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albionus on 04 May 2007
Blue3 said:
LingLing said:

This article could have been written by Kwaad. The only difference was, that the author didn't call the wii a fad.

 


 or maybe not every one buys into what the wii is selling.

Everything is a fad on a long enouth time line. 

Well more than enough do .

 



LingLing on 04 May 2007

 

Blue3 said:

LingLing said:

This article could have been written by Kwaad. The only difference was, that the author didn't call the wii a fad.

 


or maybe not every one buys into what the wii is selling.

Everything is a fad on a long enouth time line.

@your mother
You're right, the spelling was too good to be Kwaad.

@Blue3

I have no problem with the wii not appealing to everyone, but writing an article based on half-thruths and speculations as this one is never a good idea...

I mean come on he's just using the same stereotypes as our beloved and banned sony fanboys here:

- Novelty will wear off

- No deep games will EVER come to the wii, just party kiddy stuff (no mentioning of zelda or upcoming titles)

- "A unique controller cannot be the sole justification for owning a console." (but obviously improved graphics CAN be the sole justification)

- bla bla BLA!



HappySqurriel on 04 May 2007

In order for the novelty factor to wear off people have to own the system (or have a lot of access to the system). After you own a system the novelty factor of shiny graphics, motion controls or high definition display wears off pretty quickly and the system lives of dies based on the quality of the content that is made for it. Now, the real question is whether the motion controlls of the Wii offers more improvements to games than greater processing power.



ultima_zero on 04 May 2007
LingLing said:

This article could have been written by Kwaad. The only difference was, that the author didn't call the wii a fad.

 


You do realize that Blue3 is Kwaad, don't you?



KruzeS on 04 May 2007
ckmlb said:
Better graphics on Metroid I think would help its sales actually I think in NA, if that and Zelda looked like PS3/360 games it would be amazing.

Problem is, contrary to popular opinion, better graphics are not just about the pixel count, especially when you're sitting 1-2.5m away from your display, as is common in console gaming. Computer graphics still have a hard time tricking a human into thinking they're the real thing even at SDTV resolutions, so resolution clearly isn't everything.

This software engineering tradeoff will be patent even on such amazing hardware as the 360's or PS3's. Compared to 480i60/576i50, 720p60 is 5.33 times the pixels/second, and 1080i60 6 times. That means you could do roughly 5 times more fragment/pixel shader work if you decided to support only SDTV, or 2.5 times more for EDTV. More realistically since we're talking HD consoles, 1080p has 2.25 times the pixels in 720p, which means half the per pixel work on the same hardware. That's why you won't see that many 1080p games, unless they ditch anti-aliasing for those resolutions.


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FishyJoe on 04 May 2007

What happened when the novelty of dual screens and a stylus wore out?



WiiGirl76 on 04 May 2007

Amen to that :P Heard fanboys screaming just when the DS was released, PSP will rule the market, DS will be a flop mark my words, even the most objective editor of a Dutch language game magazine said this. Glad he was so wrong :P Like people without a 6th sense can really predict the future, neither can I, so my saying is... you never know what happens in the future, just enjoy the present and what the future tells, no one really knows, unless you're a mind reader.



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stof on 04 May 2007

Asside from acknowleding that it's still the hot console everyone wants 6 months after release, this is the kind of article we were reading before the Wii launched



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ColonelFury on 04 May 2007

The Wii's novelty will wear off when Sony releases their full motion sensing device for the PS3. Because now gamers will be able to have the best of both worlds. Full motion sensing with actual real next gen graphics.



HappySqurriel on 04 May 2007
ColonelFury said:
The Wii's novelty will wear off when Sony releases their full motion sensing device for the PS3. Because now gamers will be able to have the best of both worlds. Full motion sensing with actual real next gen graphics.

Do you mean the device that sells poorly because it has no developers support, or the device that gets no developer support because it will sell poorly?