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Rath on 12 October 2007
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davygee said:
 


Firstly, although the Wii is part of the 7th generation you say. Technically (taking the Wiiremote thingy aside), it is as powerful as a 6th generation system. And we have yet to see anything on the system that betters games from last gen. So technically, developers are working in a similar environment to what they have been doing since 2000. But developers building on proper next gen platforms (360 & PS3) will need to get used to creating higher resolution textures, streaming and all sorts as well as better audio.

What I can stating is that if developer X decides not to make any games for the 360 and PS3 and solelybuilds games for the Wii until the end of it's lifespan, then they are gaining no experience in a truely HD Next Generation development environment. And in 5/6 years time, when the next generation of gaming consoles comes around, we will all working in HD environments apart from developer X...so then they have an integration period to work out how to do things.

This is why I expect most developers will develop a "suck it and see" mentality towards truely Next Generation gaming and will dabble at some stage or not.


 Firstly the facts: The Wii is far more powerful than anything last generation, I believe most of the approximations I have seen (you can never quite pull off direct numbers due to the different components) are that it is around 3 times more powerful than the most powerful systems of last gen.

Metroid Prime 3 has shown better graphics than any of last generations games and SMG looks like it is going to better that by a long shot.

 

Onto the opinions. There are going to be no huge advancement in power next generation, no great PS2-PS3 leaps. Why? Because this generation it failed. Badly. Even if by some miracle the PS3 changes its fortunes it has failed HUGELY its launch expectations, all due to the fact that it was so jam packed with technology that nobody could afford it.

The most likely scenario for the end of this generation now is the Wii winning, thus developers working on Nintendo consoles building up fans of series that are Nintendofied will have the advantage next generation, not those who have had experience using the 'Cell', processors of a type which I dont think will be used next gen because of their difficulty of use.

In anycase I don't think developers will think 'Oh, if we develop on HD systems now we might make a profit in 5 years time due to the next generation of consoles' due to the fact that in 5 years time said developer could easily be bankrupt. Developing games is always a risky business.