Once you are in Wii mode put the gamepad down! Pair a wii remote and interact the exact same way you would on the Wii itself. The gamepad shuts off in Wii mode.

Also, sometimes you have to re pair the wii remote (usually just hit a button) and once you can interact with the interface you are good to go.

Seriously time for Iwata-San to start making calls over there and talk shop.

I hope so.  I've been posting links on miiverse to that end, especially when I know that devs are watching.

http://gonintendo.co...story&id=199927 Phew. The universe is safe.

Funny that.  He keeps saying that developers don't get the second screen, yet Sony and Microsoft have both revealed second screen or offscreen technologies, only not as well done.

 

Developers keep saying they totally get it and want to innovate with it, so what is he talking about?  His lack of understanding does not a safe market bet make.

 

Anyone who actually plays the system, and I'm fairly certain Pachter has not, gets the second screen.  I've had several friends over who were skeptical, and after playing even a game like BLOPS on it they love the functionality.  Those friends are buying Wii U's.  Calling it a crappy product due to a simple lack of understanding shows how little Pachter knows about the gaming community and about Nintendo.  They may have a rocky year, but mark my words, this thing will take off like wildfire later this year or early next year, when compelling first party games start releasing, and developers show how little all of those big numbered specs actually mean.  The problem with Pachter is he understands, marginally, the industry and the companies, but not the technology

http://www.p4rgaming...0-failure-rate/

 

 

Hopefully this is accurate, launch 360s were a pain the ass. I believe I went through 2 or 3, can't really recall. 

This is satire...

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I didn't know retailers (like Best Buy??) would know what was going on with dev kits, but that's interesting.  It would be nice to see it available on Wii U.  Not really my kind of game but it would be good for the system as a whole I suppose.

Retailers get a lot of information, not to mention they also always have their own inside contacts around the industry.  They have to know what to expect so they can prepare for it, to maximize sales for their individual company or store.

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.......She's really cute.

She is indeed.

Looks hilarious.  How many people who called the LEGO games "kiddie" are going to go see this movie?

Well there's me so that's one lol I really find it cool how it is in stop motion instead of it being animated! Interesting!

I like that as well.  It could be CGI set to look like stop motion though.

...and a majority of that user base regret buying one I'm afraid. I don't count myself but there's a good percentage. Nintendo lost my trust in their seal of quality when it came to all theshovelware on that console.

Oh I know, I WAS one of those people.  I only had it for less than a year after it launched and I got bored very quickly.  Now I'm making up for that because unbeknownst to me there were all these great games coming out for it starting at the end of the first year of it's lifespan that I never played.  I have never played SMG, MKWii, SSB3, LOZ:TP and SS, Xeno, the list goes on.  There were so many good games for it and I'm actually upset that I got rid of it.  Some of these games I'm playing now and I can't remember having this much fun playing halo or COD ever.  It may be kiddish, but SMG in particular is just SO.MUCH.FUN.

 

But I understand those people who regret buying it, and I can understand why their faith in Nintendo would be tested, but there is no denying that not too long after launch Ninty brought the games, and there are some gems on that console that I missed out on completely.

 

I still enjoyed my xbox and my PS3, most notably the first time I played Uncharted, and went bananas over it, awesome tomb raiderish series, and Assassins Creed was a sleeper to me as well, I got it for christmas but didn't even open it for months, until I was bored one day... I finished the game in one sitting, it was that good to me.  I still don't think they were quite as FUN as some of the Wii games I've been playing recently.

 

I'd also like to point out that my wife hates videogaming, she's never liked it at all.  She asks me every night to spend an hour with her playing mario kart Wii.  I HAD TO TEACH HER HOW TO HOLD THE CONTROLS!!!

 

She has a blast with it.  She also likes SSB3, but she doesn't play that one as often, she specifically loves the kart racing (and interestingly hated Sonic racing).  I think the Wii got a little bit of a raw deal from Nintendo itself.  If they had just included hardware that was just a little more capable, they wouldn't have had so much negative media attention.  That's the past though.

 

Here we have a console that is really very capable.  How capable?  we won't really know until later in the generation, but capable enough.  All we need is for Nintendo to advertise for the thing and to release some games (looking forward to LC:U) and I think the Wii U will be a no brainer when there are some ads showing what it can do with games currently available.

well people don't have much money to throw about now-a-days, thats why there will be a lower take-up, but the X360 & PS3 have a bigger userbase than Nintendo.

Wait, what?  Wii U has a smaller user base, but not Nintendo.  Wii has a 98M+ user base, and the majority bought that console within the first couple of years.

And how many of that 98m still play their Wii ?

 

If what you are saying is true then why hasn't the WiiU sold many more than it has ?

 

All there is in Nintendo sites & reports on news sites about games not coming out on the WiiU, they don't even include the WiiU when talking about next gen consoles, people keep going on about how E3 will change everything for the WiiU but how will Microsoft revealing the X720 help the WiiU or all the games coming out for the PS4 help ?

