WEBVTT - TechStuff Looks at the Next Generation Consoles 0:00:00.520 --> 0:00:03.199 Brought to you by the two thousand twelve Toyota Camry. 0:00:05.880 --> 0:00:08.920 Get in touch with technology with tech Stuff from how 0:00:08.960 --> 0:00:17.040 stuff Works dot Coming. Hello again, everyone, and welcome to 0:00:17.079 --> 0:00:18.960 tech Stuff. My name is Chris Poulette and I'm an 0:00:19.040 --> 0:00:21.480 editor of how stuff Works dot Com. Sitting across from 0:00:21.520 --> 0:00:24.840 me as usual as senior writer Jonathan Strickland. Hey there, 0:00:25.560 --> 0:00:28.280 Well you know what, Chris, Um, we're getting towards the 0:00:28.360 --> 0:00:30.720 end of two thousand twelve as we record this. Yeah, 0:00:30.880 --> 0:00:33.599 you know, we usually do our predictions towards the end 0:00:33.640 --> 0:00:35.800 of the year, and I just want to say that 0:00:35.840 --> 0:00:38.159 I I predicted a couple of years ago that we 0:00:38.200 --> 0:00:42.600 would be talking about these podcasts unsuccessfully, well not not 0:00:42.720 --> 0:00:45.319 these podcasts, but the the the topic that we're going 0:00:45.360 --> 0:00:48.040 to talk about today, and they still haven't. Yeah, we're 0:00:48.040 --> 0:00:51.680 talking about the next generation consoles now. Now, to be fair, 0:00:51.720 --> 0:00:55.240 one of them has come out, the Wei You Nintendo's 0:00:55.320 --> 0:00:58.000 next generation console. Yes, but I'm I'm I'm so far 0:00:58.040 --> 0:01:00.240 behind in points on this one now I just kind 0:01:00.240 --> 0:01:02.080 of game up on it. Yeah. It's sad because if 0:01:02.120 --> 0:01:04.800 if you had predicted this for next year, you probably 0:01:04.800 --> 0:01:07.679 would have actually won. But um, but yeah, here's here's 0:01:07.720 --> 0:01:09.680 the deal, folks. We are going to do a rundown 0:01:09.920 --> 0:01:13.640 on the next generation consoles, video game consoles. Now, that's 0:01:13.640 --> 0:01:16.759 gonna include the WEIU, which of course is already out, 0:01:16.840 --> 0:01:19.240 so people out there, so of our listeners may have 0:01:19.400 --> 0:01:21.759 one already. I've been playing it and may know all 0:01:21.800 --> 0:01:23.920 about it. But then we're also going to talk a 0:01:23.920 --> 0:01:27.240 little bit about the rumors of the next generation for 0:01:27.840 --> 0:01:31.560 Microsoft and Sony's video game consoles. Yes, keeping in mind 0:01:31.560 --> 0:01:33.720 that there are other video game consoles that are also 0:01:34.160 --> 0:01:38.080 due to hit store shelves in the near future. Some 0:01:38.160 --> 0:01:41.800 of them are kickstarter campaigns, and we didn't really go 0:01:41.840 --> 0:01:44.960 into those. Um, those may become major players in two 0:01:44.959 --> 0:01:47.080 thousand thirteen, but we're looking at the ones that are 0:01:47.440 --> 0:01:51.440 the established consoles yep, yep. And of course you know 0:01:51.480 --> 0:01:54.960 Saga's new con Okay, so that's that's a hip. But still, 0:01:55.440 --> 0:01:57.960 so let's start with the WU Yes, the only one 0:01:58.000 --> 0:02:00.480 that's actually out at this point, and as of the 0:02:00.600 --> 0:02:02.680 point and we're recording this, it's uh, you know, the 0:02:02.760 --> 0:02:05.280 end of November. It's only been out for a couple 0:02:05.280 --> 0:02:08.200 of weeks on store shelves here in America. Yep, and uh, 0:02:08.280 --> 0:02:12.120 it's the first console from Nintendo that actually is a 0:02:12.200 --> 0:02:16.280 high definition consoles. One of those things that that Nintendo 0:02:16.320 --> 0:02:18.679 took a lot of flak four when they introduced the Wei, 0:02:18.880 --> 0:02:21.200 because you know, going up against the Xbox three six 0:02:21.360 --> 0:02:24.920 and the p S three graphics wise, it just couldn't 0:02:24.919 --> 0:02:28.120 hold a candle to those systems. Now, Nintendo's argument was 0:02:28.200 --> 0:02:33.160 that graphics are great, but gameplay is king, and so 0:02:33.440 --> 0:02:37.840 they were really