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http://wiiudaily.com...plans-for-2016/

http://nintendochitc...th-in-na-14-99/

Be nice to see Monster Hunter grace a Nintendo home console once again. I don't know of any games specific, but it needs big hitters from a few of it's franchises right out of the gate peppered with other exclusives and some 3rd party. Also, a new IP, or something brought back from the dead.

Jason (ZyroXZ2): FAST Racing Neo, of course by its name, is all about speed.  You also emphasize that the Subsonic League is the slowest speed during the Treehouse gameplay.  Yet, I saw a lot of running into walls and other situations where speed and response time were coming into play.  Will the Hypersonic League speed render some vehicles virtually inadvisable, lacking the handling characteristics necessary to navigate more complex courses, or have all vehicles been relatively well-balanced for all modes of play?

Manfred (Shin'en): We made sure FAST Racing Neo is very accessible right from the start. After playing just a few rounds you really get a feeling for your vehicle. We think it's pretty easy to pick up and get much fun of it.

When you finished the Subsonic league and entering the Supersonic league you will need to adjust but this is where another layer of fun comes in. You will need to learn new tricks to master the courses.
Also you will get access to new vehicles with different stats. It's up to the player to develop his own driving style and which vehicle to use. Each cars has it's very own behavior and even the developers at Shin'en have each their favorite.

Jason (ZyroXZ2): Speaking of speed, the game runs at 60 fps to ensure that a fluid sense of rapid movement is maintained.  However, the game also supports local 4-player splitscreen.  What compromises have been made to ensure that 4-player splitscreen maintains that sense of speed?  For example, are there no CPU racers in 4-player splitscreen matches?

Manfred (Shin'en): We are still working on local multiplayer. We currently try multiple techniques and find the perfect balance for performance and sense of speed.

Jason (ZyroXZ2): Since I'm talking frames-per-second, let's go ahead and talk graphics for a moment.  The Wii U is established as being the weakest console of the 3 current generation systems.  Regardless, I've always maintained that maxing out the hardware would result in a good-looking game. Unfortunately, there are only a handful of examples.  Fortunately, you've come to the rescue!  Was coding the graphics engine and optimizing it difficult?  Can you confidently say you've maxed out the hardware, and that every available drop of power is being used in FAST Racing Neo?

Manfred (Shin'en): When starting with the game we had a vision. We wanted to develop the most exciting futuristic racing game on the market. We decided from the beginning it will be 60fps, anything else was not an option for a game that fast. So we knew all GPU and CPU stuff must fit into 16 milliseconds, which isn't a lot, especially when most games you get compared with are running on consoles with higher specs and with 30fps. We knew from the beginning we can't develop this vision with techniques everyone else does use. We would need to find different ways to achieve our vision. This was a big motivation because we like working on limits and pushing boundaries.

We started experimenting for a year. After a short time we had a working prototype but it ran only at around 15 fps when we enabled all the cool stuff and effects you now see in the game. We had 8k Softshadows, a complete HDR pipeline, physical based rendering, SSAO, more than 10,000 drawcalls, High Quality Motionblur, High Quality Godrays, Cinematic Color Grading, Volumetric lighting and so on. It looked really pretty but was near unplayable.

We then needed the rest of the year to find fast enough solutions to handle all these effects or to find new solutions that give the same results. Often we used tricks from the past that are pretty complicated to implement but that deliver the same effect with a fraction of the costs. To make long story short: In the end we were pretty happy seeing finally the game reaching 60fps. When finally playing at 60fps with all bells and whistles for the first time we knew we did the best work in our career. I don't say anyone else can't go even further on Wii U, but personally we reached our limits.

Jason (ZyroXZ2): Online multiplayer is practically the lifeblood of a majority of today's games.  FAST Racing Neo supports online multiplayer, but not much details on it have surfaced.  Will there be CPU racers to fill in the slots if not enough players can be found?  Will it support two-player splitscreen online multiplayer like Mario Kart 8?

Manfred (Shin'en): We still implement online multiplayer. We haven't fully finalized the design yet.

Jason (ZyroXZ2): Finally, it's undoubtedly true that there are many of us, me included, that want to play this game.  It's got a 2015 release year, but the Treehouse footage was clearly labeled "alpha version".  We are midway into the year, and I am a little concerned that FAST Racing Neo isn't in the beta stage, let alone that bug-squashing stage just before release.  How confidently can you tell me we'll see FAST Racing Neo before the close of 2015?

Manfred (Shin'en): It's a very ambitious goal, thats right. Anyway our Treehouse session and especially THE MIX session at E3 showed that the game is already working like a charm. There was no crash or other bugs for the complete day. We are very hard at work to finish all things up with perfect polish.

