Nintendo published the first entry in its Wii U Iwata Asks series today. The talk focuses on the hardware behind the console, meaning there’s lots of technical talk and mumbo jumbo that most of us don’t understand.
Nonetheless, there are a bunch of interesting tidbits and images to take a look at. We’ve composed a summary of the discussion below. The full interview can be read here.
In making Wii U, the development team had a particular goal in mind. The staff wanted to maintain high efficiency and performance while keeping power consumption low.
How the team accomplished this was explained in the latest Iwata Asks. Nintendo president Satoru Iwata, Genyo Takeda, and Ko Shioto delved into this topic.
Takeda explained that the Wii U uses a multi-core CPU. With it, “data can be processed between the CPU cores and with the high-density on-chip memory much better, and can now be done very efficiently with low power consumption.” The console also makes use of a MCM, which houses the multi-core GPU, CPU, and LCL chips. Shiota noted, “By putting LSI chips in this small package, the power necessary for communication between LSI chips drastically fell.”
There have been three character reveals for Injustice: Gods Among Us over the past few days.
Green Arrow was announced through a new trailer yesterday. Warner Bros. followed that up with Injustice’s official boxart, confirming Green Lantern and The Joker.
We don’t have any footage of today’s new characters, but Warner Bros. did release one additional screenshot showing them off. Take a look at the above image for a first look at Green Lantern and The Joker.
Through the official New Super Mario Bros. U website, Nintendo has officially confirmed that the game will run in 1080p.
This is something that had been somewhat rumored previously. However, you may remember that a Nintendo representative said at E3 that New Super Mario Bros. U, along with Nintendo’s other titles, were running in 720p natively.
But again, thanks to the NSMBU website, we know that it’ll support 1080p.
The page states:
“Experience Mario like never before… in full 1080p HD, only on the Wii U console!”
Cave Story’s 3DS eShop release had a small problem. Basically, players have been experiencing issues with the Curly Story mode.
Fortunately, Nicalis prepared an update – you can download it now, actually.
Mega Man 4 will be hitting the Japanese eShop as a Famicom download on October 17 for 500 yen. Screenshots of the game can be found above.
The latest Game Informer review scores are as follows:
XCOM: Enemy Unknown – 9.5/10 (Game of the Month)
Joe Danger 2: The Movie – 8.25/10
Double Dragon Neon – 8.25/10
NHL 13 – 8/10
Pro Evolution Soccer 2013 – 8.75/10
FIFA 13 – 8.75/10
Resident Evil 6 – 8.75/10
Mark of the Ninja – 9/10
Dance Central 3 – 8.75/10
Pokemon Black & White 2 – 7.5/10
LittleBigPlanet Vita – 8.75/10
