Official Nintendo Fanboy Smugness & Gloating Thread

[Bubba]

Apart from them being false?

Yeah, they look waaaay too high, especially the processor speed "comparisons". I'd be amazed if the GPU was anything like that sophisticated too.

Cheers

Bubba

[Samus]

A good quality Metroid Prime 3 clip showing some new stuff (at least to me), looks like being the pre-game rolling video:

http://rapidshare.de/files/22282723/metroid-1.mp4.html

Or from here:

http://www.gameinformer.com/News/Media/ ... 1680B3EF5E} (first vid)

[namor7]

Very cool, even with GC.5 graphics. This was the footage I wanted to see all along

[Samus]

Pokemon Wii

[Nixie]

is that in game? it looks so shiny and new!

Nixie

[Kemper_Boyd]

You should see some other stuff around the net right now re Wii and the megaton powers it will have

Not the stupid 'the real Project Reality' stuff? The person who wrote
that is a fucking moron.

[Kemper_Boyd]

Heck, even after Nintendo release the darn thing there will be people saying theres a secret chip Nintendo is going to unlock at a later date

There is!! The Super Duper Wii FX Chip!!!

Well the latest thing is 'physics on Hollywood' which seems to have come
about because Havok are supporting Wii, and ATI did a HavokFX demo
running on an X1600 (very impressive it was), so therefore 'physics
on Hollywood!!!!!!!!'

[Stevo]

You should see some other stuff around the net right now re Wii and the megaton powers it will have

Not the stupid 'the real Project Reality' stuff? The person who wrote
that is a fucking moron.

During the N64 development cycle a study codenamed Project Reality was initiated which however, failed to be complete on time for that console. It is suggested that elements of that study will now be utilized in the Wii with IBM and ATI creating a unified entity which will power the new console. The logistics and engineering behind such a feat seem extremely unlikely and might create great problems for developers but unless we know the details we cannot safely speculate on what those may be. It is claimed however, that Nintendo has created a patented development tool which allows game creators extreme freedom and can assist them in creating anything from a visually stunning next-gen game or a simple gameplay focused mini-game.

http://www.megagames.com/news/html/cons ... mill.shtml

[Kemper_Boyd]

You should see some other stuff around the net right now re Wii and the megaton powers it will have

Not the stupid 'the real Project Reality' stuff? The person who wrote
that is a fucking moron.

During the N64 development cycle a study codenamed Project Reality was initiated which however, failed to be complete on time for that console. It is suggested that elements of that study will now be utilized in the Wii with IBM and ATI creating a unified entity which will power the new console. The logistics and engineering behind such a feat seem extremely unlikely and might create great problems for developers but unless we know the details we cannot safely speculate on what those may be. It is claimed however, that Nintendo has created a patented development tool which allows game creators extreme freedom and can assist them in creating anything from a visually stunning next-gen game or a simple gameplay focused mini-game.

http://www.megagames.com/news/html/cons ... mill.shtml

No that's not the right one, I'll see if I can find it. It's way sillier than that!

Page 12 here starting at post 280, but it's been deleted from the Nintendo
forum.
http://www.beyond3d.com/forum/showthrea ... post770712

a development interface that centers on a AI-controlled command-line interface

Chipsets are very inexpensive although EXTREMELY powerful, WILL incorporate many aspects of the Project Reality study.

It confirms support for normal mapping, bump mapping, HDR lighting among other things. It also talks about the dedicated physics hardware as well.

It's a shame the post isn't still available if only for the laughter value as
it was so over the top.

[Samus]

You should see some other stuff around the net right now re Wii and the megaton powers it will have

Not the stupid 'the real Project Reality' stuff? The person who wrote
that is a fucking moron.

Oh really....

But yeah, that stuff can be found from the IGN boards, better leave it there where it belongs.

[Samus]

is that in game? it looks so shiny and new!

Nixie

I like the model design and the colours in that pic, maybe we have a video of it soon ala Smash Bros. Looks nice, but I've little to no interest in the game right now. Hope that changes through more information!

