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Nikkei: Wii U Price 30,000 ¥
That's 10,000 ¥ more than the PS3, for comparison.
andriasang.com news
aspro
The Press Room Episode #117
50 minutes of analysis of Nintendo's E3 conference.
thepressroompodcast.com editorial impressions news
aspro
Harvest Moon Creator Details Project Happiness
It doesn't involve hookers OR coke.
andriasang.com news
aspro
The Press Room Episode #116
E3 coverage, every game, every conference with Vader, Yoda and Aspro.
thepressroompodcast.com editorial impressions news
aspro
Tunnelers Preview
"an online tank shooter with plenty of potential ".
robotgeek.co.uk impressions
aspro
The Media Guardian goes hands on Wii U
'It's weird, but touched by genius'
guardian.co.uk impressions
gamingeek
Yoichi Wada Discusses Square's Next Gen Engine
'A target of Direct X 11 level'
andriasang.com
gamingeek
Emerging Tech: How Flatscreens Can Have Buttons
Has implications for gaming.
theatlantic.com news
aspro
Tokyo Jungle is Topping Itself
Will now have Ape Escape, Loco Roco, and Patapon content.
andriasang.com news
aspro
Epic: UE4 full feature set requies 1 TFLOP GPU
But also includes a mainstream renderer targeting mass-market devices with a feature set that is appropriate there.
geforce.com
gamingeek
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Wii U Specs leaked
Main Application Processor
PowerPC architecture.
Three cores (fully coherent).
3MB aggregate L2 Cache size.
core 0: 512 KB
core 1: 2048 KB
core 2: 512 KB
Write gatherer per core.
Locked (L1d) cache DMA per core.
Main Memory
Up to 3GB of main memory (CAT-DEVs only). Note: retail machine will have half devkit memory
Please note that the quantity of memory available from the Cafe SDK and Operating System may vary.
Graphics and Video
Modern unified shader architecture.
32MB high-bandwidth eDRAM, supports 720p 4x MSAA or 1080p rendering in a single pass.
HDMI and component video outputs.
Features
Unified shader architecture executes vertex, geometry, and pixel shaders
Multi-sample anti-aliasing (2, 4, or 8 samples per pixel)
Read from multi-sample surfaces in the shader
128-bit floating point HDR texture filtering
High resolution texture support (up to 8192 x 8192)
Indexed cube map arrays
8 render targets
Independent blend modes per render target
Pixel coverage sample masking
Hierarchical Z/stencil buffer
Early Z test and Fast Z Clear
Lossless Z & stencil compression
2x/4x/8x/16x high quality adaptive anisotropic filtering modes
sRGB filtering (gamma/degamma)
Tessellation unit
Stream out support
Compute shader support
GX2 is a 3D graphics API for the Nintendo Wii U system (also known as Cafe). The API is designed to be as efficient as GX(1) from the Nintendo GameCube and Wii systems. Current features are modeled after OpenGL and the AMD r7xx series of graphics processors. Wii U’s graphics processor is referred to as GPU7.
Sound and Audio
Dedicated 120MHz audio DSP.
Support for 6 channel discrete uncompressed audio (via HDMI).
2 channel audio for the Cafe DRC controller.
Monaural audio for the Cafe Remote controller.
Networking
802.11 b/g/n Wifi.
Peripherals
2 x USB 2.0 host controllers x 2 ports each.
SDCard Slot.
Built-in Storage
512MB SLC NAND for System.
8GB MLC NAND for Applications.
Host PC Bridge
Dedicated Cafe-to-host PC bridge hardware.
Allows File System emulation by host PC.
Provides interface for debugger and logging to host PC.
Now if I only knew what those specs actually meant...
It's basically mostly current but not top of the line tech if true (DX10, not 11, though that tessellator might offset some of it if it's capable). But it doesn't tell much about real world performance beyond the RAM based stuff since it doesn't include the actual speed of any of the processors (CPU or GPU).
Edit: my bad, nothing explicitly indicates DX10 featureset, it could be better.
The optimist proclaims we live in the best of all possible worlds
while the pessimist fears this is true.
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All three conferences were equally horrible.
Microsoft for announcing new additions for games that have been updated annually or every other year.
Sony for showing nothing new.
Nintendo for underwhelming graphics, showing mostly ports of old games, and theme park.
Fucking terrible.
One of the site's forefathers.
Not equally horrible but horrible as a whole yes.
3 gb of RAM is more than I expected. Pretty good.
Again, sad that Nintendo can't dominate a show with a new console.
Platinum games
Nintendo gives Platinum a console powerful enough to do Madworld, IN COLOR this time! Or a crazy Bayonetta type game...and they make a poor man's Pikmin.
So, I'm unclear on a few things.
Are Wii U games going to be $60?
Is the system's online going to be account based, so you can tie all your purchases to your account instead of the hardware?
Are they going to get ports of more than 5% of 3rd-party games?
Looks like Nintendo have confirmed that the Upad game stream is 60fps.
For two tablet support they have to halve it, but it's drop in/drop out capable too.
Note this has nothing to do with system power and the fps of the game played on the TV, it could be 15 or 120 and the above would remain the same technically.
Edit: Upads last 3-5 hours depending on brightness and need 2.5 hours to charge. I guess they didn't put a large battery in it to keep them light, the streaming and actual screen take a lot out of it. It's not horrible considering it's not a portable you take to places without power outlets and it can be used while charging...
The optimist proclaims we live in the best of all possible worlds
while the pessimist fears this is true.
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Wow
Probably not.
Apart from Ubisoft and Warner Bros I am pretty suprised at how lame 3rd parties have been about either putting versions of games on Wii U or making the odd exclusive. Other platforms get defacto support, Wii U picks up selected dregs like Wii did, maybe worse - at least Wii had a good number of exclusives.
What is this Trine 2 game? You guys must have played it? The screens look fecking awesome.
Trine is supposedly pretty good but I've never played either game. I think they started on PC then got ported to consoles.
Still not known, what are the video/audio ports and what are the output options ? HDMI? 5.1 or better ?
Yeah it has HDMI....it has to if its HD.