( PCWorld ) Why The Wii Needs an HD Visual Upgrade

[Kasz216]

Smidlee said:

Kasz216 said:

Smidlee said:

One of the things that helps make AC great is higher resolution and it's drawing distance. It may be possible be play AC2 on a 13" black and white TV yet that would not be ideal. ( It's possible to play a PC racing sim with a keyboard and a mouse yet that also is not ideal.)
I agree with the article higher resolution is not just fluff as it adds to the viewing area and able to see more detail with distance objects even with average graphics.

AC has the same draw distance on a SD TV as it does an HD TV... making me think you have no clue what draw distance actually involves.

Here's a hint.  Dynasty warriors on PS2 actually had a better draw distance then on PS3.  (Or at least seems that way.)

HD HURTS draw distance becasue each object on screen takes up much more processing power.  

I already noted that playing a HD game on SDTV has the resolution/information but can't be deplayed which is why some game's forum people has complain about hard to see some details/ text when playing on a SDTV. I have from time to time played PS3 and X360 on SDTV yet it clear a lot of these games were design with HDTV in mind.

Oh please don't use Dynasty Warriors as an example as every reviewer has commented that the developers are lazy to actually evolve that series. DW was one of those game I thought would improve this generation but it's the same old  wore out gameplay as DW2.

As far as draw distance does both require GPU and ram which the HD consoles does have. THe first AC had good draw distance for a console game. FM3 has  very good drawing distance as well.

Which is completly irrelvent when it comes to HD.  So HD has no value on draw distance... HD actually hurts draw distance.

When people complain about not being able to see HD stuff on an SD screen it's pretty much always related to text.

The fact that AC has a better draw distance then any other game has nothing to do with HD and actually is inspite of HD.