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[Waluigi]

I got this from gonintendo.com

Another round of rumored info, coming from a supposed European development house with several Wii U projects in the pipeline...

- achievement system also allows you to gain points
- a certain amount of points nets you access to additional features

“We have a lot of freedom with the Wii U points system, we can add “brackets” for players, e.g. if you amass X points you get promoted into a new bracket with awards such as new MP [multiplayer] skins. It’s basically what we’ve been asking Microsoft to do for years. Players who earn points by completing the game should be awarded. We can do that now.”

- cloud storage will be “a few hundred MB”
- this will be free to all players
- once again, due out 2013
- social networking features like Twitter, YouTube, and Facebook in Wii U
- upload screenshots to Facebook accounts, auto-Tweet game progress and record/upload game videos to YouTube

"They’re working on a UI overlay for the OS to add Twitter and FB notifications, but so far we haven’t seen it. They’ve reserved a lot of system memory for stuff like that. There isn’t much documentation about it in the new SKD, but they’ve told us it’ll be available in the future.”

- Nintendo Network on Wii U includes new avatars with a lot more features than the original Miis
- use the Wii U controller’s built-in camera to take pictures of yourself
- use these pics to create digital avatars that resemble high-definition Miis
- Miis can then be imported into games

“There’s an API for the camera to scan faces and turn them into low-res 3D versions for games. But it’s still buggy as hell and it depends a lot on the kind of engine you’re running.”

- porting current gen games to the Wii U isn’t as easy as originally thought

“(Games made on 360 will be) much easier to port to Wii U than PS3 versions. A lot less headache involved because their architecture is similar. Technically, you can just recompile X360 to the Wii U and it’ll pretty much run, but PS3 to Wii U is much much trickier.”

- latest SDK hardware is final, but the software keeps updating

“We’ve spent a lot of time creating our own tools for the X360 this generation, and we’ve already tweaked a lot of the tools to work on the Wii U. But if you code on the Wii U from ground up and have to use middleware, it’s probably gonna be tougher than doing an X360 game from ground up.”

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Edited by Taco Ninja 83, 02 June 2012 - 05:38 PM.

[Blake]

This seems great!

[Hank Hill]

Nintendo Network has achievements that actually matter.

My life is complete, how about you?

[Lord Pickleton]

Get the Achievement for beating the new Zelda Wii U and you get the Link and Ganondorf outfit.

[Andy]

This might actually make me want to get all of the achievements.

[Falconberg]

Achievements can be a great way to get more value out of your games. The more they matter the more you want them. Valve gameshave been rewarding in thurs way for a while and I love it.

[Andy]

coming from a supposed European development house with several Wii U projects in the pipeline...

I think we all know who they're talking about.

[Soul]

If this is true...yes! hopefully they made miis similar to my sig I sent it to them. I have a question though, what is cloud storage?

[neverwinteru]

If this is true...yes! hopefully they made miis similar to my sig I sent it to them. I have a question though, what is cloud storage?

cloud storage lets you save your files to an online database.

meaning you could be anywhere and access your save as long as your online.

this is also helpful for people who don't external hard drives or usb's.

and really helpful for consumers of the Wii u since its pretty much confirmed that it will come without a hard drive.

[Joshua]

Finally, a motivation for achievements.

[Soul]

That's really cool saving old game files.

cloud storage lets you save your files to an online database.

meaning you could be anywhere and access your save as long as your online.

this is also helpful for people who don't external hard drives or usb's.

and really helpful for consumers of the Wii u since its pretty much confirmed that it will come without a hard drive.

[Lord Pickleton]

cloud storage lets you save your files to an online database.

meaning you could be anywhere and access your save as long as your online.

this is also helpful for people who don't external hard drives or usb's.

and really helpful for consumers of the Wii u since its pretty much confirmed that it will come without a hard drive.

Or if your console dies on you. I knew I should have gotten PlayStation Plus. Sony killed my PS3 on purpose.

[uh20]

all rumored but simple to the point they might actually happen even if this is a fakey fakey fake

Edited by uh20, 02 June 2012 - 07:40 PM.

[KgGamesXL]

Nintendo Network has achievements that actually matter.

My life is complete, how about you?

I agree finally they do something useful for achievements because when i first bought my Xbox 360 i thought that i was able to use the gamerscore points to buy things on the market place or unlock in game items with it but i was completely wrong but at least through development of achievements and trophies imo it's given games more replayibility and it's helped cut down on piracy because people will be scared to pirate and risk all that time spent getting those rewards and if this is true i applaud Nintendo for do the because it will increase the life span of a game if you can unlock skins and other in game items that will appease fans of the franchises.

[Hank Hill]

I agree finally they do something useful for achievements because when i first bought my Xbox 360 i thought that i was able to use the gamerscore points to buy things on the market place or unlock in game items with it but i was completely wrong but at least through development of achievements and trophies imo it's given games more replayibility and it's helped cut down on piracy because people will be scared to pirate and risk all that time spent getting those rewards and if this is true i applaud Nintendo for do the because it will increase the life span of a game if you can unlock skins and other in game items that will appease fans of the franchises.

What it sounds like to me is that they're basically going to have achievement systems much like Kid Icarus: Uprising and Super Smash Bros Brawl had, except they'll also be added to a score card.

[Tekno]

Man, this is awesomesauce! My favourite idea is the one on taking videos of your gameplay. Usually, when I do really well on a game, I wan't to record it since, you know, you wan't to remember that, right? Looking back, you could laugh at your horrible playing, or smile to see how good you were.

[Keviin]

Awesome. Hope it's legit, which it seems.

[AMAC]

I hope this rumour turns out to be true. Getting rewards for your achievements would be great and I like the idea of Miis becoming much more detailed.