Burny

The one thing I don't like about the things I've seen so far, apart from the aliasing , is the depth of field filter they've applied. Sure, it hides the aliasing on things further away from the camera somewhat, but I can't stand a permanent blur on things in games. If I focus my view on things far away, I see them sharp. The game however can't determine what I'm focusing on and therefore has no business blurring things far away. I don't want a nearsightedness simulation in my games, at least not open world games. I'm more or less fine, if this is done as an effect like on Skyward Sword. In that game though I never have to focus on things far away. Edit: Worst thing is the tearing in the screenshot with the helicopter though...

There was an interesting incident as a neogaf poster (Shiggy, seems to be closely related to the press) had a slip a few weeks ago. He accidentally posted an OT for a 007 game on the Wii U in the gaming forums and the removed everything about it. At least he seems to be sure the game is coming.

I only followed this loosely, but as far as I understand it that ~30min delay due to inspection by "human resources" is for public messages that everyone will be able to see? No, I wouldn't put it past Nintendo that all such messages are checked by real persons before they're published. Automatic filters only go so far. You can filter a lot of undesired content by checking messages for variations of words, but you're never sure how someone might alter a word, so that filters won't catch it, but the word remains recognizable. That will of course bite them, if the console and such public posts in the Miiverse should become popular.

If I were to go by what I read on some pages, I'd also come to the conclusion that CoD isn't liked much.

Where? When? At the expense of what? I dimly remember Reggie's cheesy introduction of the Wii U (something like "this is a console for U") last E3. Then there where some "deeper and wider" comments from Iwata (?) I believe. It's obvious that they don't want to be left completely out of this market this time. Who is "you" though? What is "wider"? As I've said before: It was also obvious that they weren't going to do a 180° turn, renounce the existence of the Wii, build a subsidized gaming monster and try to lick the "core gamers" feet from the moment the showed the Wii U. That's just what some people seem to interpret into these noncommittal statements, when everything else pointed to Nintendo trying to expand upon what they started with the Wii instead of abandoning it.

Plus Fused King and a handful of other people, including me. My point simply was that they'd have to gauge well how many of us there are and to how many they can reasonably hope to sell the game to. If they limit the budget and scope of the game accordingly and make the best out of it, then it could still be a success.

It personally mattered enough for you to post here, therefore it's a point of discussion.

Of course, in order to get people interested in this game with that description, they'd have to know what Little King's Story is. As that wasn't exactly a raving success, chances are they wouldn't know what you're talking about. Pikmin is also rather a (big) niche game. No guns, no explosions, no grit, no cinematic scripted sequences... It's great to have more quirky titles like this beside the standard fare with guns, explosions, grit, obscenely action packed cinematic scripted sequences etc. that we have everywhere else and I don't see why this would be an automatic flop. If the investment is right, selling lower numbers doesn't have to mean the game would be unprofitable.

Of all the games we knew about, this was the one I looked most forward to. Wasn't disappointed by what I saw.

Didn't you get the memo? Nintendo is going to sell you a third arm attachment. It's called the Gamer Arm Pro. Seems like you have choice. Oh, and a hell yeah for pointer controls of course.

Or if you like to go through new areas without being killed or having to rest, heal and revive your party after each handful of random encounters. As you can hardly move through a corridor without at least two of these, that means you're constantly interrupted (edit: and confronted with all the charm of a game mechanic from the beginning of console RPGs).

@Jamba After all the waxing, there should also be a disclaimer: You shouldn't mind atrocious amounts of random battles and grinding.

I'm sure I've read someone speculating about it before, but that NFC stuff would be the ultimate game tie in for Lego City Stories. Buy a Lego model, put it onto the controller, unlock DLC vehicle in game. Actually, it would be the ultimate tie in for any game aimed at children and collectors.

Easy question. Actually, I'm a PC gamer at heart anyway. Without a gaming capable PC. Or money. Or time... The first two points might change in the foreseeable future, the last won't. Quiet honestly though, the PC is the ultimate stationary gaming platform for me. New console generations may technically leave it behind for a year or so, but from then onward, even a mid-range PC has always been more versatile. In this day and age, the PC is also just as capable as a "couch-platform" as any console. Having bought a PS3 for some of its exclusives and as a poor man's PC for some multiplatform titles, I've really come to realize that Nintendo's are the only consoles I need. Everything else, I'd do better to play on a PC. What isn't on the PC, I'd do better to ignore, seeing as I don't have the time anyway.

At least you'll also be able to use it with the WiiU. I also replaced my two vanilla Wiimotes and Motion+ addons (in working condition though ) sometime before Skyward Sword was released. Didn't get much money out of them on ebay...

