Stromprophet on 15 March 2007
HappySqurriel said:
Well, to a certain extent you have to consider the source ...
Mark Rien (like Jon Carmack) has made his career based on the principle that greater processing power and prettier graphics makes for better games; with the games that have been released for various Unreal and Doom/Quake engines it is a very valid argument.
I suspect that everyone (including Carmack and Rien) will agree that the days where you needed greater performance in order to produce better games are comming to an end ...
Now, both the PS3 and the Wii will probably sell better than most consoles have through out the history of the industry and in the end represent valid strategies at this point in time ... The strategy of the Wii is that processing power is not currently the main limiting point in producing high quality videogames at the moment the input device is, and the strategy with the PS3 is that processing power is still the main limiting point ...
See, I'm on the other side. It's the whole equation, you are on one extreme where you think graphics aren't important at all, but it's not just the graphics. Consider Gears of War, which Epic makes. There is a lot more to that game than just the pretty graphics that could not be done on the Wii.
Yes, Epic makes very graphics intensive, physics intensive, AI intensive games. So yes, they would have an interest in both 360 and PS3.
I feel the opposite, consoles have been competing with PCs ever since the PC was capable of producing crisper graphics, more detail, and just larger and more encompassing games, precisely because PCs evolve quicker and have more capability.
