The controller charge life really is pathetically short...if you're playing a game all day on a lazy sunday or whatever you will need to charge it like 3 times. Luckily, I have an outlet close to where I sit so I just leave it plugged in. I also use the wired 360 controller exclusively these days. wireless is overrated. I think Nintendo should have just made the Gamepad completely non-wireless...its too high tech for a wireless device, hence the constant charging.

edgecrusher said:

Dvader said:

From Solid at GS

Looks like the RAM used in the Wii is 43% slower than the PS360. They are likely using cheap PC RAM instead of the faster RAM usually used in consoles. So even though the Wii U has four times the RAM of PS360, it's half as slow. That explains the ridiculous loading times in the menu.

Apparently, Batman U has a terrible framerate. So does BLOPs and is missing key graphical features

This hardware gets an F. This is a mess of a system, the complete opposite of the super intuative, simple, functions very smoothly Wii.

I'm am shocked that Solid would post something negative about a non Sony console.

SteelAttack said:

On Batman U regarding the frame rate remember the system is rendering 720p + 480p for the gamepad. Also the porters were having some code optimisation issues, a dev on GAF called Arkham briefly posted. He initially hated the system said it was weak CPU etc. Later his opinion improved on it a lot - he did say that porting across code is troublesome due to architecture and Application Programming Interface differences and that ground up games do not have these problems (he said he couldn't wait to see what others would do). Still in the gametrailers video comparison, it mostly looked the same to me outside a couple of glitches (N64 texture building!) but the cutscenes looked much better on U and GAF says the 360 used Bink video for it whilst U did them realtime.

I hope the later released U's have the 5GB patch built in or come with an update disc.

That would be half my monthly internet allowance (assuming I could even download a file of that size).

Where do you see what others are playing? I saw a notification that you and Edge were online, but couldn't see what you were doing!

aspro said:

I hope the later released U's have the 5GB patch built in or come with an update disc.

That would be half my monthly internet allowance (assuming I could even download a file of that size).

I really doubt it's 5GB. I think people were just estmating due to the time it took to download. As Nintyfan said in my topic, the time was probably MORE due to the sheer number of people downloading the patch at once, rather than the actual patch size. I am thinking it's more like a Gig. The patch size hasn't been confirmed anywhere, as far as I know.

1UP Reviews Persona 4 Golden

I tell you, if the Vita had 2 more decent games that I wanted to play I would have become a Vita owner instead of a Wii U owner.  I really really want that game. I'm just going to cross my fingers that Atlus will end up following the same path they did with Persona 3. They released an ehanced P3 port onto the PSP and then a year later they released the original on PSN. If I can at least get the original I'll be happy with that.

robio said:

1UP Reviews Persona 4 Golden

I tell you, if the Vita had 2 more decent games that I wanted to play I would have become a Vita owner instead of a Wii U owner.  I really really want that game. I'm just going to cross my fingers that Atlus will end up following the same path they did with Persona 3. They released an ehanced P3 port onto the PSP and then a year later they released the original on PSN. If I can at least get the original I'll be happy with that.

I am in LOVE with ZombiU. I have put 4 hours into the game, only have died once and every second is tense as hell. This year if the game has zombies in it, just ignore the reviews cause reviewers have no clue. Every big encounter feels like a major moment cause you fear death in a way most action games you never do. The only aspect that is bad is the melee, super simplistic and boring, sadly many encounters have you just bopping the head of a zombie over and over. But when you get two or more zombies at once then you have to use your weapons wisely. To conserve ammo i would set up traps, I would lay a flare which attracts the zombies and then throw a grenade at the group. Or set a land mine and cause some noise to have them run right into it. Of course there is the last resort RUN FOR YOUR LIFE!!! This game feels like a zombie movie more than any I have played.

I love how the gamepad is used, perfect for survival horror item mangement. Every choice of your inventory is very important as time is precious when zombies attack. The scanning is really cool, the implications for interesting puzzles can be limitless though this game doesnt seem to have any puzzles.  An old school RE game using this control method would be incredible. Capcom get to work.

Oh and then there is the community aspect, I love getting messages of edge dying and knowing his zombie is loose on my world.  The message system is crap, you can only write in dumb symbols. No where near as interesting as Demons souls.

Being a Bears fan sucks ....