I recognize the DorothyII avatar...

Awesome.

Besides being a nice April Fool's joke, it also really shows they are confident with the path their company is taking.

So much doom and gloom, yet Nintendo finds a way to turn it around and laugh about it.

Respect.

I think it was fan made.

Should have checked the link  

Ah well, if so, then it's still a nice joke and I still agree with the message ^^.

For sure, awesome joke, it would have been awesome if Nintendo did it themselves, but I think that we'd see it from Reggie before Iwata-san.  Something along the lines of, "the Wii U's body wasn't ready for the power we wanted to put into it, so now we have for you the Super Wii U, and along with all that extra power comes a fully rendered facsimile of yourself to guide you in Super WIi Fit U!  Pikmin will come off the screen and attack creatures in your living room, and the upcoming title, Super New Super Mario Brothers U 2, will feature a fully photorealistic environment and characters.

I want two of them hooked up together, so I can get the two kinect's to fight over my TV, which will probably end in the universe exploding into EPIC dudebroedness.

Zelda 1

In New Zealand, there are no land snakes. Heard that one on the radio, lol.

Poor guy, I've known that feeling for the past few years. I would have more
Pretty ladies if I was a jacka**, but I would hate myself so it's not worth it.

You don't have to be a jacka**, you just have to be assertive. Men are just as responsible for the friendzone as women. If you never level with them and tell them, in words, how you feel, you won't get anywhere with romantic gestures.

LMAO

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH.....(takes breath) HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

Zelda 25th Anniversary Main Theme Medley.

Got ACNL this weekend at best buy.

Picked these up today, strat guide was a penny, also preordered WWHD, splinter cell, w101, pikmin3, watchdogs

Great game! My wife and I each have a copy and love it. Good to see you on the forums again, hope all is coming along well after your accident.

I'm loving it as well.  Simply a fun game that you can play in bits and pieces, without requiring a big time commitment.  Although FE:A is still getting played until the batteries die.  I'm about twenty hours into that now, and on Chapter 12.

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I don't even really know where I conceived Trite...

 

I think I was trying to think of the most originally unoriginal name in existence... and that's where Trite came from, I suppose.

Fortunately Trite is not a trite alias. 

sarsperilla is a very old soda pop sort of like root beer! I like the sound of it and at the time a was a little kid so I spelled it the way I felt like. Thats the story of how I got MrSazperilla!

Sarsaparilla in the US is root beer for all intents and purposes.

My username comes from a something I was called early on in my Marine Corps career.  I was performing an op-check (checking all of the components for functionality, running test configs on routers and servers to make sure all of the components worked correctly) on one of our DDS (Data Distribution System - basically a military network in a box) suites.  Everything checked out in my DDS suite but the router (a Cisco 4000 series, if memory serves) would not boot.  The NVMEM component was toast.  On my op-check folder I marked in comments "router bad" and turned the book into our inventory NCO.

The next day when the Corporal came in and started checking the op-check logs he paused for a moment and barked at me to come over.  When I got there he asked if my signature on the form was in fact mine.  It was.  He then, making sure everyone could overhear in the shop, said "routerbad?!  Thats some **** a third grader would say f***nu*s!  Are you a f**ing third grader devil dog?!"

From then on out, every morning when I delivered the appropriate greeting of the day "Good Morning, Corporal" he would respond "Good Morning, PFC Routerbad!" and it didn't take long for everyone in the entire squadron to catch on to it.

That was about 11 years ago, and I'm still Routerbad, though one of my peers when I was a seargent wanted it changed to wordpad, it never stuck quite as well.  A google search only references me.

EDIT:  Just as an additional FYI, when he called me Routerbad, he said it like you would expect a third grader to, in a high pitched, slightly slurred accent.

Mine comes from a fantasy series by Steven erikson called The Malazan book of the fallen. It's an epic 10 book series which if your into fantasy is a must read. The 777 comes from a special date of birth.

I stopped on Deadhouse Gates, started reading Wizard's First Rule, book 1 in the Sword of Truth series.

First my name was Mr.Saturn90 named after a character from my favorite RPG Earthbound. I later dropped the 90 from my name and became simply Mr.Saturn. Then I went emo and changed my name to FallenSaturn and now since everyone always called me Saturn my name is simply Saturn now.

Very interesting story RB. I like it.

You should see the plaque my platoon made for me when I left.  The title read "Corporal Routerbad" and the message was attached to the motherboard of a bad router, lol.

Sounds like one of the classic memories that stick forever.

The Marine Corps is full of those, both good and bad.

A TFLOP at 550Mhz?! Madness....

Yeah that isn't the actual number, it was just mentioned that it performs that way, when the features of the GPU are put to good use.  You can only really calculate flops based on programmable shaders, unless you know exactly what's going on in the rest of the logic, and that would put us somewhere in the 500GFLOP range based on what we know about the E6760.  Because it has one less SIMD engine than a stock E6760 and that GPU comes in at 576GFLOPS stock 

Ok BUT can anyone accurately to close to accurately predict the Specs of the Wii U and compare it to what the PS360 can do, and compare it on what the PS4 can do.

 

It's obvious the PS4 will be able to do more, but how much more? I know the gap is apparently small, but how much smaller? I'm not trying to bash the GPU in the Wii U I'm actually trying to do the opposite, but without much effect heh

 

The GPGPU is able to do stuff the CPU used to do in current gen consoles. Does this mean the CPU in the Wii U uses it's cores for the gamepad and OS instead? 

we are in diminishing returns territory, meaning that more polygons =/= better looking graphics.  The gap is small already, and once you take into account that the increased performance isn't going to mean better graphics it becomes even smaller.  PS4 will still win out performance wise, and we'll likely see games toward the end of the gen that run smoother on that console than on Wii U, and maybe some that look marginally better, though not enough to change the experience.

So you don't account for the number of SP's per SIMD core?

What is Wii U's bandwidth now with this GPU info when not relying on eDram? Just wondering if the 12.8 GB from anandtech is correct or not.

12.8GB/s for the DDR3, Anandtech had no info on the 140GB/s EDRAM in the GPU. Wii U definitely has the most complicated, and the most tightly designed memory architecture out of all of the 8th gen consoles.

Current count I think leaves 16 of the blocks unexplained on the chip, thraktor believes asymmetric SPU's is a strong possibility considering the number of repeating groups of logic units that can't be readily explained. Looks like ~30-50% of the chip is unaccounted for so far. This thing could be a closet beast for all we know, and with the memory structure they are using they should be able to get much closer to whatever theorietical peak it has than anything we've ever seen before.