Jason (ZyroXZ2): Thanks for taking the time to answer my questions, Manfred!  May FAST Racing Neo be your best-selling game yet and I look forward to reviewing it myself!

Manfred: (Shin'en): Thanks a lot.

Sakurai, you magnificent bastard, you

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Oh boy, Controversy Bingo! 

Let's see:

Generalities, got it.

Stereotypes, ditto.

Bandwagon, got that too.

Blame game, I'm on a roll!

Composition, only need one more on that row.

Anecdotal, Bingo!

I guess I'm not cool because I like good ol' US. Sure, the government sucks right now, mostly due to a bad president, but that's nothing new. We have so many privileges that quite a few countries could only dream of, so I doubt I'll be leaving permanently anytime soon.

Actually, i just realized what Ubisoft did.

Watch dogs is all about hacking.

If you want to play the full game with the complete experience, you have to hack it.

Kamiya betrayed 3Dude 

Kamiya betrayed 3Dude 

Kamiya betrayed 3Dude 

Kamiya betrayed 3Dude Kamiya betrayed 3Dude 

Short answer: Yes and yes.

Long answer: Yes, the PS4 and Xbone are essentially just gaming PCs in console shells and this has advantages and disadvantages. The up side is that developers know exactly what they're getting in to. There's no strange architecture or quirks to the system that have to be figured out to push these systems to their peak. There's no Cell Processor this time around that can put out great performance but has to be worked with extensively to get those results. The downside is that because of this there is very little room for improvement. Developers already know PC architecture so they already know how to get the most out of both of these systems for the most part. What you see now is pretty much what you're going to get.

This is a big reason why a lot of them are bypassing the Wii U, it's an actual game console and not a gaming PC. No one has very much experience with a system like the Wii U and therefore there is still some learning that devs need to do. Take Wind Waker HD for example. They didn't just make that game to put out a place holder Zelda title, they made that game to get some real hands on time with the hardware to gain a more intimate understanding of its ins and outs.

^ You keep posting that. Reminds me early on in Wii's life the joke was Gingerbread man. Just before the river of shovelware opened for Wii.

My god man giving me flashbacks to the war! HIT THE DECK! HD TWIN FANBOYS ON THE ATTACK! SONY DEFENSE FORCE ON THE FLANKER!

IT's HAPPENING AGAIN! OH GOOOOOOOOOOOOOD!!!!!!!!!!!!! *passed out*

While I admit there is a lack of effort on third parties providing lackluster efforts to the Wii U, there is evidence creeping in that despite its low install base Nintendo Wii U owners simply don't care for third party games at all or supporting the Wii U if they can afford to buy a Wii U or buy third party games.

I point the finger at all of us for failing the Wii U just as much as the corporations that either provide ports of games several years old at a full price or just don't provide enough effort separating the Wii U version out from the crowd.

My game collection mainly contains third party games such as Tekken Tag 2, Trine 2, ZombiU, Splinter Cell: Blacklist, Need for Speed: Most Wanted U, deus Ex: Human Revolution: Directors Cut, Assassin's Creed III, and Batman: Arkham City: Armoured Edition. With only a small fraction such as Wind Waker HD, Nintendoland, and Super Mario 3D World coming from Nintendo itself.

I feel sometimes that I'm part of a small breed of Nintendo fans that truly put their money where their mouth is, despite me only being able to afford £40 most months. Seeing the statistics of third part multiplats on other "next generation" (they're current gen now!) consoles such as COD: Ghosts sales on PS4 and XBO compared to Wii U sales especially when back then PS4 and XBO (XBO still does) had far less sales than the Wii U is horrid. Maybe it's the marketing, but I blame the majority of Wii U owners that say "we don't want a generic FPS on our console" these people are the snobs DESTROYING Nintendo's chances at gaining third party multiplat support. 

Again the publishers themselves aren't blameless, far from it. They are lazy, and wont even try risking a PS4/XBO game on the Wii U, but I do also accuse the (seeming) majority of Nintendo fans for doing as much damage, if not more.

Yes Nintendo themselves could moneyhat publishers into providing ports, but to what advantage if the money is better spent in heightening the quality of their own products if the console ends up a first party only machine? Moneyhatting only provides temporary solutions at best for the majority of cases, and really Nintendo have to concentrate their efforts on gaining non-nintendo fans and the fickle general public with better advertising geared at gaining new Nintendo console fans or making their first party games better rather than temporarily gaining a third party game through essentially bribing other companies.

I also accuse a lot of fans who can afford a Wii U but wont invest a measly £180 - £250 (compared to PS4 and XBO) on the console itself, despite plenty of games and a brilliant future lineup!

What do you guys think, are the majority of Nintendo fans (who can afford it) to blame equally if not more than third part publishers? Or am I just being a meany?