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Nintendo Gaming / Re: The OFFICIAL Big N rumor thread *bring your own salt*

« on: May 29, 2012, 06:18:15 AM »

About Unreal 4 on WiiU...  Mike Capps from Epic Games, confirmed on the last GDC that WiiU is only capable to Run Unreal 3, but no Unreal 4. The Journalist Geoff Keighley have confirmed this via Twitter. Let´s see if something has changed since GDC...

It seems the Dev kits have been upgrading a bit since then, but, I don´t know what to think...

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Nintendo Gaming / Re: The OFFICIAL Big N rumor thread *bring your own salt*

« on: May 19, 2012, 06:18:02 PM »

Actual WiiU pad leaked!! From the twitter of a TT games tester:






And here, the old and actual WiiU pad, to se it´s changes:



-Now we have analog sticks and no circle pads like on 3DS (And, on Neogaf says that the sticks have "click" feature)

-Also, we can see a new distribution of the buttons and sticks.

-Twoo unknown square little buttons...


-And the console stills remains as WiiU.

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Nintendo Gaming / Re: The OFFICIAL Big N rumor thread *bring your own salt*

« on: March 28, 2012, 08:59:49 AM »

Han Randhawa, Darksiders 2 art director:

"There is not much I can really talk about right now, but I think that the Wii U is a pretty powerful machine, which obviously means more resources, and means you can do a lot more. So the Wii U team is doing very well, we've been working with Nintendo and I think it's going to be a very exciting version of Darksiders but we want to keep the overall theme relatively consistent."

Vigil contradictions everywhere! 

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Nintendo Gaming / Re: The OFFICIAL Big N rumor thread *bring your own salt*

« on: March 26, 2012, 06:38:34 PM »

Another quote from him:

And for your conclusions about the hardware, really, don't expect too much from it, but don't be disappointed in advance. From all i've heard, the guts aren't on par with current gen at all, and there's so much room for improvements, optimizations, and potential stretching of the Wii U capabilities that you'll say wow many times in front of your screen (for first-party titles in the first place obviously). I bet a video of myself running disguised as a Nintendo character in a Paris street by night that it will be the case :p

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Nintendo Gaming / Re: The OFFICIAL Big N rumor thread *bring your own salt*

« on: March 26, 2012, 06:16:30 PM »

New info!! Posted by Ideaman on GAF:

A news concerning the dev kits, as promisedThird-party studios will receive the "v5" dev kits very soon (before the next month). It's even possible that some just got them- They are apparently the dev kits which where in possession of Nintendo lately (whereas third-parties had the V4).

There is a noticeable increase of performances with them, a noticeable but not huge however. We don't know if this amelioration is due to a change of components, tweaking of the previously present ones (frequencies, etc.), or a global & light optimization of the hardware, the dev kit itself, the software development kit that may be linked to it, etc.

Some details about the context and assumptions:- Except maybe big japanese studios (like Capcom), i doubt that other third-parties received these dev kits (much) earlier. It's likely that my sources are one of the firsts to be granted of the latest revisions. This means that all the declarations, the news, from foreign developers, that you've read until now, were in a V4 dev kit context, before the release of these newest ones.
- A previous post of lherre indicated that Nintendo guys were testing an engine and saw slightly improved results on the V5 compare to V4.

Context: it was posted 1 month ago, when lherre decided to come out of his lair in answer to my very first message to confirm that Wii U was clearly closer to "2x than 5x xbox360". And he basically added that the expected more advanced dev kit in Nintendo headquarters at the time that i've talked about will not change dramatically the Wii U power status. So he surely knew of these engine benchmarks before my intervention, maybe some days, maybe some weeks.


Assumption: considering the 1month+ interval between these internal tests and the V5 delivery to third-parties (minus the dev kits assembly and shipping), there's a chance that the V5 dev kits in the hands of foreign studios have received even more hardware refinements and optimizations than the models used for these Nintendo tests some time before.- They could have a different code name, but my sources called them V5, as in "the ones following the V4 that they currently develop on".

