Wii U

The Wii U cannot play DVDs or Blu-rays, Nintendo has confirmed.

Why? Because you've already got machines that play them.

"Wii U does not have DVD or Blu-ray playback capabilities," president Satoru Iwata told investors.

"The reason for that is that we feel that enough people already have devices that are capable of playing DVDs and Blu-ray, such that it didn't warrant the cost involved to build that functionality into the Wii U console because of the patents related to those technologies."

Instead, the Wii U, out next year, features a single self-loading media bay that plays 12-centimetre proprietary high-density optical discs, as well as 12-centimetre Wii optical discs.

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Tai jei nei dvd nei bluray nebus. tai labai blogai. Nes dar ko jau ko. bet dar 1 disku formato manau ant sio pasaulio neberik. gi ir taip standartu n. Aisku piratams isvis pipirai bus :> nesi tu issikepsi diska nei tu ka. Nzn.

Dabar suabejojau del naujo Wii sekmes. Tik HDMI nera labai gerai, nes tikrai dar yra zmoniu naudojanciu paprastus TV ir jiems gerai, tai dabar tipo jiems reiks nauja TV tik, kad palost galetu. Su diskais irgi pieva kazkokia. Nu nezinau kaip cia bus, bet buvau labai geros nuomones apie Wii, kad bus nesveika konsole, bet pradedu abejoti...

Dabar suabejojau del naujo Wii sekmes. Tik HDMI nera labai gerai, nes tikrai dar yra zmoniu naudojanciu paprastus TV ir jiems gerai, tai dabar tipo jiems reiks nauja TV tik, kad palost galetu. Su diskais irgi pieva kazkokia. Nu nezinau kaip cia bus, bet buvau labai geros nuomones apie Wii, kad bus nesveika konsole, bet pradedu abejoti...

 

Dabar suabejojau del naujo Wii sekmes. Tik HDMI nera labai gerai, nes tikrai dar yra zmoniu naudojanciu paprastus TV ir jiems gerai, tai dabar tipo jiems reiks nauja TV tik, kad palost galetu. Su diskais irgi pieva kazkokia. Nu nezinau kaip cia bus, bet buvau labai geros nuomones apie Wii, kad bus nesveika konsole, bet pradedu abejoti...

 

Šiokios tokios kalbos apie Wii U kainas iš vieno Nintendo žaidimų kūrėjo lūpų...

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Nintendo game developer legend Shigeru Miyamoto has suggested the Wii U will not be significantly more powerful than the PlayStation 3 and the Xbox 360.

 

Why? Because Nintendo wants to keep costs associated with the console down.

 

"Nintendo is an entertainment company," Miyamoto told GameSpot.

 

"We're very sensitive to pricing because people have generally only a certain amount of their spending that they'll devote to entertainment. And if you're talking about parents buying something for kids, there are certain price points where parents may be willing to or not willing to purchase a certain product.

 

"But at the same time, you have these technological advances, and you have the needs of being able to take advantage of that technology, and those result in increasing costs and things like that. And so I think that in terms of companies that really look very carefully at what is the best balance between price and possibility in terms of the hardware, Nintendo is the company that's going to probably pay the most attention to striking that right balance.

 

"So when you look at what we're trying to do this time, which is I think maybe to a certain degree somewhat reckless, because we're trying to include this somewhat kind of tablet-like device - this controller with the screen. We're trying to do that by finding the right balance between the CPU and the GPU, the graphics processor, and bringing all of that together with the ability to take advantage of the HD capabilities of the system, and wanting to do the most that we can on that front as well.

 

"We're very sensitive, of course, to trying to do all of this at an appropriate price. So I don't know that we would be able to sit here and say that it's going to necessarily dramatically outperform the systems that are out now. It's part of the balance that we strike in terms of trying to find entertainment that is new and unique."

 

The Wii U specifications have been the subject of much speculation following the console's E3 announcement.

 

Last week Sega Europe MD Gary Dunn told Eurogamer Sega's initial, "very early doors" reaction to Wii U is that "we're finding it to be quite powerful".

 

Whether that means more powerful than PS3 and 360 - the billion dollar question - Dunn wouldn't specify. "It's too early to call," he said. "It's different."

Sakė visi aksesuarai ir seni Wii pulteliai veiks su šituo Wii. Atrodo galės keli žmonės, o ne vienas su tuo mandru joysticku lošt.

Sakė visi aksesuarai ir seni Wii pulteliai veiks su šituo Wii. Atrodo galės keli žmonės, o ne vienas su tuo mandru joysticku lošt.

 

Nu, jo bet kiti tai turės lošt su lievesniais joystickais, nes su kietu joystiku galės būt tik vienas žaidėjas

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Assasins Creed žaidimas šiai konsolei nebus Revelations,o kažkokia ko gero paprasta dalis, galbut gaus tik pvz 3 dali kuri iseis ant X360 ir PS3 :

The Assassins' Creed Wii U game is not Revelations, Ubisoft has confirmed.

