Nintendo European Research & Development team, who are a Nintendo subsidiary, could be working on something similar to what Microsoft presented at its Xbox One conference last week. NERD help develop software technologies and middleware for Nintendo platforms and are currently hiring researchers in the field of cloud technology. Here’s what the CTO at Nintendo European Research & Development had to say briefly on the matter.
The developers at Nintendo headquarters need to spend their time developing the actual platform, so I think we’d like to explore areas that they don’t have time for. For example the possibilities which are opened up by the combination of cloud technologies and new software paradigms like general purpose GPU programming.
Thanks, N-Dub Nation
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Actually, I don’t think that they’re the first to do this sort of thing.
“The developers at Nintendo headquarters need to spend their time developing the actual platform, so I think we’d like to explore areas that they don’t have time for. For example the possibilities which are opened up by the combination of cloud technologies and new software paradigms like general purpose GPU programming.”
Thank goodness it’s Nintendo Europe’s tree house that is researching this and not EAD in Kyoto japan.
What is wrong with you! lol
the internet is full of idiots.. but at least they’re actively working on removing each other from the planets gene pool
fucking brits are stupid
This what happens when parents schools raise their kids. Talk about Nutty and fruity and not in the best sense.
*parents let schools raise their kids*
NEW WORLD ORDER PLANNED STEAL THE MINDS OF KIDS
ur a fgt
also ur gai
What the hell is a fgt and gai? Speak English
you’re not first until you take my penis out of your butt
ha
NERD
this is too funny
Cause everything we want right now is an always on Wii U
hahahahahahahahaha
It’ll likely come in a generation late. Or this gen and Nintendo will mess it up severely, and then get it just right the next gen.
Like they did with anything else online related. Not a bad thing, just… Slow.
Lol no one has done this yet.
i just want to subcribe to the Virtual Console and be able to play with option to purchase any game offered on it. something like onlive but with nintendo games.
Nintendo online subscription service to replace retail devices and titles?
Are things really THAT bad for Nintendo???
I think you’ve confused them with Microsoft.
You are clearly on that microsoft haze, and trip juice. LOL that is xbone lol.
Another delusional Xbot…
How does it feel that your forces are decreasing as we speak?…
^
what the fuck are you talking about
nobody said anything about cloud streaming games
no that is my dream… retail for collectors digital download via cloud, all interconnect to one Nintendo ID, home console titles exclusive to home, mobile games on dedicated hardware. Wii U\3DS needs this intergration.. i am tired of losing hardware, never able to get my games back that i bought and should have a right to liscenes through network id
i really wouldnt mind paying 10 dollars a month for virtual console games.. not wanting new software exclusive to cloud still want a physical copy for blockbuster AAA titles but for classic games and exclusive causual or indie down loads cloud subscription would be nice, digital saves through cloud or physical sd\hdd drives would be great too.
Digital only lasts as long as the service…we all now psn, xblive, and VC will be around forever like Sega.net, right ?
If is for enhance what the console could do and not to do what the console should do, then that is fine for me.
Nintendo, Microsoft is your third party researching cloud gaming on your behalf, just stop and give us X, Starfox, f-Zero and other lovelies.
Starfox and F-zero probably won’t happen, since Retro’s game is most likely Metroid Prime 4
I doubt it (for now at least). Best bet is Star Fox. Especially when the phrase “barrel rolls” was used by a Retro developer to describe their project.
Didn’t Retro also do DK Country Returns on Wii? DK rolls Barrels amd throws them, and I’d be okwith them working on DK some more… any of the 3 would really be fine with me, just need some Nintendo goodness to play!
I’m thinking that’s later on down the line.
Oh I had no idea he even described it like that! Maybe it really is Starfox!
“he” was an author for the official nintendo magazine not a retro employee
uhm.. it was neither used by a retro developer nor was it used to describe retros project
the nintendo magazine used it in the phrase
“While some suggest this new project is likely to be a return to the Metroid franchise, we’d love to see another Nintendo hero get the retro stamp of excellence. After all, having rolled out the barrels for Donkey Kong, perhaps it’s time Retro pulled off a barrel roll of a different kind.”
the nintendo magazine is of course not directly involved with retro.. and this whole statement could have just been blown out of proportion.. maybe it’s just what the author wishes for, not what he actually knows is in the works
STAR TROPICS U
most likely StarTropics test run for Nintendo and Retro collaboration for Zelda
So… this is a good thing right?
You’re welcome, Sickr.
