Nintendo E3 2011 - Page 6

Originally Posted by BCF68


And since I'ver never owned a Wii how would I accomplish this?

It will also be interesting how one uses a Wiimote that is designed for a 480i system to work on a 1080p game. I'm sure it will be very accurate.

Originally Posted by BCF68


I said it and I stand but it. I would never let a child touch an ipad. Appearantly peole her are rich and can afford to buy new ones. Which is ironic since wii fanbois bought it because it was so much cheaper than the REAL next gen systems.

Originally Posted by BCF68

And since I'ver never owned a Wii how would I accomplish this?

It will also be interesting how one uses a Wiimote that is designed for a 480i system to work on a 1080p game. I'm sure it will be very accurate.

Originally Posted by TyrantII

2014 release?

If that's so, that's a big problem for Nintendo... I was expecting late 2012 at the worst (So they can deal with "Next Gen" head on in 2015/16)

Originally Posted by BCF68

I said it and I stand but it. I would never let a child touch an ipad. Appearantly peole her are rich and can afford to buy new ones. Which is ironic since wii fanbois bought it because it was so much cheaper than the REAL next gen systems.

Originally Posted by Leo_Ames

with speculation that only 1 of these new controllers can be in use at one time (They didn't show anything where more than one was in use, instead using legacy Wii controllers for multiple players).

Originally Posted by Anthony1


This is truly bizarre to me. Only one of these things will work on a Wii U at a time? But I thought the whole idea was that you could be playing Madden against your buddy, and you'd be able to call your plays on the touchscreen, so your buddy has no idea what play you called.

This bit of news reminds me when people first heard that the Kinect doesn't work while sitting down... it's like "wait a minute.... what?"

Originally Posted by Anthony1

This is truly bizarre to me. Only one of these things will work on a Wii U at a time? But I thought the whole idea was that you could be playing Madden against your buddy, and you'd be able to call your plays on the touchscreen, so your buddy has no idea what play you called.

This bit of news reminds me when people first heard that the Kinect doesn't work while sitting down... it's like "wait a minute.... what?"

Originally Posted by mpalmieri1203

...and the third party footage shown was all from a 360....lol

The Zelda footage still looks great.

nintendo admits its wii u highlight reel was spiced up with ps3 and xbox 360 footage

nintendo's e3 2011 keynote yesterday gave the world its first official look at the all-new wii u hardware plus (we thought) a glimpse at the graphical capabilities of its next console. As it turns out, the impressive list of upcoming games for the 2012-bound console was just that, a list, with the visuals we saw on screen coming from ps3 and xbox 360 versions of said titles. Nintendo of america chief reggie fils-aime has confirmed that to be the case in an interview with gametrailers, where he also points out that the eventual wii u games will look at least as good as their ps3 / 360 counterparts. Which is why, in his eyes, it's okay to show us those games being played on the competition's (current-gen) hardware. He does remind us that the wii u will be delivering graphics at a 1080p resolution, and points to the garden tech demo that also graced e3 as an indicator of what can be done with nintendo's next console.

Originally Posted by Leo_Ames


Madden was purely speculation on our part as gamers and the media tried to theorize possible uses for this when the rumor first leaked out.

But don't forget that what we've said about just 1 in use is pure speculation on our part. Unlike what mpalmieri1203 said, we only ever saw 1 of these in use at a time with legacy Wii controllers rounding out the number of players. So we're making an assumption here that might very well end up being incorrect. Just because we didn't see multiple instances of this controller in use at the same time doesn't mean that capability isn't there.

They never said just 1 and they never said up to at least 2 (A number that I find even more questionable, if they're going to allow more than one of these to be in use, I would think they'd go all the way to four for full 4 person multiplayer gaming).

Just to clarify since your statement that "the Zelda footage still looks great" seems to be implying that it too was running on a 360, I'm quite sure the 1st party demos shown off yesterday were running on Nintendo hardware. It's strictly the 3rd party software that was having generic footage shown off.

Having something like a Zelda title running on a Xbox 360 or Playstation 3 would be a public relations disaster.

Originally Posted by voodoozen

Ain't gonna happen. 1 new controller is it, amigos. I'd put the chances of 2 touch screen controllers (let's call it "U" for short) working simultaneously at < 10%, and more? exactly 0%.

The horsepower to fully render 3+ screens at once would be astronomical in console form... it's not such a big deal when games only the U screen for an inventory, occasional input (like Udraw) or as the HUD, but that's doesn't seem to be the focus, basically *all of the Nintendo demos have you using the U as a second viewpoint. Since U's have no processing built in, that console is rendering everything for the main screen as well as the controller; doing that for 2 screens is taxing, 3 or more means exponentially more processing, heat, and more importantly, cost. Say you wanted to play CoD in 4-player local multiplayer... there's no way a console could handle a 4-way split screen and 4 U screens at the same time, it'd meltdown like Chernobyl... and at 12 FPS.

Ninty said yesterday that the console will be bundled with the U controller, and that the controller won't be sold separately. The official press release also mentioned that the console will support up to 4 Wiimotes (the video on their website actually shows a 5 player demo game) and all Wii controls, including the classic controller... which means for games you wanna do with 4 people using dual analogs (like Goldeneye), you'll need 1 U controller, 3 Wiimotes and 3 classic controllers. Basically, the Wiimote market isn't going to decline.

This really sounds like Cafe is a "giant DS" to me, one that also happens to allow for others to join in, but not with the full dual screen experience at the same time.

-vdz

Originally Posted by Leo_Ames

While a Nintendo spokesperson indeed said that, they've also said the following.

We're considering our options with maybe two screens,' Eguchi told Kotaku, who said he considers multiple New Controller games to be an interesting idea.' That would mean games that used two new Wii U controllers. Eguchi's five-player prototype, here at E3, has one person using a new controller and four other people using Wii Remote-Nunchuck combos.

http://nintendoeverything.com/66623/

Originally Posted by Leo_Ames


We're considering our options with maybe two screens,' Eguchi told Kotaku, ]

Originally Posted by Anthony1

Nearly a month ago, when news of the 6 inch screen touch controller was first leaked, I immediately thought of 4 player Mario Kart, with each player having the new controller, and being able to play multiplayer with your own private screen, without even having the TV turned on.