Wii U - thread 3

[dataDave]

Nah, telling four million existing owners that their gamepad is a bit useless should be fine.

[Lebowski]

The GamePad is the entire point of Wii U. Your idea is corporate suicide. It would drive even more of a line of confusion into the customer market. It appears the people already don't really know what Wii U is. The vast amount of control options it already has annoys some people as it is. To add ?100+ option to it would destroy any hold Nintendo currently have.

I recently had a chat with the a guy in our office about the wiiu as his son wanted one, he was under the impression he had to keep his old wii and the wiiu was just a screen add on thing that upgraded the wii??? no wonder no one's buying it if they think all your getting is a ?200 screen.

[PaTaito]

This is Nintendo. They are incapable of pleasing every last person on the planet. Anyone who cares about 60hz so badly should be importing.

This is 2013 not 1995.

The HDTV standard means this type of thing shouldn't even be an issue.

It remains one because nintendo are behind the times...then again we all knew that.

[PaTaito]

You're an idiot if you think it's anything other than cost-cutting. In fact I'll just go all-out and call you an idiot for bleating on about it. Large scale corporates do not spend money unnecessarily, just to please a bunch of people who moan on a forum. There is one server, they only use a single set of ROMs where applicable, which luckily happens to be the US ones the majority of the time. What is the point is paying out for separate servers for 50Hz and 60Hz? ZERO point, which is why it isn't happening. There are two Zelda ROMs on there now. Which you get is determined by the BIOS in your Wii U.

I'm assuming they use different servers for different regions simply because thats the only way you can cost cut based on the scenario you are trying to paint.

One server, Two....what the hell has that got to do with putting out big VC releases in 50hz? and in what way would patching to 60hz cost nintendo?

Nothing more than adding a christmas tune to the eshop....which gives them zero revenue might i add.

If you see this as anything but absolute lazyness, then more fool you.

[Guts]

This is Nintendo. They are incapable of pleasing every last person on the planet. Anyone who cares about 60hz so badly should be importing.

I totally agree. Link to the Past is a fantastic game, still better than 90% of games released today, 60hz or not. When I was a kid I didn't even know there was a difference between US and Europe so it hardly mattered to my enjoyment. Play a pirated ROM if it's that horrible.

Edit: Spot on, Pikate.

[PaTaito]

This is why we are still given 50hz stuff and nintendo carry on getting away with it.

No problem for me though, i can get the GBA version if i want it that bad, it will look great on my backlip SP anyway.

But it shouldn't be happening in 2013.

[J0e Musashi]

I'm assuming they use different servers for different regions simply because thats the only way you can cost cut based on the scenario you are trying to paint.

One server, Two....what the hell has that got to do with putting out big VC releases in 50hz? and in what way would patching to 60hz cost nintendo?

Nothing more than adding a christmas tune to the eshop....which gives them zero revenue might i add.

If you see this as anything but absolute lazyness, then more fool you.

You're looking at this from totally the wrong way. Nintendo would rather have the 60Hz version up for all regions, but they have to put the 50Hz version up for non-English speaking countries. The US ROMs are used worldwide where possible for the simple reason that it is expected that PAL countries can now run 60Hz content on their TVs, which in the process negates the need for multiple servers, and is the cost-cutting that you so blindly dispute. The fact that our version is 50Hz doesn't even come into the equation. It is only there for the languages that it supports.

Now either go and get an economics degree or stop going on about it being laziness, when it is all about money and nothing to do with whether the game runs slower than intended at all.

[Party boy]

Saw this on Nintendo Life, looks great I think, SMK on the SNES is still head and shoulders the best. Doesn't look like hitting its stretch goal at the moment though.

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/oneleggedseagull/super-world-karts-gp

[PaTaito]

You're looking at this from totally the wrong way. Nintendo would rather have the 60Hz version up for all regions, but they have to put the 50Hz version up for non-English speaking countries. The US ROMs are used worldwide where possible for the simple reason that it is expected that PAL countries can now run 60Hz content on their TVs, which in the process negates the need for multiple servers, and is the cost-cutting that you so blindly dispute. The fact that our version is 50Hz doesn't even come into the equation. It is only there for the languages that it supports.

Now either go and get an economics degree or stop going on about it being laziness, when it is all about money and nothing to do with whether the game runs slower than intended at all.

I hear that links awakening on the 3ds has a different version available to germans...

Yeah.

This whole "cant piss off other europeans by releasing US 60hz in uk" i also dont get.

We are an english speaking country and it would be so very easy to make the US rom available to UK downlaods.

The rest of europe already know the US get 60hz, what difference does it make to add the UK to that, given our native language? None.

If both roms are on the same server, then it costs nothing to give the choice...especially as english is the second language of many europeans.

FYI i understand the econmics you keep going on about, i just dont agree and you have given no proof on how this cuts costs at all...you even stated that everything is one on server anyway and bios dictates the version you download.

[J0e Musashi]

I agree that the UK should get the US version as that's all we need, but you know as well as I do that Nintendo would never do that. I imagine it is something to do with because the German arm wouldn't agree to it. There's probably EEC rules that need to be adhered to also.

[PaTaito]

I agree that the UK should get the US version as that's all we need, but you know as well as I do that Nintendo would never do that. I imagine it is something to do with because the German arm wouldn't agree to it. There's probably EEC rules that need to be adhered to also.

I agree that they never would, but i don't agree on the reasoning.

Enough said.

[J0e Musashi]

I don't even have a Wii U anymore. The closest I can get to Zelda currently are the PC Engine versions of Neutopia. They're in 60Hz, but also in Japanese. An even worse situation than this LttP thing.

[PaTaito]

I don't even have a Wii U anymore. The closest I can get to Zelda currently are the PC Engine versions of Neutopia. They're in 60Hz, but also in Japanese. An even worse situation than this LttP thing.

Get the patched roms...

[J0e Musashi]

Jaja.

[fishbowlhead]

The GamePad is the entire point of Wii U. Your idea is corporate suicide. It would drive even more of a line of confusion into the customer market. It appears the people already don't really know what Wii U is. The vast amount of control options it already has annoys some people as it is. To add ?100+ option to it would destroy any hold Nintendo currently have.

To be honest, now the the xbone & ps4 are out, the wiiu is doomed to become the wiiwhat console in the eyes of the general public. So it doesn't matter what any of us say on the matter now.

Nintendo only have themselves to blame for this with the poor branding and advertising of the console, not to mention any good ideas what so ever on what to actually do with the screen that will be of positive use to gamers.