backing this idea that because that we 0:02:38.080 --> 0:02:42.320 use these these motion sets are controls and and and 0:02:42.480 --> 0:02:47.280 this new form of gameplay, that it would do well 0:02:47.320 --> 0:02:50.120 in the market, and in fact that we did very well. 0:02:50.120 --> 0:02:53.400 It dominated in the market for quite some time, but 0:02:53.560 --> 0:02:57.840 it also suffered from a reputation. There were that people 0:02:57.880 --> 0:02:59.560 would say they would buy one, they play it for 0:02:59.600 --> 0:03:03.280 a little aisle, and then they kind of set aside 0:03:03.280 --> 0:03:06.680 and it would collect dust like it just it was 0:03:07.000 --> 0:03:09.120 a console that that just didn't get a lot of 0:03:09.280 --> 0:03:13.160 use after the first few months. Even after things like 0:03:13.200 --> 0:03:16.920 that we Fit balance board came out that gave new 0:03:16.960 --> 0:03:19.280 life to the console for quite some time. But then 0:03:19.800 --> 0:03:23.200 again people just kind of from Most of this is 0:03:23.240 --> 0:03:26.240 mostly anecdotal, but you know, you hear the same story 0:03:26.320 --> 0:03:28.240 over and over again, like, yeah, you know, I haven't 0:03:28.440 --> 0:03:32.200 haven't touched in in in a year or whatever. Well, 0:03:32.240 --> 0:03:35.160 of course, uh you know, it goes without saying, really 0:03:35.200 --> 0:03:39.760 that the video games have come such a long distance 0:03:39.800 --> 0:03:43.440 from the days of early paddle and uh you know, 0:03:43.520 --> 0:03:47.360 single button joystick controllers. Um, since it goes without saying, 0:03:47.360 --> 0:03:49.800 I probably shouldn't have said it, but um yeah, I 0:03:49.800 --> 0:03:53.160 mean they did. It's funny because they the current generation 0:03:53.560 --> 0:03:59.240 of game consoles has really sort of defined, uh you know, 0:03:59.280 --> 0:04:04.440 a brand new realm of these devices, because um, you know, 0:04:04.840 --> 0:04:07.600 they're all right in a way. I think that Sony 0:04:07.640 --> 0:04:12.080 and Microsoft decided that they wanted to put graphics before um, 0:04:12.120 --> 0:04:14.640 you know, new kinds of controllers. Nintendo did it the 0:04:14.640 --> 0:04:18.120 other way around. But as it turns out, both graphics 0:04:18.160 --> 0:04:22.280 and gameplay are of crucial importance, and and you see 0:04:22.320 --> 0:04:24.520 that in the in the current generation. It's just that 0:04:24.800 --> 0:04:28.880 they decided to adopt them in different in different patterns well, 0:04:28.920 --> 0:04:33.640 and Nintendo also was known for aiming at a broad 0:04:33.800 --> 0:04:37.919 consumer market. The casual gamers are often the term that 0:04:37.960 --> 0:04:40.920 we use for them, although we've done an entire episode 0:04:40.920 --> 0:04:43.840 where we kind of talked about the the fact that 0:04:43.920 --> 0:04:47.760 these names are really not entirely accurate. But but the 0:04:47.800 --> 0:04:51.400 idea of people who don't normally play video games, uh, 0:04:51.680 --> 0:04:54.160 if you make them, if you make the games accessible, 0:04:54.240 --> 0:04:57.000 then a lot of those folks will start to play. 0:04:57.360 --> 0:04:59.240 And you know, again that was true. There are a 0:04:59.279 --> 0:05:01.960 lot of people who are buying these these devices up 0:05:01.960 --> 0:05:05.600 who wouldn't normally have a video game console. But uh, 0:05:06.320 --> 0:05:08.520 the one of the downfalls of casual gaming is that 0:05:08.800 --> 0:05:12.640 you have a limited amount of interest usually in those 0:05:12.640 --> 0:05:15.280 sort of games like they you can you can lose 0:05:15.320 --> 0:05:17.280 interest in those games fairly quickly, and if you don't 0:05:17.279 --> 0:05:19.720 have a steady stream of them, then that's a problem. Well, 0:05:20.520 --> 0:05:23.520 so the Wi you is is the successor to the 0:05:23.560 --> 0:05:28.279 Wei uh and um it has a new controller or 0:05:28.400 --> 0:05:31.400 there's one new controller