Comments on: Wii To Include Camera, PPU and Headset

By: Борис

Борис — Sat, 30 May 2009 15:50:08 +0000

Интересный пост, спасибо вам. Интересует вопрос – будет ли продолжение?

By: john

john — Sun, 06 Jan 2008 23:57:21 +0000

So this turned out true…

By: Used Cisco Router Guy

Used Cisco Router Guy — Mon, 20 Aug 2007 21:33:02 +0000

What was the post about, and why did it get deleted?

By: microsoft and nintendo kinda guy

microsoft and nintendo kinda guy — Fri, 18 Aug 2006 02:06:24 +0000

skil688, you have much to learn the Wii is more innovative it has been thought of more wow Sony have added Cell And a 60 gb HD its all small, the fact 360 are getting a 40-60gb HD there getting the external hd dvd drive thats real cheap which will give microsoft an advantage over sony with the HD DVD being external it gives the 360 more room to breathe the 360’s flexibility allows it to have much more of a range while sony are having difficultly even fitting the hardware into the case, while 360 can add more features external drive extra HD that is people going to be the same price as the 20gb available today (people wodering why, simple made cheaper with more cheaper parts) so thats a dead sert and 360 with its new XNA which might be a hit with 360 allowing you to make games for 360 and possibly in the future selling them for 5$ or so i think this year round 360 and Wii will prevail Ps3 being a lil bit pricy and even Ken saying its to cheap aww c’mon think people are going to buy it at near off 600 hundred pound with a 60 gb HD that you will get with 360 for half the price pfft dream on sony and a whole bunch of amaazing titles coming for 360 Alan Wake, Gears of War, Gta4, Halo 3. we are stuck for choice sorry this being about Wii (im no fanboy just a little bit annoyed that some people are calling other ‘bitches’ because its got a 60 gb hd) wow.

so if you ask who im supporting this time round its same as always Nintendo Wii and Xbox 360!! hehe thanks people for spending there time to read my post…

if you wanna chat more about this:

i_love_stuff123@hotmail.com :P:P:D

By: Random Guy

Random Guy — Thu, 22 Jun 2006 17:17:41 +0000

Skil688, why would 40gb of space make it a better system? In that case, a crappy Compaq I bought about five years ago (great at the time) would be a better system than all of these!

By: LKM

LKM — Sat, 10 Jun 2006 09:44:20 +0000

I’m constantly amazed at the stupidity which some people seem to be compelled display. Right, skil688? “Its much better!”

Anyway, about the bandwith thing: The bandwidth needed by a physics card is minuscule compared to the bandwidth needed by a graphics card (no textures!). And if you have both functions in one card, the physics part can use the data from the graphics part since large parts of what it needs is a subset of the data needed by the graphics card.

By: skil688

skil688 — Fri, 09 Jun 2006 21:10:42 +0000

theres 40gb of harddisk on it?
beat that
bitch

By: skil688

skil688 — Fri, 09 Jun 2006 19:11:09 +0000

its much better

By: umdraco

umdraco — Fri, 09 Jun 2006 10:07:17 +0000

WHY!

By: skil688

skil688 — Thu, 08 Jun 2006 18:13:36 +0000

i’d rather have the ps3 to the wii

By: JisForJosh

JisForJosh — Thu, 08 Jun 2006 14:41:07 +0000

“A great graphics card gives you better graphics (more polygons, larger textures and so on), but a physics card means you can have a lot more objects on screen interacting with each other, which actually results in more freedom for developers and hopefully in better games.”

The thing is, so far, PPU’s, while making more physics interactions, hinder performance by taking bandwidth away from the GPU

By: LKM

LKM — Thu, 08 Jun 2006 06:46:28 +0000

A PPU would be an awesome idea. I’ve actually seen an Interview with some of the Elebits devs where they kind of almost implied that the Wii had dome kind of physics hardware. It may be part of the graphics card from ATI, which was hinted at in an interview with some ATI representative. If you watch some of the the Elebits movies from E3, you’ll see tons of objects being thrown around. This kind of really does look as if there were physics hardware involved.

