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Nintendo announced it's next generation console at E3 today, the Wii U. The new controller is actually going to be a tablet. It has a touchscreen, which you can actually play games on instead of a television. I think it's a great tool for rts games and tactical shooters, but I'm worried that the controllers will be really, really expensive. You can still use the nunchucks but I really really don't like them. Graphics look pretty good, but not much different than the PS3 or 360. It's still a year away, but I'm kind of excited to see if they can win back some of the "hard core" gamers.

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If they can keep up 3rd party support, I think this will be a good move to gaining back the "core" market. I'm really wondering what the price will be,. The only downside could be that if Sony and/or MS announce a console next year it could act as a spoiler and cause people to wait and see on buying this.

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The launch line up actually includes a lot of multiplatform games, such as Arkham City and SOCOM.
I don't think they'll have trouble holding onto hardcore gamers, but they probably won't have the insane casual support they had with the Wii.

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That image is really about all I can say, they've taken the unimpressive controller a step farther by making it weigh 10 pounds.

I was a little bit apprehensive when I first saw the controller, but as long as the controller feels good enough to play games without gimmicks I think it will be awesome.

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http://kotaku.com/5809744/nintendo-used-360-ps3--pc-game-footage-in-its-wii-u-demo-reel

Oh Nintendo.

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As far as a tech demo on the Wii U it looks like something that could run already on a 360/PS3. What we're looking at here is Nintendo finally making an hd console years after everyone else has.

Also Nintendo is testing to see if they still have the hardcore market still http://kotaku.com/5809738/nintendo-developers-warned-of-a-future-with-no-more-zelda-star-fox-games Apparently Legend of Zelda is on watch to see if it is still profitable. I'm also going to skull fuck someone if they delay skyward sword so the Wii U has an actual launch title.

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Brilliant.

I don't get what's up with the name. Is it a pun, pronounced "view" or "we you" or something?

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Hm yes my thoughts exactly.

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I think it's the latter.

Not a huge fan of tablets so I'm not digging this.

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Yeah, it's like "We You" they said.

I'm kind of confused a bit by it, but then I was also confused when the introduced the Wii. It didn't help that in the conference, they kept emphasizing it as a controller, and never flat out said it was a new console. So I think a lot of people thought it was just a fancy new controller for the Wii. There actually is a console component, though.

I can definitely see the potential for it. I can also imagine how much fucking money that damn thing will cost. An HD touch pad with a camera, motion sensor, etc, won't be cheap.
Will it be something I'll want to play? Well, considering I haven't played my Wii in many months now, and I never beat Twilight Princess because I got tired of having to swing the controller around to do ANYTHING, I don't see myself getting into the Wii U.

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Yeah, but it doesn''t look like there is a huge hardware boost to the Wii U, it seams to just support HD, and have enough oomph to get it done. I'm not really impressed with Nintendos Wii offerings, their 3ds game offerings are decent, but wii offerings are week. Xbox seams to have the strongest E3 flagship products.

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This year was almost a reversal of trends from this generation. Nintendo was hyping third party support, MS was flexing it's own development muscle and Sony was still trying to keep the balance of 3rd party games but also showing their diverse portfolio of IPs and developers.

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The 3rd party support is good, but basically they just added more juice to the console & changed the controller from a stick to an alredy popular classic controller, with the only exeption of it having the touchscreen. Although when the world is already going crazy for the touchscreen devices, what else was there to expect? Whats next? A toilet flushing button on touchscreen?

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Don't really need that since they make toilets that flush themselves.

Hubby was thrilled to hear about the remastering of Halo and the new Halo 4 coming out. He was also pretty engrossed by the Skyrim footage I showed him (he's super stoked).

I had an orgasm watching the Assassin's Creed Revelations trailer and gameplay footage, so that got all my attention.
Oh, and Mass Effect 3 finally convinced me the Kinect has some value, but still not enough to get me to buy one. Needs a Harry Potter game where I can call out the spells, play quidditch, etc. I'd buy one for that.

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oh my god skyrim

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So when do we hear news of a new Smash Bros.?
Because that's the only game I seriously played on Wii more than a handful of times. Wii Sports had its fun until I learned how limited Tennis was. I bought Boom Blox but stopped playing when I got to the levels where you have to drag blocks out of the puzzles using the Wiimote.

There WAS talk of a new Smash Bros. I didn't bother to check it out, but there's definitely been news.

I'm a bit curious as how to how the controller's screen works, hardware wise. It seems unlikely it actually does any calculation on it's own, as that would really spike the price. It would actually have to be a tablet, hardware included. It seems most likely it does nothing but show pre-processed images sent from the console (and send inputs the other way), sorta like onLive. If the console has to be able to process for 4 controllers at a time, and the main screen, it makes kinda sense that 4 years later, the new Wii is "only" HD.

Or maybe I'm just overthinking it.

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Don't get too excited about Smash Bros. They haven't even put a team together to start working on either title.