Gearbox: "The Wii U is a powerful, powerful machine."

Gearbox senior producer Brian Burleson has openly described the Wii U as a “powerful, powerful machine”. Burleson explained that although he’s unable to talk about the specifications of Nintendo’s forthcoming console, he personally believes that Aliens Colonial Marines Wii U will ultimately be the best version of the game.

“[Creating the Wii U version] has been pretty easy. The Wii U is a powerful, powerful machine and it can do a lot of cool new things. And so the game itself, moving it over to work on the Wii U was not much of a chore.”

“Now the interesting thing is finding out all the cool ways you can use the controller to do new stuff with it. You can imagine all the cool things we can do, with this franchise and having a thing with you, right?”

“You can imagine some cool features, for sure,” Burleson said. “It’s not hard to imagine some cool features.”

The Wii U’s power, though, is “one thing I can’t talk about”, he said. “Actually nailing the specs, they haven’t come out with them yet.”

But, the Wii U version of Aliens will “be better” than the PS3 and Xbox 360 version in terms of visuals, he confirmed. Why? Because of “more modern tech”.

How, exactly, will it be better? “You’ll have to wait and see,” Burleson teased. “Just trust me on that one.”

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FIFA 13 coming to Wii U

The world's most popular sport will be represented on Wii U early on thanks to EA.

Fifa coming to WiiU was pretty much a given considering that EA launches it for every system known, smartphones included.

But that bit about another team making it... well, who knows. The Pro iterations for Wii were done by a different team and were better.

Gilmour said: FIFA 13 coming to Wii U The world's most popular sport will be represented on Wii U early on thanks to EA. FIFA 13, this year's iteration of EA's soccer franchise, will be coming to Wii U.  The Wii U version is being developed by a separate team, and it is not yet known how it might differ from the other versions of the game.  The revisions announced for the other console versions include improvements to teammates' positioning AI, an overhaul of the dribbling mechanic, and new methods of interacting with high balls and taking free kicks.

God lord. Separate team?

This sounds good, but the question is how much more powerful is the system. Not that it really matters much to me. Zelda games always lure me to Nintendo's home console.

Powerful can be subjective but any other way you look at it, a Zelda game will always be a plus to me; and it will now be in HD!

Unlike the mascot img in your signature. ;)

I'm kind of hoping for some actual news to come out the last few days have been bad with all the old news being dredged up. But after the controller pict I don't think we are going to hear anything until June 4th, with the Ubisoft show unless someone makes another snafu.

Some news to spark your fancy, Geoff Keighley has confirmed that there will be huge new E3 announcements starting tomorrrow. We don't know whom they will be from, but with any luck it might be Nintendo-related.

http://dailygamedeal.com/2012/05/25/huge-new-e3-announcements-coming-tomorrow-confirmed-by-geoff-keighley/