Wii U: Nintendo kept own devs in the dark

[Khuutra]

teigaga said:

Khuutra said:

trestres said:
This is actually very bad news, I mean, these devs will only have 1 year to develop a game before Wii U launches. That will translate in tech demo-like games, very rushed and unpolished games or simply games not ready until 2014 or so. I doubt they can make large scale games in HD (which they never worked on before) in less than a year.

Hush, my darling. Still your trembling lips, and listen.

HD development in the beginning isn't going to be that different because most art assets are created in HD in the first place. HD isn't some magical thing that automatically makes development harder. Most design problems in modern console gaming - at least at Nintendo - is conceptual, not technical. They don't strictly need to know exactly how powerful the Wii U is to design a game for it.

Now I'm not saying that the launch lineup isn't going to be shit - of course it is, it always is, there will be one good game and that'll be it for months - but this doomsaying "no games until 2014" crap is already tired. Stop it.

 

Im sure by HD, he wasnt simply refering to the resolution. When talking about HD graphics people often just use it as aterm reffering to the graphical fidelity of games seen on console which support HD (ps3/360?PC). Creating graphically impressive games seen on th HD consoles like uncharted 3 etc take a long time, especially if you havnt already made the foundation for development. Seeing as nintendo has been using 10 years old hardware they may struggle with the transition and they definitely dont have any foundations unless their gonna use a 3rd part graphics engine

Eeehhhh, this is where Nintendo's particular visual styles tend to help them out; lack of attempts at photorealism really do make their games easier to produce, and recycled assets are kind of the order of the day (which is why the image file for Super Mario Galaxy could fit on a Gamecube disc). The Zelda trailer was made in a rush before E3 over the course of a few weeks; there will be at least one team making a good launch title for the console.

No, it won't be an HD showcase. It'll be anything but that.

But it'll be there.