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Sal.Paradise on 22 September 2012
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HappySqurriel said:
Sal.Paradise said:
HappySqurriel said:
As long as you can show off the Wii U game that was in development when the Wii launched to compare it against

I don't understand what you're saying here? You posted a picture of a bad looking 360 launch title to try to paint that first batch of games as looking shitty, Kameo proves this wrong. 

 


The two launch games for the XBox 360 that looked better than XBox games were Kameo and Perfect Dark, two games that began development before the XBox was released and were nearly completed before they were switched development to the XBox 360. The last 18 months of development of these games was primarily on improving their visuals.

The vast majority of game releases for most consoles at launch (especially the first console to be launched) are crappy ports that look no better than their previous generation games (like Gun), or games that are low budget and have strict deadlines and only see minor upgrades over previous generation games.

 

After E3 if there are no games that look any better than XBox 360 games I will agree with you that there isn't a substantial improvement in the visuals of games, until then I want to see an apples-to-apples comparison between games.

Wait...if your argument is that Kameo was originally developed on the old Xbox architecture then ported..shouldn't that be an indicator that it does NOT look as good as it could have, as it started out on old hardware lacking modern features?

This is EXACTLY the response I see everyone give when people bring up Pikmin 3's lackluster visuals. It doesn't count! It started out on Wii! But now the opposite? Very strange. 

So if I subscribe to your logic..why doesn't Pikmin 3 look like a clear generational leap, as Kameo most definitely was? Hell, it doesn't even need to make the jump from SD to HD like Kameo did. It benefits from years of work and tools used in HD development that were not available at the start of this generation. Kameo didn't. So?