Holy crap, good catch! Can't believe even I forgot that one.
I don't know any gamer that games in a window-less, furniture-sparce white room, so I doubt the full effect of this can be taken advantage of. And I can't expect that something like this would come cheap.
Paper Mario: The Thousand Year Door, The Legend of Zelda: Wind Waker and Kirby Air Ride. Who's with me?
I'd like to see the Wii U be able to provide the option to upscale the original GameCube graphics to HD (Wind Waker HD, anyone?), but I don't really feel it's essential.
Finally, Nutsack made a rational analysis on a situation.
...Oh, wait, this has to do with Sony. Never mind.
Funny how Rovio tagged Nintendo's retail games "$40 pieces of plastic", yet now they have their games as one of those so-called "$40 pieces of plastic".
"developers just need to be more creative."
Peter Molyneux... is that you?
To be honest, ZombiU is the only game so far which has genuinely displayed all the elements of a true survival-horror zombie game that isn't generically formed. Resident Evil and Dead Space have been leaning too far towards the action-oriented route for me.
You know, now that I think deeper, the Wii sort of did the same thing this article focuses on - it did sort of alter the course of future gaming, in retrospect. It pioneered revolutionary integration of motion control in gaming, to the point that we now have the PS Move and Xbox Kinect as part of gaming today. Nintendo certainly made a mark with the Wii, and did very well "determine the future of gaming".
But here, with the Wii U, I feel this is different. The Wii U...
The term "fanboy" is so morbidly abused nowadays (props to N4G) that it's now just pretty sad to see how immature the internet really is. Say one optimistic thing about a console, shazam, you're tagged a fanboy in an overwhelming onslaught of opposing users.
I lose faith in this industry day by day.
@SilentNegotiator: Well, all I know is ZombiU and Tekken Tag Tournament 2 were "confirmed" to be running in native 1080p (at 60fps to boot), - but this is more than likely to be possible, judging from that the fact that we know the Wii U utilises an AMD Radeon HD in conjunction with an IBM motherboard. Yes, go check the vague specs Nintendo released months ago - it is a capable machine, seeing as it can run 1080p games (dimensions be damned) at 60fps while simultaneously streaming a...
I personally think Black Ops II being awarded Game of the Year is an extensive possibility, but I think the title will most likely be the best in the series to date.
There's a difference between PR marketing, and an actual statement concerning the Wii U's power from a developer standpoint. Everything Ancel stated here is evidently purely based on tested fact, unlike saying the Wii U is "the most innovative system on Earth".
The Wii U can display games in native 1080p more than just fine; it's the developer that is at fault here, clearly.
The Wii U currently has a great balance of third-party exclusives (Rayman Legends, ZombiU, Monster Hunter 3 Ultimate, Bayonetta 2, The Wonderful 101, LEGO City: Undercover etc.), so I'm all open to some equally great ports right now.
To be honest, I think Activision have either rushed themselves way too much with getting Black Ops II on to Wii U, or they are just currently all over the place.
A handful of games on the Wii U have been announced to be running in native 1080p at 60fps (still with zero latency to the GamePad), including Rayman Legends, ZombiU and Monster Hunter 3 Ultimate, off the top of my head. Seeing as all these games are exclusives solely developed for the Wii U (meaning they've prob...
A new console supporting a 4k graphical resolution which would cost a whole lot of money to develop, when under 10% of gaming households actually have the screens to utilise such an enhancement and TVs boasting this sort of tech are still in their expensive primetime and lacking a huge amount of support.
While I‘d personally love to see such visual mesmerization in action, it would take bloody years before the market saw the most tangible price drop for both these consoles an...
Unsure why everyone is making absurd claims on Wii U not being classified next-gen solely based on its first displayed graphics. Besides, Batman and Assassin's Creed were announced to be running in native 1080p, if I remember correctly, so surely this is a good sign for the console, however minor it is. And for a console to be able to display full high-definition images on the TV screen, while streaming an image of near comparable quality to the GamePad simultaneously? Must have even just...
We'd probably end up with Zac Efron as Link and either Reese Witherspoon or Emma Stone as Zelda, the notion of which alone is frightful enough.
My sincerest apologies, good sir - might I win you over with a six-reason article next time?
In all seriousness, even though I'm the author of this article, I sort of agree with you. I'm going to be brutally honest here, and some of you will probably wish to decapitate me for this; N4G is a very predictable site. I actually was inclined to make this article out of genuine interest (it only took me an hour, but I made sure to do a lot of research as I've had no e...
Very well said. To me, Sony and Microsoft are getting too obsessed with outdoing the competition, and that leads to them selling themselves short. The industry is all about innovation, but only when it proves fun, appealing and actually able to be used proficiently in game integration, not just for console marketing.
All three gaming companies have great potential, and the constant frenzy of competition is what keeps this industry alive to me. The next generation is certainly...