Watch Dogs for Wii U 'in between' current and next gen

According to Ubisoft, the Wii U version of Watch Dogs will be better than the current-gen counterparts, although won't be able to match the fidelity of the PS4 or Xbox One version, of course.

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Wii U is quite the odd system. Is it the last of the current-gen consoles? Is it the first of the next-gen consoles? Spec-wise, it can oftentimes seem as though Wii U isn't any beefier than a PS3 or Xbox 360.

According to Ubisoft, the Wii U version of Watch Dogs will be better than the current-gen counterparts, although won't be able to match the fidelity of the PS4 or Xbox One version, of course. "I would say the Wii U version is pretty much in between what the current gen is and what the next gen is from a version standpoint," Ubisoft Montreal creative director Jonathan Morin said.

"I would tend to say it's maybe a bit closer to current gen than next gen for certain things but it's a beautiful game on Wii U and it's cool to play it just on the GamePad," Morin told CVG.

While the game will look better on Wii U, it doesn't appear Ubisoft is adding any unique GamePad functionality into the game. "There are no new features or anything like that," Morin admitted. "It's the same game but we're optimizing the controls for the beast that is the Wii U GamePad." In addition, Morin admitted that the Wii U version is the only one that's being outsourced. While Montreal is working on the Xbox 360, PS3, PS4, Xbox One, and PC versions simultaneously, Ubisoft Bucharest is working on the Nintendo version.

Andrew Yoon was previously a games journalist creating content at Shacknews.

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    October 8, 2013 4:15 PM

    Andrew Yoon posted a new article, Watch Dogs for Wii U 'in between' current and next gen.

    According to Ubisoft, the Wii U version of Watch Dogs will be better than the current-gen counterparts, although won't be able to match the fidelity of the PS4 or Xbox One version, of course.

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      October 8, 2013 7:13 PM

      Hard to believe it will be noticeably better than the 360 unless these Bucharest guys are really on top of their game.

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        October 8, 2013 7:42 PM

        Not really, the WiiU has 2 gig of memory(instead of 512 megs) and a better GPU it is not hard to believe.

        The Wii U games I own look like they are twice the rez of Xbox 360 or PS3 games, you can tell the diff visually.

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          October 8, 2013 9:07 PM

          Ok, cool. I was just going off of what I had heard about the ports that came around launch. Good to hear third parties are getting farmiliar with the system.

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          October 8, 2013 9:59 PM

          ~1.5GB available to the application, I think. Some is reserved for the OS. But yeah, it's not hard to think that the WiiU would have better looking ports at some point.

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            October 9, 2013 6:11 AM

            the wii u has 2 gb of ram but only 1 gb is available for games. the rest is dedicated to the OS.

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      October 8, 2013 10:48 PM

      Can't wait for the video comparisons. Definitely picking this up on the wii u.

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      October 9, 2013 6:19 AM

      Will be interesting to see comparisons between all of the different platforms: 360, PS3, Wii U, PS4, XBO, PC. Hopefully we get a head to head from Digital Foundry or whatever.

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