you can hook up to a console, 0:05:31.440 --> 0:05:33.880 and then further down the line, they're supposed to be 0:05:33.920 --> 0:05:38.080 support for two of them. But the game pad, now, 0:05:38.120 --> 0:05:40.040 this is the thing that you may have seen. It 0:05:40.080 --> 0:05:42.919 looks like a tablet. It's got video game controls on it, 0:05:42.920 --> 0:05:46.280 It's got a display inside of it. It's a touch 0:05:46.279 --> 0:05:50.479 screen displays resistive touch screen, which means that you use 0:05:50.560 --> 0:05:56.000 pressure to activate the touch It's not capacitance, so you 0:05:56.040 --> 0:05:58.800 can use the stylus or really you can use anything. 0:05:59.320 --> 0:06:02.440 Anything that could create pressure against the screen will will 0:06:02.480 --> 0:06:05.480 register it as a touch. There are some downsides to 0:06:05.600 --> 0:06:08.920 resistive touch screens, one of them being that if you're 0:06:08.920 --> 0:06:11.440 particularly rough with it because of you know, it's it's 0:06:11.520 --> 0:06:14.880 using pressure to detect that touch, it can lose sensitivity 0:06:14.960 --> 0:06:17.280 over time because you can actually damage the components inside 0:06:17.320 --> 0:06:20.800 the screen. Yeah. The UM. This sort of goes along 0:06:20.839 --> 0:06:25.080 in a way with Nintendo's earlier moves on the original 0:06:25.160 --> 0:06:31.280 we because, um, the Nintendo sort of kept the device affordable. 0:06:31.680 --> 0:06:35.480 If you'll remember, UH, the early Xbox three sixty and 0:06:35.839 --> 0:06:41.800 PlayStation three consoles were very expensive, uh compared to the 0:06:41.800 --> 0:06:46.760 previous generation, and we started out at around two dollars 0:06:47.120 --> 0:06:49.760 in the United States, and it was Nintendo was able 0:06:49.800 --> 0:06:53.000 to do this by by using off the shelf components. UM. 0:06:53.040 --> 0:06:56.560 And in this case, a resistive uh touch screen, is 0:06:56.560 --> 0:06:59.880 is more affordable when you're building a device like this 0:07:00.000 --> 0:07:03.360 and a touch screen capacitive touch screen, I'm sorry, well, 0:07:03.400 --> 0:07:05.960 and also I mean using the stylist is this is 0:07:06.040 --> 0:07:09.120 again something that Nintendo has done before, and it kind 0:07:09.120 --> 0:07:15.080 of helps keep that that experience stable throughout its its products. 0:07:15.080 --> 0:07:16.680 Not when I say before I'm talking about things like 0:07:16.720 --> 0:07:19.560 the DS. H. Well, it kind of turns this device 0:07:19.720 --> 0:07:21.840 kind of turns your TV into a version of the 0:07:21.920 --> 0:07:25.120 DS because you know, you have the two separate screens, 0:07:25.160 --> 0:07:27.640 one of which is a touch screen, so it's it's 0:07:27.680 --> 0:07:29.600 sort of similar in that in that regards. Yeah, it's 0:07:29.600 --> 0:07:32.040 a six point two inch display inside this game pad. 0:07:32.160 --> 0:07:36.280 It's got sixteen by nine aspect ratio and uh eight 0:07:36.440 --> 0:07:41.440 or fifty four pixels. The the controller has lots of 0:07:41.560 --> 0:07:46.400 motion detection sensors inside of it, including gyroscopes and accelerometers. 0:07:46.520 --> 0:07:49.640 It's got a front facing camera. It's got a microphone speakers, 0:07:49.640 --> 0:07:53.200 a headphone jack, and I R port for controlling a 0:07:53.280 --> 0:07:58.000 television and other elements. It's even got an NFC chip 0:07:58.080 --> 0:08:00.480 in it, although at the moment, as are as I 0:08:00.560 --> 0:08:04.920 am aware, their Nintendo has not announced why, Like, there's 0:08:04.960 --> 0:08:07.520 no as far as I know as of the recording 0:08:07.520 --> 0:08:10.800 of this podcast, there's been no announcement from Nintendo as 0:08:10.800 --> 0:08:14.240 to how this NFC chip could be incorporated into things 0:08:14.320 --> 0:08:18.280 in the future. Yeah, NFC, your or near near field communication, 0:08:18.400 --> 0:08:21.040 is the same kind of chip that you'll find in 0:08:21.120 --> 0:08:25.200 some Android smartphones that they use to to make payments. 