The ultimate Wii U rumor round-up

[robometal cowboy]

The ultimate Wii U rumor round-up
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NeoGAF reader GameplayWhore has taken on the herculean task of summarizing every single Wii U confirmed fact and rumor coming from the forum's most recent Wii U thread. The latest speculation thread hit its limit and a new one has been opened. While we've posted nearly all of these details and rumors, this is an absolutely amazing list that must have taken quite some time to put together. Get ready to dive into the biggest and most complete rumor round-up yet.

Remember, these rumors are in order of when the thread started to when it ended, which means some of the info is quite dated.

IdeaMan's stuff:
#1337
#1398

#1764, Capcom Hiring for Next-Gen MT Framework Refresh in 2013

#1767, "I bet we're gonna see Wuhu Island on Wii U launch day."

#1793, Reminder Shigeru Miyamoto confirms ‘Pikmin 3′ as a Wii U title (describes as "almost finished")

#1962, Nintendo refers to a "Scheduled Wii Entertainment System Information Release" on the 26th (the

#??? (2012-04-13), Medal of Honor Warfighter reported to be coming to Wii U by Austrian newspaper Der Standard. Many sites link to this, but the actual article does not mention the Wii U

#2789, eShop discussion

#2803, "Universal Remote Controller" Wii U patent

#2842, "Some WiiU talk, considering price (manufacturing cost rumor), Darksider dev saying there are limitations/challenges when working on WiiU", "http://www.gametrailers.com/video/episode-204-invisible-walls/729198"

#2878, "IBM is expected to provide guidance for Fiscal year 2012, and in that there should be at least a mention of Wii U. While the amount of Wii U processors that are going to be shipped by year end surely doesn't account for any larger segment of IBM's business, it is certainly something special and something that doesn't occur too frequently. The 50 millionth processor for Wii was shipped in March of 2009, which then would have equaled an average of 1 724 137 processors shipped a month."

#3164, link for Universal Remote patent

#3192, IdeaMan's note about cpu instruction extensions and cache latencies

Full round-up here

[dlf]

That is a herculean task! Although it could be cleaner:

Fact: (from the mouths of devs & NIntendo)
Rumor:




Side note: RMC there's an L in the middle of this name: D L F

[Chosenoneknuckles]

You're aware they have GN as one of their banned sites to mention, right...?

[thegreatscp]

"#1962, Nintendo refers to a "Scheduled Wii Entertainment System Information Release" on the 26th (the"

That ones already been debunked as merely a language-barrier mistake rather than anything relating to Wii U.

[KingBroly]

You're aware they have GN as one of their banned sites to mention, right...?

Oh, he's aware. But he's also partially why. Since he posts EVERYTHING under the sun, regardless of where it came from, they consider it reckless and dangerous to their "highly civilized" debate.

[Elfteiroh]

You're aware they have GN as one of their banned sites to mention, right...?

That doesn't means he have to pretend they don't exist. Falling to their level won't help him. :O
They are petty, but useful information does come to this forum once in a while. Also, they always provide with the full numbers of sales for Japan, which is something that interest me greatly, and the sole reason I actually subscribed there.

[V3N0M]

You're aware they have GN as one of their banned sites to mention, right...?

Oh, he's aware. But he's also partially why. Since he posts EVERYTHING under the sun, regardless of where it came from, they consider it reckless and dangerous to their "highly civilized" debate.

Well this is new to me? NeoGAF pretending it has standards. Anyways what exactly does GN being banned mean anyways? No sharing of information??? Cause it aint working.

[Elfteiroh]

You're aware they have GN as one of their banned sites to mention, right...?

Oh, he's aware. But he's also partially why. Since he posts EVERYTHING under the sun, regardless of where it came from, they consider it reckless and dangerous to their "highly civilized" debate.

Well this is new to me? NeoGAF pretending it has standards. Anyways what exactly does GN being banned mean anyways? No sharing of information??? Cause it aint working.

There is a filter on the site that erase "GoNintendo" when it's written. You can also be banned if you link to it.

Here's the site policy:

THE FOLLOWING WILL RESULT IN A BAN

Banned sites: These sites have all been banned for different reasons. When spelled correctly, these sites will show up as *******.

1. Joystik: Banned for misinformation -- You can post an article from here, be warned, it's probably not true.

2. Go Nintendo: Banned for Misinformation, and having their fans spam useless articles on the site. -- You can post articles from here, but again, be very very careful, most people will just laugh at you for doing so.

[Pugwishbone17]

Now we just need a nice bingo sheet to put these on

[Chosenoneknuckles]

@Pugwishbone17 Agreed.

Oh well. NeoBARF have some good gifs that I won't be afraid of reposting here come E3.

[AlexPuma]

@Elfteiroh

And NeoGAF wonders why nobody outside of their elite circle takes them seriously. XD

Urban Dictionary's current definition of NeoGAF says:
"A gathering place for sad whiny ****** that spend their whole life fighting over sales figures, and arguing about whose favourite game is the best, apparently unable to understand the concept of people having different opinions."

Oh, I should also add, this is pretty much anywhere else on the internet where people gather to talk video games. Just that NeoGAF thinks they're above such pettiness when they partake in it themselves.

[motherbra1n]

@AlexPuma

You know I've disagreed with you on several occasions, but you hit the nail on the head here.

[dlf]

This is supposed to be about WIIu rumors ain't it? Not bashing another site, unless i'm mistaken.

[amir_zwara]

This is supposed to be about WIIu rumors ain't it? Not bashing another site, unless i'm mistaken.

I'm with ya there.

[King_Dodongo]

Offtopic: I'm actually a lurker so when making the reference of GN, they usually say "the site that goes for nintendo news" it's sort of funny.

Ontopic: yup, great deal of info, hopefully there will be more official info instead of us relying on leaks and tidbits. Come E3!

[internet]

that's a lot of work ,

[KingJames7]

You're aware they have GN as one of their banned sites to mention, right...?

Oh, he's aware. But he's also partially why. Since he posts EVERYTHING under the sun, regardless of where it came from, they consider it reckless and dangerous to their "highly civilized" debate.

Well this is new to me? NeoGAF pretending it has standards. Anyways what exactly does GN being banned mean anyways? No sharing of information??? Cause it aint working.

lol I've read most of that thread and the biggest troll, by far, is the moderator, his avatar says something about sucking **** and he kills basically every conversation he responds to with trolling. They ban people for saying things they don't like, like mentioning a banned site or why someone was banned lol

[Elfteiroh]

lol I've read most of that thread and the biggest troll, by far, is the moderator, his avatar says something about sucking **** and he kills basically every conversation he responds to with trolling. They ban people for saying things they don't like, like mentioning a banned site or why someone was banned lol

It's actually quite surprising seeing how "being banned" sounds very normal to them, like it's something that happens to anybody very often. I've seen people saying things like: "HAHA! I was banned that day!"... I was NEVER banned from anywhere in my life, I find it very weird to think I could get banned this easily. :/