Nintendo Passes Off PS3 & 360 Game Footage as Wii U
- Categories: Games, News
- Date: Jun 9, 2011 04:45 JST
- Tags: Announcements, Controllers, Marketing, Nintendo, Technology, Video Gallery, Wii, Wii U
Nintendo’s newly announced “Wii U” console is already the subject of controversy – the company has admitted using footage from the PS3 and Xbox 360 versions of games in its promotional material, and when confronted over the swindle they lamely point to their discrete “all gameplay images are intended only as illustrations” disclaimer.
Nintendo claims it had no choice as the system and games are still in development, and asserts the actual Wii U versions will be “comparable,” which could well be a roundabout way of saying “worse.”
Various hard to find disclaimers indicate the images Nintendo has been using to illustrate the graphical capabilities of the Wii U are complete fiction, although without saying that it has gone so far as to use footage of its competitors’ products.
The quality of the graphics shown in Nintendo’s first party exclusive titles varied wildly (several being barely Wii level), and the “they are only intended as an image” disclaimer rather casts doubt on whether the more impressive titles (such as Zelda, above) will look anywhere near as good as Nintendo would like people to believe.
Indeed, the only real assurance Nintendo has given as to the power of the Wii U is to say that it supports full HD output – but whether it can actually output any graphics worth viewing in HD is another matter.
In their defence however, they did display the rather impressive rendering demo below, although it may or may not be anything like what can expected in real games:
The usual sad disclaimer that official preview images of games are never, ever to be believed is unfortunately as accurate as ever.
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The reason its not the actual gameplay on the Wii u is because the devs haven't even done anything. It was pretty clear that all of the footage used was a montage from the trailers shown the previous day. Anyone being surprised at this is a fool.
if working 3 jobs to support an orphanage and paying for some hospital bills that warrants me no time for daily net surfing makes me a fool.
consider me a fool gawd dammit!!!
If nothing else this site is good at posting derogatory new with an added negative slant.
1. Nintendo showed what they were given to be show by the people that make the games.
2. The Wii U isn't even finished being made.
3. Even if they had been made for the Wii U they would look exactly the same as on the other consoles because they are ports.
4. The Zelda games and the tech demo were using the Wii U so they did show what the system can do.
Lol, Nintendo noob.
Oh no. Fanboy offended.
1. So it's okay that the developers tried to pass it off as their console rather than the people showing it at E3? I think that's worse.
2. That justifies a blatant lie.
3. Wait what? Since you follow Sankaku Complex shouldn't you be aware that not all ports are equal? And you don't get the same quality playing on a Windows 98 machine that you do from something more current. Why would an inferior console (for the sake of argument) have the same quality?
4. Yep. Looks good.
um, ps3 and xbox 360 are 5 years old now. i'm pretty sure nintendo can afford 5 year old tech for there new system.
like the 3ds right???
No not really, but wow what a plethora of fanboy's who calling me a fanboy for simply correct what is written.
1. They didn't try to pass it off as their console. The console isn't done like I said earlier. They were simply showcasing the games that are going to be on the console and honestly they looked like crap.
2. Once again, they weren't trying to show off the systems graphics as those games are below what the system can do going by the demos. They were simply showing the games that people can look forward to.
3. Where or not some port are equal is irrelvant. The majority of ports are made for one system then placed on another with whatever couldn't be rendered removed. Up ports on the other hand(which these will be) are you just slapped on the system like PS1 to Dreamcast ports and PS2 to Wii ports with hardly a change outside of texture filtering and shading.
4. Wow... CG will always be better than anything on a console because CG has no limitation. Secondly, that was CG, that's in game footage. It just looks like CG because of how detailed it is.
Meant to say "was not" in number 4. You can actually see people interacting with it in some videos on youtube. Its not fully controllable but it is being rendered on the system in real time. They can alte things on the screen while its occurring and move the camera around anywhere which is impossible with CG as CG is static.
Anon fanboy, I think is early to talk about wii u.You know,2012.
1.Hype.Google it.
2.So what?....Just because they don´t finished it,doesn´t mean :"oh, i can put some footage I GUESS i can reproduce in the future"
3.Anon just said it.Even the same game aren´t equal.
