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paolo90 on 04 April 2007
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Kwaad said:
BenKenobi88 said:
I understand what he's saying, and I give him credit for focusing on just making a quality game. That said...I don't understand why it has to be just on PS3...if it's such a great game, share the love with the Wii and 360, or at least 360.

Hate to say it, but you can not port a 360/PS3 game to Wii. You can only port Wii to PS3/360. But then agian, you can port SNES games to a GBA, and N64 games to a DS.

 

Can you make a N64 game run on a GameBoy? Can you make a GameCube game run on the GBA?

 

That is why you cant port a PS3/360 game to the Wii, the power diffrence is too wide. They would have to build a totally diffrent game for the Wii. (at least the graphics engine) Unless it's a massive company/publisher, that is litterally like makeing 2 full games.

EDIT: it could be ported to 360.

Wrong analogy...

The Wii v.s. the Xbox 360/PS3, on the other hand is different. Most of the games in PS3 and Xbox 360 have waaay better graphics than the Wii, of course, but, those graphics can be easily downgraded to  the Wii.

Unlike the N64 -> GBA comparison, the GBA doesn't have real 3D capabilities AT ALL, making it incapable of most 3D gameplay, whereas the Wii can do most, if not all, of 3D gameplay the Xbox 360 and PS3 can, although the 3D graphics will be watered down. Textures can be down-sized, the poly-count can be lowered, and the lighting can be made less intense - with the gameplay intact.

My point is, as there may be some games that CANNOT be ported to the Wii from the Xbox 360/PS3 (this is rare), most of the games can be ported with gameplay intact, although it is harder than porting from Xbox 360 to PS3.  As much as the Wii is weak, its gap from the 360 is not as large as the gap between N64/GC and GBA.

 The question though, is if the developers are up to it :).