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The Wii U
Nintendo kicked off their E3 coverage with a 30 minute feature on the Wii U, its controller and some features.
Here's a breakdown of what they shared
General
With Wii U, Nintendo tries to continu its life-long motto "Doku-so", or "creating something unique."
Wii U should re-unite people: both in the same room (no longer playing with a laptop while the other is busy using a phone, console, etc) and at long distances (over the Internet)
GamePad
The Wii U controller will be called "Wii U GamePad"
The GamePad no longer holds a thumbpad but a 360-degrees and clickable thumbstick.
There's an NFC reader/writer in the GamePad, similar to used in Skylanders: Spyro's Adventure
Away with the TV-remote: there's a TV-button on the GamePad to simply replace it. Handy...
Both a Motion Sensor and a Gyro Sensor are implemented.
The high-res gameplay shown on your TV can be displayed on the Wii U gamePad as well, without delay.
Wii U Pro Controller
There will be a 'regular' controller, targetted for more longer and intense gaming sessions
Communication
During a short movie, the fictive Wii U player uses the GamePad to post a game-related question online asking for help in the Wii U community and getting (near) real-time advice from other players.
During the same movie, the player uses the GamePad as a webcam and communicates directly with the helping fellow-gamer.
Miiverse
When the Wii U starts up, a Mii gathering (similar to the Mii Plaza) is shown also called Miiverse (Mii Universe). The Miiverse contains your Mii and your friends' Miis and every Mii enjoying the same games as you do (grouped around game-icons). Doodles and texts can be used for communication. SwapNote on Wii U anyone?
Screenshots and gamecontent can be posted among gamers.
Miiverse will be available for all Wii U games, but some developers will go even further by implementing Miiverse-elements in-game.
Miiverse will (or: might) become available on PC and mobile devices as well, to keep you connected in the community.
Internet browser
The GamePad includes a built-in webbrowser, allowing you to browse while others use the television. It also allows you to 'send' the content shown on the GamePad on the TV at any time.
I wouldn't necessarily disbelieve that statement. I mean, its a little grandiose, but the party games with motion controls were pretty groovy back in the day. They're still a crowd gatherer in some households.
That's a very xbox looking remote. I'm sure Nintendo has a plethora of lists on how their controller differs from the Xbox controller, and how it is superior in every way because its thumb sticks are 2cm higher.
Listening to/Reading Nintendo explain all of its new tech and the reasons behind it is like watching someone milk a never-dying comedy-cow year after year.
"Stop using clunky two-handed controllers! Grab a wiimote and nunchuck! The future of gaming!"
"Put down your wiimote and nunchuck, and pick up the new black Nintendo pro-controller, sleekly designed to get away from pesky motion controls, and annoying gimmicky controllers for prolonged gaming!" Nintendo: Shattering barriers they have created since 1996.
They should bring back the Virtual Boy, damnit. It's been long enough since they tried to legitimately "do something unique".
There is nothing really unique about a tablet-console that uses xbox controllers, and sounds to have an online component much like PS, and some of the apparent abilities of 'The Cloud'. Unique all the way!.
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During the same movie, the player uses the GamePad as a webcam and communicates directly with the helping fellow-gamer.
Yeah, because a system aimed at children with a camera on the remote streaming live video/pictures online definitely won't be taken advantage of quickly by creepy people.
Wasn't that one of the main things against video-phones in the 80's and 90's? "People will expose themselves to our children."
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That's a very xbox looking remote. I'm sure Nintendo has a plethora of lists on how their controller differs from the Xbox controller, and how it is superior in every way because its thumb sticks are 2cm higher.
Listening to/Reading Nintendo explain all of its new tech and the reasons behind it is like watching someone milk a never-dying comedy-cow year after year.
"Stop using clunky two-handed controllers! Grab a wiimote and nunchuck! The future of gaming!"
"Put down your wiimote and nunchuck, and pick up the new black Nintendo pro-controller, sleekly designed to get away from pesky motion controls, and annoying gimmicky controllers for prolonged gaming!" Nintendo: Shattering barriers they have created since 1996.
They should bring back the Virtual Boy, damnit. It's been long enough since they tried to legitimately "do something unique".
There is nothing really unique about a tablet-console that uses xbox controllers, and sounds to have an online component much like PS, and some of the apparent abilities of 'The Cloud'. Unique all the way!.
Yeah, because a system aimed at children with a camera on the remote streaming live video/pictures online definitely won't be taken advantage of quickly by creepy people.
