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#302656 Game profit

Posted by NintendoReport on 12 November 2014 - 05:18 PM

Adding more RAM or even having more RAM when Wii U was released wouldn't help 3rd party support. Heck, the last gen ps360 are still getting many of the big releases and they have much less RAM.

 

Expansion of memory or other devices (ie: 32x) worked pretty easily because they connected directly to the main board through the cartridge slot. As Grahamf noted, the n64 had a specific expansion slot already.

 

There are ways to use sd cards for RAM but that wouldn't really be worthwhile. 




#302657 Game profit

Posted by TheDoctor_13 on 12 November 2014 - 05:20 PM

figured, oh well. I can wait five years for the next SKU from Nintendo. I hope next time it's a boss. Until then my Wii U will be a prized 1st party console that I will undoubtedly support.

Dosen't matter how much power Nintendo gets, Devs don't really like Nintendo. Like the Wii U already has what, 2-4x more the RAM of the PS360? But their still getting games. I somehow doubt all that extra ram on PS4/One is getting used too. 




#302658 Game profit

Posted by NintendoReport on 12 November 2014 - 05:33 PM

Dosen't matter how much power Nintendo gets, Devs don't really like Nintendo. Like the Wii U already has what, 2-4x more the RAM of the PS360? But their still getting games. I somehow doubt all that extra ram on PS4/One is getting used too. 

Exactly, and don't forget PS4 and X1 don't have all of the 8 gigs allocated or free for games. X1 has two or three OS's and PS4 uses 2 or 3 gigs for it's OS and other features.



Oh, and a word about the sales of Zombi U. They were actually fairly solid for launching along side the console. Attach rate was pretty good. Ubisoft is a company who says one thing when it means another, so any statements they make should be taken with a grain of salt.

 

Here is a quote from 2013.... read this and then look at the half baked Unity just released.

 

Ubisoft's North American president Laurent Detoc would rather delay a game than release it in an unsatisfactory state.

 

"If we think we've ended up with a 70 percent Assassin's Creed game, we're not going to ship it," Detoc told IGN in an excerpt from a much longer interview. "That damages the brand. I'm not going to give you the names of products, because you know them as well as I do, but if you start to make games at 70 percent, even with a big brand, eventually people are going to change their mind about that brand. 

 




#302690 Game profit

Posted by BrosBeforeGardenTools on 13 November 2014 - 06:22 AM

The only thing 4GB RAM is going to do is encourage devs to be sloppier. The days are over when 2x the RAM made a 50% improvement. It's just not that simple anymore.


#302683 Game profit

Posted by Mewbot on 13 November 2014 - 12:45 AM

RAM is the least of Nintendo's concerns when it comes to the Wii U's power. A little bit of optimisation can leave a game running just as well with less RAM.




#302654 Game profit

Posted by grahamf on 12 November 2014 - 04:39 PM

It's impossible. The N64 had an expansion port specifically for that purpose. The closest thing would be a ripoff of Microsoft's Readyboost but I doubt that would help much.




#199715 Call of Duty:Ghost

Posted by TheUltimateWaddleDee on 25 April 2013 - 06:33 AM

I don't mid CoD, in fact I have fun with it, but I realized that I never buy the games: I either get it as a gift or play it at a friend's house.


#144253 HDD

Posted by cannonshane on 05 December 2012 - 06:32 PM

Im pretty sure when you hook it up to the console it will wipe everything anyway, because it will have to format the hdd into the format the wii u can read.


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