In an interview with Swedish website Aftonbladet, translated by our Swedish brethren Eurogamer.se, Ubisoft mega boss Yves Guillemot said it's "for the future".

Here's the exact translation:

"We saw something about a new Assassin's Creed for Wii U. What can you say about that?" asks the website.

"Our next edition of Assassin's will be in a Wii U version," Guillemot replies.

"Assassin's Creed: Revelations?"

"No, not Revelations. For the future."

"So it's Assassin's Creed III? Or is it something else?

"I can't tell you that."

What does "for the future" mean? Some have speculated it means the Wii U game is set after Revelations, which sees Ezio parkour and stab in Ottoman Constantinople in 1511 AD.

Revelations also continues Desmond's story in the modern day, following the events of last year's Brotherhood.

It could of course be Assassin's Creed III, which, given the hugely popular series' annual release schedule, may fit with the Wii U launch.

Assassin's Creed Wii U was announced at E3 last month. Ubisoft's Quebec studio is currently working the game.

The controller's touch screen will display a persistent on-screen map and interactive database, allow for fast weapon selection, display alternative puzzles and be used for the game's eagle vision.

The game will re-use assets from the PC, PS3 and Xbox 360 entries in the series.

Nintendo appears to have confirmed that ageing GameCube games will be made available for download on the Wii U.

Gamers will get the last-gen games via the company's existing WiiWare service, Nintendo of America exec Amber McCollom told NintendoGal.

"GameCube discs will not be compatible with Wii U, but a number of the games that were playable on GameCube can be downloaded from WiiWare," McCollom said.

To date, Nintendo has used the term WiiWare to denote original downloadable games on Wii, while retro games are re-released under the Virtual Console label. Did McCollom misspeak? Or will these GameCube games come with Wii U related extras?

And if GameCube titles are to be made available, does this mean Nintendo are considering a beefier Wii U memory capacity?

Wii owners had to make do with just 512MB of internal memory, although this was expandable via SD cards. It would take double that to cope with just one of the GameCube's 1.4GB mini DVDs that Nintendo fed players with.

With N64, SNES and NES games already available for the Wii, adding GameCube titles would be a logical next step. Indeed, Nintendo has just launched a Virtual Console for the 3DS, which includes Game Boy and Game Boy Color classics.

Newly received dev kits have increased EA Sports' belief that Wii U can do "anything" that PS3 and Xbox 360 can do, vice president Andrew Wilson informed Eurogamer.

"The short answer is yes [we have a better idea of Wii U's power]; the longer answer is not quite," said Wilson.

"As every new piece of hardware and every new development library comes through we get a greater understanding of the power. With our early research we had been very happy with the output of the box and we expect that that will only go up moving forward.

"There are added challenges for us as developers when you think about rendering on two screens and what that might mean, but we're looking forward to that challenge.

"It's still moving," he added, "but I think we'll be able to do anything that we can do on PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 on the Wii U."

The Wii U will be released, officially, after April 2012. Unofficially, Eurogamer can narrow that date to after August, as Darksiders II is a confirmed Wii U launch title, and still over a year away.

"It's still moving, but I think we'll be able to do anything that we can do on PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 on the Wii U."

Andrew Wilson, vice president, EA Sports

Xbox 360 launched in late 2005, and PS3 launched in late 2006 (March 2007 in Europe). More than five years on, can Wii U not go beyond what PS3 and 360 are capable of?

"I think that's our hope," answered Wilson, "but again we're still in the early stages."

A large question lingers around what the online capabilities of Wii U will be. Wilson wouldn't say whether new dev kits reveal more online Wii U functionality, but did highlight an "openness and willingness" by Nintendo to listen to their developer and publisher partners.

There are people at EA "under very strict NDAs" that are working those online Wii U systems out with Nintendo.

"[Online is] something that we're working very closely with Nintendo on," said Wilson. "We are highlighting to them what we believe are the most important elements to that infrastructure to deliver a connected experience that we think is the future of gaming.

"We have a series of people who are under very strict NDAs as you can imagine, operating with [Nintendo], building that [online] system out."

Andrew Wilson

"They have demonstrated an openness and willingness to work with us and work with developers that I think will only land us in a positive place.

"We're working through the development with them now," he added. "We have a series of people who are under very strict NDAs as you can imagine, operating with them, building that system out."

FIFA 13 will likely be a Wii U launch title, but could be separated, in terms of release date, from the other FIFA 13 SKUs. "The timing of that VIP party [Wii U launch] is largely dependent on Nintendo," said Wilson, "which we're waiting to hear like everyone.

"We're preparing development and we will make a judgement-call on the timing of that and how it relates to the other platforms once they have a better idea of when they're launching."

Wilson said development of FIFA 13 on Wii U has not begun.

"Not yet," Wilson remarked. "We are in pre-production for everything on FIFA, so we have our long-lead team thinking about Kinect ... Wii U ... What FIFA looks like on PS3, PC, Xbox 360 in general. But the core team is still finaling FIFA 12. So it's very much an early pre-production ideation phase right now."