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Smidlee on 10 January 2008
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Pk9394 said:
Smidlee said:
Pk9394 said:

Then there are consumer expectations, people dont pay premium for SD graphics they expect better, graphics standard is set at certain level for each console. For a game that target a very small base to have the cost of HD make over is absolutely invalid for any logical bussiness strategy.

Let say you buy and play SSBB which it clear to me everyone says they don't care about graphics then compares and talk about SSBB graphics. ( I agree they look good) Let say during the game you get a very close up look at Mario and say "Wow, look at the details and amazing graphics." The cost of the 3D model of is the same rather SD or HD because you can use the exact same models. Yet 95% of the game you will not see Mario this close to see all those nice details. But when you use this exact same model in HD even though you won't see any more details in a close-up of Mario you will see these amazing details farther in the distance.

With most PC games you can change the resolution to match your monitor native resolution but uses the same 3d models. Again you can see greater details at greater distances but this requires the GPU to work harder. The more detailed goes into the 3d models the more it will cost. Of course with HD an artist can put even more details in close-ups if desired and thus cost more.

 

 


Yes thats exactly one of the reason of a higher cost of HD games, inorder for it to shine you need to put alot more details in there than SD games, and the new HD hardware give more advance instructions producing eye candy graphic and that is what really seperate the advanced hardware to the low end console.

even if you blow up SSBB to a higher resolution it still cant compete with HD console games that built from the ground up taking advantage of all those new eye candy instructions.

 


I'm not talking about upscaling SSBB as the more you blow up something to fit a higher resolution the worst it looks especially in games. Also this does the opposide effect of anti-aliasing, hello to jagged edges. The exact same 3d models would looked better in HD if the Wii could run them in HD. Thus even average looking games ( I would say even SSBB is above average) looks better in HD.

Now you understand why I am disappoint that Nintendo didn't give Wii a little more juice to at least run their games in 720p. Even if the made the cost around $300 the Wii would have still sold like hotcakes. Now you may think that HD is no big deal now but just look how much LCDs have taken over the market of both TV and PC monitors during PS2 life span.

 

" it would make no sense at all to put it on PS3, if it isn't to take advantage of the power."

I say that would fit almost all the games for the PS3 right now.