Official Wii U Thread!: Pokemon Rubmle U coming to Wii U

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DanneSandin said:

JEMC said:

DanneSandin said:

Oh, SMG looks great, no doubt about it, and I agree that art direction is king! While having said that, I can imagine the new systems will improve on physics and AI - and that'll definitely improve the games coming out on those systems... And what I'm fearing is that Wii U will be left out in the cold by 3rd party support because of the inferior specs, leading to lower sales...

That is indeed a possibility, but you can also look at it from another perspective.

Given that Msoft and Sony's consoles will be (a lot) more powerful, and also seeing that developers/publishers don't seem to be able to learn from the past, we will see this gen a repetition of what happened last gen with devs/publishers spending a lot of resources trying to make the best looking game to sell it.

Even with better tools (UE4 seems to go that way), that will mean higher costs. Even with game prices goig up, they will need bigger sales to make that money back. If a port/version of those games for WiiU is a viable option, they may have no option but to launch them on WiiU aswell.

But for that to happen, game development for all platforms must be the same, something that seems likely, and the sales for those games on WiiU must warrant to continue doing it.

Well, I'm pretty sure that we'll see ports on the Wii U from the PS720; they question is though, will they be gimped version like those we saw on Wii? Sure, they'll be in HD this time around, but how will it effect the gameplay? I can live with 720/30FPS as long as the gameplay is intact - no worries - but if the actual gameplay is gimped, noone's gonna buy these ports for the Wii U. People will instead buy a PS720, and 3rd parties will eventually catch on to this fact and stop porting over games...

How can the gameplay be gimped? Do you mean AI, physics and nº of objects/enemies on screen?

Personally, I don't expect a huge jump in AI like some believe. It's far too expensive and uses too many resources. It will be better but your team mates will still look dumb sometimes as well as the enemies. I wouldn't worry about it too much.

Physics aren't a selling point. If they were, Nvidia cards with its Physx would dominate over AMD cards without it and both sell well. It's a nice plus but not a deal breaker. Besides even if WiiU's CPU is weaker, it doesn't mean that it won't be able to do it.

Objects/enemies on screen. Well yes, the forest will have less trees which will have less branchs. It may not look as pretty, but it doesn't have to look bad. And if there are less enemies, you can make them harder to kill to compensate.