HappySqurriel on 19 December 2008
| Kyros said: porting the games to the more powerful systems Hohoho yeah this will work amazingly. I am looking to the first publisher who tries that. Luckily there is an amazing variety of great games on the HD consoles so gamers don't need to buy a game that was designed for a hugely inferior machine, loosing the one thing that the small machine has as an technical advantage in: the innovative controls. |
The real problem with HD console development is that the vast majority of games do not sell well enough to support the cost of producing the content to push the graphical capabilities of the system ...
If developers produced games where the Wii was the "Target" version, and they had higher definition textures and possibly higher detailed models for the HD console versions, the development costs would be much more in line with what the games' sales could support and the companies would be better off for it. Certainly, it might be dumb for Epic to target the Wii with Gears of War 3 but it would probably make more sense for games that won't break 2 Million in sales to take this approach.
