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happydolphin on 01 March 2012
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oniyide said:
happydolphin said:
oniyide said:

The PS1 was only half as powerful as the N64. And the fact that Ninty decided to use cartridges again, made it even harder for devs to want to mess with it, so they took a hardware step forward but like 2 steps back.  And the PS360 are about 5x+ more powerful than Wii is?? Its all semantics but when you have a system that hardware is so weak it cant even run certain games, well you get what you pay for.

Fair, the N64 couldn't run certain games because of limited memory and whatnot. But you were talking about graphics here:

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. 

Considering PS/N64 multi-plat games (ie games that could run on the N64), when gamers prefered the PS version, I'm not sure your argument completely holds water.

THe PS and N64 versions of games are usually not that different. Hell if you really think about it, they both complement each other. For example Rayman 2, ran better on n64 looked better, but did it look and run that much better?? Did it look that much better that PS1 owners were going to shell out more money for a system to play a game that they could already play just for the sake of graphics, history says no and lets not forget the cartridges didnt allow for things like voices and better sounds, so really the issue of a PS vs. N64 version is quite subjective.  Its not that they preffered it, but the differences were so minuscule that its not worth it to get it on another system

the poor Wii, is so underpowered that publishers had to hire out lower devs just to run a different version of the game on the system, while the HDs got the "actual" game (Force unleashed, wolverine, etc.) or they make a spinoff which people hate(RE) or they just say f**k it and dont even bother. Lets be real, how much multiplat games can you say that the Wii version was damn close outside of the dance and fit games that use the Wii as lead hardware anyway??? All i can think of is Sonic allstars racing, the recent CODs(and thats a stretch) and... I cant think of nothing else

Fair, the PS did have certain advantages the N64 didn't have, such as better and more complete rosters, proper licenses,  media (voice, pop music). These are things that made the PS versions superior. But I really was just talking in terms of graphics.

True, the HD systems have capabilities the Wii games can't take advantage of, but the question remains, that purely for business reasons, in support of the market leader, could these studios not put those features aside in order to offer a still very good game, and take that spared energy and place it on something else. You know as I do the answer is clearly yes, and the DS vs PSP demonstrated that.

Games that could fit the Wii would be more Japanese games: DmC, Megaman, Final Fantasy,... in other words game that require less realism than most western games.

Again, purely from a sales perspective, was it better to go PS360 rather than Wii? Comparing total PS360 sales to sales of the gen for a single goto plat (ie PS/PS2), it's a close call.

Since it's close, I can see why companies went that route, especially with the money incentives involved ;)