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Wii to Wii U graphical leap [roundtable]
 
It's 2012, and the Wii hardware is ancient. It is an overclocked Gamecube, so it's hardware from 11 years ago. This year Nintendo will launch the Wii U, which will be more powerful than 360 and PS3, and finally have Nintendo games developed in HD.

How powerful will it be? We don't know for sure, but certainly "next gen" if it can pull off 1080p at 60 fps, which I think will be the standard, or high-water mark, next-gen (PS4/XNext included), based on the difference in graphics of current maxed-out PC games and the PS3/360.

The next generation could very well all-around be the smallest leap forward in processing power in the history of the industry. However, Nintendo's leap forward will (appear to) be massive.

Question: Will the leap from Wii to Wii U power, in combination with finally seeing what Nintendo can do with HD hardware, make it the most visually impressive console next gen, regardless of the specs difference with PS4/XNext?

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01/10/12, 21:09  
 
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@nacthenud
I thought Sony's stake in bluray was overblown. Don't they only own a small percentile along with a bunch of other companies? And blurays themselves as a medium will be king for awhile, but I doubt their movie sales will last forever. Digital is quickly making bluray (and all physical media) irrelevant. I was the biggest DVD nerd ever and have hundreds upon hundreds of movies. Bluray I still definitely have more than the average person, but still much less than DVDs, and it's only been getting worse. Rental stores completely dying has really hurt physical media, and even stores like Best Buy and Future Shop don't seem to be carrying NEARLY as many blurays as they did DVDs.

So bluray may be a short lived victory for Sony. We can't deny physical media is dying, can we?
01/26/12, 01:34   
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@Earendil

I..don't know who to believe.
01/26/12, 01:51   
@Guillaume This would screw over a lot of people who buy new games too. If they buy them at Gamestop. Since there is about a 50% chance you are buying a used game if you buy a new game at Gamestop.
01/26/12, 01:59   
@vids

I'll give you a real world example of this in action.

- I'm getting SSX on Day One.

- I can buy it for either 360 or PS3

- PS3 has a console-exclusive mountain, Mt. Fuji (so 360 will have 9 mountains, PS3 will have 10).

- I'm getting the game on 360.

- Re: All my friends are on 360, and SSX is heavily focused on Asynchronous Multiplayer.

Even extra content isn't enough to sway me if I have to give up the my established community to get it.
01/26/12, 01:59   
Edited: 01/26/12, 02:03
@Guillaume

If that rumour turns out to be true, it would be all the differentiating factor Nintendo would need to dominate my purchases.
01/26/12, 02:02   
@New Forms

All your friends? Poor Guillaume...
01/26/12, 02:03   
@Jargon

What do you mean?
01/26/12, 02:09   
@New Forms

All your friends are on 360. Guillaume isn't on 360. A simple application of the transitive property shows that Guillaume isn't your friend. Poor guy.
01/26/12, 02:14   
Yeah me either. Sheesh I thought we were all friends here.
01/26/12, 02:16   
We're all frenemies.

And each of us has a fremesis.
01/26/12, 02:19   
Edited: 01/26/12, 02:20
@Jargon

Oh, I get it now.

Yeah, I'm with Zero.
01/26/12, 02:20   
@Anand

Ooh! You should trademark fremesis. Thats AWESOME.
01/26/12, 02:36   
Who is my fremesis? :(
01/26/12, 02:51   
@Hinph

Hinph from a few months ago. Remember when you BLASTED him in that other thread?
01/26/12, 02:57   
@Zero

Whatever, you still haven't accepted my PSN friend request.
01/26/12, 04:11   
@Hinph

I have to ask the same question for myself.
01/26/12, 09:17   
@Secret_Tunnel I don't think I have been online with my PS3 in like a year or so? Well, maybe since whenever Pacman was out.
01/26/12, 11:04   
@Mr_Mustache

Me of course...
01/26/12, 16:50   
@Mr_Mustache
Let's keep using it! Maybe it'll catch on.
01/26/12, 18:07   
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