 

It is funny how Nintendo said the WiiU would have loads of third party games yet is has none other than ports of old X360/PS3 games, the PS4 & X720 are having new third party games for their release, how come the dev's & publishers have got the games ready for the PS4 & X720 when they have not got any WiiU games ready, they would of all had the same lead time, so what is the excuse ?

 

All i can think of is that they are not bothering to make any games, others-wise there would be more news, i cannot see the point in waiting for E3 to reveal.

One word, software.  There isn't enough of it, no one here is arguing with that point.  Actually publishers have been including the Wii U, they don't need to spell it out to you "Next Gen Consoles including Wii U, bla bla"

 

98% of the launch titles were 3rd party games.  A large majority.  Regardless of whether they are ports or not does not detract from that fact.  Nintendo still has plenty of time to prove they have the 3rd party support some people want.  Meanwhile, Nintendo have no control over what a third party developer makes for their system, unless they publish it. 

 

What devs have said they have PS4 and 720 games "ready"?  Are you even trying to make a valid argument here?

 

So because Nintendo isn't calling you up to make sure that you are kept abreast of everything they are doing you are upset at them?  That's instant gratification culture for you.  Consider this, before 2011, Nintendo NEVER announced ANYTHING outside of e3 and space world.  They didn't have Nintendo Direct, they didn't do any of that.  e3, space world, and Nintendo Power is where Nintendo disseminated their news.  Just recently have they started to talk directly to their core fans.  We know about titles being developed and being released this month.  They can't drop a 300 game library on you at launch, that's too much money for publishers to plop down to fund a whole bunch of brand new products on a brand new platform.  Maybe it's just because I'm starting to get old, but I'm patient enough to wait beyond 4 months for games to drop.

Here's the funny thing.  He talks about Nintendo not making money, then they are quite clearly still pulling a profit from the Wii U after one game sale, and on 3DS for system and game sales.  They went a couple of years feeling the financial pain of an unsuccessful 3DS launch and have turned that around.  Nintendo always loses money while they are preparing to launch a new console, because they have to put resources into it and can't make any of that back until they start selling the system.

 

What I find most hilarious about this is the fact that his double standard is so blatant and biased.  Sony has been bleeding money for years, from every single division of the company.  Sony's debt has been downgraded to junk, their stock is in poor shape, but Nintendo has a poor CEO?  Also, he loves the US Nintendo team, that hasn't aired nary a single advertisement on any program I've seen thus far.  If anything, Iwata is the only one actually out there promoting the Wii U through Nintendo Directs.  They wouldn't have use that time to explain what the console is and does if they would advertise the damn thing.

Level 5 is awesome.

I'll probably go with the 720 as well. 

I was looking forward to this too, but this isn't surprising considering what we know of EA and Nintendo's relationship right now.

I'm just gonna leave this here.

 

I'm guessing a lot of it is for OS, so they wanted devs to use no more than 4 because of the OS.
EDIT: Nevermind, just read system memory is seperate

They did claim that there was 8GB total system memory.  That entire 8GB will not be available for game developers to use.  Not only would it be a ridiculous waste of resources, there is nothing that points to additional RAM anywhere in the system.  What this means is that there is 8GB of system RAM, and that the portion set aside for developers is set aside, and always available, most likely through software, unless they want to cut their throughput in half.  They claim 176GB/s on their 8GB, cutting it in half through hardware (segmenting the chips based on purpose) would separate it into two buses running at half speed, or 88GB/s on each bus.  That assumes a clean 4GB split, which they will likely need, because there are a lot of background services running.

 

Still an impressive amount of memory, and it will give developers plenty of breathing room to create great things.

I was very suprised myself and exited when they announced the PS4's RAM, I'm just dredding the price tag, please SONY make it fair, I will support them if they do.

Rumor has 720 at $500 unsubbed with cheaper components, dream on...

wow wonder why they did that? would think that more third parties would jump on right away it the 8 gigs was told right away as someone stated before.

I have a feeling the 8GB was added as a reaction to the 720 rumors.  Either that, or they realized that their services were using too much space and they needed more RAM to accommodate.

 

Still, though unlikely, it could have been them believing internally that they needed to have the biggest numbers out of all consoles to fuel the hype train.

t, "with the introduction of a platform the Zelda franchise has yet to appear on, the game's developers had a fresh canvas to work with"
So did I imagine Ocarina of Time 3DS?? Was it just an extremely realistic dream? Does it not exist? Hmmmmmm.... Very wierd, very wierd indeed.

But to the topic, I dislike the choice to revisit a link to the past. It is IMO the second worst console Zelda game ( quite a bit above Wind Waker though, which is my least favorite). I'm not a fan of the top down perspective, although I am happy for those who do prefer it, I guess Nintendo does need to please everyone

?.? ALTTP basically set the standard formula from which every Zelda game thereafter would use.  It was a marvel for its time.  I haven't had the chance to play WW yet, I'm undecided on waiting for the Wii U release or getting the gamecube release.

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