| SmokedHostage said: Warning: The following series of statements are not meant to offend people, cause flame wars, be the target of hate or cause general discomfort to the mind, body and soul. I have to been forewarned. I honestly see Nintendo in a pinch for developing games next generation. The problem is, Nintendo has little/no experience with developing HD software. Sony and Microsoft, along with most third parties, do. This may lead several games to take well over 2 or 3 years to finish or possibly cancellings. The hopeful side of me believes that they will transition fairly fast but the slightly more realistic side of me says otherwise. Also with the lack of third party support, this might lead to something very risky. I hope they don't "Leave luck to heaven." <-- Yes that was very corny. Thoughts? |
I think you ahve some common sense. Unfortunetly it's built on missed premise.
First HD is little more than modifying the ohm and frequencies thogugh you output. HD rendering is only Resolution. When it comes to res before the output it's all the same. It's only the output that matters. Nintendo and other companies do know what they are doing.
Second, they went 480p last generation where as the others did not. They started the path.
Third they clearly have far better deaigners in regards to technology. The Wii consumes 19watts while running a game where as the PS3 is consuming 250watts. If you thing that technology is all about implementing a higher chip it isn't. It's actually easier to pump in a higher chip than to keep a system more effiecint. Wii engineers +1, others 0.
The architecture that was developed in the GC was designed to be extremely effeicient and highly easily upgradable. This means that with very little design they can put in a multicore processer, ram, video card. With little effort. Where as teh HD teams seem to be focused on custom architecture each generation. What does this redesign mean? it means that either a) they are not smart enough or b) are afforded to builf an architeture to last. What that does mean to everyone. Increase development times, increased cost.
no. Nintendo is ready next gen and will be able to pump out Wii2 with less time and cost than the other 2. The only thing holding Nitendo back is that all they are doing is waiting for prices in tech to go do. They will pay no more for the Wii cpu now than they will pay for the Wii 2 cpu tomorrow.
Squilliam: On Vgcharts its a commonly accepted practice to twist the bounds of plausibility in order to support your argument or agenda so I think its pretty cool that this gives me the precedent to say whatever I damn well please.
