-Friends list needs to be more robust and not an after thought.
-Video chat performance must be improved to a usable level.. as it is right now it takes way way to long to work.
-Colors and brushes added to miiverse for drawing
-More Mii features
-Better notification system when people call and or get online.. It should do it similar to iphone/ android where something pops up on the screen.
That massive mistake by Nintendo has sold 5m units since December with 0 games and marketing. They are taking the same road they took with the 3DS.. no one really understood it until they actually played it.... Also 3ds didnt have many titles at launch.. once they launched the titles and gave it a price reduction it sold like hot cakes... the VITA is leaps above the 3ds in terms of tech yet it isnt selling at all compared to the 3ds.... So lets not act like TECH alone will sell console if tha...
Nintendo has been a step behind on all their consoles minus the GameCube and they have managed to be just fine.. their 1st party title slate is what carries them not their hardware... Also people forget their hardware is going to become cheaper at a faster rate than anything cutting edge microsoft and sony use out the gate...
Nintendo makes money on accessories, merch, and games.... Mario Kart Wii Sold 30m copies lol ... not 1 single ps3 or xbox game is even remotely close......
The gold standard for a PC Gamer is 1080p @ 60fps... 99% of PC gamers will agree anything less than 60 fps is considered less enjoyable to play. Most all PC gamers can tell the difference in frames and it isnt even close....Native resolution ALONE with minimal AA at 60 fps looks better than anything a console can put out right now in most games. This is the exact reason why Gears of War PC looks VASTLY better than it does on 360...
MOST people dont even realize ps3 and 360 ga...
It cracks me up when I see people say "The ps4 will run future and current gen games at 1080p with 30 fps... But a PC wont be able to do that because the tech ages faster than game development...."
If you are using 1080p @ 30 fps AS the barometer of what is good and "Next gen" than you obviously haven't gamed on a gaming rig that runs games at 1080p @ 60fps with eye candy on.....
EVEN 3 to 4 years from now a good gaming rig could run a...
Do people actually think the Sony OS is going to run on peanuts? It will have all those mandatory services to keep social network, updating on the fly, and whatever else it has going on with the hardware (Think that touch pad and the controller gyration dont have drivers or services running in the background)......
Ram is so freaking cheap right now that you can buy 16 gigs for 50-80 bux depending on the quality and speed....Who cares if windows eats 2 gigs of ram if you have...
As long as they improve load times across the board the system will be fine... I think its manageable in most the things I access.. but one thing I think they need to fix is the wii chat feature... it takes SOOOOO long to open / close or if you are in the browser or eshop and you want to answer a call .. it takes over 1 minute to switch apps and open the call...
sux but they gotta fix it... other than that I am completely satisfied with my Wii U .. If they end up patching the...
The success of the VITA and Sonys overall health as a company is going to affect what kind of money they invest in the PS4. Sony cant load a system up with all these rumored specs because they simply cant afford to fail and take a loss at the same time. The consumer wasnt ready to spend 250 for a 3DS and judging by sales estimates on the vita they arent willing to spend the same amount on a Vita. This leads me to believe they are going to make some serious concessions on the PS4 because they ...
That is the whole point of my post.. You have to give some to get some ..... I do realize there are several video options and settings to tinker with to get your desired performance.
What I am saying is as a DEV would you be more inclined to do 720p with ULTRA settings with high AA and AF at 30 fps to get your game to look amazing? Or more inclined to make the game run at 1080p at 60 fps on MEDIUM less eye candy options?
Coming from PC and playing consoles I ...
Do you not realize that Hi def games dont just change the resolution to 720 or 1080 lol ... You have to find capable people to make higher quality textures and be able to understand the coding it takes to use new techniques in graphics development ... people need to build out engines to include features unless they are using something like unreal already.... If you are going to use DX11 or any kind of specific programming technique you need to have the STAFF to be able to do that...
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It is pretty much a balancing act to be honest... For a CONSOLE to do 1080p at 60 fps in most games (something that more expensive gaming pcs struggle to even do) it is going to be quite a feat at what the market is willing to pay in a small enough form factor.
As a dev if you had the choice between running something at 30 fps on High to Ultra quality at 720p or 60 fps with medium to low quality at 1080p which would you choose?
Most all the games on the ps3 ...
It needs to be a bit more refined.. I would like notifications of new demos that are uploaded or titles added for download. Also it needs a sort function so you can sort by Free Apps and or demos... Not having the ability to filter by demos is annoying.. It wasnt until recently they put the Fifa demo on the front page of the eshop.
I did like the Nintendo Channel on the Wii where it showed new stuff coming out and releases on the way , I feel like the Eshop can do a better jo...
Wonderful 101, Bayonetta 2, Pikmin, Aliens, Rayman... All quality games are going to be released in Q1/Q2 next year... Lets not forget RETRO is still working on a game or possible game engines to deploy sometime in the future.. And there are several indie games out there right now (more to come due to how easy it is to put stuff up on eshop) ...
Lets wait a year or so to make the assumption that Devs are skipping the Wii U ... The install base is at roughly 1 million users (...
Yes because most games sell at 80 to 100% of its install base... The Wii U in Japan sold what 300k units? Did they expect Nintendoland or Mario to sell at 100% of that install base after its release?
Lets not forget the most popular sku is the the deluxe which comes packed in with a game.. This makes people less likely to buy another game during launch... Does anyone know if they include deluxe bundles as part of software sales?
Sites just trying to make head...
They can pair the vita all the want with the ps4.. The consumer still isn't going to pay 200+ for a vita and an additional 350 to 500 on the next gen ps4. Let's not forget that the latency between the vita and the ps3 is pretty high. That is one huge plus for the Wii U, there is virtually no lag between the pad and television.
Ultimately the downfall of the vita crossplay experiment is getting enough developers to invest in the prospect of consumers buying both produc...
We are not more than 3 weeks into the consoles life cycle and people are already saying it failed lol ...
Look at the 3ds it had some initial issues and then a price drop put it on track to beating the historical sales of the DS week over week...
With Nintendo it literally takes 1 title and the user base starts to expand exponentially.. Mario Kart Wii sold more copies lifetime than any COD or Halo ever has... Hell look at what Animal Crossing New Leaf is do...
Lol.. People just don't get it.. They had the dev kits for less than 8 months , and even then they had multiple revisions of it. How on earth would any developer let alone the bankrupt THQ be able to know the ins and outs of optimizing the Wii U for a game that was built for the ps3 and 360.
All the developers literally ported the games over with tiny dev teams with a limited budget. Be pretty damn impressed that the Wii U can run late cycle games fully optimized for com...
I know Pachter isnt this stupid ... but how can you compare a install base of 70m vs roughly 400k? Did he expect people who dont own the Wii U yet to purchase COD and put it as a display piece on their mantle?
By % in the first week the Wii U didnt actually do that bad... The Wii U hasnt launched in all markets like the 360 and ps3 (for first week of COD sales) .. but even then if you look at how many games each has sold by % it isnt that bad...
According to ...
I dont understand what people dont get about this ... COD was built for 3 platforms (360,PS4,and PC).. It wasnt built or even optimized for the Wii U ... The Wii U was still in development AND the dev kits werent even final until 3 to 4 months ago....The games arent properly programmed to use some of the new features in the hardware yet (other than the tablet)....
Did you expect Developers to spend day and night to reinvent their engine to run on another platform fully optimi...
It specifically states " loading times when switching between applications or returning to the Wii U Menu." .. So I am assuming it is system wide improvement between apps and stuff also.