Youtube channel Gamer Live TV has posted footage of the stunning Legend of Zelda demo for the Wii U from this years Consumer Electronic Show in Las Vegas. The technical demo is demonstrated by Erik Peterson who is the Localization Producer at Nintendo of America. Nintendo has yet to confirm the final art style for The Legend of Zelda on Wii U.
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Pure epicness. This system can not come out soon enough.
I will SO buy this…can’t wait…I’m a fanboy, but it’s not like i like sucky stuff…lol
i anonymous suck and i dont like zelda
Where’s the zelda 3ds ?!?
in development
Late…
Interesting how you can change the light.
Also good how the rupees and stuff are on the tablet,
now we can see the whole screen in lovely HD. :)
Why does my Gravatar look like that…
UGH
Lol, it looks like a ladder on a cart.
Your’s looks like a bearded old man. Mine looks like a pink cannon with a face. -__-
Umm… yours definitely looks like a pink cannon.
And mine looks like…….um…….well……
What IS that….?
lol it looks like something pick with a boner hum what am i talking about you figure it out!
If by cannon, you mean penis then yes, it does look like a pink cannon.
suuuure ladder…
I totally see a ladder…good description.
I personally see a lawnmower from the front.
Still as amazing as it was at E3
Nice! Nintendo coming up with cool new stuff as always
HD and dynamic lighting are new?
The controller and the interface certainly are, so I’ll give you a pass ;P
140 days until Nintendo E3. June 6. The A Bomb will explode.
Um….what exactly does the “a” in a bomb mean?
Atom.
Wii U Zelda is going to be EPIC!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Now all I have to do is play Twilight Princess and Skyward Sword, I’m kind of new to the series and those are the games I plan on playing next :)
You gotta play em man….. ya just gotta.
Even though some people might disagree with me, I suggest Twilight Princess first.
Ocarina of Time!!!
Yeah, play Twilight Princess RIGHT NOW, but only if you have played Ocarina of Time already. Then Skyward Sword.
Just because you can move a camera and change the lighting doesn’t mean it isn’t pre-rendered -_-
No, but when the guy working for Nintendo says it’s not pre-rendered.
Then the truth is revealed,but i dont really care can anyone tell me the difference between sd and hd?
In short, the difference is how tall the picture is. SD is 480 lines tall (576 for PAL, I believe) while HD is 720 or 1080 lines tall depending on the broadcast signal or TV. Thus, for HD you get a larger picture allowing for more detail. There are other key differences like frame rates and interlacing but that is what Google is for!
The 3DS can do it, so why wouldn’t we believe the Wii U could do it?
having a dynamically changeable movie requires tons of heaps of tonheaps of heaptons of memory. You’d basically need to render the very same movie in all possible viewing angles and light situations.
Of course there would be some kinds of viewpoint interpolation techniques but those are both expensive and not working perfectly. You gotta have really dense camera mapping for that.
The only thing they *could* have is baked light maps and such. But there is nothing wrong with that. All the new games out there use some kind of technique to prerender the static part of the lighting… – that could even be done in a movie-style for day night transitions.
So the bottom line is, having a moving camera and changable light effectively requires big parts of online rendering. Only relatively small parts can be prerendered to have results that look like what you see above.
You would have to film both lighting conditions at every possible angle and make the transition to each as seamless as it was in the demo. I guess it’s possible, but very unlikely for a demo put together in a couple months.
oh, okay, so they would make every possible camera move in every point in the entire cutscene just to say hahaha we fooled you!! you sir are wrong
Okay than. What if the guy who made the damn thing says it’s not pre-rendered?
Yes. I does.
Can’t wait for Zelda HD. the only drawback for me is that I don’t have a HDTV yet.
What are you waiting for? The only possible right answer is “WiiU”.
