The third time´s the charm?Microsoft to win next generation?

[Squilliam]

Khuutra said:

Squilliam said:

I wonder about how Nintendo and Microsoft are going to compete really. The thing is with the Wii, its really got hardware from circa 2002, by 2011 thats almost two whole generations of visual improvements and if a console comes out in say 2011 like the Wii but far far more powerful the graphical improvements would be enough to impress people.

This reasoning seem specious to me. Granted we haven't seen anything explicitly to the contrary, but there's nothing that suggests that the Wii's new demographic cares about graphical progression - at least, not in a way comparable to how they care about Nintendo's software.

I wouldn't say that visual progression is unimportant or vitally important, I think that the Wii simply satisfies the needs of gamers in other ways and these needs are of more importance to most people than the vista offered by the HD consoles. I think people tend to forget that visual complexity often goes hand in hand with increasingly complicated gameplay mechanics as developers try to add too much to games and they lose sight of important basic fundamentals. The Wii itself improves the visual aspect, but thats nothing compared to how it simplifies games to make them more palatable for the masses once again.