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#138976 Wii Mini
Posted by Eggplante! on 27 November 2012 - 07:18 AM in General Gaming
#139351 Wii Mini
Posted by Eggplante! on 27 November 2012 - 05:30 PM in General Gaming
This will probably be the Wii's last remodel ( excluding color variants and bundles), considering they've cut pretty much every corner they can. The only thoughts I could imagine for another remodel would be to make the console memory smaller, which sounds possible. But not for an entire new remodel, maybe in the really late days of the Wii ( 2014ish?), they downsize the memory.
Nintendo will continue selling the original Wii (in full-size or 'mini' form) until holiday 2013. They'll probably announce final production just after next holiday season this year and kill the console so that they can compete in every market - last-gen and next-gen - against Microsoft and Sony's consoles (assuming they're out next year). Also, after that season, Nintendo will be able to say that the Wii has surpassed the 100,000,000 mark of units sold, assuming they can get another two and a half million out by then. That should be doable because they've been doing about 3-5 million units per year for the past little while.
#131812 White Charging cradle and stand for console and controller
Posted by Eggplante! on 17 November 2012 - 10:11 PM in Wii U Hardware
#137096 Which games do NOT include Club Nintendo points?
Posted by Eggplante! on 23 November 2012 - 06:38 PM in Wii U Games and Software
#131583 Wait What?
Posted by Eggplante! on 17 November 2012 - 03:16 PM in Wii U Hardware
In Canada, fines are anywhere from $15,000 for a single title to $140,000 for multiple offenses if I remember correctly. This applies to movies, games, hardware, etc.
A lot of smaller stores sell games and hardware before street date because this is the only way they can make money. A mom n pop games store might sell 500 copies of Halo 4 two days before launch because once it comes out, everyone will go to EBgames / Wal-Mart / wherever they buy games to get it.
#130959 The Wii U Surprisingly Portable (kind of)
Posted by Eggplante! on 16 November 2012 - 02:19 PM in Wii U Hardware
#130967 The Wii U should have some kind of 3DS player
Posted by Eggplante! on 16 November 2012 - 02:28 PM in Wii U Hardware
#130946 The Wii U should have some kind of 3DS player
Posted by Eggplante! on 16 November 2012 - 02:03 PM in Wii U Hardware
It would be streaming the game from the 3DS, so you'd still need a 3DS to play them.
No, the idea would be that the 3DS Player would be an attachment for the Wii U that you would insert your 3DS game card into, just like the Super Game Boy and Game Boy Player peripherals for SNES and GameCube, respectively. No streaming required.
Why not? Why does Microsoft keep putting out new 360s? Cuz people still buy them. I was at Walmart lookin at the Wii U games and a lady was planning on buying a Wii for her nephew. Just because it's old doesn't mean nobody will buy it, as long as its on the shelf people will buy it. They might just be waiting until it reaches their price range.
You're right, some people will still buy a 3DS, but most of the market will be gone. Unless of course there is a price drop, which isn't out of the question. A $129 3DS is a very enticing proposition.
I actually wrote about all of this in an article almost a year ago, where I theorized that perhaps the door in the Wii U would have a 3DS slot built-in. Take a look:
http://www.eggplante.com/2012/02/06/wii-u-3ds/
#131606 The Wii U should have some kind of 3DS player
Posted by Eggplante! on 17 November 2012 - 03:47 PM in Wii U Hardware
#131566 The Wii U should have some kind of 3DS player
Posted by Eggplante! on 17 November 2012 - 02:39 PM in Wii U Hardware
#130194 The Wii U should have some kind of 3DS player
Posted by Eggplante! on 15 November 2012 - 02:26 PM in Wii U Hardware
Of course, don't forget that this peripheral, if it ever comes out, would likely not be out for at least a year and a half, by which point the 3DS will have been out for more than 3 years. Someone who hasn't bought a 3DS at that point certainly isn't going to buy one now, but if they buy a 3DS Player for Wii U, Nintendo might actually have found an additional market!
#131586 The size of Wii U games
Posted by Eggplante! on 17 November 2012 - 03:19 PM in Wii U Games and Software
I did notice something interesting in the wiiu game boxes it has clips for a extra plastic sleeve for aditional discs.
A lot of DVDs and even Xbox games are doing this now. It is cheaper to manufacture one case with the clips and manufacture the extra shelf only when needed than it is to manufacture two entirely different sets of cases. That's probably even more true for the colour of the Wii U cases being a non-standard game case.
#131328 The size of Wii U games
Posted by Eggplante! on 17 November 2012 - 06:57 AM in Wii U Games and Software
Smash Bros. will likely fit on a single layer disc, and probably come in around 10-20GB by my estimation. This is because they reuse a lot of graphics, and there is limited area to render. However, with a more open-world game like Zelda, there is a LOT more art required, more audio and speech, and different game mechanics.
Of course, these are estimations, but I'd go ahead and guess that the next Zelda would easily crack the 25GB capacity of the current Wii U disc.
#132247 The size of Wii U games
Posted by Eggplante! on 18 November 2012 - 10:29 AM in Wii U Games and Software
#132479 The size of Wii U games
Posted by Eggplante! on 18 November 2012 - 01:38 PM in Wii U Games and Software
a 50 GB game...my ISP won't allow that XD
There will undoubtedly be games that will not be available on the eShop. I don't foresee massive titles such as Pikmin 3, the next Zelda, Smash Bros., etc. as downloads.
#146801 The Phantom Pain: MGSV?
Posted by Eggplante! on 11 December 2012 - 08:53 PM in General Gaming
http://www.eggplante.com/2012/12/11/the-phantom-pain-rumour-roundup/
#147732 The Phantom Pain: MGSV?
