend someone buying there first console this year it would be between the PS3 or 360.
Re: Satoru Iwata: 'We Have Not Changed Our Strategy'
@LztheBlehBird
I never said the most powerful console was the or Dod the best. I was talking from a pure standpoint of what better tech allows you to do. Seeing as big of a success the Wii was in hingsight Nintendo could have easily went with the same power as the 360/PS3 and clean house.
Anywho going into next gen I'm going with
Microsoft>Nintendo>Sony
Re: Satoru Iwata: 'We Have Not Changed Our Strategy'
@Onett
Should be period
Re: Satoru Iwata: 'We Have Not Changed Our Strategy'
@zeldazero
You do realize that Call of duty doesn't push graphics right and has been working on the same graphics engine since 4 right and has minimal graohics compared to to its rivials in favor of 60 Fps.
And saying all halo games are the same are saying like all Mario games are the same man.
And if you think we hit the graphical peak you should go watch a pixar movie and then look at current games.
Re: Satoru Iwata: 'We Have Not Changed Our Strategy'
@LztheBlehBird
How so. Buy putting their wii U on develomemt on an engine that will be on the way out soon. And saying that Unreal 4 is scalable enough to run on a wii U even though they wont port the tine to it and are still trying to get Sony and Microsoft to beef up the specs for there next gen tl run ot well.
And I was surprised at how poorly skyward sword did out the tat compared to twilight princess. Was it lack of hyper or because twilight princess was ara system launch.
Re: Satoru Iwata: 'We Have Not Changed Our Strategy'
I'd disagree. I'm 20 and I wa t the Wii U to have more power. Knowing that the streaming to the gamepad uses a lot of the system.s power and using two gamepads casues a loss of framerate then I would want more power.
Not only that but it seems nintendo fans only look at is a case for better graohics and not things such as using more complex engines (unreal 4), having bigger worlds to explorer, better effects,etc. And having a powerful system. Is about future proofing your console to get support over a larger peroxide of time. Why do you think the Wii had major droughts in its game collection compared to the 360/ PS3. And the wii is all but dead while the HD twins look to still have a good amount of support next year as well. '
But nope onky te. Years only want power and not anyone who is interested in development or wants a console to have a decent lifespan.
Re: Mass Effect 3 Extended Ending on Disc for Wii U
Yep Microsoft owns the publishing tights to the first game so unless EA decideds to buy back the rights (it would be a lot of money) your never going to see the whole triology on anything other than the 360 and PC.
Re: Mass Effect 3 Extended Ending on Disc for Wii U
@Koos
The game is still playable but you miss a lot of the emotional impact from playing all three from the start. There are few things that had over the course of the triology and some tough choices I have to make.
Plus there are a lot of cool moments on three which are kind of hinged on the older games. Shepard and Varakhan.
The comics work but there are a lot of side missions in the game that are followed up from side missions in the first game. An enemy I let li e in the fist game Tried to kill me in the third over something I did in the 2nd.
Re: Talking Point: 3DS XL's Media Potential
Because netflix doesn't have 3D films in their catalog and nintendo doesn't have an avenue to sell video content on its own.
Re: Unreal Engine 4 Ports Possible on Wii U
@VincentV
Its not being lazy but priortizing. The Wii U can run Unreal 4 because its scalable. As the engine gets closer to the E3 demo the Wii U wouldn't be able to run it.
Epic is still asking the other next gen systems for better specs so of course they're going to let Wii U stick with unreal 3.
Re: Nintendo 3DS Sales Pass 5 Million in U.S.
Those are good numbers will probably hit ten million before the year is done.
Re: Site News: James Finds a Warp Zone
Congrats Man.
Re: Angry Birds Trilogy Takes Aim at 3DS
But space is awesome.
Re: Site News: James Finds a Warp Zone
Congrats James, though the site wont be the same without you.
Re: Feature: A Visual Guide to Nintendo's Handheld Revamps - Part One
Really want a gameboy light.
Re: 3DS Sales Momentum in U.S. and Europe is 'Not so Good'
@MadAussieBloke
You'd be surprised how many people don't really care about quality games and prefer quick bites of gameplay. A good software line up means nothing if no one is adopting the system.
