http://www.neogaf.co...33#post39320033

http://www.neogaf.co...33&postcount=26

"Nintendo plans to reveal the launch day and price at September, and not just the launch titles, also the titles for 2013 will be revealed at that time"

Yay.

[...]That’s why Iwata said the company was also planning to use a second method — “human resources.” Nintendo plans to hire people to monitor content on Miiverse.

The filtering will be done before the posts are published, Iwata said. With software, that can take a few seconds. But humans need a lot more time to manually sift through content.

As a result, there will probably be a delay between the time a user creates a post and when it appears in the Miiverse feed. How long depends on how many posts are created and how many people Nintendo has to do the work.

“The attraction of a social network is the immediacy of the feedback,” Iwata said. On the other hand, it’s absolutely essential that parents need to feel comfortable with Miiverse as a safe place for their children, he added.

That raises the question: What is an acceptable time lag that satisfies both requirements? Is it 30 minutes? Or three hours?

Iwata said that the company will monitor feedback from its users when the service launches to answer that question. “But personally, I think 30 minutes should be acceptable,” he said.[...]

http://herocomplex.latimes.com/2012/06/06/e3-miiverse-and-nintendos-plan-for-keeping-it-clean/

BWAHAWHHWAHHAHHAHAHAHAHHAHAHA

OH NINTENDO

Digitalspy reports that the previously announced Wii U version of Metro: Last Light is currently not in development, but a port "could" still happen.

Metro: Last Light is no longer a confirmed Wii U title.

Global brand manager Mark Madsen said that while the port "could" still happen, it would be "correct" to say that it is no longer confirmed for the system.

"If it does happen, it won't sim-ship with the other SKUs, but if the opportunity arises we'll take a look at it."

Madsen also denied that Metro: Last Light's appearance during Wii U's third-party showreel at Nintendo's press conference at E3 last year was too premature.

Digitalspy via NintendoLife via NeoGaf

Maybe it's just the older than the old version. Just look at the patent for that one:

Can't someone just find the patent document and read what the deal with the new button is? I would, but I don't have access to a computer right now.

Also, someone mentioned that the NFC heart in the Rayman Legends trailer was put directly on the screen and not next to it. That's because the trailer was an internal concept video, basically saying "Hey, look what we can do with this." They were using an old devkit.

I love you guys. It's so cute how you manage to speculate around the most small, obvious and meaningless things. <3

http://thewiiu.com/t...-sticks-return/
you were beaten by 2 minutes.

Try not to get so excited you can't read the "Recent Threads" widget.


The square at the left is the NFC area. The square button next to Power, is interesting though.

At the time I pressed the "New topic" button, the other thread hadn't been created yet. I'm posting from my mobile, so I'm kinda slow.

On topic; the button next to the power button could be for syncing?

Crap, this wasn't here when I posted the other thread.

Anyway, Nintendo did something right! Yay!

But then again, the name remains unchanged, so they failed when it comes to that.

http//www.neogaf.com/showthread.php?t=474760

Now with relocated STICKS! Also, start/select buttons moved, and Wii U logo confirms no name change?

- Some folk at Retro Studios wanted to develop a new ip that involved 3rd person sci-fi action with intense aerial combat.
- Others apparently were leaning towards taking the Star Fox helm.

- Nintendo sees Retro Studios as a very competent developer and worked with them in creating the hybrid title of Star Fox – Metroid: Fusion Saga.

- The title has multiple gameplay mechanics and needed a wide staff of talent to incorporate the many ideas.

- The story begins as you control Fox McCloud and the Star Fox team on deep space mission in your Arwing, flying through a Meteos-like stage. As you enter a light speed warp, there’s a collision with an
orange ship (Samus’) and the game continues with you now plummeting to a planet as Samus in her craft. You’re in mild control of her ship, using the Wii U controller to look around and touch screen press
the lit up buttons to prepare for impact (while the TV stays locked on what you see out of the cockpit). You’re now on land, as a “yet again” stripped down Samus Aran with the most basic of weapon abilities, in first person perspective, traversing through this unknown planet.

- The game switches off between intense Arwing space and planetary battles as Fox makes his way to the planet that Samus crashed on and a Metroid Prime-like experience of gameplay as Samus on this planet, gradually uncovering its mysteries, leveling up, etc.

- The Star Fox stages represent what the series is best known for, including the chatter and coming to the aid of the rest of your team, all range mode battles, and on rails stages.

- The Metroid part of the game puts you alone, void of human or any talking character contact, and like the Prime series, sees you gaining upgrades, battling bosses, and in this case, repairing your ship.