4.omg.I didn´t know nintendo producers acess sankaku.BTW,the zelda CG was shitty,worse than last titles in ps3 and xbox 360.
Sony and microsoft didn´t worry about a new console from nintendo because they know the history:new console worse(grafically speaking)than ps3 or xbox 360.
They are anouncing titles, multiplatform titles.
Fun to see how you call "fanboy" to anon.
i love Nintendo<3 Can't wait for this!
i knew nintendo got off the technology train with the wii, but evolving backwards?
and people really thought there wont be a gap again between MS, Sony and Nintendo? When the other two release their new consoles Nintendo will be left again by many 3rd party developers.
Sony say the ps4 won't be powerfull than the ps3. As for MS I'm not sure.
God the response from the nintendo fanboys is pathetic. You seriously dont have a problem with them passing off the footage from a whole different system and claiming its what you will be getting when you buy their system?
If there wasnt anything to show they should of did somthing amazingly complex and hard to do, not show anything and especialy not make empty performance claims.
Welcome to Japanese marketing. It is always the same. Full of bullshit and empty promises.
When the true tests come out we will see what we will see.
Bash Japanese marketing if you must. It's the same as all the other nationalities' forms of marketing, but at least they use lolis sometimes. Japanese marketing is superior.
Yep, you just proved that if something is promoted with moe you'll buy it without question regardless of product quality.
Yes in marketing everyone lies, but the Japanese are very nearly the worst of the lot.
They also have a very nasty habit of leaving anything negative out until they are found out and then proceed to try and spin it.
Again this is not unique to the Japanese but it seems far more prevalent.
I'm probably not going to get this console, but I'm still defending it here because I wasn't dumb enough to think that they were showing clips recorded from a console that didn't exist.
Remember people good graphics doesn't mean a good game.Graphics are not important. It about the gameplay that matter.
Then I guess pong is good enough for you for the rest of your life - people were all over that when it first came out. There is absolutely no need to improve anything, right?
He is talking about gameplay and graphics. I would much rather play a 2D game with an amazing story and gameplay than a new 3D game with the best graphics in the world and shitty gameplay.
Are you that ignorant to not understand Sorachanmine simple statement? Updating everything and just updating graphics are entirely different things....By your stance, you would play every reiteration of Pong as long as the graphics got better and nothing else? Well done.
That's true only when graphics doesn't suck cook =(
Getting sick of the misleading headlines on this website
Then go somewhere else?
I'm sure that's EXACTLY what Artefact wants. For his readers to go "somewhere else".
Pointing out areas of annoyance can be very helpful to improving a website, and in turn attracting more readers. He could have very easily gone "somewhere else" without saying a word, and no one would have ever known why the website was losing readers, but instead he stated his reasons for disliking certain aspects of the site. Not only did he NOT abandon the site, but he gave Artefact useful information pertaining to the likes and dislikes of his readers.
Then don't read it, you have this thing called a 'choice'.
It's their site, they can do whatever the fuck they want with it.
if he didn't want people to read his articles, he wouldn't write them.
I don't really care either way. There are already too many consoles/portables to contend with. I have absolutely no intention of shelling out for another one regardless of who makes it.
This is so sad... aftes SNES, Nintendo will be remember always as the company whos's graphics SUXX
The N64's 3D capabilities were far above those of the PS and Saturn and the Gamecube was somewhere in between PS2 XBOX.
Nintendo abandoned its fans for the unwashed masses when it created the Wii. :(
um gamecube's graphics were nowhere near either ps2 or xbox you retard
Gamecube had the potential for PS2-level graphics. It's just that Nintendo doesn't care about graphics quite as much as Sony and Microsoft do so they didn't make games with uber-enhanced graphics so they could have games with more content. Also, third-party developers for Nintendo systems usually have weaker graphics.
from a tecnical point of view. Xbox and gamecube was a lot more powerful than PS2. Learn to read specs.
As anon said, N64 destroyed the PS1 in the graphics department. It was not even close.
They just made the huge mistake of staying with cartridges.
