Malstrom: "the whimper of hardcore dreams".

[Avinash_Tyagi]

jammy2211 said:

Avinash_Tyagi said:

jammy2211 said:
Companies have spent the last two years porting games between the PS2 / PSP and Wii, one with no motion controls at all to one with motion controls. Further companies are already porting Wii games with motion controls to PS3 / 360.

Why would these consoles getting motion controls suddenly make these ports unviable, if they already port freely regardless of control interface?

Wii is more similar to a control pad then NATAL and the Purple want, with its many buttons and nunchuk with analog stick, so porting between PS2 and PSP to Wii and back is not that difficult, NATAL espeically doesn't have any buttons or sticks so controls have to be wildly different, so much that the games will probably have little in common.

 

Also not many games get ported between the PS3/360 and the Wii, because the Wii's graphical capability is so much lower, most games have to be downgraded to be ported to the Wii or a totally different version has to be made, and the few games that are moved from the Wii to the PS3 and 360, will look very poor graphically on those consoles.

 

As a result it is both the wildly different control schemes, NATAL and the Purple Wand seem even more divorced from the gamepad then the Wiimote, and the difference in grpahical ability, that will make certain that ports betwen the three are limited at best

 You're missing the point though, companies can freely port regardless of controls already, and for some reason that is supposed to change? If a game is being designed in a way so that it can only play on one motion control then it'll be budgeted appropriate, no ones going to make a $20 million Natal exclusive or anything so this all or nothing approach makes no sense.

The logic in the first post just doesn't have much logic to it to me, it goes against what's already been happening for two years.

I'm assuming every Wand and Natal game will be like an eye toy type package and marketing, or just an added support to a game designed around a control pad.

I think its you who doesn't understand, yes its going to change, as I said the controls are about to become wildly different, you can't control a NATAL game like a Wii or a Gamepad game, it has no pointer ability, no sticks and no buttons.

Games on the 360 will cost around 20 million because of the need for graphics, ai , adverising, etc, add in the costs for building a wildly different control scheme and yeah you have over 20 million, this means that  game will not be made for those systems if it costs that much, they'll be made for the Wii and the Wii's successor, not the PS3 and 360 and their successors