Digital Foundry Face-Off: Batman: Arkham City Armored Edition on Wii U

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darkknightkryta said:

RolStoppable said:

 

All it comes down to is whether you think it's realistic that the Wii U has already been maxed out. While it's true that the ports so far run with problems, it's also true that they haven't been optimized for the Wii U hardware at all. And just because Nintendo's launch games were titles that were never going to be graphics intensive doesn't mean that there will never be better looking Nintendo games than what we've seen so far. The game from Retro Studios (whatever it is) is pretty much poised to look fantastic, based on their track record.

Mr Khan's threat hasn't been more than a threat, an actual abuse of power has yet to happen. And it's unlikely to happen (at least on a sustained level), because there is a team of moderators that discusses decisions. Also, people did receive moderations for Vita bashing, so it's not like it's free play when it comes to Sony. Some Sony fans may perceive it as unfair that not every offender got punished, but it's not like every offender in regards to Nintendo and Microsoft topics gets punished either.

This is the problem Rol, there's a lot of evidence to support hardware issues as opposed to unoptimized software.  Like most "optimizations" that devs have to do will just bring the titles up to par and that's not a good sign.  People can tought "GPGPU" all they want but all that means is that they have to waste cycles on the GPU to do what the CPU should be doing (Since, you know, the CPU is underperforming).  So what does that leave for graphics?  What does that leave for gameplay mechanics if the Wii U can't handle current gen games well?  Which will be last gen games soon. 

If you're talking about optimization then the PS3 falls horribly on this category. After a full gen with tons of games there are still some that preform and look worse than the 360 version (Skyrim, CoD BO2, etc) and the PS3 is supposed to be a "more powerful" console. 

It's all about resources, if the developers don't have the money or time to make another version of their game they will not make it or they could make a "lazy" port of said game.