[Kemper_Boyd]

Yay for Google cache!

his is a RUMOR about the next GI. Other sites have started to pick it up now, so I am thinking its more valid. I readily admit, this is not fact, it is just rumor. At this point.

The GI with the info has not come out yet, thus no pics.

There have been plenty of sources throughout here from more reliable places, so I'll leave it to them as being my sources.

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"This article from the upcoming Game Informer magazine focuses on the pros and cons of the development environment of the upcoming Nintendo Wii. As well as revealing the last big secret concerning hardware functionality. Here are some summarizations from that article.

-Pros-

-Inexpensive graphics development.

-Developer-friendly “camera” program

-Will support HDR lighting, normal maps, bump-mapping, nurbs rendering, and panoramically-composted depth-composited cubemappng, ray-tracing.

-Chipsets are very inexpensive although EXTREMELY powerful, WILL incorporate many aspects of the Project Reality study.

-Nintendo is providing extensive documentation to ease the incorporation of the Wii-mote.

-Cons-
-Challenging to program effectively for the Wii-mote, due to it being very new to the industry.

-Marketing to be more challenging for bigger third-party franchises due to nature of the innovative qualities.

-The development cycle to possibly equal the time cycles of PS3 and Xbox360 due to the time needed to be innovative and effectively program for the controller.

-The challenge of marketing the Wii’s controller in ads and commercial may turn third-parties away from exclusivity. (The challenge to display through ads how “playing is believing”)

-The Final Secret/minor surprises also-

-Wii will include a built-in decent resolution camera that can be used to add your face to character models and add innovation to games. These snapshots can be tweaked as well. It is still being decided whether to allow camera to record and stream video. Mention made to have this feature be a strong feature in online play.

-A wireless headset will be made available at launch.

-SD cards will range from 2GB to 7GB and will be priced “within reason”.

-A new router technology is still in development and not yet available to developers. In the final product Nintendo hopes to be able to make every Wii a sort of “Wi-Fi hotspot” with each user connecting to that user and so on. They also want to be able to allow different users to share things and are thinking about setting up a pseudo-P2P network through Connect24, where users can share content and “other things”. This means that even if you have a dial-up connection or no internet, you can still connect to Wii Connect24.

-The Wii will indeed have a PPU included in final hardware. It will have only 32MB though, which will still take a considerable amount of pressure off of other chips.

-A still-in-development simple dev tool will be made available to users through the Connect24 network. It will allow users to create a simple game in 2D or simple 3D and share it with the world. This will hopefully be available on the network by launch.

-The last big secret is the “graphics solution”. It revolves around a whole lot of non-volatile RAM (opting out of HDD support, RAM is much faster than a HDD). And a development interface that centers on a AI-controlled command-line interface. This additional tech only included in final dev kits, while most developers don’t have access to final dev kits."
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So, what do you think?

(Credit to Enddor of the NP Forums for showing me the link to Gamefaqs)

[Nixie]

is that in game? it looks so shiny and new!

Nixie

I like the model design and the colours in that pic, maybe we have a video of it soon ala Smash Bros. Looks nice, but I've little to no interest in the game right now. Hope that changes through more information!

It looks nice, but Iv never been a fan of pokemon so yeh im pertty uninterested also...

[Samus]

Oh that one, that's nothing compared to the one I was hinting at earlier.

This reason this has been kept so far under wraps is that Nintendo since finalizing the code and hardware had to patent it extensively. Which is a very expensive and tedious process, every single line of code from this technology has been patented. So that means that Microsoft and Sony could release three or more consecutive generations of consoles and still not being able to come close to the graphical/physics prowess of the Wii console.

So many others have made false claims and been flat wrong, but I do guarantee that everything here is 100% true about Wii.

[Stevo]

Oh that one, that's nothing compared to the one I was hinting at earlier.

This reason this has been kept so far under wraps is that Nintendo since finalizing the code and hardware had to patent it extensively. Which is a very expensive and tedious process, every single line of code from this technology has been patented. So that means that Microsoft and Sony could release three or more consecutive generations of consoles and still not being able to come close to the graphical/physics prowess of the Wii console.

So many others have made false claims and been flat wrong, but I do guarantee that everything here is 100% true about Wii.