aspro said:

When it comes to digital rights I actually was not expecting any thing good on this front. Very pleased Nintendo did the right thing, hopefully that puts pressure on Sony and MS to do the same.

VF5 FS is so much fun online! If anyone wants to get beat up by me let me know. Game is FREE for Plus so you have no excuse.

Look how perfect these hands are. Like they have never touched dirt, or a hard days work.

On whether or not Nintendo believes that the Wii U audience is the same group as the Wii audience:

Nintendo is targeting a wide audience for Wii U, “but I want to make the important addition that we are powering up with the Wii U. There’s sort of this attitude that Nintendo is targeting more casual consumers, but actually we’re more interested in making games for people who really love games.”


- Nintendo wants third-parties to feel excited about making games for Wii U as well

Fission mailed

Archangel3371 said:

To be honest I never really saw either them not doing it as well. They do want to keep their achievement/trophy system going along with the ride to next gen as well.

aspro said:

World at War on Wii was good in that way as well. Despite the poor design and graphics the controls made it more engaging than with a regular controller.

It was okay at the time but WaW controls are really crap compared to the best on Wii. Even Goldeneye controls aren't very good compared to Black Ops, MOHH2 or Conduit.

GAF guy said:

I'm not sure where to put this, but I figure this is as good a place as any.



For people who are getting up in arms about 3rd party games and graphics, I had a chance to chat with a couple of the devs on Assassin's Creed 3. I specifically asked them about improving the visual aspect of the game, and they told me that it just wasn't in the cards. They weren't going to take advantage of the extra power of the Wii U. Something about complications in doing so with the game running strange (I guess UI bugs and such). One of them said that they could do it, but weren't going to since it wasn't necessary. However, the guys working on ZombiU said they weren't constrained by multiplatform development, so they were going to add in new effects and such. He also told me that we should check out what they have at Gamescom as it should be fairly impressive with the lighting. My guess is it's a new build.



Either way, no one should be basing the Wii U's graphic capability on these ports. The devs I spoke to at the show didn't seem all that interested in improving Wii U games graphically.

From what I read, only Gearbox seem to be interested in improving their Wii U version over and above the other versions. Probably because Demiurge prototyped it and then made the game - one would assume from a fairly ground up perspective.

The producer of ZombiU said:

GamesBeat: Is it a realistic zombie, or a…?


Poix: Realistic, totally realistic. And the horsepower of the console is really there to push the limits.


GamesBeat: So it’s more hardcore, it’s not casual?


Poix: No, it’s totally hardcore. Yeah, sorry, totally hardcore.

Agnates said:

So what was everyone's best of E3? Mine was Watch Dogs and Assassin's Creed 3. I was surprised since I hated Revelations and didn't finish it too.

All the first party conferences didn't do much for me.

Anything Ubisoft was good for me.

Halo 4 looked solid.

Wii U will have a good launch lineup, Rayman, Ass Creed 3, ZombiU, Pikmin 3, NSMBU - bare minimum 5 good games, you can't ask for more for launch day right?