E3: Nintendo's New Console Is: The Wii U

[NightHawk21]

Man, I don't know about you guys but that controller is going to be big and its going to be heavy. I really don't want to play with something like that for any extended period of time. Also, I don't want to keep dropping my eyes from the inventory while getting shot/stabbed/impaled/run over or generally killed to look at a 6 inch screen in my lap to access my inventory.

 

[mik1]

I'm a little confused is the console itself the controller that hooks up to the curent Wii1

or does this controller have it's own console to buy with it??

 

[TheAmokz]

Nintendo pee u? How... fitting.

 

[zeldagirl]

I can understand the lingering tendency to pile on Nintendo every time they don't make an XBox clone, but I'm aghast at the amount of dismissive comments made on the basis of bad information or even no information.

This is not just a new controller on the old console, it is a completely new console. Amazingly, like every other new console to hit the market, there is a new controller distinct from the controllers packed in with the previous system. The only one that even came close to having the same controller was the Dual Shock 2, and I will remind people that the Dual Shock was not Sony's original controller for the PS1.

The console will display in 1080p, which is no different than what anyone else is doing right now. The resolution of the controller display has not been disclosed, but complaints of the controller's weight seem odd given that weight is not an issue with the numerous pads being sold on market today. No, it's not particularly impressive that hardware coming next year is more powerful than hardware from four years ago, but I don't understand the complaint that it won't be as powerful as hardware coming out four years FROM NOW.

I can also understand the lack of enthusiasm that there are no new IPs on the horizon. What I don't understand is why it's a bad thing that on one or both platforms will feature Mario, Zelda, Kirby, Kid Icarus, Metroid, Smash, Mario Kart, Animal Crossing and Starfox, not even counting Nintendogs or Pokemon and lamenting the absence of Pikmin. Most IPs these days are the product of other companies, things like Batman and Ninja Gaiden and Darksiders (all coming to WiiU) and Sly and Ratchet and Mega Man and Resident Evil and Street Fighter and Tekken and so on. What is Sony's big IP, God of War? Or Microsoft's (wait for it)? The only one that springs to mind is Dungeon Siege; Oddworld was brought in from GT Interactive, Fable was brought in by The Moly, and Halo was brought in by Bungee.

Which is where I come to it: Microsoft's big OMG moment of their press conference was an oblique reference to the existence of a Halo 4 (at least the sixth game in that series, depending on how you count them). And it's the first of a new trilogy. So why hate on Nintendo for a new Zelda, when here comes Master Chief yet again?

This so much. It seems so many people in this thread are fundamentally misunderstanding what's been presented, and are using their ignorance to poop all over Nintendo.

I for one am stoked about this. I think this goes beyond 'gimmick,' this looks like real innovation that can really change up game play and immersion. So far, love the idea for the Zelda game, and while I'm on that topic, holy third-party titles, Batman! (...Arkam City!)

 

[Darth_Dude]

Finish this sentence. "An Ambulance goes..."

Seems like I was ninja'd...

As were I. Yes Wii were. But mostly U.

I see what you did there....

 

[Vinculi]

Wait a second. "Each Wii U console will be partnered with a new controller and can also use up to four additional Wii remote or Wii remote Plus controllers"...

Maybe I read that wrong, but does that give anyone else the impression that you only get to use ONE of these newfangled controllers with your console and all your friends have to use wiimotes? I guess that solves the "how much will that controller cost?" problem, but it had better not be the case, since games are going to be designed to incorporate the dual analogue sticks and screen then anyone wanting to play splitscreen will have to do so with parts of gameplay missing.

Hopefully it was just a poor choice of words.

 

[Jezzascmezza]

It looks okay.
I know it's going to sell a crap load of copies; it'll be another gimmicky Nintendo product that's unlike anything else, yet still shallow.
And the name? Wii-U?
Is that really the best they could come up with?

 

[Eisenfaust]

It's like the DS only the top screen is your TV.

like that, except with the added ability to turn off one of the screens... FUN!

 

[senataur]

Ahem.

Please bring you attention to this screen.

I was going to post this too.

Looked at the vid and the option with the most thumbs is a WiiU reference.
Hivemind.

 

[The Lunatic]

Gentlemen! Start your shovel-ware generators!

 

[K V MAN]

so backward compatibility, can i play the new games with the gamecube controllers because that made a lot of the wii games bearable

 

[MajWound]

It LOOKS interesting, but Jesus Christ it looks expensive.

 

[Wintermoot]

wait what?
I really hope they are going to prevent shovel ware this time around.

 

[farq1414]

o great nintendo makes a new Wii and what is it called WiiU realy?
time for jokes
we Wii on U
hahaha
the thing is pointless it isn't even a next gen just a add on and here i was thinking nintendo had changed all well

 

[rossatdi]

after all, why would a discerning "gamer" be interested in what will technically be the best console on the market ? . . .

you just keep playing those other two lesser consoles the manufacturers have no intention of replacing for roughly another 5 years...

Because they've just used the technology to remake WiiSports and another Zelda game?

That trailer really blew me away with the graphics for Othello.

My 'discerning' gamer was tricked once with the Wii which is working as an excellent dust collector at the moment. I don't want to play hilarious mini games with badly rendered caricatures of people. Show me something like Skyrim with innovative uses of the controls and I might be a little interested.