| germibobi said: Look at the facts. If it is really slighty more powerful than the PS3 and uses this expensive contoller, how can they keep at a competitive price? It has as powerful as the PS3 to be competive and it would still be rather expensive. This controller is not very comfortable and I hope that casual gamers don't turn the Wii in to the successor so we Xbox 720/PS4 with this thing just like Wii brought Move and Kinect :(.Nitendo doesn't have online experience and this day online is a key in most games.Zelda and Mario HD would be cool,but can they save the console if they are at launch.And I don't get developers getting so excited about it.It doesn' matter if you can tweak things from your controller it would discract you from the game. |
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Slightly more powerful than PS3? The PS3 uses a PowerPC processor clocked at 3.2GHz and has a Nvidia 8800GT graphics card under the hood. The Xbox 360 also has a similar processor and an ATi x1950 card powering it. The WiiU uses a custom Radeon HD 4850 graphics card and reportedly a quad-core IBM processor. I think. But the graphics card alone is about 5 generations better than the "powerful graphics" of PS3 and 360.
Have you held the controller? No, probably not. According to E3 attendees, it felt about as light as an Xbox 360 controller, which is pretty fucking light.
Nintendo has plenty of online experience. Mario Kart Wii online is pretty smooth and lag free. And their download service is unparalled in the amount of old school games you can download. A lot of them are actually good too. The only problem Nintendo has ever had was with friend codes. And NOA CEO Reggie Fils-Aime himself said they were not going to be apart of WiiU's online infrastructure. Zelda will not be launching with WiiU, Mario is a strong possibility. He's overdue by a couple of generations.
Developers are getting excited because we have never seen anything like this integrated with a console before. Nintendo tried it before with GameCube to Game Boy Advance connectivity but that crashed and burned because you needed to buy both systems, plus a cable, plus a compatible game. Cool idea, but much better when it's integrated into the system from the start. And lots of things can distract one from gaming. Like stupid achievement bubbles popping up or your fellow tool friends sending you a message when you are trying to play some fucking Burnout. Or having to always be online to play a game. That's what is really distracting. Not switching over to the tablet controller when someone wants to watch the news.
