Serious doubts are being raised as to whether Nintendo’s upcoming Wii U console has the power to support more than one of its wonder-controllers in play, something Nintendo seems to have been keeping quiet by only showing it running with one controller…
The problems were raised by Dean Takahashi, a prominent games journalist (for what this is worth), when he was interviewed about Nintendo’s E3 showing:
With Nintendo, where do you think they came up short in the way they showed the Wii U?
They have a major issue with the capability of the Wii U console where it has a single processor but it has to drive multiple displays.
A single graphics chip inside the console has to drive the big screen, the main game screen, but it also has to provide the imagery for the tablet controller, the game pad.
And yet the system itself isn’t that powerful. Nintendo only showed games with one game pad controller and the TV.
Most games out there, if you’re in a social setting, you want two controllers. Nintendo didn’t show any games that do that.
They admitted in a Q&A that the games are going to run slower if you have two game pads and playing on a main display. That’s a fairly big issue for them.
They made a good case that you can play with one controller and multiple Wii controllers, what they call asymmetric gaming where one person is looking at the small tablet screen and trying to deploy zombies while the people playing with the controllers were all on the main screen. You come up with very creative, different kinds of games where it’s one against four, or one person going online.
They tried to justify and turn into an advantage this major weakness of the Wii U, but I think a lot of people saw this as a weakness.
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Nintendo came up as a pretty big disappointment at E3.
The fact that the Wii U’s graphical capabilities can apparently barely hold their own against the existing generation of consoles has already provoked much debate, one that looks set to intensify should it be true that it can barely drive its own controller – not that this necessarily matters if Nintendo can sell as many of the consoles to children and old people as they apparently hope.
This Nintendo hate is ridiculous. People ignore all good news and put all there wait behind any negative rumors that arises. The Wii U can support up to 4 controllers. This is known of the hardware.
The games that have been announced so far aren’t going to support more than one as there is no need for it. The prices for buying more than one controller make is infeasible to invest money into making a game that uses more than one presently.
Whoever releases these rumors has no understanding of hardware and neither do the ignoramuses that put all of their weight behind promoting this news either.
Doesn’t matter though, because the fact is that all of this negative news they are trying to promote is just free advertisement for the console and when all the people who know about it find out that its false, it will increase their desire for the system.
What good news?
I thought it was already known that is can support up to stated that is can support up to 4 controllers by the makers of the GPU itself…
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So is ‘Dean Takashi’ a prominent shill for Sony or Microsoft then too? Because this sounds like the wailing of fanboys who panned the Wii too, and it DESTROYED Sony and Microsoft for the first 2-3 years of its release.
PROTIP: If the console is designed for ONE LCD controller, you’re not going to get games that even USE two!
Why would anyone even buy two if that’s not what the games or machine are designed for?? This is like saying why doesn’t the Xbox 360 support four separate Kinect controllers. It’s a TV-BASED CONSOLE, NOT A FOUR-PLAYER GAMEBOY.
Hey kid, before you post s♥♥t you might want to go over some of the videos and press releases Nintendo has put out where they show everyone having fun interacting together on the WiiU controllers.
You enjoy your $200 million dollar games that take 10 years to make from all the time, money, and man power it takes to make them.
Enjoy the most mundane, tedious, boring, unoriginal, realistic dudebro linear corridor first person shooters in your new PlayStation and Xbox systems that take more power than a hair dryer, and can melt anything behind the system. It’s the same old s♥♥t gameplay with better graphics.
Nintendo is the lesser of the evils. They can’t make an original IP to save their ass, but at least their games are always trying new things.
“You enjoy your $200 million dollar games that take 10 years to make from all the time, money, and man power it takes to make them.”
lol what? it often takes Nintendo nearly that long to release the next Metroid, Zelda, Mario, Smash Bros, Mario Kart, etc title. While everyone else enjoys multiple Uncharted, Forza, Halo, etc titles over that same period of time.
And because they are always trying out new things the games usually ends up as just beta games.
And what NEW have they come up with lately? Everything the Wii can the Wii U will do better. Until Sony and MS decides to do the same and make it work even better than Nintendo managed…
The problem here is that Wii U is SUPPOSED to be a NG console, and can barely keep up with the PS3 and 360….
When PS4 and the new Xbox comes out Wii U will be left in the dust instantly.
That didn’t stop the Wii from outselling the 360 and PS3 combined. The Wii U will outsell everything else too. Nintendo are leaders, because their only business is games, unlike Sony and Microsoft who lose billions.
Nintendo makes money and have $10 million in the bank. Sony and Microsoft can only copy. Nintendo has always made a profit on their systems. They had to use the money to make their systems unique instead of just better graphics, or they would be dead.
Apparently everyone wants that. They’ve been “doomed” since 1986. They’ll never die. You keep worrying about graphics instead of fun. You act like a 12 year old.
@12:48 but Sony didn’t lose money from their gaming division. that made money.
as opposed to, as 12:12 put it, Nintendo’s only business, which lost more than a quarter of Sony entire corporate losses purely from their one business.
@12:12 several reality checks =
1) 10 million in the bank wouldn’t even cover a promotional campaign, nevermind be adequate funding for a console.
2) Nintendo isn’t making a profit per console anymore. they lose money on the 3DS since they had to drop its price long before their production costs fell to match it.
and you’re dreaming if you think they are going to make a profit per console on the Wii U at the specs they are claiming it will have. MS and Sony have only just within the last few years started pulling a profit per console at their current price points with 6 year old systems.
if Nintendo plans to hit any price point $300 or under, THEY WILL LOSE MONEY PER CONSOLE.
@Aniyen, True Nintendo loss US$623 million but Sony lost US$2 Billion!
Have you read the news lately??
Nintendo went into red last year, even worse than Sony. To make up for his failure the director of Nintendo have even cut his own wage with 7 million dollars as an excuse for driving Nintendo into the red….
You just admitted Sony and Microsoft will rip off Nintendo later. Of course you will be able to do something better once you see how the first guy did it and have more time and money to copy it.
@Anyien, motion controls has been down as early as The Power Glove
Actually, you could say that Nintendo ripped of Sony.
Sony tried a wireless and motion controller for the PS2. Of course, it didn’t work very well.