0:08:25.520 --> 0:08:28.960 You store your your information and Google Wallet, which is 0:08:29.040 --> 0:08:32.240 a basically a credit card and loyalty card manager, and 0:08:32.280 --> 0:08:34.360 that information is stored in the on a chip inside 0:08:34.360 --> 0:08:36.480 the phone, and when you take it up to the register, 0:08:36.600 --> 0:08:40.360 you know, touch it to the register, assuming it's you know, 0:08:40.440 --> 0:08:43.040 compatible with this, and it helps you pay for your stuff. 0:08:43.160 --> 0:08:45.440 That's sort of how it NFC has gotten famous. So 0:08:45.640 --> 0:08:49.240 I don't think the uh, the New Week controller is 0:08:49.280 --> 0:08:52.240 going to help you pay for your groceries, but hey, 0:08:52.320 --> 0:08:55.120 you never know, and maybe and maybe that it ends 0:08:55.160 --> 0:08:58.000 up being something where if you have your game pad 0:08:58.080 --> 0:09:01.680 out and about, because it is a wireless controller and 0:09:01.760 --> 0:09:06.840 you can play some games on the game pad itself 0:09:07.280 --> 0:09:09.240 as opposed to like you know, you can you can 0:09:09.240 --> 0:09:12.120 play it on the game pad without the television part 0:09:12.200 --> 0:09:14.840 of the console being active. It may very well be 0:09:14.880 --> 0:09:19.520 that's so that you can share information with another player. 0:09:19.600 --> 0:09:21.439 Let's say that you've got a game pad and I've 0:09:21.440 --> 0:09:23.360 got a game pad. We're both playing the same role 0:09:23.360 --> 0:09:26.720 playing game, and I found a powerful item, but I 0:09:26.800 --> 0:09:29.320 cannot use it because the class of character I'm playing 0:09:29.640 --> 0:09:33.200 is not capable of wielding whatever that ability or or 0:09:33.760 --> 0:09:37.520 item is and then but you have a character who 0:09:37.559 --> 0:09:40.520 could and then we tap the screen or the game 0:09:40.520 --> 0:09:44.600 pads together and can transfer an item from my game 0:09:44.640 --> 0:09:47.320 to your game. That might be one way of doing it. Now, 0:09:47.400 --> 0:09:50.600 that's just that's just a guess. I mean, that's there's 0:09:50.760 --> 0:09:53.439 again nothing that's saying that that's how Nintendo is going 0:09:53.480 --> 0:09:55.400 to use this, if they ever use it at all. 0:09:56.120 --> 0:09:59.319 But it is a that's a possibility. Yeah, there is 0:09:59.360 --> 0:10:02.120 also a poss ability to because the if you have 0:10:02.240 --> 0:10:05.960 a Wei and your friend also has a WE and 0:10:06.000 --> 0:10:08.880 you want to uh um, you know, play a game 0:10:09.000 --> 0:10:12.120 over at his or her house, you can actually store 0:10:12.160 --> 0:10:14.920 information in the weak controller and take it with you. 0:10:15.080 --> 0:10:17.000 Or you can take your week controller over to their 0:10:17.040 --> 0:10:20.080 house and sink it and use your controller, so even 0:10:20.080 --> 0:10:22.080 if they have only one, you can you can play 0:10:22.120 --> 0:10:24.839 games over there. This may be a way of making 0:10:24.840 --> 0:10:29.360 it simple to sink your controller to another device. Um, 0:10:29.400 --> 0:10:31.960 but I guess we'll find out. Uh So, up to 0:10:32.040 --> 0:10:35.840 five people right now can play certain games on the 0:10:35.840 --> 0:10:39.679 Wii U. Five well, four of them are using the 0:10:39.760 --> 0:10:44.200 standard WE controllers, the nun chucking and WE mote and 0:10:44.400 --> 0:10:47.120 uh because that's what the WE could support. It could 0:10:47.120 --> 0:10:49.600 support up to four of those right, right, while the 0:10:49.640 --> 0:10:53.920 game pad is the fifth controller. So certain games allow 0:10:54.000 --> 0:10:58.480 you to play four against one type games where the 0:10:59.360 --> 0:11:01.640 person with the game pad is using the game pad 0:11:02.160 --> 0:11:05.120 to view have a different, completely different view than what 0:11:05.160 --> 0:11:09.240 everyone has on the screen, and to play a certain 0:11:09.440 --> 0:11:11.960 style of game, and the four people who have the 0:11:12.000 --> 0:11:16.600 regular the we remotes are playing a different kind of game. 0:11:16.679 --> 0:11:19.360 And uh, this is the experience I had. I got 0:11:19.360 --> 0:11:21.600 a chance to play with a we You well before 0:11:21.600 --> 0:11:23.959 it came out way back in uh and c E 0:11:24.240 --> 0:11:26.920 s two thousand twelve. So it was January two thousand 0:11:26.960 --> 0:11:29.600 twelve where I got a chance to go into a 0:11:29.640 --> 0:11:32.720 closed door meeting and play with the Wii You. And 0:11:32.760 --> 0:11:34.400 one of the games they played was a sort of 0:11:34.440 --> 0:11:38.400 a kind of like pac Man in a way, uh, 0:11:38.440 --> 0:11:42.160 in that it was the four players were playing these 0:11:42.240 --> 0:11:45.000 these characters who were running around the maze, and then 0:11:45.040 --> 0:11:49.040 the person with the game pad was trying to evade 0:11:49.480 --> 0:11:53.680 the four players. So with the game pad, that meant 0:11:53.720 --> 0:11:55.839 that you were taking on the role essentially a pac Man, 0:11:55.960 --> 0:11:59.680 and the people with the we remotes were playing the ghosts. 0:11:59.679 --> 0:12:01.760 So it's stead of it being under computer control. It's 0:12:01.800 --> 0:12:05.480 under player control, and it was it was not pac Man, 0:12:05.559 --> 0:12:07.439 by the way, that was not the characters that were 0:12:07.440 --> 0:12:09.559 being used in the game. But that's the game today 0:12:09.760 --> 0:12:12.240 I thought of because it's just you know, a more 0:12:12.280 --> 0:12:14.920 of strong resemblance um in the sense that you know, 0:12:14.920 --> 0:12:17.920 you're ring around a maze trying to avoid monsters or 0:12:17.960 --> 0:12:21.600 in this case for people who are possibly monsters, they 0:12:21.600 --> 0:12:26.840 don't know their personal lives anyway. Uh. That was one version, 0:12:26.880 --> 0:12:28.760 and that was really kind of a demo game that 0:12:28.800 --> 0:12:30.679 they were showing off, and it's just kind of a 0:12:30.720 --> 0:12:35.040 proof of concept. But there there have been other uses 0:12:35.080 --> 0:12:37.079 of the game pad too. There's been some games that 0:12:37.120 --> 0:12:40.160 have come out where the game pad acts as uh, 0:12:40.520 --> 0:12:43.880 either a way of getting additional information within the game. 0:12:43.960 --> 0:12:46.360 So you're playing a game up on the television screen, 0:12:46.400 --> 0:12:49.600 but on the game pad there's more info that can 0:12:49.800 --> 0:12:52.679 help you in your game. In some cases, it's a 0:12:52.720 --> 0:12:55.600 specialized view. I saw there's at least one game where 0:12:56.160 --> 0:12:58.320 you could use it as a sniper scope where you 0:12:58.440 --> 0:13:01.000 held the controller up to the TV and it gave 0:13:01.040 --> 0:13:05.360 you a special view of the the the what was 0:13:05.400 --> 0:13:07.160 going on, So that way you could use that to 0:13:07.600 --> 0:13:11.240 zoom in on somebody and take them out. Um. Kind 0:13:11.280 --> 0:13:14.600 of an interesting thing. I mean, it's again very similar 0:13:14.600 --> 0:13:17.280 to the way that we remotes were introduced. It's an 0:13:17.280 --> 0:13:21.520 innovation in gameplay, and it's it's another nod to how 0:13:22.480 --> 0:13:24.640 a lot of us have gotten used to having a 0:13:24.720 --> 0:13:30.240 second screen whenever we are consuming anything on TV, whether 0:13:30.280 --> 0:13:33.240 it's a video game or a television show or whatever. 