Wii U launch informations

[dave628]

Wii U launch dates: 11/18 NA, 11/30 Europe, 12/8 Japan

Wii U Basic Package costs $299 and includes the following:
1)8 GB of memory
2) console
3) gamepad
4) sensor pad
5) HDMI cable
6) AC adaptor
7) Nintendo Land

Wii U Premium Package costs $349 and includes everything on Wii U Basic plus:
1) 32 GB of memory instead of 8 GB
2) charging cradle and stands for console and gamepad
3) Nintendo Network Premium Subscription- discounts for Nintendo games online

Launch games (games that appear during initial offering of system):
only UK has been confirm: New Super Mario Bros U, Nintendo Land, Fifa 13, ZombiU, Rayman Legends, Mass Effect 3, Call of Duty Black Ops 2; I'm assuming US will share similar list of launch games.

Other games that will appear between 11/18 and March 2013:
Funky Barn (North America only)
NBA 2K13
007 Legends;
Call of Duty: Black Ops II;
Transformers Prime
Wipeout 3
Skylanders Giants
Cabela’s Dangerous Hunts 2013 (North America only)
Rapala Pro Bass Fishing (North America only)
Monster Hunter 3 Ultimate;
Rise of the Guardians: The Video Game
Ben 10: Omniverse
Family Party: 30 Great Games Obstacle Arcade
Disney Epic Mickey 2: The Power of Two
Madden NFL 13
Trine 2: Director’s Cut; note you have to buy this game online
Trine 2 Preview: http://www.ign.com/videos/2012/09/11...ls-walkthrough

Bit.Trip Presents: Runner 2 Future Legend of Rhythm Alien
Zumba Fitness Core (North America only)
Jett Tailfin (North America only)
Tekken Tag Tournament 2
Tank! Tank! Tank!
Ninja Gaiden III: Razor’s Edge; Nintendo is publishing this
Sing Party
LEGO City Undercover
Wii Fit U (North America only)
Game & Wario
Pikmin 3 (North America only)
The Wonderful 101 (North America only)
Aliens: Colonial Marines
Sonic & All-Stars Racing Transformed
Nano Assault Neo
Warriors Orochi 3 Hyper
Darksiders II
Wheel of Fortune (North America only)
Jeopardy! (North America only)
Toki Tori 2
Assassin’s Creed III;
Just Dance 4
Marvel's The Avengers: Battle for Earth
Rabbids Land
Sports Connection
Your Shape: Fitness Evolved 2013
Scribblenauts Unlimited
Game Party Champions
Batman: Arkham City -- Armored Edition

Bayonetta 2 is a Wii U exclusive.
http://www.ign.com/articles/2012/09/...-preview-event

[vaporeon]

When you say 8 or 32 GB memory. Do you mean RAM or HDD?

[dave628]

internal hdd
Wii U proprietary disc can hold up 25 GB of data; enough store 1080p game. Wii U system can read those disc at 22 MB/s as oppose to 360's 15.85 MB/s or PS3's 9MB/s.
The Wii U has 1GB of RAM for game access and 1GB of RAM for the console’s operating system for a total of 2GB. The Wii U’s 1GB of accessible game RAM is more than 360 and Ps3, which both include 512MB of RAM.

[Regis_Neo]

Personally I dislike how they're going with the pricing tier strategy from their competitors...boo.

So I'll likely just be grabbing the basic one, a charging cradle for the tablet controller would be nice but I'm sure 3rd party accessories will pop up soon enough, and I haven't bought anything on the Nintendo vg store since...what...2007? So a premium membership is pointless for me...and hopefully (don't remember for certain) the Wii U will have the SD card slot like the Wii, making any need for bigger internal space pointless.

[Chompy]

I would rather buy the Deluxe version over the basic version.

1) 10% discount on Digital copy
2) A free game
3) More memory
4) Charging Cradle
5) Black Wii

[vaporeon]

That's bad for me really. The reason I like my PS3 is because I can buy a HDD and replace it. I put a 500 GB HDD SATA in my PS3 when it came with a 20 GB SATA. If the Wii U is anything like the PS3, it 'might' need to install a copy of the game to the HDD for faster load times. Again, we'll have to see how the 22 MB/S plays out.

A Wii U game disk on most games would be 25 GB, just like a Blu-Ray disk with a max of 50 GB on a dual layer disk. If it needs to install a game for faster load times, then that 8 GB system becomes full with one game. Even the better 32 GB systems becomes full. I would really like it if Nintendo gave us the option to replace the HDD in the Wii U because of this.

The first model PS3 only had a 20 GB and 40 GB models but you could change the HDD's if you wanted. Here's to hoping the Wii U does the same. Ether way I'm getting the 32 GB model. I'll spend the extra 50 bucks.

