Wii Street U Uses Google Maps to Create 'An Immersive Experience' (Video)
Nintendo says, "With Wii Street U powered by Google, you can step into Google Street View with an immersive experience that feels like you’re actually there! View a 360-degree Google Maps Street View of locations all over the world using the Wii U GamePad motion controls. Use the GamePad touch screen to type in an address or location and explore, or instantly travel to over 70 fascinating, hand-picked locations around the globe." It all looks lovely, but can't we do most of this with Android phones? And couldn't a smart developer make the Google Street View Android phone experience even more immersive, so we wouldn't all need to buy a Wii U? Nintendo, we love you, but the Wii U still looks pretty dead unless it gets some major rethinking, and this Street View app doesn't seem to be it.
I'm almost certain to not buy any other consoles this generation, and I like my Wii-U, but this app is really lame. The "tablet as window" input paradigm is kinda clever, but also not worth the physical effort involved. Oculus rift looks like a better approach to this same concept. I'd rather see street view with that.
>the Wii U still looks pretty dead unless it gets some major rethinking, and this Street View app doesn't seem to be it.
Yes a video game system with only Google Maps would suck.
That's why I'm playing the free Rayman Legend Challenges App and Tank Tank Tank!
Not to mention Tekken Tag Tournament 2, and Super Mario Wii U.
For all the non-Android phone owners out there, it would still require us to buy an Android smartphone.
Fanboy logic fails again.
I saw a video and assumed this was another Slashdot advertisement disguised as a story but surprise! Why all the Wii U hate?
It may be a fun little time waster like spinning the globe on the Wii Weather Channel, but this is far from a killer app.
That aside... the Wii U's far from dead. If anything I'd say it hasn't even lived yet. What it needs are games, first party, be they classic IPs or new ones. It's a game console, guys. Give us some good games and you can take all my money.
Is the contributed data public? I can just imagine a 6 year old saying: "Hey, strangers! This is my location. Here is a picture of me in my living room, playing with the Wii U!"
...and I don't mean street view. I'm glad to see Nintendo get the spanking they deserve on the Wii U. They need to step up, stop reshoveling the same old franchises and strategy. Your games are getting old, stop betting the farm on them every gen, branch out and CREATE SOMETHING. Make some awesome games, or you deserve what you're getting.
Wii U looks a damn sight better than the new Xbox, which I believe Microsoft has named the Xbox Catastrophe. (It goes along with the Calamity operating system that they released for PC/Tablets.)
"MIT betrayed all of its basic principles."
I, for one, applaud Nintendo's decision to give up the game console war and focus their efforts on Super Mario Garmin Adventure.
This is the same stupid shit I've heard about every Nintendo console. No way would anyone buy the 8 bit NES, when you can get a Commodore 64 or an Apple!
Why would anyone buy an SNES? Genesis is already out!
N64? Competing against Sega Saturn, Jaguar, Playstation, 3DO and CD-i? YEAH RIGHT!
Gamecube? WHY IT HAS SMALL DISCS WHAT IS THIS SHIT
Wii? It's only for people who like having fun, and IM A GAMER!
Wii-U.. WHAT ITS NOT AS POWERFUL AS PS4 this thing is dead in the water.
Nintendo is a small company, 5000 employees. Per employee, it's the most profitable company in the world. Unlike any other developer, they have cultivated and generally respected their IPs. Being a small company, and being focused on the overall quality of their AAA titles, it takes them a while to get them out. They average maybe one AAA game a year. In between they placate their fans with remakes and such.
Remember when Sonic games were playable and fun? Sega doesn't, they fired all those guys. Jak and Daxter, Crash Bandicoot, Spyro, Oddworld, etc, etc etc.. All those franchises started out great, until the IP was licensed to the lowest bidder, and turned shovelware dogshit.
Nintendo is doing just fine. Realize that they do not need to outsell anybody to stay afloat.
SNK lasted forever, despite selling about 7 Neo-Geo home consoles, and maybe 4 Neo Geo CDs. If not for shitty management, they'd still be around. Sega was pretty much the same story.
Don't worry about Nintendo. And who cares if you don't like their street view app.
I don't know much about the statistics and trends of the console market, but the Wii U was just what the doctor ordered for myself and the wife. Have spent about an hour each day the last few weeks switching between N64, SuperNES, and Wii games and Mario U. All great and timeless short attention span games. I think I've made my choice this generation. She doesn't relate to very many XBox games and never had a reason to start up the Playstation. For me the interface is friendlier than the other consoles. I feel like I'm watching TV on Idiocracy every time I boot up the 360 and see those adverts (But at least it's got lectrolytes!). Dead? I guess I'll just go down with the ship.
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I was under the impression that the Wii U does not have the hardware for GCN games.
"I'm not sure I like the fugnutish tone you used in your post!" -RogL (608926)-
It doesn't- but the Wii U emulates the wii, which emulated the gamecube, and if the software is there and you're loading it all from a USB drive, it might be possible.
I'd love to try this out, but lack the console. I fully intend to get it... once there are games I'm interested in playing, just like every other console I've ever purchased.
Huh, I also thought the Wii's backwards compatibility was done in the hardware. At any rate, you needed a GCN controller for GCN games on the Wii, which the Wii U lacks the slots for.
"I'm not sure I like the fugnutish tone you used in your post!" -RogL (608926)-
Good point- I can't say for sure how this works, I just really like the idea. I mean, I still keep all my old consoles around, but for convenience sake this would be nice. I'll have to research it when I'm not at work.
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