Darkness on 18 May 2007
Why do you hope those companies suffer? I view it as them keeping some integrity. They could dumb the game down so that it'll run on the Wii and collect money from a bunch of suckers who buy it. Instead they're gonna keep it on the systems that can properly showcase their art.
It's like this...they WILL NOT have to dumb the game down on the Wii. All of the gameplay can stay intact. Just look at CoD 3. Ended up on all three systems and they were virtually identical except for the graphics. As a programmer, having lower graphic specs doesn't change the game. Does playing games on a PC with effects and visual quality turned down ruin the game? If it did, then a lot of PC games wouldn't have been hits (Quake, Doom, Unreal, Counterstrike, etc.). Granted, you lose some visual quality on low spec'd machines, but the gameplay is the same.
Also, as a programmer, you always want to start on lower spec'd hardware. Easier to learn. As you get better then you can move up to more complicated systems. Of course, that doesn't make the hardware better or worse, it's just a different experience. Good programmers make do with what they have. I never believe that something can't be done on lower spec'd hardware. We've seen it done too many times by talented programmers and designers.
-Darkness
