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Resident_Hazard on 24 November 2008
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|_emmiwinks said:
Zucas said:
That's starting to become an outdated excuse that you can't simply make a good game on a platform with less power. It makes me wonder how they ever did it on the PS2, GC, and Xbox. They could do it, and power is not the issue, because visuals don't make a game AAA.

The second part of his answer, is the real reason. They have no incentive to right now and won't until those PS360PC games start doing badly. Otherwise Wii along with DS, PSP, and PS2 are there to pay for those games and they are doing quite well at it. And every now and then you'll have a dev who has issues tapping into that market start putting all their efforts on the Wii, such as Sega and Marvelous(on smaller size Namco), but aside from that they are doing just fine on those platforms.

Ya see I don't mind if people answer this with a kind of answer like that, but at least tell the truth. The idea that good games aren't coming to Wii being a power issue simply isn't true. It's an incentive issue and even more so a laziness issue. But the incentive leads to the laziness. That incentive is there is none because they don't need the Wii as a viable platform and it takes more to develop another edition for a platform they haven't deemed viable yet.

 

Your theory is based on infactual analysis. The PS2, GC and XBOX era didnt have any one console that was heads and shoulders more powerful then the others. The XBOX was only marginally more powerful then the other two.

This generation the PS3 and XBOX360 are literally in a different league of power than the Wii. If that means anything I dont really care, its based all on games, and judging games is objective.

While it's true that the divide between Wii and HD is pretty high (horsepower-wise), the Xbox was actually quite a bit more powerful than the PS2.  Try 2-3 times as powerful.  The reason the Xbox maybe didn't appear to be more powerful (and, for that matter, the substantially more-powerful-than-PS2 GameCube) was because the vast majority of games were built on the PS2 and simply ported to the other two systems. 

The Wii is closer to the original Xbox than it is to the Xbox360, by a long shot.  But, always remember that the original Xbox and GameCube never had their full potential realized, or their full power tapped.  We actually really don't know how good games on the Wii can actually look.  The Conduit will be the first title to give us some clue.  Call of Duty: WaW and Star Wars: TFU could both look a lot better and more advanced and detailed on the Wii than they do.  They are, quite simply, still PS2 ports.