Most Nintendo console games suck, they just re do the old favourites like Mario etc everything else is half arsed. As soon as they dump consoles and stick to making games, they will do so much better.
Nintendo Reveals Wii U Launch Date, Price
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Personally I'm not too shocked by anything announced. Everything is pretty average. What is interesting is how well nintendo is playing this from a marketing standpoint.
By releasing the game first while there is already buzz of other consoles on the horizon will likely see a large portion of consumers jumping to Nintendo's flag, leading to Nintendo getting a nice amount of the market already.
Second is a direct observation of the hardrive. By keeping it shitty and small, the price of the WiiU can be much cheaper. If you consider that the Wii is the most family friendly console out there right now, you will probably see some parents buying the new Wii U, due to both its family friendliness and its lower price point. Once a family buys the console they're essentially yours. I will bet that most families would rather pay more in incremental upgrades if they already have the WiiU than to buy a new better console.
By releasing the game first while there is already buzz of other consoles on the horizon will likely see a large portion of consumers jumping to Nintendo's flag, leading to Nintendo getting a nice amount of the market already.
Second is a direct observation of the hardrive. By keeping it shitty and small, the price of the WiiU can be much cheaper. If you consider that the Wii is the most family friendly console out there right now, you will probably see some parents buying the new Wii U, due to both its family friendliness and its lower price point. Once a family buys the console they're essentially yours. I will bet that most families would rather pay more in incremental upgrades if they already have the WiiU than to buy a new better console.
Wow, it's not more than my rent at launch. That's new. Memory size would worry me more if I didn't already have an USB HDD dedicated to gaming. Think I'll wait for some prime cut titles to come out before I buy, like I did for the Wii, waiting until Super Mario Galaxy hit, with Brawl a few months after that, and a reduced price Twilight Princess to tide me over between them.
Hard drive memory prices became unstable the last few years and demand for fast store is higher than for quantity. Would you really want a 320 GB 5400 RPM HDD like most PS3s or 360s or would you want a 8 Gig Solid State or better? Yea I'd want a 320 GB SSD drive but not for 300 - 1k a piece.AzrealMaximillion said:
I'm just glad that there is a bundle that includes NintendoLand. I'm getting the $350 one.
Can't wait to explore this new console.
Can't wait to explore this new console.
Compression? Maybe the WiiU will have WinRAR on it, but minus the annoying as shit "YOU MUST PAY FOR THIS SHIT" message that pops up every time you want to go deeper into the .rar file.ssgt splatter said:
Captcha: mum's the word.
Hm...
Wow!, 8 GB of memory, that's a lot! Now, how much storage does it have? I assume 500 GB at this point. Yeah!, one TB is maybe too much yet.
um...DVS BSTrD said:
there's this thing called math, or at least do me a favor, and pick up your cell phone, and on your calculator type 50/300 then talk
OT: Nintendo don't go to the dark side of Microsoft, Sony, and Apple. Hardware manufacturers have realized for decades that standardization of components keeps costs down, and offering one option keeps costs even lower by lowering overhead of the entire production process. this, and profit mongering is what has kept Apple the leader in stupid prices since the IPod mini came out, and to a greater extent the IBook
8GB is the STORAGE. However, you can attach ANY external hard drive to it.:MichaelPalin said:
http://www.joystiq.com/2012/09/13/nintendo-wii-u-expandable-memory-tivo-integration-explained/
1 GB of RAM hell even 1 Gb (yes there is a difference, and its why your HDD/SSD are never the actual size they claim don't know it look it up) of RAM is a dream in development on a console general rule of thumb is to keep your footprint down to maybe 128MB whenever possible (this is why Bethesda Games get really laggy when you have a lot of stuff.Ishigami said:
when you actually consider everything that even a current gen console does look at the Xbox 360 the dashboard is constantly sitting in memory so that you can call it by pressing the XBox-button (sometimes referred to as the god button in XBox API land), and the XBox 360 even dedicates half of its real RAM to graphics along with a complete dual core processor, and in order to even get some of these facts you either have had to try, and develop for the 360, or do real in depth reading in the literature for the APIs.
At least Nintendo is actually stating that they are devoting 1 GB to system which even in terms of PC is just a little bit higher then normal, but then again looking at what the Wii-U "dashboard" experience is (web search while in game, receive updates, and info from friends, and more) giving 1GB to that, and the general system stuff is just breathing room to prevent lags, and freezes
I own a wii, and with the exception of the Resident Evil games I have on it, Last Story and Xenoblades, it never gets touched. Bought the 3DS when it was first released and since then the price has gone down and it even now has that little joystick thing. Again, there are few titles for it I enjoy. I will wait until the price goes down on the WiiU and for some good games before I even think about making a purchase (Bayonetta 2, you will have to wait)
Not excited for this in the slightest. It's barely better than current consoles (if at all), more expensive, it will be severely outdated by the PS4 and 720, and its launch lineup consists mostly of games that you could have bought by now on your current system if you wanted them.
No sale.
No sale.
No, I wasn't thinking about hard drive space. Though as I've been made aware of by an early poster I apparently don't fully understand how consoles work. I don't see how a pc can require 2gb of ram to run it but a console can get away with 512mb without choking to death on it.j-e-f-f-e-r-s said:
Regardless the system still doesn't seem to be worth the price tag, but I'd be lying if I said I wasn't at all interested in it.