[DarthPika]

I'll spend the extra $50 for a fairly major upgrade in system specs, a few handy accessories, 10% off digital downloads, and a greatly reduced in cost game.

[Tagrineth]

Originally Posted by vaporeon

That's bad for me really. The reason I like my PS3 is because I can buy a HDD and replace it. I put a 500 GB HDD SATA in my PS3 when it came with a 20 GB SATA. If the Wii U is anything like the PS3, it 'might' need to install a copy of the game to the HDD for faster load times. Again, we'll have to see how the 22 MB/S plays out.

A Wii U game disk on most games would be 25 GB, just like a Blu-Ray disk with a max of 50 GB on a dual layer disk. If it needs to install a game for faster load times, then that 8 GB system becomes full with one game. Even the better 32 GB systems becomes full. I would really like it if Nintendo gave us the option to replace the HDD in the Wii U because of this.

The first model PS3 only had a 20 GB and 40 GB models but you could change the HDD's if you wanted. Here's to hoping the Wii U does the same. Ether way I'm getting the 32 GB model. I'll spend the extra 50 bucks.

I like how you talk like Wii U is going to use the exact same mechanics and technology for disc reading / installation et al. as the PS3.

Why would it?

If there's going to be an 8GB model, why would they even allow 8GB installations?

And the launch PS3 had the same problem with its 20GB model, didn't really affect things much did it?

Never mind that the Wii U can read discs what like 4x faster than the PS3 can?

[pankanese]

Let me see if I understand this correctly. The basic version does NOT come with a charging cradle. Therefore, the basic version needs AA batteries to play??

Digital downloads are a ripoff, even with 10% off. Which would you rather do, pay $50 for a new game, then sell for $30 on eBay a few months later when you tire of it, or buy the digital copy for $45, and being stuck it with forever, no opportunity gain back some of your lost $$$. (I guess you could sell the Wii U with the digital downloads still on it, hoping that they increase its value, but still.)

With that said I'll probably still buy the $350 version.

I'm disappointed in myself for not preordering it from Best Buy right away. Now they're sold out.

[RB Golbat]

Originally Posted by vaporeon

That's bad for me really. The reason I like my PS3 is because I can buy a HDD and replace it. I put a 500 GB HDD SATA in my PS3 when it came with a 20 GB SATA. If the Wii U is anything like the PS3, it 'might' need to install a copy of the game to the HDD for faster load times. Again, we'll have to see how the 22 MB/S plays out.

A Wii U game disk on most games would be 25 GB, just like a Blu-Ray disk with a max of 50 GB on a dual layer disk. If it needs to install a game for faster load times, then that 8 GB system becomes full with one game. Even the better 32 GB systems becomes full. I would really like it if Nintendo gave us the option to replace the HDD in the Wii U because of this.

The first model PS3 only had a 20 GB and 40 GB models but you could change the HDD's if you wanted. Here's to hoping the Wii U does the same. Ether way I'm getting the 32 GB model. I'll spend the extra 50 bucks.

Judging based on my PSP, you don't download the whole game onto your Memory card, but only files that are accessed often enough. I doubt that it will fill up the Hard Drive with a few games.

Also, just as a note, here are the sizes of some Wii games:

Super Smash Bros Brawl: 6.77 gigs
Skyward Sword: 4.09 gigs
Super Mario Galaxy 3.28 gigs
Wii Sports .63 gigs
New Super Mario Bros Wii: .36 gigs
Pikmin: 2 gigs

(Source: http://www.ign.com/articles/2012/04/...ion-of-storage)

I doubt that the Hard Drives will fill up as fast as you think.

[vaporeon]

Well, the difference between the PSP and Wii U/ PS3 is the size of the game. Most PSP games are about 1.7 GB which is the size of a Gamecube game. Wii U and PS3 disk are 25 to 50 GB is size, so it would have a lot more files to install and that takes a lot of disk space. The only reason I say that is because I put a 250 GB HDD in my bros PS3 and after install the the game for faster load times, he now only has about 20 GB of disk space left. This is from games with no install movies or music.

Wii disk are just normal DVDs, just like the X-Box/360. The don't require a lot to read. With the Wii-U's disk and Blu-Ray, the are 25 to 50 GB disk that require a lot to read and some developers may find it necessary to have the game install itself for the faster load time. I know the Wii U will read the disk faster but 25 GB is still 25 GB. We'll see on its release

Originally Posted by Tagrineth

I like how you talk like Wii U is going to use the exact same mechanics and technology for disc reading / installation et al. as the PS3.

Why would it?

If there's going to be an 8GB model, why would they even allow 8GB installations?

And the launch PS3 had the same problem with its 20GB model, didn't really affect things much did it?

Never mind that the Wii U can read discs what like 4x faster than the PS3 can?

