A couple of Wii U stuff with another potential rumor pointing to a $300-$350 price range and an interview from Kotaku with Reggie Fils-Aime.
While the price range has been rumored between $300 to $450, recent rumors are leaning towards $300 to $350 as the actual range. If a recent leak by Best Buy is true, the final price might be $300 which still confirms earlier rumors of Japan about the console costing less than $350 in the US.
In an interview with Kotaku, Reggie Fils-Aime revealed a few smaller details involving the Wii U:
* An achievement system has been designed but won't be a mandatory feature like the Xbox 360 and will be left to developers if they want to have them in their games.
* The ability to play Wii U games off of the tablet while the tv is used for non-gaming will be an optional feature for developers.
* Nintendo redid the entire Friends Code system to make it a lot simpler and to also allow account names to be possible
* A transfer system has been designed to allow Wii-to-Wii U games, saves, and DLC be moveable.
* Nintendo is leaning on only including a small hard drive but like the PS3 will allow users to use any hard drive they want for the Wii U.
* Smash Bros for the 3DS and Wii U was teased as the first big game that will show off connectivity between the 2 devices from Nintendo.
* The decision against multi-touch for the tablet was due to buttons being on the tablet which made it redundant to have multi-touch controls.
* Nintendo has no problems with the idea of used games nor has any desire to go after used game owners like other companies.
http://www.egmnow.com/articles/news/...-wii-u-at-300/
http://kotaku.com/5917363/better-fri...ii-u-questions
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Daily Recap:
1) Crytek announces their plans after Crysis 3 is to make all future games follow the free-to-play model starting with the North American release of Warface later this year.
http://www.screwattack.com/news/cryt...after-crysis-3
2) Eternal Darkness 2 is rumored to have been cancelled after Nintendo dropped all support for Silicon Knights due to the studio needing an initial $10 million package to stay afloat to work on the project with more payments possible if issues occur during development.
http://www.screwattack.com/news/rumo...d-it-announced
3) The new boss for THQ hints the next Saints Row game could be tossing out the goofyness from the first three games in favor of something a bit more serious.
http://www.destructoid.com/new-thq-p...w-229326.phtml