0:13:33.480 --> 0:13:35.360 A lot of us have become used to having a 0:13:35.440 --> 0:13:38.720 second screen as part of that experience, and so this 0:13:38.800 --> 0:13:42.400 is kind of incorporating it directly into the console. Yeah. Yeah, 0:13:42.440 --> 0:13:45.720 Well I read a report that Google came out with 0:13:45.920 --> 0:13:48.360 just a few um, just a short time ago. I 0:13:48.400 --> 0:13:51.560 don't remember exactly how long it was. Um, but you 0:13:51.559 --> 0:13:54.400 know the latter half of and yeah, I mean they 0:13:54.480 --> 0:13:58.280 they basically said any kind of you know what content 0:13:58.360 --> 0:14:01.120 that you would consume in general, pepe are are using 0:14:01.440 --> 0:14:06.960 multi screen, uh multi screen to do it. And uh, well, 0:14:07.040 --> 0:14:09.679 which probably surprises very few people who are listening to 0:14:09.679 --> 0:14:12.880 this podcast, just because we all have different devices and 0:14:13.040 --> 0:14:17.120 different sizes, and uh, it's it's obvious that Nintendo has 0:14:17.160 --> 0:14:20.200 caught onto this too. I'm a little surprised too, because 0:14:20.200 --> 0:14:24.440 I I when I first saw photos of uh, you know, 0:14:24.480 --> 0:14:26.400 the game pad. I thought, I don't know if this 0:14:26.480 --> 0:14:28.680 is gonna catch on. That's kind of a big controller. 0:14:29.120 --> 0:14:33.440 But I get the sense from from reading uh reports 0:14:33.440 --> 0:14:36.400 and reviews that that people seem to like it. Of course. 0:14:36.440 --> 0:14:40.640 It's it's got analog thumbsticks and you know, different buttons 0:14:40.680 --> 0:14:45.280 in key places where it's ergonomically comfortable to play with. 0:14:45.400 --> 0:14:48.240 So um, and I haven't actually held one myself, so 0:14:48.000 --> 0:14:50.720 it's a little it's a little awkward. I mean, if 0:14:50.760 --> 0:14:53.160 you're if you're using it as a controller controller, it's 0:14:53.160 --> 0:14:56.560 a big controller. Yeah, okay, so that's it's big and 0:14:56.560 --> 0:15:00.000 it's a little heavy, so it's it's not the most 0:15:00.040 --> 0:15:03.440 natural feeling controller in that sense. And then on top 0:15:03.480 --> 0:15:05.440 of it, depending on like if you're if you're trying 0:15:05.440 --> 0:15:09.520 to use the screen fun functionality, then I haven't done 0:15:09.520 --> 0:15:11.240 any of that, Like I mean, I've used the screen 0:15:11.280 --> 0:15:14.520 to look at the view to use it as a 0:15:14.600 --> 0:15:18.080 viewfinder or whatever to or to my view within the game, 0:15:19.040 --> 0:15:23.440 but I hadn't used it as a means of inputting 0:15:23.560 --> 0:15:27.240 controls or controlling a character. I would imagine that would 0:15:27.240 --> 0:15:29.240 be a little awkward to just from the way of 0:15:29.280 --> 0:15:32.800 having to hold the game pad with one hand while 0:15:32.960 --> 0:15:35.440 using the other hand to use the stylists or whatever. 0:15:36.040 --> 0:15:38.400 That would be a little uh, that might feel a 0:15:38.400 --> 0:15:40.360 little awkward to me. I don't know, I haven't tried 0:15:40.400 --> 0:15:42.960 it that way. I will say that there there's some 0:15:43.040 --> 0:15:46.240 other things that are are beneficial with the WE U. 0:15:46.440 --> 0:15:49.920 It is backwards compatible to the WEAK, so that means 0:15:49.960 --> 0:15:51.400 all the games that you have on the WE will 0:15:51.440 --> 0:15:54.480 work on the WU. Of course, the game pad functionality 0:15:54.560 --> 0:15:56.880 won't really be there because the games were not designed 0:15:56.920 --> 0:16:00.480 for that. But that's a big deal. But you can 0:16:00.520 --> 0:16:03.200 unhook the old WE and plug the new one in. Yeah, 0:16:03.480 --> 0:16:06.080 and we'll talk a little bit more about backwards compatibility 0:16:06.120 --> 0:16:07.720 when you get to get to some of the other 0:16:07.760 --> 0:16:11.320 consoles or the rumors of sty consoles. Uh. One of 0:16:11.360 --> 0:16:14.000 the big things about it, well, there's two models of 0:16:14.040 --> 0:16:17.280 it too. There's a basic model which has got eight 0:16:17.280 --> 0:16:20.520 gigabytes of storage space, although only three of those gigabytes 0:16:20.560 --> 0:16:23.680 are actually usable. Um. And then there's a thirty two 0:16:23.680 --> 0:16:26.840 gigabyte version where twenty five of those gigabytes are usable. 