No mention means it's not included / won't launch alongside the update. Iwata never promised to do anything like that in the next update. It was mentioned during one of the recent investor briefings.

Those few teachers are the problem (or can be). None of the three we had at out school were any good at kindling enthusiasm for programming or even were programmers themselves. They were just some physics and maths teachers, who had gone through some kind of advanced training in order to teach computer science. The subject itself was also only taught to 17-19yr-olds (10th to 13th grade). Once you also start to teach the subject to pupils of lower grades, you need more teachers and facilities as those "one or two" will just not do any more. The teachers themselves will also need to be better educated, as pupils taking the subject for longer can't just stick to writing the simplest of programs. Not to mention that the subject and its teachers actually needed to be far better organized in our case. As long as it's about understanding and designing algorithms, sure, it doesn't really matter how bloated the OS is and how much all the installed educational software bogs it down. But in that case, you'd probably go for Java or something similarly system-independent as educational language. That might be a valid alternative to introducing these mini-PCs. But the people behind the Rasberry Pie seem to link the problems they're experiencing directly to the fact, that children today are very unlikely to come into contact with systems they have to program in some way and more likely to have access to systems and toys, that offer anything they want out of the box. At least their homepage makes it sound that way:

I guess we might also talk about the other feature introduced with the new firmware here. You know, patches. Which is long overdue, as Nintendo should've realized a lot earlier. Edit: I really wonder how they're going about patching games all of a sudden. Is this some dirty hack they're doing or were games actually prepared to be patched before? Hopefully they'll integrate them well. I'm not expecting automatic download "overnight" out of the box. Seeing as they've touted the ability to push updates to 3DS via spotpass though, I'd hope they're going to do this with patches eventually.

There are tons of benefits to be had teaching children to program on very basic machines like these in contrast to anything like a modern PC or a console. If this takes off or ends up as a toy for enthusiasts is another matter. Precondition would be to have teachers actually educated in programming of course, which I suppose is the real issue. For one thing, you don't see "the strings" on modern (Windows-)PCs any more. There is a myriad of things going on at any time. Such a basic concept as creating a program that will be executed as a process and uses the standard-IO (console) is nowadays buried under a mountain of GUI applications that make people click buttons. If children aren't actively looking to learn this nowadays - and there is little reason for them to do so unless they plan to become computer scientists anyway - they will never learn about it. Consoles probably are a far worse option to start teaching children programming. For one thing, they're pretty much elaborate toys instead of general purpose PCs. And as they are so elaborate, they're also expensive. Things like the Rasberry Pie however are within the price realm of a school book and unlike consoles can be used as actual general purpose PCs. That also solves the problem who's supposed to buy these things: Not the schools, but the parents. Schools aren't afraid to ask parents to buy schoolbooks for hundreds of Euros every year, many of which are more expensive than a Rasberry Pie would be. They could very well ask parents to equip their children with such a mini PC for computer science classes.

So, Nintendo is actually starting to use new media formats in a sensible manner. These streamed video conferences/recapitulations are quiet nice in itself, but now they're also going to live tweet it.

This is no more a game than Photoshop is a game. It's a tool and you should be aware of what it does and doesn't. For one thing: It doesn't give you any instructions. At all. And of course it's infinitely more limited than something like Photoshop or even gimp. On the other hand, that's what makes most of the appeal. It's a very simple and lean tool, but with a couple of unique features, like saving arbitrarily long "replays" of you painting the image and the gallery integration, where you can upload image and replay for everyone to see. Edit: This is from the homebrew days of of Colors! and still one of my absolute favorites on there: The application must've gotten a decent boost in popularity with its release on the eShop, otherwise that hyrule cathedrale couldn't have overtaken it in the all time rankings.

And some things we aren't aware of. It's great they're doing this as not everyone spends half the day soaking up videogame rumors and news. It's just people with ridiculous expectations who'll inevitably end up disappointed (like the last three times or so :p). I expect a Mario Tennis information, as that's on the immediate 3DS release schedule.

Sometimes, I wish for a thumbs down function. :p This'll be the first thing I get from the eShop, once I have a 3DS.

Quoted for truth. Zelda can work with voices just as about every other game can. You only need to listen to Xenoblade and Kid Icarus for some fantastic voice acting in Nintendo games.

That's a fallacy prevailing since last E3 among certain folks. Tell me, what audience was the Wii U's reveal video targeted at? It certainly wasn't the type of people screaming for console manufacturers to sell them 800$ PCs at a loss. Considering this is what self entitled "(hard) core gamers" have seemingly come to.