Therefore, it appears they are a rather major revision.[Now, a detail that could be important, but i'm not sure at all of it, as what my sources told me isn't clear and rely on subjectivity (maybe they didn't understand well what Nintendo said). Take that with caution, and it would be cool if a developer working on the Wii U could precise this.

- It seems these kits may be "near final"Maybe Nintendo still have more advanced dev kits, but apparently not to a point to constitute a real new future revision (perhaps just small increments in numbers like 5.1/5.2). There may be new dev kit shippings to come but it could point that there is a progressive stabilization in hardware changes.

It could also be a word-confusion from my sources between "last" and "latest", or maybe Nintendo thought that when i gathered these infos (a few weeks) but in fact there will be new revisions in the work because they decided to modify the components again, etc.

So big grain of salt for this part]I hope we'll hear more about these dev kits, what kind of modifications occurred on them, and their performances.

It seems WiiU could be something between x2-x5 more powerfull than Xbox360. I think it will be around x3, or x3.5, and I will be happy whit that!

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Nintendo Gaming / Re: The OFFICIAL Big N rumor thread *bring your own salt*

« on: March 23, 2012, 05:11:38 PM »

Vigil declarations about Darksider 2 WiiU version:

"Visually, for the most part, It will be pretty much the same... You know, so far the hardware it´s been on par with what we have on the current generation"

WTF??? WiiU the same to PS3/360? I wish not, but those words scared me... 

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Nintendo Gaming / Re: The OFFICIAL Big N rumor thread *bring your own salt*

« on: March 23, 2012, 02:36:32 PM »

Ideaman on Neogaf:

Expect a tiny bit of info (not a wall of text this time, maybe 2 or 3 sentences) regarding the dev kits, soon :p

I will be following his posts and share the new info when it comes. Hopefully in a pair of days...

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Nintendo Gaming / Re: The OFFICIAL Big N rumor thread *bring your own salt*

« on: March 21, 2012, 08:24:36 AM »

*Rumor* Wii U NDA to end on March 26th?

Some of the tightly sealed NDA's might be coming to an end on March 26th. While I'm very skeptical of the "source" of this information since this time of year always has unconfirmed sources of other sources who claim their source is a developer who knows the truth. However, if I was a developer sitting on exclusive Wii U information for nearly a full year.....
For now, at least for another week we need to wait and see what comes of this. While it's a bit frustrating to not get any confirmation of these rumors from Nintendo themselves, it's also fun to live through the experience.

Lets hope it!! Maybe next week will be nice, or maybe another week without nothing to eat XD

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Nintendo Gaming / Re: The OFFICIAL Big N rumor thread *bring your own salt*

« on: March 14, 2012, 06:34:58 AM »

Hi everyone! I´m a newcomer, posting from Spain. I´ve been reading you those days. It´s very interesting to see how people share information or rumors about WiiU. On the Spanish forums most people is excited about WiiU and waiting for the E3 so badly 
I want to share some info, coming from the Japanese website Andriasang. It´s about FF Versus XIII:

  Tetsuya Nomura says in this week's Famitsu that he's almost ready with preparations for sharing new Final Fantasy Versus XIII info. So does that mean we can expect an update soon? Apparently not. According to Nomura, certain circumstances, which he describes as "totally unrelated," are preventing him from sharing the info. He also said that he's not allowed to talk about the situation, so all he can do is continue engaging in discussions. Discussions with who? He didn't say.
Mysterious!

 

A bit misterious words from Nomura... They are engaging discussions with SONY cause the game will be on others platforms too?  He is not allowed to share the info according to certain circumstances? Maybe a WiiU version of the game?

To me, it would be very nice to see this game on WiiU!!

And seeing how Smash is the most important thing on my mind right now, I just hope at E3 we get at least 1 more new IP that is character and story driven, so another new character or 2 could join the smash bros crew.

Thanks for responding my emails the other day, Matt!!