In my own opinion, having a physics card is way more important than having a great graphics card. A great graphics card gives you better graphics (more polygons, larger textures and so on), but a physics card means you can have a lot more objects on screen interacting with each other, which actually results in more freedom for developers and hopefully in better games.

By: LinkDx

LinkDx — Thu, 08 Jun 2006 05:56:18 +0000

Hmm, seems highly unlikely. That doesn’t seem like the path Nintendo would take with their hardware.They’ve said “small quiet and affordable”. Plus adding a PPU and the like would only increase the cost of the system.

By: SideFFect

SideFFect — Wed, 07 Jun 2006 19:28:21 +0000

Wii will be bought first. Along w/ a 360 when it lowers in price.

Then, in maybe 2-3 yrs, when PS3 wont make me homeless, will I buy it.

I’m sure only by then will games be amazing and perfected for PS3… so why $600 for a blu-ray player? My dvd’s look GREAT as they are. I don’t need to see high-res images of someones nose-hairs on Blu-Ray.

By: Dee

Dee — Wed, 07 Jun 2006 13:16:42 +0000

Sounds fun.

Sendoshi> yeah, but maybe not. Face recognition technology permits funny stuff nowadays, check http://www.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/%7Emorph/Transformer/ to see what I mean.

So maybe there will be something like that with specific outputs.
Like you say, it’s technology, not magic

By: sendoshi

sendoshi — Wed, 07 Jun 2006 11:19:30 +0000

Don’t you just read the websites where you pick your info ? Nothing was ever said concerning a built-in webcam. It just says that you will be able to include your face, like in Wii sports. Besides, it’s impossible to create a little cartoony face from a webcam snapshot ! Just think about it : it’s technology, not magic ! The most credible possibility is that you will use your DS to create the funny face, and import them into the Wii through wifi connexion.

By: Wakeus

Wakeus — Wed, 07 Jun 2006 00:59:15 +0000

the wii will support certain games from its predacessors from NES up to 64 with Saga Mega Drive/Genesis and TurboGrafx 16 on a virtual consol but im not sure if it will support dreamcast. however it will be backward compatable with GC games, controles, and mem. cards which is a definate plus, despite the failures Nintendo saw with the GC.

Check out the link for more info:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wii

I already own a 360, next up is the Wii, and due to the cost, poor performance, and new gaming rights which im sure you all know of (you cant buy or sell used games) I WILL NEVER OWN A PS3

Now all i can do is wait and see if the Wii is going to be as good as we all hope.

By: Paddy Boy

Paddy Boy — Tue, 06 Jun 2006 22:37:12 +0000

No, the PD Gameboy Camera thing was scrapped for legal reasons. It was really shortly after the Columbine shooting, and they didn’t want their game being panned because of a feature allowing you to put images of anyone in the game. They had a demo of it with Ken Lobb demo-ing it.
http://perfectdark.detstar.com/beta/perfecthead.asp

Anyway, if the Wii actually has these features, it’ll be cool, but I’m not holding my breath. I’m getting Wii either way. I’m more hopeful that it will be able to play Dreamcast games.

By: mrkeen

mrkeen — Tue, 06 Jun 2006 19:00:57 +0000

The attempt was made on N64 to incorperate photos from Game Boy Camera (at the time the smallest digital camera in existance according to the Book of Records) into Golden Eye, and later Perfect Dark. As I recall, it was also planed to utilize the camerea in No Mercy.
However, due to the rather bad image quality of the Game Boy Camera, and the then archaic facial templates in games, the plans were scrapped, along with the Game Boy Camera.

By: mk

mk — Tue, 06 Jun 2006 17:56:28 +0000

nintendo did it before sony back in the n64 days with perfect dark and a gameboy advanced.