| Squilliam said: Next gen power, but less than last gen in terms of local multiplayer. Why isn't it getting better?!?!?! :( |
That's easy.
Just look at games for the Wii. Mario Kart has 4 player splitscreen, but it has simple graphics and still takes a framerate hit with 4 players. Conduit leaves out splitscreen altogether because the goal is to push as much detail as possible into a single camera at 30 FPS. They can't afford to take a framerate hit to render all that detail four times over.
Most HD games are being made like the Conduit. Put in as much detail as possible at 30 FPS, because you need those shiney graphics to sell your game. Nobody wants to show off a game which doesn't look as nice because it was built to render four cameras. Even though a PS360 game would look far better than Mario Kart Wii while rendering four screens, developers are more concerned about optimizing top-notch single player graphics than they are with building a game which scales down enough to do so.
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