Wii U launching worldwide in time for 'year-end season'

@monkey man

This must be your first transition between console generations. Well what happens is the console makers put out new hardware every 5 or so years and temp people to buy their new hardware with new games. They also temp people who already own current gen consoles to upgrade to new gen versions.

He's implying its a current gen console, probably thinks its clever.

@CraszyAsce are you kidding me? It will just be a porting console. Third party devs will go for 360 and ps3 first since that's where the install base is then port to the wii u. What can it offer hardcore gamers that we aren't already getting? HD mario and zelda? I love those first party games from my childhood as much as anyonne but come on....

Cause thats exactly what happened to the Xbox 360 when it came out a year before PS3/Wii.

You seem to think this is next gen. Its no more next gen than adding kinect was. Don't fool yourself, this is a port machine. For example, the next final fantasy will be a PS game and ported to Wii and xbox. It will not be a Wii game first. This means Wii U versions will always be inferior. Could the original Wii play something like Final Fantasy 13 or MGS4? No. Will the Wii U be able to play Xbox 3 and PS4 games? No. its fine if you consider it next gen but its only going to be a machine that ports current gen software so I won't consider ir next gen. I predict a $250 launch price since the 'tablet' has no processor and simply streams from the Wii U. Also, the 'tablet' uses resistive and not capacitive touch so it will be cheap. Lastly, it looks uncomfortable to use as a controller.

Care to share the exact specs for the Wii U, Xbox Whatever and PS4?

How is a major upgrade in processing power, well beyond anything available, not next gen?

@KaBob799 Sure, I know just as much as you do. You can tell me it's going to be a god machine and I'll tell you it's going to be more powerful than the PS3 and Xbox 2 but not NEARLY as powerful as the Xbox 3 and PS4. Who will be right? Only time will tell (me). It will run current gen games that are ported to it and not run next gen games. People that buy this for hardcore games are going to get stuck with this thing to play a bunch of minigames with again except this time it will be worse because most of the "expanded audience" that they created won't want to buy a new one of these when they already have one. I predict this will not be a great deal for gamers, it's going to be something of a Gamecube type of failure (while still profitable for Nintendo).

As for the processor, I can tell you with certainty that the "tablet" is not going to have a real graphics processor. It's going to be a dumb terminal for the Wii U. There's just no chance in the world that they're going to create a REAL tablet that competes with the likes of the Ipad or Android AND bundle it with a new console and be able to charge anywhere near the price range games expect. It won't be usable away from the Wii U, it won't have Wifi, it won't have a web browser, it won't have apps. It won't do anything a real tablet does. It's got controls on it and if you look at the pictures of it, it looks very uncomfortable to hold.

@monkey man
>the next final fantasy will be a PS game and ported to Wii and xbox. It will not be a Wii game first. This means Wii U versions will always be inferior.

Just because the WiiU won't get a final fantasy game first means it will be inferior? Lolno. There are tons of PC games that were released after their console counterparts and are way better

>Who will be right? Only time will tell (me).
Being a complete douchebag will not help get your point around. Infact, it will do just the opposite.

>I'll tell you it's going to be more powerful than the PS3 and Xbox 2 but not NEARLY as powerful as the Xbox 3 and PS4

I hate to break it to your little fanboy mind, but the Xbox 3 is only 20% more powerful than the WiiU which isn't a whole lot considering its launching a full year ahead of the WiiU.

> It won't be usable away from the Wii U, it won't have Wifi, it won't have a web browser, it won't have apps.

Funny thing is, it WILL have all these things.

> It's got controls on it and if you look at the pictures of it, it looks very uncomfortable to hold.

How about I ignore that fact that you have been obviously biased up to this point and the fact that looking at pictures isn't enough to deem whether or not its comfortable and proceed to state that NEARLY EVERY person who actually held damn thing (Which is ,by the way, more reliable than just looking at pictures) has said that the controller is very comfortable to hold.

@freelancer91

According to CVG, Nintendo might rename the system due to "negative" feedback from the press and fans.

I doubt it though. The Wii U is already trademarked, and they even made a logo for it.

The "Revolution" was just a codename for the Wii, it was never trademarked.

@tendoboy1984

I'm tired of people acting like it's impossible to design good games first and foremost and also give them good graphics. Look at the Uncharted series. Great graphics and great games and overall gameplay. Even the Halo series makes great use of art style in it's games.

Graphics are about more than just being realistic too. In the past graphics were a huge limitation on personal expression, but also fostered creativity as people had to find ways around the limitations. These days there aren't as many limitations, but there's still just as much creativity.

I think games can always look better, no matter how good they may already look. You can take any Wii game, run it in Dolphin, adjust it to 1080p, add some AA, and it will almost always look better. Some of the HD (via Dolphin emulator) screens of the Op-Rainfall games were nearly breathtaking.