Wasn't that one of the main things against video-phones in the 80's and 90's? "People will expose themselves to our children."
And the Xbox remote looked a lot like the GameCube remote.
You can't argue originality versus Nintendo controllers. They did pretty much every innovative thing first and other companies built upon that.
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And the Xbox remote looked a lot like the GameCube remote.
I never said otherwise.
But if we can constantly go back, you can say that the Xbox controllers look like the Sega Saturn Controllers. Which look like the Sega controllers. Which are a crescent moon of the original Nintendo controller, which was an original design, so oh my god, they're fucking ripping off Nintend-...wait a minute....
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You can't argue originality versus Nintendo controllers. They did pretty much every innovative thing first and other companies built upon that.
So: Original concept of idea = constant exemptness from current market originality?
That seems dumb.
"You can't give Nintendo shit for not being original now, because they created video games!"
"You can't give Ford shit for making bad cars. They practically invented bad cars!"
"Who the fuck is Tissot, and why does that make any difference to my Timex?"
But hell, like the very first thing my post said:
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Re: The Wii U
I do find it funny that the Controller Pro is the news most people seem to latch onto (not just here), when Nintendo has pretty much positioned it as a back-up controller to get multi-platform titles. So still won't be the primary controller for the system.
Yeah I don't know what the big deal is. Nintendo pretty much came up with 80% on today's controllers. The sticks, the shoulder buttons, start/pause buttons...
For the Xbox, Microsoft took the Dreamcast controller, added the GameCube's C-stick. For the 360 they streamlined it and changed some button.
Now Nintendo bases the streamline on the 360's and everybody's all over it.
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I do find it funny that the Controller Pro is the news most people seem to latch onto (not just here), when Nintendo has pretty much positioned it as a back-up controller to get multi-platform titles. So still won't be the primary controller for the system.
You're right.
It's not news.
Nintendo invented the video game controller back in the 80's. I'm not sure why anyone mentions them anymore.
All their system is, is a tablet that connects to a Wii via 'The Cloud', and allows perverts to stalk little kids with a build in controller-camera disguising it as "Easy Mario Help!!***"
If Nintendo wants to be different, be unique - at least go back to the ideas that made them unique in the first place. Trying NEW things. (Virtual boy, first handheld, etc. Re-grow some balls, stop playing it safe.) Nothing about this is unique. Nothing. (List me things that nothing else has. I'm not saying the next PS or MS will be unique. But for a company that sells it's products under 'uniqueness', and has the motto of 'being unique', they've just created processed square cheese in a world of processed cubed cheese, but defend themselves [and have others defend them] simply because they came up with the concept of processing cheese. )
It's a combination of successful ideas of other mediums put together in a way which other systems already have, but in a newer fashion with flashier buttons.
Tablets are popular. So they make a system that has a tablet involved. Motion controls are out. No new nunchuk. No new wiimote. Tablets. Wave of the future! If people (IE: Not children, single mothers, or Nintendo-hard-on-ers) LOVED the wiimote, you can fucking bet every ounce of shit you've ever pooped out that they'd release an improved version of that dumb TV controller.
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Yeah I don't know what the big deal is. Nintendo pretty much came up with 80% on today's controllers.
The fact they created the first video game controller, then 15+ years later stuck one horribly positioned thumbstick on one of them gives them the ability to claim constant praise/complete exemptness for every controller ever invented forever? Haaaaaaa.
"I did something good once. So let me off the hook for like...20 years, hey."
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I wouldn't necessarily disbelieve that statement. I mean, its a little grandiose, but the party games with motion controls were pretty groovy back in the day. They're still a crowd gatherer in some households.
If there's one thing I'm good for on this site it's garnering responses from people who no longer post frequently.
I never said otherwise.
But if we can constantly go back, you can say that the Xbox controllers look like the Sega Saturn Controllers. Which look like the Sega controllers. Which are a crescent moon of the original Nintendo controller, which was an original design, so oh my god, they're fucking ripping off Nintend-...wait a minute....
So: Original concept of idea = constant exemptness from current market originality?
That seems dumb.
"You can't give Nintendo shit for not being original now, because they created video games!"
"You can't give Ford shit for making bad cars. They practically invented bad cars!"
"Who the fuck is Tissot, and why does that make any difference to my Timex?"
But hell, like the very first thing my post said:
You're right, the entire argument is pretty stupid. I'm not the one who brought it up though.
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