A developers story of Wii u from day 1. (long)

According to this developer most of the problems with the WiiU related to this article have been fixed.

'clickbait'

now that's a good word.

@super600 said:

According to this developer most of the problems with the WiiU related to this article have been fixed.

Was reading that on PlayerEssence. Either way Eurogamer and Digital Foundry got their hit.

Now if that Developer could show us what he is working on.

the gpu is last gen not next gen

the cpu is a absurd sub last gen

nintendo's most talented hardware and software developers dont play online games and dont speak english

they think they are still in 1988

I hope their next console doesn't have a "Wii" in it.

Here's another dev to say the opposite of the EG/DF article:

http://playeressence.com/former-resistance-skylanders-developer-says-nintendo-made-the-wii-u-easy-to-developer-for/

Platinum's Kamiya saying that programming for the WIi U is the same as for the 360/PS3

http://www.gonintendo.com/?mode=viewstory&id=220379&utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=facebook

Anonymous source? Sounds reliable to me...

Even if Nintendo improve the software to make programming easier for devs, they still have the power difference issue. A CPU and memory bandwidth slower than current gen, and a GPU that is barely more powerfull. The new mobile chips from Nvidia is almost as powerfull, so maybe the WiiU could get mobile games and such at least.

It was Heil68..at least that who I am blaming it on

"They need to get rid of Leonardo de Vinci and get someone else to start painting!" - That's what I heard. Just don't buy Nintendo stuff if you don't like it. No need to throw out the main contributors as well as "everyone else", because they are what makes Nintendo Nintendo. I can understand criticism of Nintendo, but to change them so drastically is absurd. I'd also be cautious about the article too, especially given that a lot of developers since have discredited the article being based on old development kits. I'm not going to stick up for Nintendo on all fronts, they obviously do a lot wrong, but they also do a lot right and you should remember that. Just because it's different doesn't mean they should throw everything out and become like everyone else.

I'm excited about this generation because for once, we see a large difference between the consoles (PS4, One, and Wii U). Unlike last gen with the "twin" HD consoles, we actually have three different consoles on the market. It's a good time for consoles, and I hope Nintendo remains in the business and continues to do things differently.

Some of these guys aren't debunking what the previous dude said and that was Pre-Launch Development.

All that these guys are confirming is that the issues from Launch are no longer there.

Though Kamiya's words may be different since his stuff was being developed Pre-Launch, but then again he had no Language Barrier.

@Jakandsigz:

Wii U should have been 1 PPC(for legacy mode) + quad core AMD Jaguar (<2 watts from AMD Temash) + AMD Radeon HD 8570M type (about 15 watts, latest GCN, 6 CUs, 384 stream processors, 64 bit DDR3-2000).

My 13 inch ultrabook (Samsung ATIV Book 8) with 8570M can run Battlefield 4 (google youtube for examples) better than 5730M/6570M (better than 4650M).

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For the topic, build a better gaming box with 30 watts power budget e.g Intel Slivermnt/Bay_trail (Intel's Jaguar type x86 CPU solution), AMD Jaguar, AMD Radeon HD 8570M. Any, Nvidia Geforce 6x0M/7x0M at 15 watts?

I think Wii u is capable only this wiipad was mistake to me. I think update wii mote should have come with every system instead

@Martin_G_N:

Nvidia K1's IGP (running in +27 inch all-in-one ARM based PC) is similar to low power Intel HD 4200 IGP, which is similar to AMD Temash SoC.

AMD already shown Temash (about 5 watts)'s replacement with faster/lower power AMD Mullins SoC(about 2 watts).

FUD and too easy.
/crapthread.