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blunty51 on 19 November 2009
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hsrob said:
blunty51 said:
Kasz216 said:
blunty51 said:
Well I agree to be honest. He's not saying that gaming as a whole needs to be HD, but if you want to whine about why you're not getting these core, graphically-dependent franchises, then you need to beef up. You all won't admit it, but there are certain games out there that need good graphics. "Graphics isn't everything" is getting old. It is sometimes a necessary complement.

If there are there have yet to be any actual real examples given. 

Well it's subjective. For me, if we have a multiplatform game where the gameplay on the Wii doesn't benefit from motion controls, I can't help but feel like I'm cheating myself by playing the Wii version only. I mean if you have two of the same thing when one looks clearly better....why not go for it? At least that's the way I think

You are making the assumption that everyone can make that choice.  What about the 13 year old who's parents bought his Wii for him and he doesn't have money of his own to buy another system.  If he can't play COD on the PC/360, what's wrong with him wanting to play a still very decent version on the Wii, and by extension a Wii version of AC or other graphics-dependent titles?  I don't think it's unreasonable that these games could be made for the Wii.  Some compromises would certainly have to be made but we haven't seen such leaps in gameplay this generation to make me think that most gameplay experiences couldn't be authentically reproduced on the Wii.

Now, i really should go to bed, it's late.

Indeed, but some would argue, you get what you pay for. But, is the price difference that big again these days? Not really, but they may have bought it when the gap was larger. It's not unreasonable at all for these games to be made on the wii. I just get the feeling over the years that devs just doesn't feel it's worth it....it's only established franchises that eventually make it past 1 million....other great core games struggle to make it to 500k. While this is still is profitable I'm sure, you can't blame the devs for looking at those figures as compared to what it would have done on the HD consoles. New good IPs sell 1, 2M+. Mediocre games might break 1 mill. All this on systems with much smaller market shares.

You also speak of compromises, which is something the dev would decide on whether or not it'll still be good for the franchise if they take out this and that...and while devs use this as an excuse for laziness or whatever, sometimes they do have a point. What will be the draw distance on AC2 if they ported that to the Wii? It's one of the strong points in the game that you could see almost endlessly.

Anyway all I'm saying is that what PCWorld is saying is not entirely unfounded. Some ppl think that certain games would be broken if they tried to port down to 480p, and I agree, it's just a minority amount however. They can't use that excuse for everything.