spurgeonryan said:
Play4Fun said:
spurgeonryan said:
I was not going to comment on this, but I just found an article about this. Why do they need to even think this way at all? This has gotten them in trouble on multiple consoles now. If they want to continue to be successful, they need to embrace graphics. Casual gamers will only buy so many games. They need core gamers to come to the Wii U.
It is possible for them to continue to make games that are great with just mediocre graphics or even decent graphics, but why do it? It is a cop out. People, Stock holders, critics, analyst, etc are weary enough about the Wii U Nintendo. Please do not give more reasons to doubt the wii U.
HD Zelda
HD Pokemon
Start with that.
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No, he is right. Not every game needs to push hardware to its limits.
That kind of thinking will doom even more devs next gen.
Like Iwata said, the big Nintendo games, such as Zelda and I guess Metroid, 3D Mario will benefit from it but some of their other Franchises don't need that.
It's the same for 3rd party software as well, not every publisher is EA or Ubisoft. the mediun sized/small developers should not feel that they have to match the graphics/production values of the games from the bigger devs.
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I of course agree. But We know what sells in this day and age. Yes, Wii did well because of their gamble with motion control, and some great games! But does Nintendo really want to go down this road again? I do not think that all their games need to be pushing the graphics boundaries that PC and the other HD twins have done over the last 5 years. But I do not think that they should be trying to make what they have been in the past either. The Wii had decent looking games, but do we have to have another 30 games that all look like Mii's on the Wii U as well? They did what they could with the graphics on the wii, GC, and N64. That was admirable. They did a great job!
Investors and gamers are ready to either jump ship or weather the storm with the Wii U. Saying that we are not going to do all games with HD graphics is not what people want to hear right now.
Gamers want to hear:
Great graphics
Strong 3rd party support
No game droughts!!!
When are our favorite franchises coming out.
Gamers do not want to hear:
Iwata says they are not in a tech race
Not all games will be HD (of course not, they do not need to be, only the ones that count!)
Online is going to mediocre.
No information at all. Why wait for everything until E3?
So I agree and disagree. I also think that the new Zelda needs to be HD. Why not go all out? Get people excited!
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