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Nintendo announced their next-generation home console at E3 yesterday, and while the new controller concept grabbed most of the attention, a lot of emphasis was also put on the Wii U's intent to unify casual and hardcore gamers.
The Wii was never known as a graphics powerhouse so the company was eager to offer a glimpse at the graphical capabilities of its next console in a handful of upcoming games. As it turns out, however, the videos shown on stage were coming from PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 versions of the games. Nintendo of America's Reggie Fils-Aime confirmed this in an interview with GameTrailers shortly after the show, where he explained that the Wii U is still a year away from launch but games coming to the platform will look at least as good as they do on the PlayStation and Xbox.
"In terms of how good it looks it's going to be driven by what the individual developers do. It's going to be 1080p, it's going to be high definition," promised Fils-Aime. "You're going to see games that take full advantage of a system that has the latest technology and can push out some incredible graphics."
The company did show a garden tech demo as an indicator of the upcoming console's capabilities, though. Fils-Aime also briefly discussed the online capabilities of the Wii U, saying that it will be a key part of their strategy, and that they'll have a flexible approach by taking the best of what each of their third party partners has to offer and marrying that with what Nintendo has to offer to create a rich online environment rather than a rigid or closed one.
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teklord said:
Uhm, if they will be using the current gen ATI, it would be a lot more powerful than what xbox and ps3 currently have. And they did do pretty well for themselves with last gen graphics and a unique innovative interface. They just might do it again.Everyone says the games look PS3/Xbox 360 level, if the system was capable of doing more, they would have demoed that. They are doing the same thing they did with Wii, using last gen tech hoping people will buy it as current gen tech per new gimmicks. This most likely will be Wii type successful with Wii type graphics meaning it is behind a generation AGAIN. -
When the system comes out it will be doing what the pS3 and Xbox can do... since that is where developers are at with the technologies... if you look at the first games to hit PS3 and Xbox 360 compared to what they have today... there is a big difference.
So if the ATI GPU is the current gen it should have a bit more than what xbox and PS3 can do. The PS3 has an Nvidia 7000 series enhanced GPU, and the xbox has about what ATI had around the same time... so even an ATI 4000, 5000, or if possible a 6000 GPU has a lot more processing power and features. Plus, the CPU should be relatively new and benifiting from the manufacturing shrink.
From what they are saying, it should be what the Wii is to the PS2 possibly a little more. We have not really seen what next gen will look like... even Epics URE 3 tech update has not shown that much visually come pared to the visual step from the last gen. In any case they are aiming less for keeping pace with Sony and MS on the graphics power, but rather innovate and change the market... which they pretty much have done. They are trail blazing in regard to taking the market to new places, as usual, and Sony and MS are riding on their coat tails. They take the risks... since it is their primary business they have to becarful where they invest and keep the price down to sell units with less possibility of loss.
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teklord said:
Regardless of the what GPU is in it, the result will be graphics that are of this generation not the next.
I'm not interested in buying any of the current gen consoles because my PC is so much more powerful and the games look and sound much much better on my PC. I hope they port all the good ones to PC.
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Well over time I have accumilated all. I was a big PC gamer, but the developers are encouraged to do less on the PC. Sure the graphics and configurations are superior... but some games released have left us out in the cold some times... depending on the games I will get for the best platform. For example exclusive titles that may never see they day of light on PC...
The only thing left for me on PC is Valve games =) and FPS, and any PC only titles. Everything else, I will get on a console because they tend to have the tightest implementation where control is concerned. How a game plays is my primary concern, Graphics and configurability come second for me.
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teklord said:
Games For Windows Live games that support controllers have Xbox 360 controller support as being mandatory. I haven't seen one yet that doesn't port over the same Xbox 360 controls from the Xbox 360 version. I love using my Xbox 360 controller and for me, it's like playing the uber version of the console one.
I used to have a ton of consoles and games and sold them all years ago. Now I can emulate all those games for free and it looks and sounds better as well. ^^
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