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Soundwave on 24 August 2012
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Mandalore76 said:
pezus said:
superchunk said:
pezus said:
superchunk said:
They've had significantly less time on WiiU dev kits than on PS360... of course it would be not perfect yet. They state their limitations are not hardware but simply put, time. Considering the game has no launch date on WiiU yet, they still have time to continue working on it. Finally, we have no idea on what the actual differences are. Maybe PS360 is at 720p30fps and maybe their trying to push WiiU to 1080p60fps. That all takes more time and they simply haven't had enough yet to put it to its fullest.

Anyone worried about this or any game on WiiU clearly has no clue.

No clue in what respect? The clue is right there in front of us. The only other clues we have are from lilbro who keeps on saying "1080p60fps" with no source.

Every new console has to deal with old gen ports and those at times are not much or any different than the older consoles. Same happened on 360. Same happened on PS3 with looking FAR worse than 360. Its simply a matter of time with the console and engine tuning.

Typically you can get a sense of what it can really do from first party games, however, Nintendo doesn't build super realistic games. Maybe with Zelda or Metroid at some point, but not yet. So 3rd parties have only a very short time with the hardware so these first run games will be "on par" or slightly better than PS360. By next holiday that will be significantly different. Especially as the new engines are coming out and being used on not only WiiU but also the rest of next-gen.

Now, I admit I could be 100% wrong here and Nitnendo could be repeating a Wii where its a marginal upgrade from this gen and gets blown away by the rest of next gen. That could happen, but at this point I still don't think it will.

The thing is that this game is apparently not even up to par, it's below par. I'm sure Wii U is at least as powerful as 360 and PS3 but that is not enough. Nintendo should be working their asses off because they are likely the only ones who would care enough to show its true power, just not right now...

"Nintendo has confirmed just that: first party titles will ship with 720p support only. Nintendo game designer Katsuya Eguchi said in an interview that he believes 720p is “sufficient” for the kind of games Nintendo makes, and that the company will focus more on delivering games at 60 frames per second, rather than focusing on higher resolution like 1080p. He said:

“At Nintendo we have different teams working on different games that take into consideration the resolution. If they think that by focusing on 720p and a certain framerate to get a certain experience, than that’s ultimately how they make their decisions. We might consider using 1080p, but, for example, if we want to get 60 fps, at a particular stage of development, it may seem 720p is more realistic.”

According to Eguchi, the resolution and frame rate depends on the team that’s making the game at Nintendo, and it seems they have a choice of what to focus on, whether it’s resolution or higher frame rate. The Wii U technically supports 1080p, as Nintendo’s recent hardware specs revealed, but so far we haven’t seen a 1080p game from the company. All of the first party launch games, such as Pikmin 3, Nintendo Land, and New Super Mario U, will be in 720p. However, in the same interview, Eguchi confirmed that the Nintendo Land mini games will run in 60 frames per second, and it’s rumored that Pikmin 3 will run at 60 fps as well."

http://wiiudaily.com/2012/06/nintendo-confirms-wii-u-launch-games-will-run-at-720p/

1080p is not unavailable to third party developers if they choose to concentrate on higher resolution, but it's not something that is required of or necessary for Nintendo's first party launch titles.


I doubt the Wii U can comfortably run 1080p for things that go beyond Nintendo Land style graphics. 

1080p requires a lot more processing power than people think. If it was something easy to do on Wii U, developers would be jumping on that because it'd be a quick and easy way for them to add value to their Wii U project, a lot of these games are on PC (Arkham City, Mass Effect 3, etc.).