Wii HD rumors and speculation
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As always, the rumors will turn out to be very wrong. Personally, I gave up caring about platforms as long as I get to play the latest Mario/Smash/Donkey Kong in a reasonably controllable fashion.
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I meant "they will have to buy a $250 handheld to use as a controller".Bush wrote:A $250 controller is not realistic.
If you have four people who want to play a WiiHD/3DS link game (say a virtual board game where the 3DSes are used for info you don't want the other players to see), you have to have the console itself (say $350), four 3DSes ($250 each), and the game itself ($60), so about $1,400 in hardware. It's not very practical. They might communicate through BlueTooth for data transfers, but I don't see it working as a VMU-style second screen. Never mind that the Wii and DS didn't have this functionality either.
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Just because it may have the functionality to use the 3ds as a controller doesn't mean that it will require it. On nearly all of the GC-GBA games the link was optional and you could play without it. Also, the point of the rumored controller is exactly the functionality you described.
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I am in the exact same boat.Skyone wrote:As always, the rumors will turn out to be very wrong. Personally, I gave up caring about platforms as long as I get to play the latest Mario/Smash/Donkey Kong in a reasonably controllable fashion.
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I honestly don't care about new consoles anymore. VV I've mostly gone back to computer games, where I started.
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hells yeah, No more shake tv remote and win button attack!ShockSlayer wrote:I am in the exact same boat.Skyone wrote:As always, the rumors will turn out to be very wrong. Personally, I gave up caring about platforms as long as I get to play the latest Mario/Smash/Donkey Kong in a reasonably controllable fashion.
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Also the kenect is wicked, read the last month of hackaday posts, there all kenects being built to do things like scan in your friends faces so you can 3d print them off as ice cube tray portraits. though deving the wii mote for things was pretty novel too... still though, there are tons of stuff that goes about the same direction the wii-motes after. Not many 3d cameras are doing the job those Kenects things are packaged for.
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Re: Wii HD rumors and speculation
Nintendo confirms a Wii successor is in the works. And that more info will be released at E3, along with a playable model.
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Re: Wii HD rumors and speculation
Has anyone read the blurry writting in this picture.
It says Easy Portabilty from PC, Xbox 360
Anytime Live Update Past Release
Intergrated into the Framework.
Why would Nintendo's next system be portable to the Xbox 360 or the PC. This is the most fake thing I have ever seen.
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Not so sure, there have been a few pictures of different colored consoles that look exactly like that.
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I think they mean it's easy to port from those platforms to whatever this is.Hifeno wrote:Why would Nintendo's next system be portable to the Xbox 360 or the PC.
Probably means it's a PowerPC CPU matched up with an adequate ATI video chipset, running OpenGL.
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Well I read several rumors that it was suppose to look like a Futuristic Super Nintendo and that looks more like a rounded off Wii. Something about Nintendo wants to get back to the hardcore days of the Super Nintendo.
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Well, I've read that to, but I've seen two other pics that look exactly like that system in brown and white.
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No mention of PS3 in there does that mean it is less powerful?
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I think the PC and Xbox have more similar architecture to the new system.
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woah that thing looks like a printer on one end... cant say it says any thing, expecialy since e3 is in June. I hope they keep going backwards to sell stuff that usually works well for them. Plays game cube Wii Game boy DS and n64 game right now! wait till next Christmas for more old ports of games you can play in your sleep by now!! My hopes is they keep the Wii motes, and pump up the graphics enough to play some decent games. Like Developers play with these wii motes but toss out the Wiis. Trust me they do, I've seen to many of these things hooked up to 360s, and I've still not played any thing designed to really use the wii mote that way. I've also met dumb testers who have gotten all excited for a day over the wii mote thinking out loud "well this is why the graphics suck, they had to make the Wii mote work." then after one day of playing with these things they out them down and get back to work.
Also the Buzz over another Wii will come from two Groups, Old people and really young kids, those are they groups it's made for. Don't expect you'll play a new GTA on this or Black Ops
Also the Buzz over another Wii will come from two Groups, Old people and really young kids, those are they groups it's made for. Don't expect you'll play a new GTA on this or Black Ops