Banned 'cause.... errraaaaauuuugggghhh.... you're tempering with my psychological state... with PONIES!!!!!

Banned for having a kitten to tell me to "live my life".

Banned because I'm sick of ponies.

Banned because I ate your apple!

Banned because you support the cruelty of chickens by ponies!

I'm currently enjoying Star Fox 64 3D.

I'm currently listening to "No Leaf Clover" by Metallica.

Granted, but there are twice as much third-person shooters.

I wish a woodchuck could chuck wood.

"Hmmm. Do I cut the red wire or the blue wire?"

To buy pizza.

Where were you on the night of January 20?

African or European?

Who's buried in Grant's tomb?

My God. The ponies are armed now!

All I'm saying is we have new hardware but they have to find a way to make things work. I'm still getting it day one but don't like the sounds of what I'm hearing.

You guys still aren't getting it. He isn't just saying it runs at a lower speed.he saying they have to find ways to make the game run efficiently trying to get around things the CPU "can't" do. Man just disappointing.

My problem isn't the low clock speed. Its his tone as if they are having to work harder making the game on the Wii U than current gen. This WILL become a problem just watch. This will be a excuse for devs to not port next gen

Wait. What other issues did Harada mention besides power consumption and time? The article didn't look that bad since Harada later said he didn't have a hard time getting Tekken Tag Tournament 2 to work on the Wii U. He admits that isn't far behind its 360/PS3 brethren, which doesn't lend much concerns about the Wii U's hardware if he can figure it out (as well as developers like Vigil Games, Rocksteady, and Gearbox). Otherwise, clockspeed still seems to be the issue because I didn't see Harada specify anything else.

Contra: Shattered Soldier - "Venus"

The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask - Song of Healing (orchestrated version)

Bionic Commando - "Heat Wave"



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I did try and warn ye some 6 months that the Wii U would be similar to the current consoles. One of the few things that we did learn last year was that the CPU was going to be 45nm based chip which told me that Nintendo weren't going to be very aggressive with the hardware. Nearly everything we have heard, and now seen from games at the E3, has pointed towards that.

Perhaps you missed the entire conversation. The specs are based off of older dev kits which are similar to 360/PS3 in spec. The Wii U demos that were shown were most likely running on them based off of the fact that most of them still had the Wii U gamepad still tethered and no cables were connected to the console. It's not far-fetched that Nintendo would show Wii U games in its early form, as Microsoft did the same back in E3 2005 where the Xbox 360 games weren't running off of the hardware. They ran on Powermac G5's, and the console launched in November 2005.

Nintendo DO make games consoles, but all im saying is in the future people will want less clutter and gadgets will have to do more than one job. Nintendo will have to address that and come up with a new way to get into peoples homes that takes up less space, how long do u think it will be before dvds n blu rays will be gone and we download all our entertainment? Not long, and video games will go the same way. Do u not agree?

A basic entertainment setup consists of a television set (LCD/LED/Plasma HDTV's), a DVD/Blu-Ray player, and a gaming console. How is that cluttered? Do you think the Wii U should also be an AV reciever?

funny to me now that there are reports of the Wii U dev kits having problems... why you might ask because of Nintendo using CHEAP PARTS! so i guess it is what it is.

That was a long time ago. The developers were using unfinished and underclocked kits. If you were talking about the 001.net rumor, the problems stem from the controller, not the overall hardware! It's still going through prototype phases and we are still eons away from its projected release! Besides, all consoles use relatively cheap and outdated hardware, anyway. The Xbox 360's and PS3's hardware used 5-6 year old graphics cards. Like I mentioned before, switch to PC if you're so damned concerned about tech!

you guys are clueless!

