Gears of war judgement!!!!  

wtf another gears of war?  

Posted by Remorse

wtf another gears of war?

A Gears of War prequel
-_-  

yeah  

Don't think I will bother with the new GoW, they are really milking it now.  

Looks like this might be the first truly "Next gen" game.

 

Posted by Madhog

Don't think I will bother with the new GoW, they are really milking it now.

Milking it now? A new call of duty every year is milking it.
Did you really think Microsoft would end one of their exclusive titles?

I think this prequel was planned from the start when they were planning the trilogy.They left the story open at the first game where Marcus just wakes up in a jail cell for no reason.

Just like how at the end of Halo 3 they left an opening for Halo 4, and Bungie made Halo Reach which is a prequel.

Posted by Pimpsy G.

Looks like this might be the first truly "Next gen" game.

I'm ignoring any game Lucasarts puts out until they release Battlefront 3. The Force Unleashed games suck and this looks like they slapped a star wars skin over gears of wars or army of two, run and gun gameplay.  

Going to e3 today ^_^  

Posted by Remorse

Going to e3 today ^_^

I thought its ending today?  

The company my mom works for has a booth over there and her boss gave us passes.  

Posted by Remorse

The company my mom works for has a booth over there and her boss gave us passes.

post pics here  

sure.  

Wii U specs leaked, sounds decent. Source:
http://www.computerandvideogames.com...ram-8gb-flash/

A list of what is purported to be the full Nintendo Wii U hardware specs has appeared online.

According to the document, which was first posted on VGleaks and then supported by alleged industry insiders posting on NeoGAF, the developer version of Nintendo's console has 3GB of RAM.
Presuming this is true, it's likely the final retail model will have around 1.5GB with around 500MB devoted to the console's operating system.

That leaves about 1GB of RAM for developers to use for games; roughly double available for development on PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360.

Other noteworthy points in the list are the hardware's lack of a substantial hard drive, instead the Wii U will supposedly have 8GB of flash memory which can be expanded using the SD card slot.

Nintendo has not officially confirmed the data, however supposed industry insiders developers roaming online forum NeoGAF have said the list is an accurate representation of the dev kits they have recieved from Nintendo.

For those not able to decipher the esoteric language here's the take away: it's powerful, but the lack of a hard drive could be a problem.

Hardware Features

Main Application Processor

PowerPC architecture.
Three cores (fully coherent).
3MB aggregate L2 Cache size.
core 0: 512 KB
core 1: 2048 KB
core 2: 512 KB
Write gatherer per core.
Locked (L1d) cache DMA per core.
Main Memory
Up to 3GB of main memory (CAT-DEVs only). Note: retail machine will have half devkit memory

Please note that the quantity of memory available from the Cafe SDK and Operating System may vary.

Graphics and Video
Modern unified shader architecture.
32MB high-bandwidth eDRAM, supports 720p 4x MSAA or 1080p rendering in a single pass.
HDMI and component video outputs.
Features
Unified shader architecture executes vertex, geometry, and pixel shaders
Multi-sample anti-aliasing (2, 4, or 8 samples per pixel)
Read from multi-sample surfaces in the shader
128-bit floating point HDR texture filtering
High resolution texture support (up to 8192 x 8192)
Indexed cube map arrays
8 render targets
Independent blend modes per render target
Pixel coverage sample masking
Hierarchical Z/stencil buffer
Early Z test and Fast Z Clear
Lossless Z & stencil compression
2x/4x/8x/16x high quality adaptive anisotropic filtering modes
sRGB filtering (gamma/degamma)
Tessellation unit
Stream out support
Compute shader support
GX2 is a 3D graphics API for the Nintendo Wii U system (also known as Cafe). The API is designed to be as efficient as GX(1) from the Nintendo GameCube and Wii systems. Current features are modeled after OpenGL and the AMD r7xx series of graphics processors. Wii U's graphics processor is referred to as GPU7.
Sound and Audio
Dedicated 120MHz audio DSP.
Support for 6 channel discrete uncompressed audio (via HDMI).
2 channel audio for the Cafe DRC controller.
Monaural audio for the Cafe Remote controller.
Networking
802.11 b/g/n Wifi.
Peripherals
2 x USB 2.0 host controllers x 2 ports each.
SDCard Slot.
Built-in Storage
512MB SLC NAND for System.
8GB MLC NAND for Applications.
Host PC Bridge
Dedicated Cafe-to-host PC bridge hardware.
Allows File System emulation by host PC.
Provides interface for debugger and logging to host PC.

 

I've been hearing everything from it's legit to it's bogus.  

Posted by Dusty

I've been hearing everything from it's legit to it's bogus.

Apparently (from that article) "Nintendo has not officially confirmed the data, however supposed industry insiders developers roaming online forum NeoGAF have said the list is an accurate representation of the dev kits they have recieved from Nintendo." So it could go either way. But... I have no idea at all why nintendo would not release these specs if they are true? They are pretty darn good! That's what gives me doubt about these. 1.5 GB ram is great for a dedicated gaming console, sure you need like 8 GB on a gaming PC, but a PC has to run other things as well as games.

EDIT: Nonetheless, I find it strange how people seeing this seem to want the Wii U to be bad even if these supposed specs are true. Some are saying this is not as good as current gen stuff. Lol. This thing has 32mb edram (the 360 only has 10 mb) 1.5 Gig RAM, 3 core processor, and a AMD r7xx series based GPU.