Re: Iwata Expects Wii U to Last a Generation
Didn't know being confident about your platform made you a cocky douche.
And nothing that was shown at E3 looked good at all. Everything looked like it could have been run on Wii. That and Microsoft and Sony aren't afraid to take a loss to make powerful hardware ghat will last.
Re: 3DS Sales Momentum in U.S. and Europe is 'Not so Good'
And of the momentum isn't great released a even more expensive model (though better) that is gimped some places will help how.
The handheld market is slowly contracting in the west, sadly enough.
Re: Wii Has Featured Fewer New IPs Than Rivals
@retro_player_22
They are only counting new IP from nintendo. Only first party outpit
Re: North American Nintendo Direct Round-Up (22nd June)
Good god nintendo though im peeved ill have to wait f
to geta black XL.
Re: Miiverse Won't Connect to Twitter or Facebook
@ChunkyDroid
Options?
Isnt miiverse for the most part a Twitter styled interface in the first place.
Re: Smash Bros. Wii U Wait Could Be Even Longer Than We Thought
Not surprising. The game only started pre-production two months ago and the only reason were probably getting another samurai helmed smash bros J's because iwata at E3.
Honestly I wish he would go to another studio or just say the hell with smash bros.
Re: First Impressions: Nintendo Land's Multiplayer Games
Those renders look really good.
Re: First Impressions: Batman: Arkham City Armoured Edition
Is tbepsd support really that cool. Its something that would be cool the first few times but would get boring fast.
I'm wondering why this isn't a port of both games.
Re: First Impressions: Batman: Arkham City Armoured Edition
@Wesker
Eh the whole metroid/zelda thing os overratted. I'm the goddamn batman I wanna dole out just in Gotham. City.
Re: Reggie Fils-Aime Plays it Cool Over Wii U GamePad Battery
@Koos
I find that hard to believe.
What phone are you using.
Re: Ubisoft Expects Five Million Wii U Consoles in First Six Months
@CrispyGoomba
What do they make besides ga.es that end with Z that is shovelware. And I'm not sure you have seen how much just dance makes.
Re: Ubisoft Expects Five Million Wii U Consoles in First Six Months
Sounds reasonable. I could honestly seeing it doing more depending what's at launch and how its marketed.
Re: Mario and Kim Cattrall Star in New 3DS Advert
Something something thinly veiled smash bros joke.
Re: E3 2012: Our View of Nintendo's E3
@Knux
When talking about what's the mainstream as well as retailers want Microsoft won. They have a mature ecosystem as well as major anmouncmemts.
They showed that they will have arguably the two biggest games this holiday season in halo and call of duty with exclusive content on one of them.
A lot of people use the Nike+ line so having a product that intergates then is a smart move. Have seen a few non gaming websites I go pick up on that.
Smartglass to the mainstream media was the higloht of the show and they had some nice support behind it. (All Microsoft games, ubisoft,EA, media partners)
They showed off a major content win in getting all of espn as well ss content partners like sesame street as well as nick ans stuff like sesame street kinect.
With that and showing ally of interconnected between there main platforms (xbox,Windows 8 ,Windows phone 8) as well as supprpting other platforms such as ios and aneroid Microsoft is poised to won he holiday season.
Or are you one pf those people who think E3 is still about gamed when its quickly becoming an event comparable to CES.
Re: E3 2012: Our View of Nintendo's E3
Ubisoft>Microsoft>Sony>Nintendo>EA
Out of the big three
Microsoft>Sony>Nintendo
Re: Wii U Power Lacks a 'Generational Leap'
Why do people always bring up graphics when more power also effects other parts of a game.
Re: Tomb Raider Not Coming to Wii U
Going to grab it for the 360.
Re: E3 2012: Iwata and Friends Enjoy a Job Well Done
@Onett
So how do you explain all of the luke warmness from non gaming media on wii u and they probably don't know what zelda is.
Re: Peter Molyneux 'Not Really Decided' on Wii U GamePad
@yobokkie
By that he doesn't have a lot to do with how the company us run anymore.
And it does as microsoftcan take loesses nintendo can't