Superb title idea, haha!
Lucky lucky man. maybe that's why I loved Wind Waker's Nintendo Gallery.. taking pictographs of every character and enemy wasn't as difficult as, say, perfectly shooting all Blue Octos in Clock Town's Shooting Gallery. Ugh..
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Lucky lucky man. maybe that's why I loved Wind Waker's Nintendo Gallery.. taking pictographs of every character and enemy wasn't as difficult as, say, perfectly shooting all Blue Octos in Clock Town's Shooting Gallery. Ugh..
Does a translucent colour counts as a colour?
AceBandage
Banned
Some PGA game, Tetris 2, Lights out and Mario vs DK.
Way better, and Gimp Paint studio version is amazing... amazing!
TheGreatMightyPoo
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TheGreatMightyPoo
Banned
Some leaks would be nice. It's been a slow news week...
test_account
XP-39C²
Yep, "special" color counts
Apophis2036
Banned
If the Wii U is as powerful as the leaks on this thread suggest (Slightly more powerful 360 CPU, 2GB's of system Ram and a 1 teraFLOP GPU) then it should be able to run any current gen, third party game at 1080p / 30fps.
Whether developers will bother is another matter...
You will not be on par!I'm ready for the onslaught:
Hey guys it's the 9th of May here in Europe.
On this day in Nintendo history, it's been exactly six years since Nintendo's 2006 E3 presentation
Reggie: "Btw, thanks for the nice comments on the name. The both of you!"
On this day in Nintendo history, it's been exactly six years since Nintendo's 2006 E3 presentation
Reggie: "Btw, thanks for the nice comments on the name. The both of you!"
Always-honest
Banned
Yes, but only with upressed miis
test_account
XP-39C²
Hehe, i'm probably not as strong as a Spartan (if that is what you mean?), but i'll try to avoid as much negativity as possible
Don't count on a 1 teraflop gpu
Chet Rippo
Member
btw, sorry i didn't have the time to answer you, i don't know the calculation capabilities of the Wii U GPU.
What i know is that the "initial" specs are correct, it was at the time a "RV7XX". Ditch the 64 bit memory controller/entry-budgeted/passive-cooled RV710 with lolling 80 SPU, you can narrow the performance range of the GPU included one year ago between 300/400 to 800 maximum SPU. For the GFLOPS, it could be from 400 to 1000, but i wouldn't take the 1 tera for granted.
But, and it's the central point, Nintendo heavily customized the Wii U GPU, i'm not even sure the one developers finally have on the mass production dev kits is really based (read: "just" a RV7XX with a lot of alterations) on this initial chip, maybe it's a really dedicated to their purposes custom design, a new one, and the RV7XX was a "placeholder". The fact that they tweaked the dev kits guts until rather recently + other parameters tends toward this assumption.
Other people like bg or wsippel have some interesting theories mixed with data from some of their sources + sleuthing on the net + whatever, that this GPU won't be a beast but will be granted of additional features, fixed functions, nice little things here and there that if developers take advantage of, the results on screen will be beautiful.
AceBandage
Banned
Bravo!
Apophis2036
Banned
If it's anything under 1 teraFLOP, then it will be a repeat of this gen third party wise when PS4 / 720 arrive imo
.Suppose it will be a Wii U for Nintendo exclusives and a PS4 for their exclusives and all third party games then...
I don't believe that it has a 1TFLOP GPU. It was clearly misinterpreted. From what I read, it was referring to the RV770, not specifically to Wii U. Also, only 1.5GB RAM is rumored for games.
Besides that, if it were that powerful, there definitely would not have been any on-par rumors in the first place. And, while I know people will hate me for saying this, the case just can't handle a GPU like that. It requires 800 ALUs @625MHz. That's not reasonable.
Epic. I just discovered Regular Show, it's awesome.
But I'm just done with speculating: I want some real info.
If it's anything under 1 teraFLOP, then it will be a repeat of this gen third party wise when PS4 / 720 arrive imo
Suppose it will be a Wii U for Nintendo exclusives and a PS4 for their exclusives and all third party games then...
Nah, I wouldn't necessarily come to that conclusion either. Just wait and see, it's just that 1 TFlop is very optimistic. It doesn't necessarily mean that anything less is going to be too weak for ports.
If it's anything under 1 teraFLOP, then it will be a repeat of this gen third party wise when PS4 / 720 arrive imo
Suppose it will be a Wii U for Nintendo exclusives and a PS4 for their exclusives and all third party games then...
ladies and gentlemen, Nostradamus *applause*
Apophis2036
Banned
Thanks for the reply mate.
