The Wii U

[Mishran]

Unimpressive. Nothing can beat the retro classics. When gameplay really mattered! Most of the time. Some of the time? Occasionally?

[SMF]

it all come down to this, what are video games gonna be like in 10 years? I mean how much better can a system make a game be real before people get bored and want somthing new. Nintendos been around because they think outside the box, Always have. People say they want badass graphics but look at how well Mega Man 9 sold. The one thing Nintendo has that Sony and Xbox never will are Killer first party games. Yea Halo, Gears, God of war, Resistance. Nintendo have Mario, Zelda, Metroid, Sta Fox Pokemon, Pikman I mean Hell Donkey Kong, Kirby. Its no secret Sony and Xbox want Nintendos 1st party games on there systems. That's why Nintendo will still be hanging around. People will buy the New Nintendo even if they bad mouth it. If only to play Mario, Zelda, Metroid. It all comes down to what games are gonna be at launch when Wii U gets released.

[Arkhan]

Your on crack if you think this has at all neutralized Nintendo's otherwise cornering of the motion sensored video game market.  Does anyone actually own a Sony Move or Microsoft Kinnect?  I would guess probably better chances of people owning the kinnect as its outselling the Move thing 5 to 1.

Of course noone owns those things.  They're optional.  Kind of like how flailing like a tool with the Wii should have been optional.

It only took what 3 years for companies to stop making games that force you to move you arms?

Metroid Prime 3 is the best example of why the Wii mote is stupid.

Wherever your arm aims is where you look.  its also where you shoot. 

So, Samus has a cannon strapped to her face.

Immersion.

[DragonmasterDan]

Your on crack if you think this has at all neutralized Nintendo's otherwise cornering of the motion sensored video game market.  Does anyone actually own a Sony Move or Microsoft Kinnect?  I would guess probably better chances of people owning the kinnect as its outselling the Move thing 5 to 1.

Of course noone owns those things.  They're optional.  Kind of like how flailing like a tool with the Wii should have been optional.

It only took what 3 years for companies to stop making games that force you to move you arms?

Metroid Prime 3 is the best example of why the Wii mote is stupid.

Wherever your arm aims is where you look.  its also where you shoot. 

So, Samus has a cannon strapped to her face.

Immersion.

I can't be the only one who set that game to play with lock-on like the other Metroid Prime games.

[Arkhan]

Lock on? Thats for sissies.  I wanted real immersion!

It also sucks if you don't point your arm straight at the screen you look at the floor/ceiling. 
Samus can put her arms down.  Why cant I?

[DragonmasterDan]

Lock on? Thats for sissies.  I wanted real immersion!

I wanted it to play like the first two

[Arkhan]

Lock on? Thats for sissies.  I wanted real immersion!

I wanted it to play like the first two

I wanted it to play like Super metroid.

[Trevpwnsnoobs]

Im interested in the Wii U, but i cant really state an opinion on it until i actually play it, all i can say is i hope the best for nintendo.

[thrush]

Im interested in the Wii U, but i cant really state an opinion on it until i actually play it, all i can say is i hope the best for nintendo.

I totally agree.  Anything can look good or bad on paper/in the press: it's only once it's out, and out for a while, that we'll really be able to evaluate it.

[Necromancer]

A little more info. on possible specs: link

Not too impressive, as the CPU and memory are only a small step above the 360 (tricore 3.2ghz power pc and 512MB).  The GPU is more important anyway, and they're not tipping their hand to its specs yet.

[Arkhan]

All I got out of this article was

"As we Wii U Daily mentions"

Wee weeeeeeeee

[geise]

We're on a classic gaming forum and we're worried about system specs for making games fun to play? 

[Arkhan]

We're on a classic gaming forum and we're worried about system specs for making games fun to play? 

The reason for that is that even pretty crappy pixel art looks ok and don't ruin a game if the gameplay is solid.

Crappy polygons/models/3D environments on the other hand.....

Plus if they don't kick the specs up to something reasonably current, we're going to be paying todays prices for yesterdays specs, augmented by stupid controller gimmicks, as usual.

[geise]

Maybe they don't want to go crazy on the specs to keep prices down?

[Arkhan]

then we are basically paying for a gimmick controller, that will probably disappoint for 3 years until someone finally puts a useful game on it.