- The game is said to be epic in size, scope, ambition.

- The pacing has been perfected to not interrupt what the feeling is behind either franchise, since Star Fox is more often known for being acceptable to have short sessions with and Metroid rather the opposite. You can opt to continue playing either just Samus’ part or Fox’s part without crossing over for much of the main game (or play it as it’s scripted back and forth), but will eventually have to complete both, as the characters will ultimately meet up.

- There will be later parts in the game where you do get to control Samus’ ship and fly it Star Fox style.

- Likewise, Fox McCloud will be controllable by foot (both the above and this bullet point represent a period in the game after the two sides meet up) and be played via 3rd person perspective. Think of Jet Force Gemini with Fox’s known agility as he’s portrayed to having in the Smash Bros. series. (Fox will move more like Ryu Hayabusa from Ninja Gaiden and less like he did in Star Fox Adventures).

- Though a tentative title, the idea behind the story of “Fusion Saga” is both a play on the fact that the two series are fusing together into one game and of course, a storyline behind Andross using Metroids to enhance himself, his army, etc.

- Star Fox – Metroid: Fusion Saga is wholly a satisfying adventure game as Samus, an equally electrifying aerial combat game as Fox, and something that delivers an exciting, special change that fans will love.

- In consideration was the Star Fox portion having 4 player co-op online, but instead the game will have leaderboards for time and percent complete for all parts of the game and multiplayer will be simply versus mode based.

http://paulgalenetwo...id-fusion-saga/

As always, take this with a grain of salt. We'll know in a couple of weeks whether this is true or not.

Paul Gale from Paul Gale Network who broke the news is the same guy that reported a new TMNT a while back, and also the new Sony fighter. The latter turned out to be true.

So, if this rumor turns out to be true, what are your thoughts on it?

It's 4chan, meaning it's very likely fake, though Strikers 3 would be really cool. The Mario titles are bound to come at some point though.

The sticks really are analog sticks though, it says so on page 10; it's not just a bad drawing. May be wishful thinking, but I believe that since this was filed in October there's a fair chance that Nintendo actually decided to go for analog sticks. Only a couple of more weeks and we'll know for sure

http://www.neogaf.co...&postcount=9119

http://www.freepaten...20120115595.pdf

The patent is from this document. The document was published a couple of days ago, but as numerous people already have pointed out, the patent itself is likely an old one. Analog sticks are still a possibility though.

EDIT: Document was filed by Nintendo October 2011, which of course was after the Wii U's first reveal. So I guess...?

TBH I'd prefer something less... overwhelming. That's the impression I get from some of the concepts. Seen the PS3's menu? Simple. Organized. Beautiful.

Nintendo, Microsoft, Ubisoft and maybe EA.

Whats an OT? O.O

Official thread. I believe these shouldn't really be created until a week before release of the game, at least that's how it is on NeoGaf, but whatever.

I think that is a old patent.

It was published yesterday.

Not sure if I should make a new thread for this, but check this out: http://www.freepaten...20120115595.pdf

On page 10: "[0153] As shown in FIG. 8, the terminal device 7 [Wii U controller] includes two analog sticks M3A and M3B..."

On this photo, found in the same document, it certainly looks like the circle pads/sliders/whatever have been replaced by stick.

ALSO, It appears as if the comfort grip on the back of the controller has been removed?

This is looking great, the rope dart, sweet new kill animations, bears, so many NPCs on screen at the same time, and running through buildings! Sweet.

https://twitter.com/#!/UbisoftToronto/status/200578383816572928

"Ubisoft has announced a partnership with Marvel to release "Marvel Avengers: Battle for Earth" which will be available for Kinect and Wii U"

http://assassinscreed.ubi.com/unite

do it people!

People don't like EA? This is new to me. All those great IPs...

Guys want to play as guys? wtf is wrong with me

HOLY MOLY! EVERYONE MISSED WHAT WAS AT 2:02! WAS THAT AN ASSAISINS CREED FIGURINE? YUP. IT WAS. ASSAISIN'S CREED WILL MAKE USE OF NFC TECHNOLOGY. PLEASE EVERYONE WATCH THE CLIP AT 2:20. This will allow players to drop characters instantly into games. Think addition characters that you can unlock in games just by sitting the NFC enabled figurine onto the controller...POKEMON, gotta catch the all for real this time...Or how about Street Fighter and Mortal Kombat Figurines...I'd love to collect a Barraka NFC figurine:)

This just confirmed that Rayman Legends will have an AC-themed stage, though I'm not denying the possibility of this coming to AC3 as well. Not sure if I'm excited for it though.