yvanjean said:
sc94597 said:
yvanjean said:
You do know that Xenoblade can still be played on WiiU.... the Wii version.
Well I admit that NEW 3DS install based will be smaller except that Xenoblade will be an "exclusive game for the new console". The handheld market open up a new group of customer. The sales of Bravely default shows interest in RPG even in North america.
Xenoblade HD would of made sense a year or two ago.... not in 2015. Let's get excited about Xenoblade Chronicles X instead.
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Yes, but because of supply issues many Wii owners who wanted to buy the game were not able to recieve a copy, and for those who do have copies a version rendered at 1080p with enhanced shading and lighting effects certaiinly would sell.
The New 3DS is not a new console though. It's just a revision, and a poor one at that. Bravely Default is a handheld friendly JRPG (you can play the game in increments.) Xenoblade on the otherhand is not.
As for myself. I don't even have a Wii U yet, and I have a 3DS XL that I don't plan to upgrade. I purchased my copy of Xenoblade for the Wii at $70, and I played it halfway through on my Wii and halfway through on Dolphin (@ 1080p.) So honestly I don't care if the game came to Wii U or not. I just wanted to point out in my original reply that it wouldn't be really hard to make an HD version, especially after seeing what the dolphin community has done, and what Nintendo has done with Windwaker HD. I just wanted to fact-check you on this sentence alone, "such a massive game would take forever to remaster."
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I think the process of remastering and testing would take a long time... At least 6-9 months depending on the size of the team.
Similar to Windwaker and Last of Us ..... but Xenoblade HD would not have the same appeal has these two games.
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That's not a long time. That is a very short time. In fact, I doubt Xenoblade new 3DS will take that short of a development time. It is much harder to port the game to the new 3DS ( a console of similar power and with a vastly different architecture) than to a console which is at least a generation ahead in performance and which shares the same architecture as the Wii. There is vastly more testing involved when using a different architecture, because you need to rewrite more code.