At this time, we don't know that. The first model PS3 allowed games to install themselves on it for faster load times as well. I'm also sure newer PS3 games read the disk faster as well. This is true because my older second gen PS3 has some problems reading disk of newer PS3 games as well as my brothers second gen PS3 while my friends newer PS3 slim does not. Both systems still install the game for faster load time so it only speculation that the Wii U will do the same and if it does, that 8 GB disk space is not looking so good.

Another reason would be bad is because 8 GB and 32 GB for storage space is normally associated with Flash Memory. Why would that be bad? Well, you can't remove it and replace it with a bigger drive. The PS3 has necessary OS files saved into something other then the systems HDD, so if you remove the drive, the system will still start and would know what to do. If the Wii U is anything like the the Wii, those system files would be saved to the flash memory.

From what I can see, and this is what I gathered over the years is that Nintendo is bad and anything that involves storage of data that is not being saved to the games cart itself. Its said but true.

[Tagrineth]

New games can't mystically increase the read speed of the drive that reads them. The systems having trouble reading discs are probably having issues because their lasers are older and just plain not as strong anymore. Might have issues reading higher-density or dual-layered discs (a lot of first-wave Wiis have issues reading dual-layer DVDs, for example - has NOTHING to do with how fast the discs read lol).

[vaporeon]

Originally Posted by Tagrineth

New games can't mystically increase the read speed of the drive that reads them. The systems having trouble reading discs are probably having issues because their lasers are older and just plain not as strong anymore. Might have issues reading higher-density or dual-layered discs (a lot of first-wave Wiis have issues reading dual-layer DVDs, for example - has NOTHING to do with how fast the discs read lol).

The statement was made to say that newer PS3s do have better disk drives to handle PS3 games better. It turns out PS3 games read at a constant 9 MB/S no matter the model. That just means older PS3s just need to have their drives updated.

[Chompy]

Wii U Toys Coming Soon To Burger King

Official Wii U Packaging Reveals Feature Called ‘Wii U Chat’

[solo59486]

I heard a long time ago that you are able to txt on the wii u.

[Raen]

Originally Posted by vaporeon

That's bad for me really. The reason I like my PS3 is because I can buy a HDD and replace it. I put a 500 GB HDD SATA in my PS3 when it came with a 20 GB SATA. If the Wii U is anything like the PS3, it 'might' need to install a copy of the game to the HDD for faster load times. Again, we'll have to see how the 22 MB/S plays out.

A Wii U game disk on most games would be 25 GB, just like a Blu-Ray disk with a max of 50 GB on a dual layer disk. If it needs to install a game for faster load times, then that 8 GB system becomes full with one game. Even the better 32 GB systems becomes full. I would really like it if Nintendo gave us the option to replace the HDD in the Wii U because of this.

The first model PS3 only had a 20 GB and 40 GB models but you could change the HDD's if you wanted. Here's to hoping the Wii U does the same. Ether way I'm getting the 32 GB model. I'll spend the extra 50 bucks.

The Wii U supports SD flash cards for memory expansion, AND any USB-enabled HDD. So any external hard drive you have can be used with the Wii U.

[Chompy]

Well, this news may or may not matter to you, but according to multiple sites, the WiiU will be Region Locked. Meaning you can't play foreign games in your own region.

For example, you can't play a Japanese game on your system that is made from the US.

[solo59486]

Originally Posted by Chompy

Well, this news may or may not matter to you, but according to multiple sites, the WiiU will be Region Locked. Meaning you can't play foreign games in your own region.

For example, you can't play a Japanese game on your system that is made from the US.

They were doing thst with almost every game system...

[lucario aura wielder]

ps3 xbox 360 ds gba? Not those.

[Raen]

Originally Posted by lucario aura wielder

ps3 xbox 360 ds gba? Not those.

Only the DS and DS Lite didn't have region locking. DSi and on did.

Truthfully, region locking is incredibly common and not at all unexpected. Unfortunate? Sure, but not at all unexpected.

[Tagrineth]

Originally Posted by lucario aura wielder

ps3 xbox 360 ds gba? Not those.

Not all 360 games are region-free. DS/GBA are handhelds, handhelds are specifically made region-free for travelling purposes.

[TheRolesWePlay]

Originally Posted by Raen

Only the DS and DS Lite didn't have region locking. DSi and on did.

Truthfully, region locking is incredibly common and not at all unexpected. Unfortunate? Sure, but not at all unexpected.

Actually on specific titles on the DSi were region blocked, most notably BW 1, and I suspect 2.

[yoshi1001]

Originally Posted by TheRolesWePlay

Actually on specific titles on the DSi were region blocked, most notably BW 1, and I suspect 2.

Anything with DSi-Specific features is region-locked to some degree.