Can't the wii engine handle the new Prince of Persia

[dahuman]

Feylic said:

dahuman said:

Ail said:

68soul said:

With some money, some talent and some time, everything is possible...

But if Nintendo has money, talent and time, plus the inner knowledge of the console's architecture, others are way too lazy, or way too insecure, to use the (supposedly too limited) hardware to its best...

But of course, they could do it easily on another famous SD console, weaker than the GC, itself weaker than Wii...

But it then took 2 or 3 years to take to best out of the (hard to program for) PS2, and this while treating it like the market leader from day one, with a lot of dedication and patience... all the best PS2 games were out between 2002 and 2006, and not in 2000 or 2001... people easily forget...

If some devs finally try their best on Wii, receive the money from the investors, take all the time needed, and show us their incredible talent, it will be so late that their games won't be ready before 2011 at best...

Bad management, you've said bad management? Yeah, "everybody" thought the PS360 were the sure shots, and the Wii the failure... no money for the Wii, no time for the Wii, no talent for the Wii... we saw the results, thanks... how can anybody be surprised the 1st party titles are so dominant in such a landscape?

I don't think there is a current Wii game as gorgeous as the latest Prince of Persia so I guess Nintendo can't either...( or they can but won't bother, your pick).

 

 

The whole game is cel-shaded anyways, if they lower everything to fit 480p and make a good engine for Wii, it's doable, just has to make a lot of custom shaders.

Just because it's cell shaded doesn't mean that game doesn't require a lot of power. As with any game, Ubisoft could make a game called Prince of Persia for the Wii, but it wouldn't be the exactly the same as the one for the HD consoles, and would require a remake almost entirely.

 

the thing is that the graphics chip in the GCN or the Wii are really good with cel-shading so for them to render something like this in a lower resolution isn't as taxing, they'd have to make a new engine, a good engine, and they'd have to use other ways to cheat the rendering distance like image rendering or stream loading for different areas. I did say they'd have to write a good engine in that post too, they'd have to remake the game, you are right, not very cost effective, but it's doable.