Nintendo Wii U

[noobish hat]

I'm going to go out on a limb and guess at a price under ?200

[originalbadboy]

I am going be cautious over this one and assume Ninty are going to stiff us again in good old blighty.

Jan 2013 - ?250

[Uli]

more crucially for me is the native resolution of the tablet controller. any info yet?

[EvilBoris]

No official confirmation, but based off this picture



which shows a native 720p shot of pikmin.

The map screen is 640*360ish when I crop it in photoshop, which is exactly 1/4 of 720p.

That is the same resolution as 1/4 of a screen were you say playing splitscreen as depicted in this shot

[ETC]

Im going to go with a very tiny preorder only run before xmas this year,Ill go with December 14 and ill say ?219.99 and there will be a SKU that has the pro controller with it for ?249.99

cex price will be ?495 as there will be none in normal shops

[teddymeow]

USA: November 19, 2012

JPN December 2, 2012

EU December 8, 2012

They'll be my guesses (original Wii dates).

[Family Fry]

I will say ?299.99 for console and pad.
Pad will be ?69.99
Pro pad ?34.99
December for EU.

[mr_sockochris]

I'd rather have 60fps than 1080p.

[kryss]

I'm guessing $300 for NA. Games are all pricing $60 it seems (although I have my Pikmin 3 pre-ordered for $35 )

[nakamura]

I'd rather have 60fps than 1080p.

One thing Nintendo tend to offer is rock solid frame rates.

[EvilBoris]

One thing Nintendo tend to offer is rock solid frame rates.

Wouldn't get too used to it, Nintendo have already confirmed not all games are.

NSMBU is 30 for example. I mean, I can understand why, it's pretty graphically intense with as many as 20 square blocks on screen at once.

[GluedOnBeard]

For something like NSMBU why does it need to be a high framerate? I have never had any issue playing at 30, did we have 60 on the SNES and NES?

I think most games won't be guarenteed 60 due to the Wii U rendering an extra screen or two on the controllers. I do think the Wii U will be good but I think the screen controllers should always be optional.

[nakamura]

99% of 2D SNES games were 60fps and so were loads of NES games, all the Marios are. NSMBU will look poor at 30fps due to it being essentially a flat side scroller.

Oh dear.

[parkinho]

Erm this says that NSMB U was locked at 60fps...

[PaTaito]

Erm this says that NSMB U was locked at 60fps...

So it bloody well should be lol. hardly a game that should tax the wiiU.