0:16:27.080 --> 0:16:29.320 The reason why the rest aren't usable, it's due to 0:16:29.600 --> 0:16:32.280 operating system that kind of stuff. Things that are are 0:16:33.480 --> 0:16:37.240 dedicated to the storage, so you can't actually you can't 0:16:37.240 --> 0:16:40.920 overwrite it. Um. It's got four USB two point oh ports, 0:16:40.920 --> 0:16:43.720 including and and all four of those can act as 0:16:43.800 --> 0:16:46.720 an Ethernet port if you have an adapter, so you 0:16:46.720 --> 0:16:48.880 have to have a Ethernet to USB two point oh 0:16:48.920 --> 0:16:51.560 adapter obviously, but they can work that way, so you 0:16:51.600 --> 0:16:54.480 can hard wire it to your network. It also supports 0:16:54.480 --> 0:16:58.840 eight to two point eleven B G or N WiFi. Uh. 0:16:58.920 --> 0:17:02.640 And it's got a st card slot. Uh. And one 0:17:02.640 --> 0:17:05.840 of the big big features that as of the recording 0:17:05.840 --> 0:17:09.840 of this podcast still is not fully integrated is the 0:17:09.920 --> 0:17:15.000 TV features. Yeah, and that's uh, that's TV with two 0:17:15.040 --> 0:17:20.600 little lies after the V. But but yeah, actually, from 0:17:20.640 --> 0:17:24.840 what I've seen, Nintendo is really seeing this as sort 0:17:24.880 --> 0:17:29.879 of a gateway to uh, multi function content too, because 0:17:30.200 --> 0:17:35.920 it's not just adding Netflix or Hulu Plus or Amazon 0:17:36.080 --> 0:17:39.240 streaming video. It can do those things, well, not all 0:17:39.240 --> 0:17:42.320 of them as of this moment, but those are all 0:17:42.480 --> 0:17:45.400 you know coming. But it's also adding a DVR function 0:17:46.040 --> 0:17:50.160 and video on demand, so that it's significant. You can 0:17:50.200 --> 0:17:53.200 connect it to live TV, so you can have live 0:17:53.280 --> 0:17:56.840 TV streaming through the we you and that's how you 0:17:56.880 --> 0:18:00.960 can use as a DVR. Um. Yeah, this is kind 0:18:00.960 --> 0:18:03.920 of a getting into this whole idea of the console 0:18:04.000 --> 0:18:07.880 becoming the all in one set top box. Uh. And 0:18:07.960 --> 0:18:10.680 we and again when we talk about the other consoles, 0:18:10.720 --> 0:18:12.439 you'll see that this is a theme that's going to 0:18:12.520 --> 0:18:17.879 be running strong. Um it's you know, it's it's obvious 0:18:17.960 --> 0:18:19.640 that this was gonna be the way things were going 0:18:19.680 --> 0:18:23.200 to go. We've already seen so many moves towards this. 0:18:23.920 --> 0:18:27.760 I mean, all three of the previous generation consoles have 0:18:28.640 --> 0:18:35.240 some streaming media capability Netflix or Hulu Plus or Amazon 0:18:35.320 --> 0:18:38.560 Video or some combination of all three or plus YouTube 0:18:38.560 --> 0:18:42.479 and other other options as well. So this is the 0:18:42.520 --> 0:18:45.840 next step where where these consoles are you know, the 0:18:45.960 --> 0:18:48.520 manufacturers are saying, well, what features can we put in 0:18:48.560 --> 0:18:51.280 there that people want that will help us sell these 0:18:51.440 --> 0:18:55.640 and and give them um uh an incentive to by 0:18:55.640 --> 0:18:59.600 our console over something else, like kind of the same 0:18:59.640 --> 0:19:02.040 way that and the p S three came out. That 0:19:02.119 --> 0:19:04.080 was the first Blu ray player in the United States 0:19:04.080 --> 0:19:06.560 that was available, you know, and it's still one of 0:19:06.600 --> 0:19:09.919 the most affordable and comparatively when it first came out, 0:19:09.960 --> 0:19:11.959 it was definitely very expensive. At the same time, you 0:19:11.960 --> 0:19:14.199 could argue, well, I could buy a Blu ray Player, 0:19:14.800 --> 0:19:17.240 or I could buy a p S three which has 0:19:17.280 --> 0:19:20.360 a Blu ray Player and it's also a video game system. 