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Sal.Paradise on 24 February 2013

Lol, but it's coming to iOS no? I doubt it's a power thing. 



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zippy on 24 February 2013

Its such a shame WiiU cant run this game, it can only run crappy looking games like watchdogs ;)



TheJimbo1234 on 24 February 2013
think-man said:

Don't know if anyone cares about this, I probably wouldn't be getting this no matter what console it appeared on.

 

PlayStation 4 indie title The Witness appearing on Nintendo Wii U is unlikely, according to developer Jonathan Blow.

Speaking to Kotaku this week, Blow explained that the project was initially considered to be released on a console alongside PC, and shifted towards a PS4 release due to the "relatively low system specs" of the PS3 and Xbox 360.

But what about Nintendo Wii U? Whilst there could be a possibility for a port after the PS4 release, Blow notes that "The Wii U still has pretty low system specs, so it came down to a choice between the next Microsoft console or the next Sony console."

http://www.cubed3.com/news/18161/1/the-witness-indie-wii-u-release-is-unlikely.html

 

a) It was said at the conference it was a PS4 exclusive

b) The WiiU specs are low, thus it can't due to requirements.

 

Nothing new here so why the thread? 



think-man on 24 February 2013
TheJimbo1234 said:
think-man said:

Don't know if anyone cares about this, I probably wouldn't be getting this no matter what console it appeared on.

 

PlayStation 4 indie title The Witness appearing on Nintendo Wii U is unlikely, according to developer Jonathan Blow.

Speaking to Kotaku this week, Blow explained that the project was initially considered to be released on a console alongside PC, and shifted towards a PS4 release due to the "relatively low system specs" of the PS3 and Xbox 360.

But what about Nintendo Wii U? Whilst there could be a possibility for a port after the PS4 release, Blow notes that "The Wii U still has pretty low system specs, so it came down to a choice between the next Microsoft console or the next Sony console."

http://www.cubed3.com/news/18161/1/the-witness-indie-wii-u-release-is-unlikely.html

 

a) It was said at the conference it was a PS4 exclusive

b) The WiiU specs are low, thus it can't due to requirements.

 

Nothing new here so why the thread? 

Theres something new here now...You! :D   47 posts in 2 weeks nice.

OT:

a) I will leave you with a question, how many times have we seen an exclusive jump ship? when your done counting you can get back to me.

b) This is the first time we've known that the WiiU "Apparently" can't run the game.



 

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Roma on 24 February 2013

it can't run the game or we don't want to port it because Nintendo is giving us gimped kits so they can have superior games than us? BLOW me!



    R.I.P Mr Iwata :'(

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superchunk on 24 February 2013

I think its more so that it simply is exclusive to PS4.

THere is nothing shown that wouldn't be possible on PS360 let alone WiiU. That's just banter.



AgentZorn on 24 February 2013
osed125 said:

Kinda weird because the game looks very similar to Wind Waker HD and we know the system will most likely run it perfectly. There's also the little footage of Monolith's game which looks more graphically intensive than the witness.

Something is not right here...

Yeah it seem really strange. My only guess is that the game is horribly coded.



Busted on 24 February 2013

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TheJimbo1234 on 24 February 2013
think-man said:
TheJimbo1234 said:
think-man said:

Don't know if anyone cares about this, I probably wouldn't be getting this no matter what console it appeared on.

 

PlayStation 4 indie title The Witness appearing on Nintendo Wii U is unlikely, according to developer Jonathan Blow.

Speaking to Kotaku this week, Blow explained that the project was initially considered to be released on a console alongside PC, and shifted towards a PS4 release due to the "relatively low system specs" of the PS3 and Xbox 360.

But what about Nintendo Wii U? Whilst there could be a possibility for a port after the PS4 release, Blow notes that "The Wii U still has pretty low system specs, so it came down to a choice between the next Microsoft console or the next Sony console."

http://www.cubed3.com/news/18161/1/the-witness-indie-wii-u-release-is-unlikely.html

 

a) It was said at the conference it was a PS4 exclusive

b) The WiiU specs are low, thus it can't due to requirements.

 

Nothing new here so why the thread? 

Theres something new here now...You! :D   47 posts in 2 weeks nice.

OT:

a) I will leave you with a question, how many times have we seen an exclusive jump ship? when your done counting you can get back to me.

b) This is the first time we've known that the WiiU "Apparently" can't run the game.


Haha, a good point.

 

a) Actually it is normally very clever wording eg. exclusive release, which people mistake for "exclusive to this console period", rather than exclusives jumping ship. Normally, this is because the company signs a very expensive contract with said platform and they can not break it OR they can jump ship after a set period of time eg 2 - 3 years. I think this is what happened with Braid.

b) Erm, nope. Many devs have slated the WiiU for being too weak. The guys at4A Games (Metro 2033) were incribly scathing about it and their publishers had to do some serious damage control with the press seeing how blunt that Russia dev studio was.

http://uk.gamespot.com/news/metro-last-light-wii-u-canceled-early-on-6401531



JazzB1987 on 24 February 2013

Its as Criterion (dev) said. Developers just saw GHZ of the WiiU cpu etc. and didnt get it. Criterion had no problem to port the Highest PC textures available to the NFS WiiU version. The console punches above its league.

They clearly said people heard about the MHZ of the CPU and turned their backs on the console. Or they thought "lets just to whatever we can without any effort so it at least runs".

Criterions best argument tho was something like this:
"People should invest time and money they should care about what they are doing they should put some effort into it or dont bother doing it at all" (not a real quote I just wrote down how I remembered it)


And the Witness DEV clearly cant be bothered to invest some time and money. Lazy people.


Btw: What is the witness lol What type of game/genre/ etc?