HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH.....(takes breath) HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

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.

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

Zelda 1

LMAO

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.

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.

SNES

N64

GameCube

Wii U

3DS XL

Gameboy Color

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.

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.

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. 

Sounds like one of the classic memories that stick forever.

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

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.

it proves to be an E6760 that nobody accepts easily, they dont want to!!.. lol look at this

http://www.nintendo....ch-specs/ it says : AMD Radeon™-based High Definition GPU

and look at this.

http://en.wikipedia....i/Radeon_R700 and this http://en.wikipedia....en_(GPU_family) Both are rv700 and r800 (4xxx gpu and 5xxx gpus) They are NOT AMD branded, it is ATI branded (amd bought ATI and the AMD gpus start from 6xxx series!!) http://en.wikipedia....ds_(GPU_family)

I pointed that to gaf, because they all speak for rv7.... They trolled me in IGN forums, they dont want to listen about e6760, they want to believe that wii U does not have the dx11 hardware features!!! lol funny but true.

that alone proves that wii U is using AMD radeon based gpu (As nintendo states) technology, that means 6xxx series and up. So it may not be 320 spus, but 480 instead!

Nobody can say that wii U uses rv700 chip, because it conflicts with the branding... it should be ATI radeon rv7 instead. Its not even r800 (5xxx gpu) because it is also ATI branding.

Even if AMD bought ATI and they are one company... AMD keeps the ATI branding for 4xxx and 5xxx gpus http://www.amd.com/u...on-hd-5000.aspx

but its not accepted by the reviewers.. hmmmm

It is true they didn't start branding the GPU's with AMD until the 6000Series, but I would assume any GPU produced from that time forward would carry AMD branding regardless of the base family from which its derived. I believe it is an e6760 as well, though if it were they have removed one of the SIMD engines. the e6760 has 6 SIMD engines, Latte has 4 (2 SIMD cores = 1 SIMD engine @ 80ALU/engine). Thats just the programmable shader piece. You also have a crapton of logic all over that GPU that could be fixed shaders, asymmetric shaders, who knows!

Also, it would still be 320 ALU's even if they went with e6760 SIMD engines, because there are two missing.

Nobody knows! It could be 1.5x Xbox 360, it could be 4.5x Xbox 360. We just don't know!

This exactly!

Because we don't know which SIMD cores it's using it can be either 320 ALUs total or 640.  The latter would bring it up to just over 700GFLOPS which is still less raw power but the blazing fast memory architecture and any fixed functions used to offload common tasks would make it much easier to reach that peak.  After seeing the evergreen SIMD core that you posted I'm leaning toward 80 ALU/SIMD.

The Wii U GPU beats the competition in many ways. It does have some disadvantages though. But the graphics never really do make a system as much as the IPs do.

Doesn't stop anyone from wanting a $350 console to come with a GPU with some grunt.

Im sure they could have done something like that. But it really looks like they went with a 750 solution.

okay, its fun to speculate

R7XX would make sence as a starting bases only. but how do the basic fuctions (ignooring all custom) compare to R7XX. devs seemed to only have access to basics till last devkit which likly didnt feature all custom features as they were likly still being fintuned in development =/. i know ME3 didnt take advantige of the GPU. didnt use much of the ERAM, so reloads parts through the main bandwidth, when the EDRAM is likly enough to keep grahics almost completly loaded+ the extra (Sram was it?) RAM on die aswell.

no CPU die shots yet?

We've already seen it do things that don't make sense for a straight up R7XX, except maybe the 4900 series.  Given that I believe they have to be using more modern unified shaders than that line, though it may have been their original starting point for the type of performance they wanted devs to expect (I would assume they were playing it safe, better to have a launch title not utilize all the hardware potential rather than not run properly) to get from the system, at least early on.  As far as ME3 it was a very CPU intensive game on both x360 and PS3 and they had very little time with the final hardware and SDK to optimize for the hardware.  The fact that late gen ports run as well as they do with little to no optimization or even switch from CPU to GPU reliance really says something about what this little puppy can do.