Anonymous developer details experience working with Wii U
Posted on 11 years ago by Brian(@NE_Brian) in News, Wii U | 47 Comments
Eurogamer has put up an intriguing piece “from a respected third-party”, who shared his experience working with the console. The article covers Nintendo’s initial reveal to the developer up through the release of the company’s game.
Details rounded up from the post can be found below. I also highly suggest checking out the full thing right here.
Reveal
– Developer “worked on the hardware extensively and helped to produce one of the better third-party titles”
– Nintendo held a presentation, and said they wanted a console that is small like Wii and wouldn’t make noise
– This is so “mum wouldn’t mind having it in the living room”
– Point was raised in the meeting that the Wii U seemed significantly slower than the Xbox 360 in terms of raw CPU
– Nintendo dismissed it and said that the “low power consumption was more important to the overall design goals” and “other CPU features would improve the performance over the raw numbers”
– Devs communicated through emails after the reveal and the thought was “I like the new controller, but the CPU looks a bit underpowered”
– Some people started doing their own calculations to guess Wii U’s performance and some even built custom PC rigs with under-clocked CPUs to try and gauge performance of their code
– The thought was that it wouldn’t be powerful enough to run next-gen engines and could possibly struggle doing current-gen
– Despite their own tests, “management” decided to go ahead and make a game for Wii U
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Shin’en not too interested in DLC
Posted on 11 years ago by Brian(@NE_Brian) in General Nintendo, News | 3 Comments
Chances are that you won’t be seeing DLC in any of Shin’en’s games. That’s because, as the company said on Twitter recently, the team doesn’t “plan for DLC”. Instead, Shin’en prefers to “release a 100% complete game for a fair price.”
Shin’en’s comments in full are as follows:
@Megadrive08 We don't plan for DLC. We rather want to release a 100% complete game for a fair price.
— Shin'en Multimedia (@ShinenGames) January 10, 2014
Jett Rocket II update releasing imminently
Posted on 11 years ago by Brian(@NE_Brian) in 3DS eShop, News | 0 comments
Jett Rocket II: The Wrath of Taikai’s first update isn’t too far off, Shin’en says. The developer wrote on Twitter yesterday that it’s only a matter of days before the patch goes live.
The message reads:
@EdEN_Zr Should be only a matters of day. We will tell when we get the release date. I guess holidays delayed everything a bit at eShop…
— Shin'en Multimedia (@ShinenGames) January 10, 2014
An hour of Chibi-Robo! Photo Finder footage
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The Legend of the Mystical Ninja listed for release on the European Wii U VC next week
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The Legend of the Mystical Ninja will release on the European Wii U Virtual Console next week, according to a listing on Nintendo of Europe’s site. Pricing for the SNES classic is set at €7.99 / £5.49.
In December, The Legend of the Mystical Ninja launched on the North American Wii U eShop. You can download the game now for $8.
Even more Kirby Triple Deluxe footage
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Best Buy has Mario Golf: World Tour digital pre-orders available for $30
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Mario Golf: World Tour will set you back $40 when it finally launches, but Best Buy has the eShop version available at a discount. You can currently pre-order the downloadable release for $30. GameStop also has it listed for the same price, though it’s currently unavailable.
Digital versions of retail games not your kind of thing? That’s fine – you can pre-order the packaged version as well at Best Buy or Amazon.
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A Wizard’s Lizard planned for Wii U
Posted on 11 years ago by Brian(@NE_Brian) in News, Wii U eShop | 0 comments
Lost Decade Games plans to bring A Wizard’s Lizard to Wii U down the road. A release date hasn’t been set, though it’ll hopefully arrive sooner rather than later.
The fact that development on A Wizard’s Lizard has been completed hopefully means we’ll be seeing the game hitting the eShop in the near future. On PC, it’s due out on January 22.
