Nintendo Wii U

[Isiolia]

360 rechargable batteries are garbage. The ones I have go from red (charging) to green in less than a minute and aren't charged at all. And these are the microsoft ones with their charging cable.

Could be the batteries are worn out or something. The only play and charge one I have is one of the new special edition controllers, which included the battery pack and charger. I use it for my PC, and haven't needed to charge it much (though I also don't use it much).

[Kaisha]

Could be the batteries are worn out or something. The only play and charge one I have is one of the new special edition controllers, which included the battery pack and charger. I use it for my PC, and haven't needed to charge it much (though I also don't use it much).

I'm a firm believer that they're just shit quality batteries Microsoft uses. The charger pack just has two cheap chinese branded rechargables in them along with a small circuit to gauge battery life for the dashboard. I only ever got to recharge my pack 6 times before it decided to die, and I hardly used the controller over the course of a year also.

[Niiro]

The only issues with PS3 controllers are the USB cord is too short (they might sell longer ones idk) and they can only charge when the PS3 is on, which is just stupid.

[MisterBob]

The PS3 is using generic micro usb to charge the controllers. You can buy those for like a dollar online if you want longer ones.

[Niiro]

Wow I never noticed before, my phone actually uses the same connection.

[Julian]

The PS3 is using generic micro usb to charge the controllers. You can buy those for like a dollar online if you want longer ones.

Actually, I'm pretty sure it's USB Mini.

My phone uses Micro, it's a bit thinner.

[Pikarya]

You do know your controller charges faster if you get the Monster Cable branded ones right?

[Niiro]

Speed was never an issue for me it just felt like a waste of electricity having to run the console just to charge the controller.

[Pikarya]

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[Niiro]

Cannot tell what that's supposed to be.

[Dryr]

Bullshit. I have to charge mine once a week (I alternate them), and most of what I do is watch netflix.

I use if for netflix and blus too, you gotta remember to turn controller off instead of just sitting there on for hrs while you watch stuff...

[Demosthenes]

I use if for netflix and blus too, you gotta remember to turn controller off instead of just sitting there on for hrs while you watch stuff...

Missed my point.

[Ragnell]

Controller shuts off in 5-10 mins ANYWAYS

[Merovingian]

Nintendo’s Next Console Will Enter the HD Era, but Not the Hard Drive Era

Stephen Totilo — Nintendo's Next Console Will Enter the HD Era, but Not the Hard Drive EraThe successor to the Wii will not include a traditional hard-drive but will bear some of the traits of competing high-definition game consoles, according to sources familiar with Nintendo's planned 2012 gaming machine.

The console, codenamed Project Café, will include 8 gigabytes of on-board flash-based memory, presumably for game storage. That quantity, while nearly 16 times the storage capacity of the Wii, is smaller than the 20GB of room available in the original, optional hard drives offered in 2005 for the Xbox 360. The amount of memory in the new Nintendo console would also be dwarfed by the 250 GB drives offered in current, high-end versions of the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3.

While my sources have not specified how Nintendo plans to allow owners of its console to use the machine's memory, 8GB would seem to provide ample room for downloadble retro games, a service Nintendo has already supported on the Wii. The increased capacity, compared to the Wii, would also allow games on the new Nintendo platform to be patched and updated, though downloadable expansions, such as 650 MB Call of Duty map packs would quickly stuff the machine. The system will also support saving to SD cards.

By offering 8GB of storage, Nintendo would not be able to offer full-sized new games for download, a practice that has been promoted on the Xbox 360 and, to a lesser extent, the PlayStation 3, in recent years. It would also be unlikely to store downloaded feature films without additional, user-supplied storage.

Nintendo is not commenting on specs for its Wii successor, promising to reveal more at E3 in June. If I hear back from them about these new revelations, I'll update this story.

