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[OryoN]

*Fingers crossed for Wave Race with glorious thirst-envoking wave/water effects*

Come on Nintendo... make it happen!
This would sooo make my day.


What SINGLE announcement/revelation would make YOUR day?

 

[tkscz]

I made a gif of this earlier
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=I01L9-zzwxI#t=307s
But the file was too large for most sites. Can someone make it before the conference starts?

 

[McNum]

I'm gonna miss these threads. Been trying to keep up since thread II, but it's almost been a futile effort. Posted a little, but I've mostly been lurking. This is one of the most fun series of threads on Gaf. I hope it spins off into a Nintendo-Gaf or similar.

But enough gloom, there's less than an hour to conference time! Woo!

 

[brochiller]

OT is a go. I'll see you all back here on the other side.

 

[Discomurf]

My Iwata is Reggie
My Bodhi is Ready
My Reggie is body
and My Body is Ready

 

[Eradicate]

Drop the bear and bring the bombs Iwata!

 

[burst]

ALL ABOARD THE HYPE TRAIN. DESTINATION E3
http://flashcanvas.net/examples/www.chiptune.com/starfield/starfield.html

 

[blu]

Ok, gentlemen, see you all on the other side. Stay nonbanned.

 

[watershed]

Whose ready for pikmin 3 to look like an upscaled gamecube game?

 

[Snakeyes]

So I just had a dream (nightmare?) about the Nintendo conference. They spent half an hour on New Super Mario Bros and Zombi U and Black Ops 2 was the big surprise announcement.

 

[Freezie KO]

My bodice is radish. Official conference thread open.

 

[cyberheater]

I love to see a free roaming open world Mario with next gen graphics.

Make it happen Nintendo.

 

[Linkhero1]

So I just had a dream (nightmare?) about the Nintendo conference. They spent half an hour on New Super Mario Bros and Zombi U and Black Ops 2 was the big surprise announcement.

You know what. This can happen.

 

[CrAzYLeGzLU]

The hour leading up to this will feel like the whole year before it.

 

[The Main Event]

So no major leaks this year? Nintendo is goooood.

 

[bgassassin]

In an unexpected turn of events right before the conference, someone has leaked full details of the early target specs. And I've just been sent the link. Have fun Tech-GAF.

http://www.vgleaks.com/world-premiere-wii-u-specs/

And based on some of what I was told I can tell these are legit.

 

[Smiles and Cries]

does IRC slow down my streaming in anyway? heh I want no lag :3

 

[IceDoesntHelp]

Guys, I'm scared. What if my body isn't ready?

 

[Instro]

*Set alarm for 8:30*
...
*Wake up at 7:30*

FUUUUUU

 

[Ragingbegal]

Some last minute predictions:

EA demos Madden, shows GamePad use and online connectivity features.
Aliens featured, possibly demoed.
NSMB 2 and Pikman 3 demoed with focus on online connectivity, Miiverse.
The new "Wii Sports" not a sports game. Featured very heavily.
General talk about 3DS's bounce back. Refer to tomorrow's event for more 3DS stuff.
Watch_Dogs announced for Wii U by Ubisoft.
Retro's game gets trailer but not demoed. Showed off throughout week. Likely ends the conference.

 

[-Pyromaniac-]

Longest 50 mins ever.

 

[BD1]

Guys, it's been a blast.

I was born on GAF in a speculation thread, grew up to a Member in a Speculation thread, and today feels like Graduation.

Almost here. Mr. Iwata, you know what to do...

 

[Twenty7KVN]

Whose ready for pikmin 3 to look like an upscaled gamecube game?

I'll be happy with that the Pikmin games looked great.

 

[Dreamwriter]

Hey, which stream needs the least bandwidth? Anyone know?

 

[Snakeyes]

You know what. This can happen.

Let's hold each other guys

 

[Shadow Hog]

Finally, I can use this.

 

[joshwaan]

It's been great ride to get to E3 not long now

 

[Instro]

In an unexpected turn of events right before the conference, someone has leaked full details of the early target specs. And I've just been sent the link. Have fun Tech-GAF.

http://www.vgleaks.com/world-premiere-wii-u-specs/

And based on some of what I was told I can tell these are legit.

How random lol. So should we expect 1.5 or 2GB of RAM though.

 

[CrAzYLeGzLU]

*Set alarm for 8:30*
...
*Wake up at 7:30*

FUUUUUU

Set my alarm for 30 minutes before the conference fucking woke up 4 hours before it.

 

[Erimriv]

Lol Beaten.

 

[Discomurf]

Guys, I'm scared. What if my body isn't ready?

you're trained and ready ice

 

[tkscz]

In an unexpected turn of events right before the conference, someone has leaked full details of the early target specs. And I've just been sent the link. Have fun Tech-GAF.

http://www.vgleaks.com/world-premiere-wii-u-specs/

And based on some of what I was told I can tell these are legit.

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.

SO it's about OpenGL 3 or 4? I know the r700 series didn't really support OpenGL 4 but with increased capability, I'm just not sure.

 

[Discomurf]

is there an official conference thread?

 

[Shadow Hog]

What if there's nothing to leak and it's really just Reggie on the stage, throwing rocks at people ?

He wouldn't use rocks...

 

[Tim-E]

For now, we move on to the Nintendo Conference OT as boys(& girls!). But when return to community after the war, we return as (wo)men!

 

[watershed]

Specs are the least interesting thing to me right now. We're 45 minutes from seeing actual GAMES!!!!!

 

[GameplayWhore]

Haha, I told my coworker that today is "Video Game Christmas", so I'd be less available around lunchtime, and he was all "Okay, I will not bother you at all today".

Yet more proof that East Coast has the awesomest workplaces.


(urk, I have forty minutes to catch up to another 300 posts&#8230


edit: btw, last night I hit my valley in terms of "lowest possible hype level". It has since been steadily increasing. Mission accomplished. I recommend you guys try it this way six years from now

 

[efyu_lemonardo]

where is Emily Rogers?
I was promised prizes dammit

 

[walking fiend]

official thread close; back to the basics

 

[codhand]

OT locked, [runs back]

 

[brochiller]

Lol they had to lock the OT so we didn't hit 18k posts in 2 hours.

 

[Risgroo]

Meh, I'll take a walk to pass the time, and make sure my body is throughly prepared.

 

[fabricated backlash]

Sources just told me Nintendo has exclusive dibs on the Shenmue x Half-Life fusion.

Throw in Jet Set Radio and Nintendo can have my firstborn^^

Asking the Combine if they have seen a man in a black suit, all the while spraying tags and feeding kittens in the Harbor of City 17.

 

[Shadowlink]

Less than an hour left. See Ya guys on the other side.

 

[Eradicate]

The official thread just got locked.

Where am I going to express my hype now?!

 

[Smiles and Cries]

In an unexpected turn of events right before the conference, someone has leaked full details of the early target specs. And I've just been sent the link. Have fun Tech-GAF.

http://www.vgleaks.com/world-premiere-wii-u-specs/

And based on some of what I was told I can tell these are legit.

well sheeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee

 

[?oe?oe]

Why would the specs still mention Cafe?

Dammit. Coffee machine rumour re-emerges!

 

[Nibel]

In an unexpected turn of events right before the conference, someone has leaked full details of the early target specs. And I've just been sent the link. Have fun Tech-GAF.

http://www.vgleaks.com/world-premiere-wii-u-specs/

And based on some of what I was told I can tell these are legit.

What does this mean

 

[Tim-E]

THE OT IS DEAD
LONG LIVE THE OT

 

[maquiladora]