Nintendo: next gen is about “improving gaming experience” “wonderful graphics won’t help”

[Andrespetmonkey]

freebs2 said:

Andrespetmonkey said:

It's a big part of the experience and the poor visuals on the Wii compared to PS360 turned away a lot of core gamers.

I don't agree what turned away core gamers from Wii wasn't poor visuals, it was just poor 3rd party support, caused by Wii's unablity to run the same engines and the same gaming assets used for 360/Ps3. So in the end the cause is still underpowered hardware, but the reason was not mainly visuals.

You just brought up another great point that helps my case, what if we see the same situation with next-gen? Going for a small jump over this gen's most powerful machines could mean they get left behind (in third party support) if Durango and Orbis are comparitively much more powerful, which is very much a possibility if the Wii U's GPU is as big of a jump over this gen as it's CPU and RAM is.

Hardcore gamers love also bad looking games, like GTA on Ps2. I mean, i liked and I used to play GTA too, but in terms of visuals it was ugly.