Why 3rd party publishers "ignore" the Wii

[jammy2211]

HappySqurriel said:

jammy2211 said:

Soriku said:

So graphics are totally free or something? If that was REALLY the case then JRPGs would be the best looking games ever and wouldn't have PS2-esque graphics on the Wii from JRPGs.

Is there any reason why you would be in a position to argue what has risen in HD developement costs and why Groucho is wrong? Are you a game developer? Are you studying game developement? Or are you just a random person on a forum pretending to know something about something they've no real clue about nor have any real credentials to claim otherwise.

I've no idea about any of this graphical majarky but at the same time I've two friends who work in the industry (One at Bizarre and one formerly at Free Radical), who from what I've read would agree with Groucho, albeit I'm hardly the best person to get involved either with my complete lack of idea how this graphics stuff work.

 

 

They're really arguing two seperate things ...

Groucho is (essentially) arguing that producing the same ammount of content at a higher level of detail doesn't require more work because the additional work required to add detail is offset by the ammount of work saved by not having to tweek the content to make it look good at a lower detail level.

Soriku is (essentially) arguing that what most people associate with "Better" graphics requires a lot of extra work because more content has to be created for every graphical asset, and you require more graphical assets.

They're both correct

 From what I've picked up, Groucho is arguing that what Soriku is saying is irrelevent though, as it's not the type of things that an RPG developement will focus on, as it's not the primary point, compared to something like an FPS.

 Yeah, I've not a clue, but it's still fun that I'm now arguing about who's right in another argument, or something like that.