Posted by Eggplante! on 13 December 2012 - 03:16 PM in General Gaming
Seems about right for them to make a MGSV, 4's been out for a few years now.
True, but I feel like they'll be drowning the market in Metal Gear Solid games over the next few years. We've got MGS Rising: Revengeance, MGS: Ground Zeroes, and now MGS V? That's a whole lot of Kojima.
#137738 The effects of cancer are horrible
Posted by Eggplante! on 24 November 2012 - 11:08 PM in The Café
I've gone through some tough times as well, losing my closest friend to cancer.
PM me if you'd like to talk in private.
#160883 retirement
Posted by Eggplante! on 19 January 2013 - 06:39 PM in Wii U Games and Software
I think the same thing could happen if Nintendo were to abandon Mario. Sure, Zelda, Donkey Kong, Kirby, and Luigi could hold up the company, and perhaps it would be good to have a break from our favourite little plumber for a while. But without the character at least seemingly in development in a new game, Nintendo could be in for a lot of trouble. That doesn't mean that big-N needs to release a new Mario game every six months, but they can't explicitly say they're not developing any Mario games or people will be up in arms. Of course, they could just leave it for a few years between major releases, but they already do that. It's been years since a major Mario game like Galaxy 2.
#160887 Reckon we'll see a HD Gamepad in the future?
Posted by Eggplante! on 19 January 2013 - 06:44 PM in Wii U Hardware
#163486 Reckon we'll see a HD Gamepad in the future?
Posted by Eggplante! on 26 January 2013 - 06:04 PM in Wii U Hardware
There is truth to his argument.... and yours as well.
Image quality consists of 2 main factors, Well, really just one, they are linked, so one is typically the product of the other, unless you do something silly, which i will use as an example later: resolution, which is what you are talking about, the number of pixels, and ppi, pixels per inch aka pixel size.
You can have a resolution of 4k, but if your pixels are the size of lego blocks, you are getting a lousy picture.
The pixels in the gamepad are much much smaller than those in an hdtv, so despite having less pixels, it still has a comparable image quality, particularly with supersampling (downsizing a much larger picture) giving the appearence of higher resolution.
Although, increasing the resolution within the same physical screen size ALSO increases ppi (makes pixels smaller so you can fit more) for a double whammy of image quality increase.
Which, unfortunately, is impossible for the gamepad without changing the wii u console.
I understand what you're trying to say a bit more now, but I still don't see the merit of it. The first point you made had no mention of changing screen size, which is where the miscommunication might have been.
However, saying that the Wii U is not capable of displaying a higher PPI on it's GamePad without changing the console might not be true. You'd need to change the GamePad, yes, but as I mentioned above, Nintendo hasn't told us about the technology they're using under the hood to stream video to the GamePad. Maybe there is more bandwidth available than they're using or than we know about, and a higher PPI screen - let's say something with a 1708x960 resolution on the same 6" screen instead of the 854x480 one (yes, I know that's a total stretch) - and it would be possible.
#166880 Reckon we'll see a HD Gamepad in the future?
Posted by Eggplante! on 04 February 2013 - 01:13 PM in Wii U Hardware
gpu isnt the problem, resolution can be increased by simply decreasing scene complexity. The problem is that a larger resolution is still a bigger data size even AFTER its finished and rasterized.
The problem is hardware, specifically the wi-fi out, which is custom made to output a precise packet size, interleaved, at unprecedented speeds (way, WAY faster than a ps3 or 360 controller. Faster than a tv can display the image....) Simply De-interleaving the data can increase report size by 2x, (still not enough for hd) but.... will cripple signal distance to a few feet.
They would need to change the systems wifi out for an hd gamepad.
Again, we don't know if they've already accounted for that packet size in the design of the Wii U. Odds are, they haven't, but it's still possible that the packets they've been sending for the current titles are not using up all the bandwidth that their WiFi protocol is capable of.
#163305 Reckon we'll see a HD Gamepad in the future?
Posted by Eggplante! on 26 January 2013 - 08:43 AM in Wii U Hardware
theres no reason for it to be HD dumb thread its HD down sampled to 480p+ so your getting effectivly HD anyways and the gamepads screen to pixel count is higher than a lot of HD tvs
Your argument makes no sense. HD provides higher fidelity. If you downsample HD to 480p, yes it might look better than what you would traditionally get as 480p content, but it's still not HD. Not even close. Compare an HD image downsampled to 480p and another that is 1080p or even 720p for that matter. You'll see a world of difference.
Not only is it pointless, its impossible.
The system was designed for a 480p gamepad, not just with fillrate, but in data streaming speed as well. An hd image would not only demand more from the gpu, but the data size being streamed to the gamepad would exponentially increase, and would likely not only need to take more than one report to deliver, increasing lag, but no longer be able to be interleaved decreasing distance from the system.
I wouldn't say it is impossible. Nintendo has designed their streaming protocols from the ground up. We don't know what kind of throughput they get or how much they're using right now. It's smart for them to have designed something that can have its functionality opened up so that, as developers get better with system resources, they have more bandwidth available. Now, Nintendo doesn't typically think that far ahead, I don't think, so I'm not saying it's there, but the fact is that we don't actually know what Nintendo is doing under the hood and how expandable it is.
#133282 Official Nintendo Network ID Sharing Thread
Posted by Eggplante! on 19 November 2012 - 06:20 AM in General Gaming
Add us and let's get our game on!
#137661 NSMBWU Can't progress - Soda Jungle
Posted by Eggplante! on 24 November 2012 - 07:40 PM in Wii U Games and Software
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