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curl-6 on 10 September 2012
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Crono141 said:
lilbroex said:
Crono141 said:
lilbroex said:
Crono141 said:
I wouldn't mind a wii u sequel. The first one was OK, but severely limited by the platform it was on.


The game didn't even reach the level of scalability seen on Nintindo's previous console. How the it limited by the platform?


Let me put it this way: every game for Wii was severely limited by the platform it was on.  When every game for every other console gets to work with 256-512 mb of ram vs the Wii's 88 mb total, the platform is limiting.  Much more could have been done with The Conduit.


That still doesn't answer the question. That game didn't even push the limits of what the GC did, much less what the Wii could do. Don't you have to reach a limit before you can be limited by it?

No, you don't have to reach a limit before you're limited by it.  The consoles Ram and other technical capacities were limits at the concept phase of the game.  I'm certain there were things they wanted to do that they knew they couldn't because of the platform they were designing for.  Just because what ended up as a finished product wasn't necessarily pushing the wii's limits doesn't mean that the game they wanted to make wouldn't have blown those limits away.

Horsepower isn't the only limitation to games. Shooters on PS3/360 are limited by dual analogue control. (Except Killzone 3, and IIRC Resistance 3)