Wii U is sexy. Period
i thought the wii u controller would be good but than i saw it and its not wireless like the wii and ps3 controller
Maybe it is but you have the option to plug it in to save batteries? Just a suggestion idk
Or the answers below make more sense xD
I think it was already confirmed that the Wii U controller has a rechargeable battery and that you hook it up to the console to charge.
No that controller is attached to the console so know one will run off with the controller
The wire is for security reasons so people don’t steal it, DUH ¬.¬
It’s so no one steals it, how can you not tell that? -__-
I was said in the battle mii demo that it was hooked up for security reasons. The controller is wireless.
Development kits normally have wired controllers. As far as I know the final version is wireless. Check out http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4e3qaPg_keg
All wireless there.
The Wii U controller IS 100% wireless. Would you want the controller to be stolen if you were introducing a demo?
Yeah. Might look on WiiU. He’s just trying to cover it up….right. Right. there will be zelda wiiU on the release. RIGHT. PLEASE????
Haha well you can worry and not worry. There WILL be a zelda game for Wii U (Like I really had to say that lol) BUT they’ve also said they want to to take 3 years to develop. Whether or not that three years is just a maximum is not known, but in order to avoid a 6 year wait similar to Skyward Sword, they’re pushing for 3. For all we know, that 3 years could have been started two years ago XD
not they say it gonna take less than 3 years since they all ready started.
Is anyone else tired of seeing this? Seriously Nintnedo, release something new about the wii u! All of this information was seen last year! Show us some actual Zelda gameplay footage or something!
Or Metroid!
Patience young Padwan the time will come
Be patient. That part of being a GOOD Nintendo Fan is to learn how to be patient. Nintendo isn’t gonna rush things out the gate. They are trying to make a great Launch for Wii U. Showing gameplays of Zelda Wii U when it is still in early developmeny is meaningless. The gonna have to offer screenshots or concept art or official game logo to show us how far they got.
You look like you’re going to save the world with that wii controler.
I’m interested to see what titles it’ll have for launch. Surely Nintendo learnt something from the 3DS.
So far Ninja Gaiden III and Darksiders II have been confirmed.
oh wow i was watching everything about the Wii U from CES just last night and this was one of them
It’s amazing every time. They really should consider making the first Wii U Zelda with this artsyle.
great to see Sickr posting videos more often recently. thanks man, keep it up. ;)
I don’t know if this would be considered revolutionary, but it is definitely very cool.
Can’t wait!
For a moment I thought: “Wasn’t the control wireless?” But then I thought: “Well, it is a convention, so maybe it is so that no one steals it.” ^_^
But anyways, the demo looked beatiful. Can’t wait for the pricing. Sadly though, is that technology here in Honduras is very expensive. :( The 3DS’s are sold around 350 US dollars…
O_O I cannot wait! This looks awesome already! Screw the people who keep bashing it; the few details that we have so far on the Wii U looks damn gooood. =)
I love this artstyle and Link on the Wii U looks extremely impressive.
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Imagine if Retro Studios develop a new Zelda game and take it FURTHER into the game…? If they use the CryENGINE3, I’m gonna faint.
Soooo, 8 months later, they’re still showing the exact same non-game demos, with no new info, and a bunch of question-dodging lame, boring interviews with no info from Reggie Fils-Aime. Seriously, what happened to “you don’t have to wait till E3 2012 for new Wii U news”?
Calm down. It is wise to have patience. I’m sure the Nintendo president will provide us with few details on the Wii U piece by piece.
Even though this is just a tech demo I am still pumped for Wii U. Eiji Aonuma and the rest of the team will craft something trully wonderful with this new controller I can just feel it. Not to mention this demo is great eye candy.
And they said it could never be done, ha, I laugh at them!
Anybody else notice the second controller on the table next to the Console at 1:30. It was also wired and there is no noticeable console near it . So could it be that Nintendo have managed to get two working controllers on the Wii U
This looks amazing. This is still amazing every time I see it. Nintendo, just shut up and take all of my Rupee’s. :D
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