Which curve are they ahead of, again?gigastar said:Trust Nintendo to get ahead of the curve.
No gimmicks? I might even just be pleased.
Well, if they're aiming for 'better' than current gen competitors, I'd imagine DirectX 11 hardware derivatives would be pretty likely.ph0b0s123 said:I wonder what PC hardware will make it on here. Could we see the first console with higher than DX9 graphics capabilities, like Tessellation etc? Might improve port quality, but then again it is rare for Nintendo ports....
Well said.Xanthious said:Bottom line is that the Wii was great at getting money out of casuals and non gamers but it's list of accomplishments begins and ends there. It was a last gen console with a shitty gimmick and in a fair and just world would of went the route of the Virtual Boy and been summarily forgotten about except to be mocked. However, Nintendo got lucky and caught dog shit covered lightning in a bottle.
The generation curve.AncientYoungSon said:Which curve are they ahead of, again?gigastar said:Trust Nintendo to get ahead of the curve.
No gimmicks? I might even just be pleased.
I wouldn't see the purpose in it because I don't think they can capture the crowd that is willing to shell out the money for the new system. So basically i'm agreeing with you, Mario or RPG fans want a game that looks good but the ps2 was the oldest of last generation and could make the shiny more cartoon stuff look incredible.Wicky_42 said:Hey it wouldn't be hard - tech's advanced plenty since the other two were first made. The only question is if there's ANY IP that Nintendo has that would take advantage of even more power. Can't think of many WII games that really taxed the system in the way that, say, Halo 2 did of the original Xbox, or many that would really look better with HD graphics :/dmase said:"significantly more powerful than the PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360"
Mario's nose is growing...
I'll believe it when I see it.
One could argue that this next console would finally be bringing Nintendo to THIS generation of home consoles, and I don't just mean graphics-wise. Nintendo has even said that their primary reason for releasing the Wii was because they initially wanted to release motion controls on the GC but wisely decided that the whole thing needed a rebranding. Thus, they even admit that it was last-gen hardware.gigastar said:The generation curve.
Wow, so Microsoft and Sony are going to imitate Nintendo and go after a market they have no sway over and whose every potential buyer already owns a Wii?The Random One said:Wow, so Nintendo is going to imitate their competition and go after a market they have no sway over and whose every potential buyer already owns the competitors' devices? Prediction: it will sell worse than the 'Cube.
At least I won't need to buy a Wii to play this.
How about the motion gaming curve? How about being the only console maker actually interested in making games for kids? How about the handheld curve?AncientYoungSon said:Which curve are they ahead of, again?gigastar said:Trust Nintendo to get ahead of the curve.
No gimmicks? I might even just be pleased.
It's not the graphics curve, that's for damn sure.
It's not the online system curve. No siree.
It's not the new story-driven IP curve, considering they haven't released a new character-based franchise in the past 10 years (unless you count Professor Layton).
It's not the casual curve anymore, either. Apple has Nintendo nailed to the wall on that front, proving that casual gamers will buy tons of games if they're easily accessible, unlike Nintendo's floundering WiiWare service which they don't even advertise.
The only curve Nintendo has a jump on right now is the fat housewife curve in selling the Wii as an exercise device, and the bad news on that is that Kinect is murdering that curve with titles like "Dance Central". It may very well be that DC is the only reason to own Kinect but it's a damn good one, especially in the eyes of fat housewives.
So no, Nintendo is not ahead of any curve. They've fallen behind the curve by stubbornly clinging to notions like "No one wants online play!" and "Graphics don't matter!"
The Wii is the "Macarena" of the console world: for a period of time, everyone though it was awesome, but when we all look back, we can only ask ourselves "Why did we like that?".
Something they've wanted to do for a long time...JedivsPaper said:http://www.gameinformer.com/b/news/archive/2011/04/14/details-surface-on-the-controller-for-new-nintendo-console.aspx?PageIndex=3
HD screen built in the controller!!!! I wonder what Nintendo is planning with this.
The Xbox 360 and PS3 weren't even top-of-the line hardware when they were launched. The 360 arcade models ($200) are currently being sold at a profit. A $300 dollar console that is noticably more powerful would be easy to make.NinjaTigerXIII said:More powerful then the ps3 and xbox 360? Ladies and Gents I think the time may finally have come. THE $1000 CONSOLE IS UPON US! There is no way something that is MORE powerful then a PS3 that also can backwards compatibly play Wii games is going to be cheap. Hell it may even be more expensive then that! And It BETTER at least be able to play DVD's. I mean the PS2 and the Xbox could play DVDs yet when the Wii came around, nope, still no DVD player. FAIL
Nobody's really been taking advantage of PC hardware. Crysis is still the best looking game out there, and from what I've heard it wasn't even that well of an optimized engine. Everything is still being designed around DX9 video cards and 512mb combined system and video memory, so people who just look at the occasional screenshot don't realize just how far ahead PC hardware is right now.TheComfyChair said:Why are so many sites talking like it'll be a big deal if it's about the same power as the 360/ps3? If it is, it's a massive and i mean MASSIVE fail on nintendo's part. It should be much faster.
Going up to AMD and asking for the crappest thing they have in stock to put in a wii2 would still result in something 2 times more powerful than a 360. It'd also probably only cost about $200 tops.
Reality? The wii will likely be about 3-4 times more powerful than a 360 for around $30-350 and half the power of the average gaming PC.
Also, crysis is still 4 years old PC's are scarily ahead, with a graphics card (on it's own, remember CPU's have some input on the PC) from the last generation having 10 times the raw compute power of the ps3's CELL. Now considering that the CELL can't really lever most of it's power towards gaming that's a pretty huge difference.BloodSquirrel said:Nobody's really been taking advantage of PC hardware. Crysis is still the best looking game out there, and from what I've heard it wasn't even that well of an optimized engine. Everything is still being designed around DX9 video cards and 512mb combined system and video memory, so people who just look at the occasional screenshot don't realize just how far ahead PC hardware is right now.TheComfyChair said:Why are so many sites talking like it'll be a big deal if it's about the same power as the 360/ps3? If it is, it's a massive and i mean MASSIVE fail on nintendo's part. It should be much faster.
Going up to AMD and asking for the crappest thing they have in stock to put in a wii2 would still result in something 2 times more powerful than a 360. It'd also probably only cost about $200 tops.
Reality? The wii will likely be about 3-4 times more powerful than a 360 for around $30-350 and half the power of the average gaming PC.