Rumor: Nintendo Set to reveal HD Wii at E3 - Page 5

thatmariolover · 05-13-2011, 05:38 PM

I hope that doesn't mean that Ubi plans to just port their PS3/360 titles and add support for the touchscreen controller.

BreakABone · 05-13-2011, 11:11 PM

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Originally Posted by thatmariolover

I hope that doesn't mean that Ubi plans to just port their PS3/360 titles and add support for the touchscreen controller.

That's most def what it means, and oddly what I expect from the majority of 3rd parties to be honest.

IGN also has a new article up with some rumored specs

http://gear.ign.com/articles/116/1168222p1.html

thatmariolover · 05-14-2011, 12:01 AM

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That's most def what it means, and oddly what I expect from the majority of 3rd parties to be honest.

IGN also has a new article up with some rumored specs

http://gear.ign.com/articles/116/1168222p1.html

Yeah, I'm just having trouble swallowing a rumored $350-$400 price tag for PS3 games at this point.

As for IGN's article... It was a fun read, but factually it was worthless.

1) They used an AMD processor that's an order of magnitude slower than the PPC chip rumored to be in the Wii 2.
2) They only gave the system an extra gig of ram to accommodate Windows 7.

I mean, all they accomplished was showing what the PC ports of games originally designed for consoles running on a RAM starved PC with a processor that's easily 30-50% slower than the tri-core PPC.

But hey, they conned their boss into paying for a new PC. So that's cool, right?

Blix · 05-14-2011, 05:22 PM

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Yeah, I'm just having trouble swallowing a rumored $350-$400 price tag for PS3 games at this point.

As for IGN's article... It was a fun read, but factually it was worthless.

1) They used an AMD processor that's an order of magnitude slower than the PPC chip rumored to be in the Wii 2.
2) They only gave the system an extra gig of ram to accommodate Windows 7.

I mean, all they accomplished was showing what the PC ports of games originally designed for consoles running on a RAM starved PC with a processor that's easily 30-50% slower than the tri-core PPC.

But hey, they conned their boss into paying for a new PC. So that's cool, right?

I can't believe I missed this. The funniest part of the article was that they put a price on that 4850 of $200. Huge fail!
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16814150482

The only one left available in newegg.com is priced at $119.99. while the 5850 is around that price now (goes above and below it from a quick search I did).

Blix · 05-14-2011, 12:26 PM

Is anyone else interested in seeing current wii games running in 1080p? I think Metroid Prime 3: Corruption should look sweet. SSBB, Zelda: TP and the conduit should look fine running on that thing. Not as good as games on 360, PS3 and PC but the fun in it is looking at the relativity between the two. I hope Nintendo repeats the one friend code or finally gives us screen names with friend lists and the ability to know what your friends are doing.

BreakABone · 05-23-2011, 01:46 PM

Rumors, but rumors are always fun

http://www.nintendo-master.com/xtnew..._le3_2011_.htm

Angrist · 05-23-2011, 03:07 PM

Nice photoshop job. No wait, it's terrible.

Are people still very excited about SSB? I really loved all of them, but I don't really look forward to a new one. Unless they really add something new (which I think will be hard).

thatmariolover · 05-31-2011, 12:17 AM

A plausable set of of specs leak:

Angrist · 05-31-2011, 04:05 AM

If only the Wii specs would ever leak...

Seriously, Nintendo hasn't cared about graphics for over 10 years, and now a sheet like this 'leaks'? I'm calling fake!

Blix · 05-31-2011, 11:58 AM

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If only the Wii specs would ever leak...

Seriously, Nintendo hasn't cared about graphics for over 10 years, and now a sheet like this 'leaks'? I'm calling fake!

I don't know about you but the GCN was a fine machine for its time. Way better than the PS2 and up there with the original Xbox. The only thing I am not inclined the least to think is the four cores on this info. Everything else has said 3. But that's comparing unofficial stuff to other unofficial stuff. At least the 1GB of ram is persistent and pretty much everything else.

thatmariolover · 05-31-2011, 12:22 PM

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If only the Wii specs would ever leak...

Seriously, Nintendo hasn't cared about graphics for over 10 years, and now a sheet like this 'leaks'? I'm calling fake!

It's far from authenticated, that's for sure.

But it follows most of the rumors and is plausable. Besides, Nintendo can't reasonably expect to release a new console that doesn't outperform the current generation.

Angrist · 05-31-2011, 12:41 PM

I don't doubt the specs. I didn't even look at them (because I have no idea what it all means).
What I doubt is that Nintendo would publish a sheet like that. And that it would leak. Even with the GameCube, I don't think Nintendo published raw numbers, even though they were really good.

But yeah, it better be better than the PS360.

thatmariolover · 05-31-2011, 01:09 PM

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I don't doubt the specs. I didn't even look at them (because I have no idea what it all means).
What I doubt is that Nintendo would publish a sheet like that. And that it would leak. Even with the GameCube, I don't think Nintendo published raw numbers, even though they were really good.

But yeah, it better be better than the PS360.

Well, the Wii specs got out early. And some of the Gamecube specs got out a bit early as well.

The thing that gets me is that this is clearly a screenshot off of some webpage somewhere. So unless it's part of Wario World (Nintendo's dev webpage) I just don't understand where it came from.

Vampyr · 05-31-2011, 02:18 PM

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Originally Posted by Angrist

I don't doubt the specs. I didn't even look at them (because I have no idea what it all means).
What I doubt is that Nintendo would publish a sheet like that. And that it would leak. Even with the GameCube, I don't think Nintendo published raw numbers, even though they were really good.

But yeah, it better be better than the PS360.

Well it's marked for internal use only and it says devkit on it. If it's legit (which I don't know or care either way), it's not something they created to market to the general public - it's there to give information to the developers.

gekko · 06-04-2011, 04:18 AM

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Well it's marked for internal use only and it says devkit on it. If it's legit (which I don't know or care either way), it's not something they created to market to the general public - it's there to give information to the developers.

Don't know what it is with this site, but every time I type up a post of a decent length it logs me out and I lose it. So instead of giving the detailed breakdown I will say this:

The picture is full of small mistakes and typos, which means it's either a sloppy job by Nintendo, or most likely a bad fake. It also seems like someone was trying to guess at what developer documents look like, and didn't do a good job. If anything, it looks more like a powerpoint slide than a website.