Natural Selection For Wii U
Acesonnall
Join Date: 2012-11-19 Member: 172414Members
<div class="IPBDescription">And Hello Everyone</div>First and foremost, hello everyone. I post on other gaming forums as well and I just saw this game on Steam and I'm going to purchase it, but something I thought would be really cool is if this game was brought onto the Wii U.
From what I've heard, the Wii U is much more indie friendly than Wii and Nintendo has actually come out to say that Indie developers are really important to them.
I don't know in detail how easy it is to put your game on the Wii U, but it seems like Nintendo is making it super simple. You also don't have to pay to patch your game which is supposed to be a huge thing for indie developers.
In edition to all that, there's a huge fanbase on the Wii U that would love to play strategy games. Nintendo's new console has so many people excited to try new things. This game looks like the perfect fit and I don't want to make any assumptions or anything, but I think you might get some decent sales off of it (Of course I could be wrong). Personally, I'd buy this game for Wii U and I think anyone would as long as you're able to make interesting use of the gamepad (Or maybe you don't have to).
Anyway, I was just pitching the idea. I'd be stoked to see this game come on to Wii U at some time.
Anyone else interested in this new console?
Sources to what I described:
<a href="http://www.ign.com/articles/2012/11/18/nintendos-steams-up-the-wii-u-eshop" target="_blank">http://www.ign.com/articles/2012/11/18/nin...the-wii-u-eshop</a>
<a href="http://www.officialnintendomagazine.co.uk/42408/wii-u-is-more-indie-friendly-than-wii-ever-was-dev/" target="_blank">http://www.officialnintendomagazine.co.uk/...i-ever-was-dev/</a>
<a href="http://mynintendonews.com/2012/07/30/indie-developers-are-extremely-important-to-nintendo/" target="_blank">http://mynintendonews.com/2012/07/30/indie...nt-to-nintendo/</a>
From what I've heard, the Wii U is much more indie friendly than Wii and Nintendo has actually come out to say that Indie developers are really important to them.
I don't know in detail how easy it is to put your game on the Wii U, but it seems like Nintendo is making it super simple. You also don't have to pay to patch your game which is supposed to be a huge thing for indie developers.
In edition to all that, there's a huge fanbase on the Wii U that would love to play strategy games. Nintendo's new console has so many people excited to try new things. This game looks like the perfect fit and I don't want to make any assumptions or anything, but I think you might get some decent sales off of it (Of course I could be wrong). Personally, I'd buy this game for Wii U and I think anyone would as long as you're able to make interesting use of the gamepad (Or maybe you don't have to).
Anyway, I was just pitching the idea. I'd be stoked to see this game come on to Wii U at some time.
Anyone else interested in this new console?
Sources to what I described:
<a href="http://www.ign.com/articles/2012/11/18/nintendos-steams-up-the-wii-u-eshop" target="_blank">http://www.ign.com/articles/2012/11/18/nin...the-wii-u-eshop</a>
<a href="http://www.officialnintendomagazine.co.uk/42408/wii-u-is-more-indie-friendly-than-wii-ever-was-dev/" target="_blank">http://www.officialnintendomagazine.co.uk/...i-ever-was-dev/</a>
<a href="http://mynintendonews.com/2012/07/30/indie-developers-are-extremely-important-to-nintendo/" target="_blank">http://mynintendonews.com/2012/07/30/indie...nt-to-nintendo/</a>
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What are your opinions on the OUYA so far?
Honestly I think the only other fps games on consoles that require or heavily utilize teamwork are made by Valve.
Hahahahahhaa you have to be joking, you think this will run on a smartphone? because that is all an ouya is.
Maybe if UWE made a 2D natural selection 2, that may just run on the Ouya, but probably not.
Currently the game is being optimized for the PC platform and that is already an herculean task for a team of this size
<strike>Also locked, fingernail that gif is basically spot on though :P</strike> Go ahead, make my day...
BTW welcome to the forums Acesonnall :)
Can't wait to start playing this game.
How on earth would you ever play aliens, that requires so much mobility and they are melee, with a controller O.o thats just not possible.
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The 2010 Alien versus Predator game handled it well I thought.
In terms of visuals NS2 is hardly out of the realm of possibility, although the engine's optimization issues cause it to require better hardware than would be needed to get equivalent visuals on other engines.
Also, the Wii U is launching with ZombieU, Assassins Creed 3, Black Ops 2 and Batman Arkham City. Nintendo is most assuredly not settling for just the casual audience this time around.
Also, this game is a lot more complicated and hardcore then anything on any consoles. I don't think this game would even do well with the 360 and PS3 crowd. It would have to be dumbed down significantly to be popular with console players.
thanks to the mouse :)
Short answer, no
Long answer No way, waste of time, waste of money, and it would never work in the first place...
The PS3/360? They've got 512MB of RAM. Including VRAM. The PS3 has 256MB of system RAM (and 256MB of dedicated VRAM), while the 360 has a unified memory model.
Anyhow, the WiiU has a decent chunk of RAM (2GB on what seems to be a unified memory model), but the performance is that of a very old computer, so it's definitely not up to the task of running the game as it stands. OUYA will never be, so far behind.
Even with an added group of people with years of experience programming and optimizing for the WiiU, I doubt NS2 would bet a good fit.
If it could run with low graphics, it would be a cool game to have on there though, and Nintendo's indie-dev policies are great
edit: and the OUYA is a device with the hardware power of a smartphone and the portability of a console
That was years ago, I don't think anyone believes that to be realistic today.