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Alex W.

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You're asking if Wii Remotes will work with the new console? Yes. I and others have already reported that. You'd be mistaken to imagine multiple people huddled around a TV each with a Cafe screen-controller in their hand. I don't even know if the new console can stream to more than one controller (I've never asked). Imagine one person with the screen controller; another with a Wii Remote. Or multiple people with Wii Remotes and none with screen controllers. Mix and match.

With this in mind I stand by my assertion that the screen-controller will be optional. Maybe it'll ship with one, but it can't be all that central to game design if all of the other players (or all of the players!) can use remotes.

I'm still unconvinced that streaming the game to the controller is a good idea, but it's increasingly confirmed that Nintendo are going down that route.

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that's just laziness - I remember when Lord of Midnight fit into 48k :blah:

Well in a way, it is, but optimization of HD content is time consuming and can be expensive, if you don't have the expertise to handle that optimisation.

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Hmm... I wouldn't have thought so. To use a comparable example, the default 360 memory is either zero or 4GB, and that doesn't stop 2GB+ downloads from happening. Developers will push the most they can get away with.

That's slightly misleading imo, DLC is targeted towards heavy user types, who will highly likely to be using the official HDD based variant of the X360, that's why devs can go wild with file sizes, not because they believe most of the customers for DLC are using the 0GB/4GB flash variant of the console.

In the Cafe case, as a dev, you are much less sure about the potential size storage your customers will have available in comparison, but that fits into Nintendo's attitude to digital versus physical retail delivery of product, one is lower down the pecking order to the other. Does WiiWare need to have a 40MB hard cap technically?, not really.

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Stanley

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No issue at all if that is true. As I have said many times already, if there is a way of upgrading storage on this new console that doesn't involve SD cards and fiddling about transferring files then that will be great and a big step forward for Nintendo. I'm guessing you didn't read those bits.

It's not an issue providing they find a good solution using SD cards either.

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DarhkFox

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There is currently no reason to think it will not support USB hard drives or at least USB flash drives .

I think 8gb would suit most people but give them the option of buying their own kit , I'm sure Nintendo could make there own stuff as well ..

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SharkEnergy

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whats the point of streaming a game to one controller with everyday d pad and 2 buttons? Yes it frees up the tv but most wii games (and wii 2 if remotes are still used) utilise pointing or waggle therefore wont work on the stream controller. Wii had me excited and i still didnt buy one. This just seems...meh. Looking forward to them proving me wrong!

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Keyboard Koala

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TOUCHSCREENS CONFIRMED! (maybe...)

Nintendo is apparently putting a big focus on hands for Project Café. That is, for the E3 trailers at least.

According to Twitter user Supererogatory, who has been spot on with many rumors in the past, the Big N wrapped production on promotional videos for the console last week. Again, Nintendo was looking for actors with the finest of hands, which supposedly needed to be “flawless.”

Project Café's controller will most likely be a central part of the videos, so perhaps Nintendo simply wanted to feature hands that look nice. Then again, maybe there’s something more to it… We’ll find out in a little under five weeks.

“Told Nintendo filmed Café E3 promotional videos last week in Orange County with a bunch of seeming hand models cast ‘based on their hands.’ The hands ‘had to be flawless’ and ‘couldn’t have blemishes, wrinkles or a lot of hair.’”

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Nespresso

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Saints Row for Nintendo?

Saints Row: Drive By for the Nintendo 3DS (and other platforms) was cancelled. But what I found fascinating is what Danny Bilson of THQ said in response:

Nintendo really wants to launch with a very balanced portfolio. They really don’t want it to feel like a kiddie platform. They were very clear: they really wanted Saints Row on it.

Yes, Nintendo really wanted Saints Row on the platform. This is most definitely cause for speculation! Not only does it seem more likely that Nintendo is pushing to get the biggest of all the open world gangster games, Grand Theft Auto on the platform, but they want to shed their perception of being a “kiddie” company. And that in turn ties in with the idea of recapturing the hardcore market, which is a rumored intention of theirs.

SR3 confirmed as a launch title? :omg:

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Kyouma

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The best way to show you're not aiming your console at kids is to add a franchise so desperate to be violent and purile that it can only be targeting kids.

Although I agree with you, we're not the people Nintendo wants to give them their money. They're clearly aiming for the Xbox 360 Call of Duty demographic, which being the retards they are, are exactly who believe Nintendo consoles/games are for kids in the first place anyway.

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Broker

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It's a bloody good job I buy all their shit and they never have to sell it to me, their advertising is genuinely repellant at times. That new Pokemon advert with some boyband in, where they seem to be saying that Pokemon is suitable for adults as well, but they've chosen to get that message across using pre-teen, pubeless gimps who only a 9 year old girl could possibly be interested in, is a fucking atrocity.

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Nespresso

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The best way to show you're not aiming your console at kids is to add a franchise so desperate to be violent and purile that it can only be targeting kids.

Durrr... Saints Row has always been self referential. The only thing it tries to be is a parody. It's a good one at that.

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Mallet

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I don't know if it's been mentioned in this thread but Dragon Quest X, what's the chances of that being a launch title or soon after release? In Japan it would be a killer game for Nintendo to get for their new machine and would it really be launched on Wii if they had a new console out?

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