Foolz said:

No idea. I read a review awhile ago that implied they were unique to the Wii version. I thought that sounded bizarre.

They probably meant the waggle inputs they added in place of button presses.

phantom_leo said:

Awesome

GAF on the EA Nintendo fallout said:

Like everyone in this thread I was interested in the what went down between EA and Nintendo.

This is a story I heard that has been corroborated by a couple of people at EA, but none at Nintendo.

So in 2010 when next gen development started at Nintendo they asked US based publishers what the number one problem was for the Wii, they got a pretty uniform response that the complete lack of online infrastructure was a killer and that being so far behind the current gen hardware made porting games costly.

At this point Nintendo and EA (and possibly other publishers) entered into discussions about how to solve the former problem of online infrastructure. Remember at this time Origin was a relatively new idea at EA (it didn't even have a public release) so they saw it more as a cross platform shopfront with community integration, more of a PSN/XBL competitor than a Steam competitor. EA pimped out their store to Nintendo and they came to an understanding. EA would provide a shopfront for the Wii U for their games and any other publishers that wanted to jump on board with them, it would be a complimentary service to the eShop, but Nintendo would get basically zero royalties from any purchases made via EA's shop since EA were providing the bandwidth it would leverage their infrastructure. Games bought via EA would use EA's online servers and no EA games would be available on Nintendo's store. People would have their own EA username which would be used with games bought in that store rather their own Miiverse profile for Nintendo games (at the time it was actually still friend codes).

This seemed like a decent solution until other publishers started jumping in bed with EA who had a much clearer vision for Wii U online services than Nintendo who were still talking about friend codes at the time. Nintendo panicked when they saw almost all the major US publisher jump in bed with EA and cancelled the agreement and since then the relationship between EA and Nintendo has been awful. They fulfilled their contractual agreement to provide x number of launch games, but after that EA have bailed.

Again, I would like to put in a big health warning that this is a third hand account with no corroboration from Nintendo.

Nothing looks like it will compare to gta v this year.

Grand Theft Auto 4 ICE Graphics Mod on PC:

gamingeek said:

"Imagine a shooter, like Battlefield, with jaw-dropping graphics and smooth character animations of the Frostbite engine, brought to you on a Nintendo system with that breakthrough controller."

To quote GAF:

3rd parties: "Nintendo, increase the sales of your console 100% completely by yourself with absolutely no help from us. THEN we'll start releasing games for it."

To quote a Eurogamer user:

It's a valuable lesson for Nintendo.

Despite what 3rd parties said during the Wii gen....It doesn't matter how capable your machine is or how much you tailor the controller to suit 3rd parties...they still won't support you ....so do whatever you want to as it won't make a scrap of difference.

Seeing that clip again made me irritated, given that EA won't be bringing BF4 OR Madden 25 to the Wii U. The hunger for an Origin takeover was in Riccitiello's eyes when he made that speech in 2011.

Metal Gear is gonna look pretty sweet on my PC.

That was an amazing MGSV video, very emotional. Possible spoiler speculation ahead:

I love how Snake now looks like a cross between MGS 3 and 4's Big Boss. Kojima is definitely painting Big Boss as the tragic hero of this series.

- That was Master Miller beside Snake in the operating room, wasn't it?

- Holy crap at Outer Heaven exploding. I'm assuming that's what that was.

no David Hayter!

If S-E spent $100 million to make Tomb Raider, then they are fucking nuts. It's an amazing game, but no game should cost that much to develop. I just hope this doesn't kill the franchise.