Diet Maelstrom: Going Against the Grain, but Less Spite and Smarminess.

[LordTheNightKnight]

Squilliam said:

LordTheNightKnight said:

Squilliam said:
Arguably if there were three HD consoles rather than two then the asset development cost would be divided over almost twice the revenue so therefore the assets could have been considered relatively a lot cheaper than they are now considering they could go further.

Its like three people holding hands going over a waterfall. if one of the three lets go and slows down the other two so they smash into rocks at the bottom you would have to ascribe some of the responsibility for the other twos injurues on the one who stopped.

  They'd have to develop on the third system, and the 6th gen shows that isn't likely.

The architectures were completely different last generation, also the ratios between coding/art/sound were more skewed towards programming. So this generation is easier to port and the art assets are make up a larger proportion of the overall budget and they are portable.

1. This is not a "what if Wii was HD" thread.

2. The architectures were not complely different last gen, and especially not more different than the PS3 to 360. Just because they have similiar specs does not make them easier to program for both. Did you not see when developers have said over and over again how different the PS3 architecture was? Just because they are actually making an effort on it does not make it easier.