Pachter: "Wii U won't save Nintendo, phones took 35% of the market"

[happydolphin]

oniyide said:

happydolphin said:

As for AC not selling 5M on Wii and comparing it to a port of an HD game, now you're completely disregarding what we had talked about earlier, a game with SD visuals that compensates for graphical disparity with other more important features like story and art direction (so long as graphics aren't broken). With that in mind, I don't see why a top-tier exclusive couldn't reach 5M, and even grow towards 8M as consumers realize the Wii is the goto platform for all your gaming needs, at a highly reduced development cost.

As for Medal of Honor, I have no idea how to explain that one. 

That wont work for AC, have you played those games?? They are open, you CANNOT compensate for lack of graphics in that kind of game, you will lose the illusion of the open world, and the game will fall apart.  Story and art direction??? The AC story is already good, graphics have nothing to do with that, art direction. Are you suggesting they do cel shaded or something to compensate, that wont fly on a game like AC, hell it didnt fly for the Maddens.  You have more hardware you can do more things, Its that simple. THe Wii was never going to be the goto platform for all your gaming needs, not with that weak hardware.  You use the word compensate and the is interesting. You kind of answered your own question, the face that it HAS to compensate ensures that it would never do as well as the HD ones, why would someone settle for what will surely be an inferior product, wheh their are TWO viable systems that will run the game the way it was intended?? 3 if you count PC

The PS1 vs N64 answers your question.

Also, at bold I was mentioning a non-AC game, one that had appealing SD visuals as well as strenght in other more important features (is what I meant). The COD HD vs Wii would not be in the same category as said hypothetical.