I thought it was a pretty well known fact that Wii U uses a custom Radeon 4770 GPU, which is 960 gigaFLOPs without Nintendo fine tuning it at all, would they down clock it ? !.
They will need at least the standard 970 gigaFLOPS imo or face being blown away by the PS4 / 720 on multi platfrom games as their rumoured dual GPU's combined are close to 2 terraFLOPS !.
Chet Rippo
Member
The PS3 looks like a grill.
dang LOL!!!
They would definitely have to down clock a 4770 significantly. Console GPUs are always downclocked, no exceptions. That'll go for PS4 and 720 as well, since the 7850 and 7870 simply cannot be put in a console at stock clocks.
test_account
XP-39C²
AceBandage
Banned
Which inspired products like this:
BBQ sauce. It is a real product.
I'll take a case!
ecosse_011172
Junior Member
How many times does it have to be repeated that last year's E3 case is not necessarily the final design so no assumptions should be made on it?
lolWhich inspired products like this:
BBQ sauce. It is a real product.
It could be a financial life preserver whilst they drown in a sea of red ink, and they'd think it looks "too flimsy."
"I'll look like a kiddeh while wearing it.. *cough*gag*gurglegurgle*"
(I kid.. kinda..)
It's really more a question of features. Is the Wii U GPU not capable of handling, managing, calculating, understanding and rendering it on screen, visual things required for next gen engines, that PS420 GPU will.
I would be less concerned by the raw capacities of the chip. As an example (with flaws but you get my point) entry-budgeted RV515/RV530 based cards can run A LOT of recent pc games with directx 9 setting at a good resolution with reasonable graphical options, from my experience.
The cheap Redwood cards can handle directx 11 games rather well also.
R
Rösti
Unconfirmed Member
Nothing special, but full floor plans are up now (only West Hall was shown in the PDF Sony supplied): http://www.mapyourshow.com/shows/index.cfm?Show_ID=E312
In case you haven't seen it, Nintendo's booth (4822) is located in West Hall. Microsoft (4100) and Sony (4522) are there as well, it appears changes have been made as they now only have one booth each instead of two (as reported on the PDF dated March). So, no Durango or Orbis, then? Nah, amount of booths/booth size shouldn't reflect what a company intends to show.
Activision, Capcom, Electronic Arts, Sega, Square Enix and Ubisoft, to name a few exhibitors, reside in South Hall.
Following the addition of the floor plans, we should begin to see a rather steady addition of exhibitors under the Wii U product categories. Capcom used to be on the list, so perhaps they will be readded.
In case you haven't seen it, Nintendo's booth (4822) is located in West Hall. Microsoft (4100) and Sony (4522) are there as well, it appears changes have been made as they now only have one booth each instead of two (as reported on the PDF dated March). So, no Durango or Orbis, then? Nah, amount of booths/booth size shouldn't reflect what a company intends to show.
Activision, Capcom, Electronic Arts, Sega, Square Enix and Ubisoft, to name a few exhibitors, reside in South Hall.
Following the addition of the floor plans, we should begin to see a rather steady addition of exhibitors under the Wii U product categories. Capcom used to be on the list, so perhaps they will be readded.
Apophis2036
Banned
Ah ok cheers.
Im more concerned for the Wii U only guys regarding the GPU power tbh so they get decent multi platform games, as long as the exclusive games look at least as good as the Zelda tech demo then i will be more than satisfied.
True, but the final case definitely won't be made all that much bigger. Knowing Nintendo, they're aiming for smaller.
Alright, stampeders! You may now begin plotting the best route to the Nintendo booth!Rösti;37684495 said:Nothing special, but full floor plans are up now (only West Hall was shown in the PDF Sony supplied): http://www.mapyourshow.com/shows/index.cfm?Show_ID=E312
In case you haven't seen it, Nintendo's booth (4822) is located in West Hall. Microsoft (4100) and Sony (4522) are there as well, it appears changes have been made as they now only have one booth each instead of two (as reported on the PDF dated March). So, no Durango or Orbis, then? Nah, amount of booths/booth size shouldn't reflect what a company intends to show.
Activision, Capcom, Electronic Arts, Sega, Square Enix and Ubisoft, to name a few exhibitors, reside in South Hall.
Following the addition of the floor plans, we should begin to see a rather steady addition of exhibitors under the Wii U product categories. Capcom used to be on the list, so perhaps they will be readded.
{*in a StarFox voice:*}Goooood luck!
test_account
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Hehe. I'd actually like to have this product for collection purpose, but i dont think they excist for sale anymore.
Also worth to note that the 20GB sauce had a "price drop", just like the 20GB PS3 had hehe. Might have seemed like a "cruel" joke back in the days concidering the struggling PS3 sales, but its fun to look back at it now i think
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