This could future-proof the Wii U if done right
I sent you guys (alba,sickr,silvershadow) last week about this NERD news that they had established themselves in Europe but you didn’t post it, why?…
Anyway, this is our new base to extend our reach in our region…
Because they hate you!
They don’t hate the commander, the commander is just Marty Mcfly to far into the future for even mynintendonews, thus everyone has to catch up with his field Marshal awesomeness of a brain and fire emblem awekening level tachnician ways.
*tactician* this apple ios goblin phone is messing up.
I hope you stole that Apple device…
Yeah! Better have stole it or the commander will fire you!
It was a free gift lol.
Good good…
KILL IT! KILL IT WITH FIRE!
Nintendo Commander they had to wait until Microsoft bumbled first. That way nintendo shows the world this is just a by product on the magnificent Wii U gaming console. Not the microsoft xbone VCR cable box, or the sony PS 4 facebook gossiping and movie game system lol.
Yes that’s right…
However we do have more top secret projects going on than this…
We will reveal them eventually…
What are you guys talking about? XD
I understand how GPGPU powered cloud computing works…. said no one ever.
CLOUD AND GPGPU WERE REFERENCED SEPARATELY CLEARLY NOT AS ONE THING
NOPE not going to happen! I dont buy clouds…
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Can someone explain how the cloud computing works in a simple way ??
Other computers do the work (processing) and stream the results back to the console. Whether its full games or just certain parts.
It’s basically onLive. If you remember that? It doesn’t really work that well.
There will be a strong push for it in this generation because it basically acts as DRM, under the disguise of improving your game.
So it basically do all the processing and send you results through the internet right ?? That means people with slow or no internet wont get a big use of this am I right ??
Yes.
Nintendo would have servers set up, that do all or some of the processing and then send the results back to you via the internet.
People with no internet will not be able to use it at all.
People with slow internet and/or monthly usage limits would also be in trouble.
The recent Sim City disaster is an example of cloud based processing in a game. EA insists that the calculations the game needs to make are too advanced for our own personal computers, so the game must use their servers to perform these calculations. Hackers quickly discovered this was a load of shit, and EA’s servers basically do fuck all except some very simple processing that could easily be done on the gamers computer.
So I’m not in favour of it personally.
Damn , thanks for the info , I really have an unbelievably slow internet and I wish this will not be the case for the next generation of gaming , that would suck .
I have a feeling that this will be the first step in the advancement of the eshop. When you download to the 360, the game is tied to the account, not the system. This may be nintendo’s way of achieving the same thing, so you can recover games at no charge if your system fails and you have to replace it.
It can’t do everything, at least not well enough for it to be worth it.
ONLIVE JESUS ARE YOU DUMB STEEAM THE GAMES AS YOU PLAY
ITS IMPOSABLE AT TODAYS NET SPEEDS AND LATENCYS
Yeah, and they’re likely to implement it 8 years after everyone else has already tried it and perfected it, using the excuse that it’s “not ready yet” or “isn’t mainstream yet” like they did with HD.
I would hope not; maybe they’re actually getting smart about new trends and technologies for once!
HD actually just became standard last year.
Really? more like 2 years ago.
What about working on some games ?
this is the research and development team not a game making studio ,
The research and development team developed Super Metroid.
They also developed at least 30 different games.
Because that’s not what the R&D department does.
well actually the R&D units from Nintendo made quite a few games
Don’t worry young one, our Empire has several divisions concentrating on different tasks…
This is an extension for our research divisions…
I love how some people say how Nintendo is late in doing this. Sony and especially Microsoft have been researching this shit for YEARS for their other devices. Using it for gaming was an after thought. Nintendo is primarily a gaming company. They had no reason to research cloud gaming till now.
People just like to hate on Nintendo and/or they are swallowed by the media.
yep its actually getting old, really like people still make fun of nintendo after that fucking xbox one reveal!!!!! its not even for the consumer or the player. its a fucking cable box voice remote controlled piece of shit with no games!!!!!! really im ashamed of the community. at least nintendo is about games.
I wonder if they can use it for something good in online multiplayer…
HOW ARE THEY LATE THE NET AND TIMING ISNT UP TO THE JOB YET
Interesting.
You should have said intriguing instead it makes you sound smarter!
but guys!
leave luck to heaven sounds like 9/11
Enough with the 9/11, it happened 12 years ago and is nit the worst thing that has happened ever, get over it…
I think we can all agree, that the worst thing that ever happened, was the untimely demise of the dinosaurs.
Pretty hard to top that one.
