Yeah I realised the original had pretty muddy textures too. It still looks lower res to me though. I played the Wii version fairly recently and there was definitely a noticeable difference in the texturing of the buildings in Colony 9. Not as much with the landscapes though, I guess the tiled textures make that stand out less.

Take an example scene with a predetermined camera. Like where Shulk and Reyn leave Colony 9 and it zooms out backwards from Dunban's window so that you see the side of his house. Compare that on the Wii and 3DS. Looks different to me!

It kinda looks like they took the parts of both series that people dislike the most and brought them together. It's almost the exact opposite of what I was expecting. Graphically quite impressive though. I'd probably only go near something like this if it gets outstanding reviews though cos there's only so much anime I can take.

Monolith IS Nintendo. As much as EAD. XC did not need to sell more than it did to be profitable.  Since Monolith is 1st party Nintendo will be smart with cash as always. Studio B in Kyoto doesMario Kart Zelda and other stuff like that they assist with. Like Retro and EAD and Intelligent Systems they ARE Nintendo.

Did they post the budget somewhere then? I had no idea how much they'd needed to sell to be profitable.

It's sitting at 630,000 sales now. Add digital to that and it's probably around 750,000 (not exactly sure what percentage is digital).

I imagine that's probably considered a success for them. Compared to the sales of the original which was targeting platforms that had much larger install bases, this is pretty good.

Hopefully we'll see a 3rd.

I will definitely buy this eventually. It wasn't at the top of my last because I'm just not very good at combo-based action games

Bayonetta 2 doesn't really require you to be good at combos. Not unless you're wanting to try the highest level stuff. Your dodge-timing is far more valuable.

Have they said anything definitive on how many games this will apply to? 

If that's what you have the Wii U set to output to in the system settings. Then yes I assume It should downscale it.

 

Your TV will upscale/downscale the signal to its native resolution anyway.

Right, so I guess what they're actually saying is "Anyone who happens to have their Wii U outputting to 720p, might want to put it up to 1080p for this game."

So the 4 people who that applies to will be thrilled?

1600x900 is pretty good. 

 

I thought the Wii U upscaled everything to 1080p anyway though.

I assume it can output at 720p as well?

Well considering the res it's being rendered at it's getting upscaled or downscaled no matter what. Unless you have some weird ass monitor or TV that outputs at 1600x900 you can't play it at its native resolution. If your TV is 1080p+ I don't know why you'd have your Wii U outputting at 720p. If your TV is 720p then it doesn't even matter at all its 720p or nothing at that point. (unless for some reason you want 480p) 

Yeah, it's true. There seems to be almost no reason to say it's outputting at 1080p.

Although coincidentally, my laptop screen is actually 1600x900. They do exist.

Hang on, what do you mean by that? How is upscaled 1080p real 1080p? Surely 900 upscaled to 1080 is inferior to just the game rendering to 1080? 

So is this battle mode then?

I think this roughly translates to "it's a christmas 2016 release, that's a long way off".

If it was a Spring release in 2016, you'd think this E3 would've been an OK time to show it off. Hell, look at the FF7 remake. Does anyone think that's coming within the next 2 years?

And Fire emblem Awakening

My only problem with Fire Emblem's DLC was the reusing of the same maps 3 times. Except for that, it was a great addition. And a necessary one for Lunatic mode.

Mario Galaxy would work quite well actually. A lot of the previews did point out there are similarities! Although I guess you couldn't necessarily shoot as many places you planned on going with the whole curvature issue. The paint shots would have to get caught in the gravity.

Nintendo is definitely getting DLC right. God knows why they took so long to jump on the bandwagon. The Mario Kart 8 DLC is some of the best I've ever bought.

If they did the same thing as they have with Mario Kart DLC, that'd be awesome: bring in other Nintendo series! I want Link with a squid mask sliming up the walls of Hyrule castle.

Definitely be getting this to go with my new3DS. Unless it gets the worst reviews in the world. It's got 7/10 written all over it!

OoT/Mario Galaxy/Metroid Prime/Xenoblade Chronicles.

One of those. Depends on the day for me!

What happened to that other game, fast racing neo?

They said a preview video was coming soon. When you get a teaser for the teaser, it's gotta be a big deal.

Nintendo are masters of compression without risking too much on visuals and audio. I have no idea how they do it, they must have an amazing algorithm. 

Well in something like Wind Waker, (and Splatoon), I'm guessing their main tool is to reuse the hell out of textures. In Wind Waker that's quite clear.