outlawauron said:
Words Of Wisdom said:
windbane said:
Sorry, after you wrote this I kind of lost interest in what you had to say. I'm an Electrical Engineering grad so I guess I have a much better understanding of hardware than you do (not that that has anything to do with what you know about this topic). Oh, and I software develop as well. Big deal. So far the games from Nintendo and every third party look like last-gen games, so until something comes that looks better than several last gen games I'm going to assume the many developers are right that the Wii isn't much more powerful than the Xbox. You can see the specs on wikipedia if you'd like. Every fact is cited there. Developers need to be honing the controls and making the wiimote work better, not trying to even attempt CoD4 graphics. Make better games and leave the graphics to the systems capable of expanding on them. |
windbane has a point here though he doesn't know why or even what his point is. Wii developers should be focusing on honing the controls and making better games. The reason is very simple. A quirky control scheme is one of the biggest selling points of the Wii as a console as its one of the Wii's best features. Graphics, not so much. That doesn't mean the Wii can't produce great looking games (it most certainly can) however as nice as the graphics will be... those won't be what sell the games in most cases. People aren't buying Wii games for great graphics rather they're buying because Wii games are fun to play. Developers should focus on the Wii's control scheme and tapping it to create games made of fun, awesome, and win... not so much great HD graphics. |
Wii developers should focus on great and intuitive controls, but that shouldn't excuse bad graphics. Just like 360/PS3 developers, Wii developers should at least some time with the graphics. |
I definitely agree here, because there are some terrible looking Wii games and some really nice stylistic ones so far. Super Paper Mario looked ok on my HD TV because it had a nice style for it. Umbrella Chronicles doesn't look that good during gameplay, however...
I did not get to see Galaxy before I got my HDTV, but I'm not sure if that would have looked as good as Super Paper Mario blown up. Maybe I'll get it back for a day to try it.