I thought the worst things happening were the Xbox one announcement and the invention of Pokemon ?
Agreed…
Not to mention it was an inside job
You should stop using tinfoil hats, according the studies, those boosts signals, rather than blocks them.
Thats Bullshit.
Do you guys even know what that is ? Especially N-Dub dick rider Nation is a tech noob but he loves everything that has the term Nintendo and GPGPU inside of it so I am not surpriesed by this article.
Anyways on topic.
It doesn’t make any sense to things like that. The Wii U itself is not very good for that kind of things because cloud gaming related stuff is bandwith intensive. If you don’t have a very fast bandwith with low latency you won’t get good results. Try out OnLive with a HSPA+ or even an LTE connection and you will know what I mean. Also a wired internet connection is neccessary to get a stable Ping or atleast low Jitter measurements.
It’s not like they’re gonna put it to use right away… That’s why they’re gonna research it, to see if they can make some potential use of it in the future.
Tell that to the original poster at NeoGAF. Get the hell over it, troll. You’ve just been fed.
*BLACK
As long as you keep sucking my dick, Neutron because you have no fucking life at all.
Firstly the orangefish you need to know that Nintendo engineers are smarter than you, Sony and Microsoft engineers combined when it comes to hardware and software interface. The Wii U gamepad is faster at receiving and sending inputs to the Wii U. Remember this includes gycroscopes and accelerometers. The PS3 and xbox360 could handle cloud gaming or interactivity with dx 9 resources, Wii U is DX11 equivalent. So get off your high horse and ride a donkey.
It baffles me when trolls try and act like they know more than the people who actually are proffessionals. R&D team is basically wanting to send you Large amounts of data (GPU/CPU,ETC) to be optimized through youre WIIU, and yes internet. The difference is that with a good connection, done right it would shock and reinvigorate gaming at the same time. Complain about bad connections all you want, if you dont have a good connection, LAG is youre friend in Multiplayer games, so whats the deal? This sounds good!
Screw that! I don’t want Nintendo to come out like Microsoft! I want Nintendo to stay as it is!
http://youtu.be/hdHRdPaDT7U?t=1m51s
hmmmmm, does anybody else hear a resemblance or remind you of the ice place on paper mario when it hits 50 sec.
fucking damn it this game is also fucking awesome too!!!!!
No metter what they gonna do,wiiu is nothing but a piece of junk and a prev.gen.console.The xbox one will rape you all!
the xbox one is asexual and it raped himself
hahahaha yup
Enjoy the thought of your always-on Kinect spying on you as you fap to gay porn, loser.
So, someone with the tech knowledge, tell me how Cloud tech could help out Nintendo?
So far the only thing I’ve heard of regarding Clouds is streaming games, and I don’t like the thought of that.[it’s one reason why I don’t like how Sony is solving their Back-Compatibility issues]
Can the tech involved be used for anything outside of streaming games from a server?
Like, could they build the Cloud tech into some sort of box unit that we could connect to one of the Wii U’s USB ports to help affect the quality or size of games, or something?
If Nintendo does, I’m confident they will wait until it can be done right. Nintendo is not the company to jump on technology just because it is there. They develop ideas, and then build hardware around that idea. If at some point they have an idea in which cloud could be useful, that is when we will see it deployed by Nintendo and not before.
HE DIDNT SAY THAT ,,,,HE SAID LOOK INTO CLOUD AND GPGPU NOT CLOUD POWERED GPGPU
HE WAS STATING THEM AS DIFFERENT THINGS
I THINK THIS IS THE COMPANY BEHIND THE CODING OF AMD’S E6760 GPU THE ONE RUMORED CLOSE TO WIIU
CLOUD WONT HAPPEN UNLESS USABLE MOST LIKLEY CLOUD SERVICES AND STORAGE FIRST GAMES LATER
BIG 3D GAMES VIA CLOUD IS PIE IN THE SKY YOU CANNOT PROCESS DATA OVER THE FUCKING NET LOL
cloud gaming is a point in this leaked list, too: http://www.fotos-hochladen.net/view/nintendoe3dir4o1eusf6yc.png
Looks very reasonable, but I’ll take that leaked rumor with a single grain of salt. Thanks for posting the link.
3DS games on Wii U via Cloud Gaming?
Well holy shit, that actually WOULD be kinda awesome! It’s like how the GBA-to-GC worked, but without the cord.
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I think it is becoming more and more clear each year that the cloud and cloud development are becoming major parts of all things technology. I think this is a really good move by nintendo