Has Nintendo's Efforts to Entice Third Parties Worked Against It?

[Avinash_Tyagi]

WereKitten said:

Avinash_Tyagi said:

I'm not being insulting, the idea that they need the tech to deliver the experience is disproven over and over, not just in video games, but in other media, games didn't suddenly become good this gen after having sucked for decades, the fact that they feel they need the tech, just shows that one they are unable to deliver an engaging experience without it, or that they are too obsessed with graphics.

 

I don't feel it is some conspiracy against the Wii, I'm talking about the mindset in the industry that is the problem the mindset that games must have HD graphics, and must have all these unnecessary bells and whistles or it sucks.

Depending on what you want to do, the tech is very much needed. Physics made HL2 what it is. The PS2 was barely able to support Shadow of the Colossus and could not have been done on a PS1. The Uncharted 2 experience is delivered thanks to the tech used, and probably the same will be true of Alan Wake and Heavy Rain.

The fact that you might like or not those games, or that other kinds of games might sell more is beyond the point. What those developers wanted met what they could thanks to the tech, and they were able to deliver an experience.

You're basically saying that every developer should want to do other things - or they're "graphic whores" which I think is quite derogatory, but that's not how it works.

Umm, you could have still made the games, and made them excellent with different styles of animation, different engines, so the idea that you had to make them that way is false

 

Like, say, CGI over hand drawn animation. Oh, wait..

CGI isn't what makes the Pixar movies great, the stories and characters do, the CGI is just eye candy, Fantasia was hand drawn, and its considered one of the greatest pieces of animation ever