Wii-U thoughts so far

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Wii-U

I'm in for one
120
43%
Maybe later
96
35%
Not interested
45
16%
Undecided
16
6%
 
Total votes: 277

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Flake wrote:It's all 3rd party, ported titles that have that problem. The original developer hires some third string company to port the game over and they spend no time or effort optimizing the game for the platform.
I wouldn't say that. Deus Ex was ported by Straight Right who have been working on the machine since launch (they did the port of Mass Effect). The port is by all accounts very well done. Splinter Cell is also a very nice port. While Mario and Pikmin don't seem to have load time issues, Lego City was pretty damn awful too and that was built explicitly for the system.

I'm not certain what exactly it is and we can only speculate since many games seem to not have load time issues (including several shoddy ports), however, a lot of titles do.
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The operating system itself is pretty slow. There's a delay between any operation. It isn't terrible but it's slow enough for me to notice.

And I'm only a recent Wii U owner. I didn't experience the pre-patch OS. Supposedly that was awful from what I read at the time.
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Honestly I don't think the speed improved that much..
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EvilRyu2099 wrote:Honestly I don't think the speed improved that much..
Some things, like Miiverse are a bit faster now, as is actually booting up the console. Other than that I didn't notice any real speed boost either.
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dsheinem wrote:[
I think if they had a new console in Spring 2015 that was meant to compete with the PS4/Xbox One that many current Wii U owners would buy it since most of them buy anything Nintendo anyway. I think the potential reward would outweigh the potential risk.
http://kotaku.com/nintendo-will-release ... 1512068419

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Nintendo DS emulator for the WiiU is a thing that is happening!? I'm kinda shocked and excited at the same time!
Maybe now Nintendo will acknowledge Metroid has a fanbase?
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Flake wrote:Nintendo DS emulator for the WiiU is a thing that is happening!? I'm kinda shocked and excited at the same time!
yeah, but not how you'd think:

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Eh. It's a single peice of concept art. Many Wii U games have been simply represented on the gamepad with no image of the TV shot. Too early to say if that's how it is. with no display on TV.
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RyaNtheSlayA wrote:Eh. It's a single peice of concept art. Many Wii U games have been simply represented on the gamepad with no image of the TV shot. Too early to say if that's how it is. with no display on TV.
but why even release it?! if it isn't how the system will do DS emulation, why open themselves up to the critique? use concept art of the ideal, not some gimped approach...
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If I knew I'd tell you. For comparison, they have marketed every Virtual Console game solely on the gamepad.





I don't think it's possible for them to be SO dumb as to not use the traditional DS layout.
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