Ok I'll do my best to translate Michael Ancel's Wii U interview.

He starts saying Nintendo has a tough job to do to explain Wii U. It's like having a whole new cooking recipe, and you can't put words on it: people have to taste it.

He says it's hard to see, but for him Wii U is a core gamer concept. It brings new tools to gamers, and to games, while not removing what they already had. Instead of simplifying, like the Wii did, we are now facing a monument in videogames in terms of potential complexity.

He comments the multi layers approach: touchscreen ; classic joysticks ; or both mixed, which is a whole different thing. Nintendo's direction was hard for developpers to understand at first, since they had the impression they had to merge two worlds that had nothing in common. Eventually, it's this problematic that will create its value.

He then talks about Rayman Legends, and how it's as if there is a level designer that changes the playfield in realtime. He mentions a gameplay feature he's not allowed to talk about yet: the GamePad player will be able to litteraly dig in the scenery a la Dig Dug. He says asymmetric gameplay is great, because of this new kind of interaction, people will shout at each other.

He then says Wii U is a machine that has an enormous memory. They have almost no limitations in terms of memory, which is perfectly suited to 2D games, which use memory a lot for textures, drawings, etc.

He says Wii U is a surprising machine, which can display full HD on the main screen while streaming a different image at 800X480 on the tablet, and keeping a 60 i/s framerate.

He loves how Wii U opens LAN possibilities.

Despite being a rather powerful machine, he says Wii U is not a traditionnal next gen, with graphical revolutions. Nintendo made different next gen choices.

At last he says he's not sure yet if Wii U can handle his vision of BGE2, because he only has a 2D experience with it so far.

http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showpost.php?p=41829488&postcount=5519

http://www.gameblog.fr/news/30966-mi...g-e2-le-mobile

"Despite being a rather powerful machine, he says Wii U is not a traditionnal next gen, with graphical revolutions. Nintendo made different next gen choices."

This sentence will be the focal point of this thread; ignoring all the positives stated beforehand. You've been warned.

unfortunately that is all that would be talked about

Since he isn't an anonymous developer denigrating the Wii U, this thread will be ignored. Now if you posted an out of context quote that seemingly insulted the Wii U. See the misquoted Capcom thread, this thread would be at page 50 by now.

Michael Ancel needs to stop wasting time talking about the Wii U and get busy finding out if it can in fact handle his vision of Beyond Good and Evil 2.

does he mean 1080p and 60fps for 2d (as example arcade games) or also for big 3d games? if he means for big 3d games it would be great news.

I dont think he specifies... He just says the great amount of Memory is great for 2D games... Then in a different Sentence says the WIi U can do full HD 60FPS

ok thx

As long as it's free. Paid DLC sucks, especially when it should've been in the damn game to begin with.

This made me instinctively reach for my wallet.