Tendo City

So lots of impresions are showing up all over the place... including a lot of unclear stuff about what the hardwares can do...

Some facts:

WII

Wii Photo Channel
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-Supported formats: Image Files: JPEG, baseline only; Size: Up to 848 x 480;
Video Files: QuickTime (motion JPEG) (.mov files) (AVI/other extensions will be fine, as long as it's MPEG encoded); Audio Files: MP3
-SD cards: Photo Channel can display the first 1000 things (images/videos/mp3s I guess) -- files beyond that will not be displayed (it looks in all folders in the card)
-No easy MP3 player - only in the slideshow thing, kind of clumsy supposedly
http://www.kotaku.com/gaming/wii/wii-med...214194.php

Gamecube support
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-GC controllers and memory cards required
-you cannot copy save files from GC cards to SD cards or the Wii's internal memory
http://www.joystiq.com/2006/11/12/are-wi...m-says-no/
-Freelancer doesn't work? Reports are not certain, but it's possible.
http://www.joystiq.com/2006/11/11/ps3-ma...placement/
-you have to reboot if you want to get the Wiimote working again and play some Wii games?
http://www.kotaku.com/gaming/wii/wii-bac...214148.php
-games are unchanged

Virtual Console
--
-games are of course tied to the system you download them on; you can transfer them probably through Nintendo if your Wii breaks or something, but that's it.
-some games may require a Classic Controller and not support the GC pad? Unclear and contradictory things heard about this right now...
-*insert rant about awful N64 controller situation here*

Hardware
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-the flaps over the GC controller/memcard ports on top of the console can be removed
http://www.joystiq.com/2006/11/12/top-te...t-the-wii/
-currently you can't copy things between the system memory and SD card or delete things from the SD card, though the Wii's manual suggests that you should be able to
-there is a port on the bottom to replace the battery that powers the clock (the same type of battery that shows up in NES/SNES/some N64 games)
-the Wii is smaller than a X360 HD-DVD drive
http://www.kotaku.com/gaming/os/install-...214203.php
-people with projectors (or who like to keep their consoles far from their televisions) might be annoyed at the relatively short length of the sensor bar cable; third party extender cords might solve this, or a rumored wireless sensor bar

PS3

hardware
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-the hard drive is user-replacable: it's a standard 3 1/2" SATA drive with easy access and instructions on how to put in a new one.
-even if you use a PSX/2 to USB controller port adaptor, you might not be able to use your old PS1/2 controllers on the system (it is confirmed that Guitar Hero controllers don't work, but I didn't see anything specific about Dual Shocks. They might work.)
-the manual also has instructions on how to replace Sixaxis batteries
http://www.joystiq.com/2006/11/11/ps3-ma...placement/

Media
--
-

Quote:Music: The Playstation 3 can playback CDs, ATRACs, MP3s, MP4s and Wave files from of USB devices and drives, Memory sticks, CF and SD memory cards.

http://www.kotaku.com/gaming/ps3/ps3-med...214192.php
(results: better than Wii media functions, worse than X360.)
http://ps3.ign.com/articles/745/745252p1...Sid=745252
-You might be able to install other OSes on it?
http://www.kotaku.com/gaming/os/install-...214203.php
-by default it uses that "specific folders" system like the PSP, but it's possible to make it look at the whole folder tree

Backwards Compatibility
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-uses virtual memory cards on the hard drive (or, presumably, PS1/2 memcards used through the memory adaptor? The virtual memory cards are the expected way though.)
-as above, probably can't play games that require special controllers (yet?)
-as we all know, no rumble
-can choose digital or analog controller mode in the OS, for games that require the controller to be in digital mode
-while the full PS2 chipset (Emotion Engine and its attached RAM) is inside the box, developers are told they can't use it for PS3 games -- it's for PS(1/?)2 only
-no graphical improvements for PS2 games

PS3 day one sales: 83,000 hardware (51,000 premium, 32,000 core)
http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=128533


Wii impressions...

http://www.joystiq.com/2006/11/10/wii-en...e-joystiq/

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Man, it's gonna kill me not to get one of those next week.

Absolute murder.

This is a Nintendo site, but is anyone here actually getting one this year? (I still might, but I'm trying my best to convince myself out of it...)

... it won't hurt as badly if I can get my GC fixed (and get Zelda for GC by Christmastime), but yeah... it looks great, and I want one... even if those videos are so badly done that it's almost physically painful. :) "People who can't figure out how to fix a misaligned controller analog stick (unplug it and plug it back in or press several face buttons for three seconds... forget which ones though...) get Wiis but we don't"?

Gamespot's live "We got a Wii" was also pretty bad... they were awful at Excitetruck... :D

http://www.joystiq.com/2006/11/12/wii-co...s-secrets/

http://www.joystiq.com/2006/11/12/top-te...t-the-wii/

Quote:It doesn't play CDs

Now to be honest after lazy pointed out it might actually be MORE expensive to manufacture special DVD players that lack CD laser already within, I had thought it would support it. I suppose it did end up cheaper to not do so after all.

So,

Colbert Persona: I called it!

A Black Falcon Wrote:This is a Nintendo site, but is anyone here actually getting one this year? (I still might, but I'm trying my best to convince myself out of it...)

I know I'm getting a Wii for sure, also getting Rayman, Redsteel and ofcourse Zelda: Twilight Princess...and three extra "Wiimotes" possibly another nunchuck, not sure on that though.

Quote:

Quote:It doesn't play CDs

I never really expected that, not that I care... isn't that what CD players are for for people who want to listen to CDs? It'd be nice if they were putting in a visualizer (like the PSone or Xbox 360, or others), but I doubt Nintendo would do that, and there are better alternatives to a basic CD player than using a game console...

Quote:I know I'm getting a Wii for sure, also getting Rayman, Redsteel and ofcourse Zelda: Twilight Princess...and three extra "Wiimotes" possibly another nunchuck, not sure on that though.

My list would be Zelda, Excite Truck, and Metal Slug Anthology, no question. And if I were to get only two, it'd be Zelda and Metal Slug (if Metal Slug isn't delayed, that is... this is SNK after all, and they seem to almost always delay games several times for no apparent reason before releasing them...), I think... Rayman does look good too though, definitely. "Buy when it's cheap", perhaps?

I agree. I won't miss it considering I can rip music off the CDs and stick some MP3s on a memory card that way.

Hell yes I'm getting a Wii, if I can find one. I already have Zelda preordered online, and I'll be content with that and Wii Sports, but I may pick up Excitetruck as well.

I'm going to stick with Prudence and wait it out until my finances aren't quite so critical.