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Mensrea on 07 January 2013

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Team Ninja: We are making Other M 2.












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Raze on 08 January 2013
KungKras said:
Mazty said:
“The Wii U is an infant that’s just been born. It’s a little unfair to compare it to mature platforms that people have been working on for over five years."

Not really. When the 360 came out PGR3 blew everything else out of the water in terms of graphics. If the Wii U wants to prove itself as being next gen, then it needs a title that clearly does this. In terms of efficiency it's clearly next gen shaving 100W off the load of the 360, but which gamer really cares about that?

Why does graphics have to be the only innovation determining what is next-gen?

Wii was next-gen, and so is Wii U. The motion controls of the Wii changed gaming far more than the HD graphics of the HD twins.

Exactly, we've reached a graphical bottleneck this gen, no more huge jumps in graphical improvement from previous gen. 1080p HD is 1080P HD.



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S.T.A.G.E. on 08 January 2013
cusman said:
KungKras said:
Mazty said:
“The Wii U is an infant that’s just been born. It’s a little unfair to compare it to mature platforms that people have been working on for over five years."

Not really. When the 360 came out PGR3 blew everything else out of the water in terms of graphics. If the Wii U wants to prove itself as being next gen, then it needs a title that clearly does this. In terms of efficiency it's clearly next gen shaving 100W off the load of the 360, but which gamer really cares about that?

Why does graphics have to be the only innovation determining what is next-gen?

Wii was next-gen, and so is Wii U. The motion controls of the Wii changed gaming far more than the HD graphics of the HD twins.

You are wrong to think it changed gaming... for a brief moment in time it got a lot of new people playing and some of them are still playing. It was an audience expansion, not an audience conversion.

The audience that converted favored the change to HD graphics and other perks on HD twins more than the motion control gimmick of any console.


If it changed gaming it has a permanent place in gaming. It does not, so its what you call a gimmick. The casuals bought it and went onto the next big thing like they always do. Anytime the media boasts a new and huge trend people go gaga over it use it for ten seconds and then drop it like yesterdays newspaper.



S.T.A.G.E. on 08 January 2013
zero129 said:
KungKras said:
Mazty said:
“The Wii U is an infant that’s just been born. It’s a little unfair to compare it to mature platforms that people have been working on for over five years."

Not really. When the 360 came out PGR3 blew everything else out of the water in terms of graphics. If the Wii U wants to prove itself as being next gen, then it needs a title that clearly does this. In terms of efficiency it's clearly next gen shaving 100W off the load of the 360, but which gamer really cares about that?

Why does graphics have to be the only innovation determining what is next-gen?

Wii was next-gen, and so is Wii U. The motion controls of the Wii changed gaming far more than the HD graphics of the HD twins.

the Wii had next gen Controls not Next gen Graphics imo, and its cos of this same effect why i do not yet own a wiiU. Also imo adding an extra screen to the game Doesnt = Nextgen...

The Wii wasnt next gen technically speaking, it wasnt ahead of the curve it just dumbed games down.



the_dengle on 08 January 2013
S.T.A.G.E. said:


If it changed gaming it has a permanent place in gaming. It does not, so its what you call a gimmick. The casuals bought it and went onto the next big thing like they always do. Anytime the media boasts a new and huge trend people go gaga over it use it for ten seconds and then drop it like yesterdays newspaper.

This being a sales website, it would benefit you to do a little digging around in sales figures.



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S.T.A.G.E. on 08 January 2013
the_dengle said:
S.T.A.G.E. said:


If it changed gaming it has a permanent place in gaming. It does not, so its what you call a gimmick. The casuals bought it and went onto the next big thing like they always do. Anytime the media boasts a new and huge trend people go gaga over it use it for ten seconds and then drop it like yesterdays newspaper.

This being a sales website, it would benefit you to do a little digging around in sales figures.

Yes, but I suggest you look up average activity of a Wii user compared to a PS3 and 360 user. They found it had less utility and less time of use even though it sold double at one time compared to its competitors. This is from 2009, and states that even the Gamecube had more usage than the Wii. Sales dont indicate whether people are taking the device seriously, useage does. The Wii U will more than likely have more usage than the Wii because its not as casual a gaming device. The PS3 and 360 were played double what the Wii was being played while being outsold by the Wii double at that time.

http://www.pcworld.com/article/162786/wii_played_less.html