The new 2012-scheduled Nintendo system will fall more in line with the 360 and PlayStation 3 by matching those consoles' abilities to render and output graphics in high-definition. I've heard mixed things about whether Nintendo will cap their machine's graphical resolution at 1080i or 1080p, but either figure would significantly exceed the Wii's 480p and achieve the resolutions used for most high-end console games on the Microsoft and Sony consoles.

Nintendo's disc format for the new console will hold 25GB of data, I've heard. That capacity is triple the size of the biggest DVD-style discs for Wii and Xbox 360 and comparable to the capacity of single-layer Blu-Ray discs on the PlayStation 3.

All of these new specs about Nintendo's device give us, at best, an incomplete a sense of what Nintendo's new console will be like. They help, but do little better to fully explain the device than the measurements of a femur and talon tell us the color and scent of a dinosaur. Nevertheless, the numbers do hint at some of the system's capabilities. The disc size and the broad impression of graphical prowess is consistent with my and others' reports that the new console will at least equal the PS3 and Xbox 360 in horsepower, increasing the likelihood that games made for the current Sony and Microsoft consoles could also be made for Nintendo's next machine. The size of the new console's on-board storage signals that Nintendo isn't planning on turning its Wii successor into a device for downloading retail games and movies, though it could continue to support the act of streaming linear content, like Netflix movies, through its console. Nintendo currently allows users to stream standard-definition content through the Wii and will soon offer Netflix streaming on its portable 3DS.

Nintendo has ample time to tweak the specs of its new machine and could increase or decrease the new system's storage capacity—or other parameters—prior to the machine's launch.

Nintendo executives have said that they would not create a new gaming console until they had an idea for it that would distinguish the device from the competition, just as the Wii Remote set the Wii apart from the 360 and PS3. The new machine's Nintendo difference seems to center on the console's unusual screen-based controller—an amalgam of traditional twin-stick controller and touchscreen tablet (à la Apple's iPad)—that will complement the console's support for Wii-style motion controllers.

Nintendo is planning to enable the screen-controller to function in multiple ways, I've heard. It can serve simply as a standard game controller that imitates the posture of playing a game on a 360 or PS3. Its screen allows it to also present a supplemental, touch-sensitive viewing screen (for maps and inventory) that extends the game running on one's TV, an option that renders the controller as a plus-sized equivalent to the lower screen of a Nintendo DS, with the TV serving as the top screen, so to speak. A third option we've been hearing from several sources involves the new console streaming the same game that can be output onto a TV onto the controller screen, allowing high-end games to be played portably while within an unspecified range of the console. (Imagine, though it's crude, being able to take the game you were playing on your TV to the bathroom, via your screen-based controller.)

Despite the volume of leaks about Nintendo's Project Café in recent weeks, the company behind Mario and Miis has long possessed a knack for surprising its consumers and the gaming industry. As much as we're learning in advance, expect plenty of twists when Nintendo presents its new machine early next month. And with any luck, you'll be able to buy and play it a year after that.

http://kotaku.com/#!5797890/nintendo...hard+drive-era

so what do you u guys think? if its true i think nintendo starting on the wrong foot that is if they really want to go for the same market as ps360.

[xopher]

Cannot tell what that's supposed to be.

It's a troll face. He was trolling you with the monster cables comment. But apparently you're too ...

nevermind I don't even feel like making these comments anymore. There are too many of you.

[Kaisha]

Wouldn't a 20gb hard drive be cheaper to produce than 8gb flash storage?

I'm getting the feeling they're trying to keep the Wii2 around the same size as the Wii1 if they're seriously sticking with flash storage still.

[Salodin]

They haven't learned anything new. I get the feeling they think all they need is pretty graphics like ps360 and they can pull success like the Wii originally was out of their ass.

[miokomioko]

I think I'd much rather have half the storage capacity than a hot, spinning drive that will fail.

[Kaisha]

Even the PSP Go has double the Wii2's storage, you sure you don't want a spinning drive that's replacable when it fails that holds 5-20x as much space?

[Pikarya]

Nintendo is about as innovative as Apple at this point. I'm not expecting anything groundbreaking.