Even if Microsoft unveils a console that dwarfs the Wii U in tech, the pricing, quality of titles, and sales are the real factors to its performance. Keep in mind, Microsoft (as well as Sony) tends to over-market their products, and their fanboys will always it up, rub it in everyone's faces, and declare it to be the equivalent of the cure for AIDS. History has shown that powerful consoles don't always win out. Take a look at the PSP and the PS3. When these platforms were unveiled, everybody hyped them to the second coming of Christ! However, when they launched, it was a whole other story. So even if Microsoft makes a huge splash at E3 2012, it will only be short-term. Once all the next-gen consoles are on the shelf, E3 2012, like the past E3 events, will be nothing more than a distant memory. We will all look at E3 2012 compared to how the Xbox 720 actually does with such amusement and derision in how we bought into the over-hype.

Seriously, tech seems to be the only concern instead of the quality of the games. Might I suggest upgrading your PC? It's always light-years ahead of consoles.

This is like calling every fighting game that uses health bars, combos, and hit streaks clones or rip-offs.

So you guys are pretty much calling Street Fighter, Dragonball Budokai/Tenkachi, Tekken, and Mortal Kombat blatant rip-offs of each other since they use those elements above.

I swear, the logic sometimes...

You seriously can't tell me that these two don't look alike. Health bars and combos are fundamental gameplay features. Anyone with a half-a-brain knows they can't base any similarities on that. Not to mention people can tell the difference between Street Fighter, Tekken, and Mortal Kombat, based on graphics, art design, character selection, fighting mechanics etc. It's how these features are implemented that people base their criteria for compare and contrast. Of course, I'm giving this game the benefit of the doubt. The game has just been unveiled, so we shouldn't immediately excuse it as a "rip-off."

But then again, this is coming from a person who based their entire opinion on New Super Mario Bros 2 based on a few screenshots.

Okay, hold on right there. So basically you're trying to tell me that people can tell apart those franchises based on their art direction, graphics (which don't prove anything considering Tekken and Mortal Kombat run on the same engine), and character selection. Alright, I agree with you. So what's your point? People can easily identify Smash Bros. and this new Sony mash-up based on those same principles. Characters are different, art direction is different, fighting mechanics seem to be different (notice no percentile marks......that's exclusive only in Smash Bros, dawg). You basically just argued my point but then in some twisted way tried to disagree with me in a jerky way.....way to go?

What I meant by the "graphics and art design" is that the vision between those fighting games are vastly different. Yeah, I didn't use the right set of terms, but it's the morning for me. Sony and SuperBot Entertainment are making a simultaneous four-player, 2.5D arena-based fighting, crossing over the whole PlayStation library. And based off of Sony's pattern of imitating the way Nintendo implements their ideas to being nearly identical, it isn't hard to see why PlayStation All-Stars Battle Royale and Super Smash Bros could almost be parallel. I'm giving SuperBot and Sony the opportunity to show how the game can be different, but I can't ignore the major similarities between them.

Funny, because that is what people are exactly doing with this game. Judging it by a few articles and a few screenshots and flat out calling it a rip-off. So basically you're just calling me out because you can't handle the fact that I am skeptical about the new Mario game. Again, WAY TO GO!!

Uh... what? That statement pointed out that you were doing the exact same thing as most of the people here in thread. I couldn't care less what you think about the game. I'm sure you're not the only person in this board who isn't looking forward to it.

If you take a look at the official site at the moment, there is a scrolling text that reads "The future is not as far off as most people think - we're not ready for it" in one of the windows. It sounds like the sequel will say goodbye to the Cold War setting.

This could be really awesome if it's actually true. Cold War setting is cool and all, but I think Treyarch has shown that they're not the type to stick with one time or setting when they make a new game. If Black Ops 2 is near future, then hopefully next year we'll get Future Warfare set even further beyond that. Maybe an opportunity to tie the storylines of all the CoD games together?

Treyarch's Call of Duty tends to take place on a separate universe from Infinity Ward's Modern Warfare series, so I don't see Black Ops II crossing over. Who knows? They might canonize the zombie mini-game story in the sequel.

There is speculation that Black Ops II will take place in the near-future based on this video of a demonstration of a quadrotor drone, which was linked from the main site.



FPS Russia claims that this technology won't be around for the next ten years.

I'm pretty curious to see what direction Treyarch will take the sequel, as I feel like I'm one of the few who liked Black Ops.