| reviniente said: MR NintendoPie (I'm having trouble embeding my answers with this new text format): What portable exclusive game could you produce, that it wouldn't be posible to better it in every concievable way for the larger format provided by HD. Bigger, more detailed Pokémons, incredibly rich landscapes in MH, super-realistic girls of AKB48 in all their barely-legal glory. You can do everything better in HD. |
Everything you can do on a console, you can easily do on a mid-range PC, why have a console market? Lower berrier of entry!
Unless your HDTV can be carried around the house, into your car, onto an airplane, what kind of absurdity is arguing that mobility serves no purpose?
Higher definition at the same cost, same ease of perception is better yes. But higher definition is a much higher cost than just the hardware alone, the entire development process would be much more costly. The fun factor in many of those games come via gameplay itself, not merely the fidelity of the sound of the number of pixels to portray the idea that triggers an emotional reaction.
On a smaller screen, the less detail you force feed he brain the easier it is on the eyes. That same 3 hour HD movie with thousands of details on the screen is mich easier to uptake than if crammed onto smaller screen. There is an OPTIMAL pixel count per given screen size that allows for sustainable viewing. That big screen TV has far fewer pixels than your average monitor, if you crammed the same small pixels all over that giant screen, you get WORSE picture quality not better. The same mobile game that is so awesome to play when blown up onto a big screen will be so jaggedy, it will easily distract your brain from following the visual portrayal to just the jagged pixels.
Mobile gaming, from the simplest repetitive addiction gaming to the more complex rpgs, allows individuals to play with no detriment to or from the surrounding. If you are a loner in a bachelor pad, of course, set it up like you live in an arcade. But if you share the big screen TV with someone who may wish to use the space, how are you going to ensure you are left alone? Handheld machines come in handy, especially in a highly crowded, public transit intensive country such as Japan.
People that enjoy, buy and support mobile gaming are not "idiots" that foster mediocrity. It's the complete lack of ability to see things from other than the tiny point of view that distorts mobile gaming's perceived value. The irony of it is, the person arguing clarity overrides funtion lacks clarity in his logic. Even a 720P high def or 1080i high def as seen on TV is already mesmerizingly clear. There is actually a limit to granularity the eyes can perceive. It's when you start with computer codes that try to emulate nature, no matter how fine you try, how many cell shaders, anti-aliasing, you get better graphics, but still fake fake fake.
Give me better gameplay over higher definition any day. The fun from games of yesteryears have not faded with the passage of time. Some of us miss those engaging memories. It's too bad that an entire genration of gamers have been forced fed the HD BS and will take the same FPS year after year as long as "woah it looks totally amazing". That's like buying books based on how awesome the print looks on paper.