I'd rather have the great gameplay with shitty graphics (rehashes or not) than great graphics with shitty gameplay. (see FF XIII)
Not for or against any system in particular. Just commenting on this one.
OH MY GOD!
You have a brain!
I prefer playing with great graphic and great gameplay :)
If a game had had great gameplay but NES graphic, think I'll pass
Nintendo Wii DSU
What bothers me is the countless websites claiming Ninty won E3 with this. It was okay to show the new console, but to use other console footage is low of them. Makes PS3 unveiling look good, as even when most of the content were target renders, they were exclusive games from the PS3 itself.
I appreciate Nintendos approach for experimenting with new input devices. They implemented quite alot stuff which is used as a regular basis nowadays.
I hope they will succeed and bring new stuff in the future too.
Nintendo's kinda the Apple of gaming.
Yeah, overpriced, style over substance, and with a cultlike army of fanboys willing to sell body parts to afford the latest minor upgrade.
nintendo isn't like apple at all.
apple only use already existing technology but make it simpler for people who don't know what a power button looks like or doesn't understand the word "type" (as in "file type", apple calls it "kind")
nintendo try to change how consoles are used. Other companies call it "gimmicks" and "useless" a few years before they copy it.
Well it's more like bringing new stuff to the audience and succeeding. Just like the Iphone brought us a whole bunch of smartphones, the DS brought us a touchscreen to portables. On both sides competitors adapted to the new hardware and implemented it to its new hardware.
And my guess is that Sony and MS are going to copy Nintendo again in some way, if they succeed.
Kind of funny, headline is about game footage, directly under that is a screenshot from a tech demo that is literally running on the Wii U and available for press to play on the floor of E3. Nice job.
Plenty of people have already written their impressions from first-hand experience playing on the console for long periods of time.
They have all basically said that the Wii U is undoubtedly *noticeably* more powerful and impressive than the PS3 and 360.
But that's okay, we can just ignore them and write bullshit.
lol wheeeeeeeeeeee
So for weeks he posts headlines saying stuff like "Sony gives your private information to hackers" and "Sony giving away more personal info than ever" and you Nintenfags masturbate to it hard enough to chafe yourselves.
He posts the absolutely factual headline "Nintendo Passes Off PS3 & 360 Game Footage as Wii U" and NOW you're suddenly pissed off?
How wonderful and convenient for you to suddenly discover this whole little "integrity" thing. I'm sure it will conveniently be put back on its shelf when he decides to post "Sony Offers Up Its Customers To Be Raped Yet Again" and you can laugh about "They'll never hack my Wii!"
Nintendo fanboys. Oh my.
both aren't true, titles, but in the sony articles he doesn't make it seem like sony is actually handing out information,
here, however, he's making it seem like nintendo really tried to make people believe this was recorded on an very incomplete console.
The PSN being hacked IS a fact.
You can even be mad about that as a Sony fanboy. In fact, PSN fanboys are the only one who will get mad if it's being hacked, others fanboys will just point and laugh...
However, saying shit like "The future of the 3DS suddenly looks distinctly troubled…" is biased.
Want to hear more "objective journalism" of Artefact?
"The huge new controller has a variety of applications – it can be played as an oversized console tethered handheld, used as a normal controller with the screen providing a supplementary display, waved around as an oversized Wiimote, used as a tablet with a stylus or finger, or be employed in conjunction with (or replaced by) updated traditional Wiimotes."
Want me to count how many times he implied how big (and in a very negative way) the controller is, in one sentence?
Oh, yes, I was forgetting how he was just stating "facts". Facts that only strengthens HIS opinion.
That is the difference between reading what is published on an independent site and what is published in a Nintendo press release. It is probably the largest controller in recent memory, it is only proper to consider that a potential (though far from a certain) liability.
This time the man got it right, it just look so oversized to be a controller, specially since now gamers do need longer gameplay time.
i've been saying, our society are packed with in-denial hypocrites.
no one said anything about this site being bias when it was reporting about the psn breach/hack, 360 RRoD, FFXIII tunnel vision.
but now that it's about nintendo, people are rasing the red flag saying "OH NO YOU DIDN'T, THIS SITE IS HORRIBLE."