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Posted: Thu Jun 09, 2011 8:25 am
by Dr Shaneman
Seems Nintendo are getting criticised for using PS3/360 footage for their game previews for Wii U, as their own games were still in development.

Posted: Thu Jun 09, 2011 6:24 pm
by Gonic
Stupid name that's for sure. Graphics look pretty. Apparently nintendos stocks are falling cause of this thing

http://screwattack.com/blogs/ScrewAttac ... es-to-fall

Posted: Thu Jun 09, 2011 8:04 pm
by Reknoc
It's worth pointing out the same thing happened when they announced the Wii.

Although I imagine that Sony's Vita price reveal didn't help at all.

Posted: Thu Sep 13, 2012 3:31 pm
by Dr Shaneman
So Wii U controllers are going to cost $337.
Better look after them well.

http://kotaku.com/5942876/the-wii-us-co ... socialflow

Posted: Thu Sep 13, 2012 3:44 pm
by Reknoc
Dr Shaneman wrote:So Wii U controllers are going to cost $337.
Better look after them well.

http://kotaku.com/5942876/the-wii-us-co ... socialflow
Usually I just laugh at Kotaku and the poster linking to it, but this time I just have to laugh at the poster. The article states it'll cost half the systems price ($172).

But that article is already wrong as the US price has been confirmed as $300 for the basic package.

edit: anyway, guess I'm getting a WiiU since they've announced a Monster Hunter for it and it's even getting a euro release.

Posted: Thu Sep 13, 2012 4:57 pm
by SonicFan
i am just getting the Wii U just for ZombieU

Posted: Fri Sep 14, 2012 12:58 am
by Matty
Interesting to see they've stuck with an IBM PPC Processor & AMD Graphics as opposed to using a custom jobby,

Seeing as its labeled as "Multi core" i doubt it will have 8 (Cores) like the Ps3, but will be interesting seeing how close it will be in terms of performance (although it will benefit for multi tasking as ram is shared a la Xbox 360, whereas PS3 is fixed)

GPU will probably be pants as i believe i read its a HD5xxx (and thats about 3 years old now)

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Posted: Fri Sep 14, 2012 1:06 am
by Matty
Oh, and heres a Wii U Dev Kit for anyone who cares, must say, its a nice looking bit of kit, can;t shine a light to the PS3 Dev Units thought xD

Wii
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Ps3 (Think this is a Mk2, Mk1 was like a 15 year old pc)
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Posted: Fri Sep 14, 2012 9:54 am
by Whooa21
I'm wondering how much the dev kit costs...

Posted: Fri Sep 14, 2012 4:39 pm
by Matty
Not sure about the Wii U, but if they're anything like the PS3 you're looking at about $6k new i believe, then you have to buy updates to the SDK which are quite pricey and you only get X amount of licences per SDK so more of those are added on

Then you have to buy a licence/access to the developer networks for resources etc so its a costly prospect, although the Dev units do appear from time to time, most of the time though its just general debugging stations which have limited functionality without a Dev unit