0:19:20.400 --> 0:19:23.800 So that's kind of the same approach here is saying, well, 0:19:23.880 --> 0:19:26.000 for some people, they're gonna be looking at this as oh, 0:19:26.040 --> 0:19:27.960 it's a video game system. Oh and I can also 0:19:28.040 --> 0:19:30.240 do these things on TV, whereas there are other people 0:19:30.240 --> 0:19:32.920 are gonna be oh, we need a ti Vo essentially, 0:19:33.160 --> 0:19:34.720 but hey, if we get one of these, will have 0:19:34.720 --> 0:19:37.879 a ti Vo that plays games. So and it is 0:19:37.920 --> 0:19:41.400 the TiVo dv are apparently, Yeah, that they've partnered with. 0:19:41.560 --> 0:19:43.480 I didn't see that. Yeah, that was according to a 0:19:43.840 --> 0:19:50.359 seen it. So yeah, it's um it. On paper, it 0:19:50.440 --> 0:19:54.320 sounds like a pretty strong console, even though I will 0:19:54.359 --> 0:19:57.640 say also that the reports I've read, the reviews views 0:19:57.640 --> 0:20:01.280 I've read have suggested that the HD quality stuff really 0:20:01.320 --> 0:20:03.960 just brings it in line with the current generation of 0:20:04.000 --> 0:20:06.960 the Xbox three sixty and the p S three. Well. Yes, so, 0:20:07.040 --> 0:20:10.639 in other words, it doesn't look like they've leap frogged 0:20:11.240 --> 0:20:14.280 the other consoles and gotten a head start. They're more 0:20:14.400 --> 0:20:17.200 or less in line with the other consoles. As far 0:20:17.240 --> 0:20:19.960 as the graphics quality goes right. Well, to be fair, 0:20:20.080 --> 0:20:23.280 we haven't moved to ultra high definition yet. So well, 0:20:23.320 --> 0:20:25.240 that's that's about as far as they could go in 0:20:25.320 --> 0:20:28.800 that department. I do I do hear that we're gonna 0:20:28.840 --> 0:20:34.560 see a law of ultra high definition TVs at CS. Interesting. 0:20:34.720 --> 0:20:38.840 I hear that, Well, there is there is one crucial 0:20:39.800 --> 0:20:43.080 piece of the puzzle, if you will, That is uh, 0:20:43.320 --> 0:20:47.960 that is Nintendo's and um, the others haven't have had 0:20:48.040 --> 0:20:53.480 varying degrees of success matching, and that's the Nintendo specific characters. 0:20:53.760 --> 0:20:59.359 Having the license and and link um really helps Nintendo 0:20:59.480 --> 0:21:03.240 same as UM. So yeah, I mean there's so many 0:21:03.520 --> 0:21:08.360 properties that belong to Nintendo that you can't get anywhere else. Um. 0:21:08.400 --> 0:21:11.439 And of course that was sort of a criticism in 0:21:11.480 --> 0:21:15.639 a way. It's funny how that has been leveraged against 0:21:16.280 --> 0:21:20.280 Nintendo too. Well, well, it's just you know, family games. 0:21:20.320 --> 0:21:25.600 It's not the hardcore, serious gamer type stuff. Really. It's 0:21:25.640 --> 0:21:27.920 kind of unfair in a way to say that because 0:21:27.920 --> 0:21:32.960 the hardware itself is game agnostic. But you know, people, 0:21:33.200 --> 0:21:37.560 people haven't been the developers haven't necessarily gone after that 0:21:37.720 --> 0:21:42.400 market encoding for the we the original we so Nintendo 0:21:42.480 --> 0:21:45.440 may need to to court those kinds of titles if 0:21:45.480 --> 0:21:47.800 it wants to be to reach out to a broader base. 0:21:47.840 --> 0:21:51.119 Now that it's got the graphics capability and a different 0:21:51.160 --> 0:21:54.399 kind of controller, what will they get? Well, the biggest, 0:21:54.440 --> 0:21:57.760 the biggest, The biggest criticisms I tend to hear are 0:21:57.840 --> 0:22:02.080 that the only gay games. This is over generalization, by 0:22:02.080 --> 0:22:04.399 the way, but that the games that are worth playing 0:22:04.400 --> 0:22:07.040 on the Nintendo systems are the Nintendo games, the ones 0:22:07.119 --> 0:22:11.119 that have these these characters who have been on Nintendo's 0:22:11.320 --> 0:22:14.919 roster forever. But that people say, well that gets hiring. 0:22:14.960 --> 0:22:16.480 You know, I don't know how many times am I 0:22:16.520 --> 0:22:19.560 going to have another Mario game. On the flip side, 0:22:20.040 --> 0:22:21.879 you know, if you look at the games that have 0:22:21.960 --> 0:22:24.640