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Materia-Blade on 27 March 2015
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curl-6 said:
Zekkyou said:

It would be interesting to see how they'd tackle bringing UC4 to the WiiU. The most difficult part (of what we've seen) would probably be how ND appear to have built parts of the environments around their new contextual animation system (now with real-time grimacing!™). I personally thought it was the most impressive part of the demo, and I have absolutely no idea how they'd re-work that for the WiiU without compromising its purpose.

Even more interesting than UC4 would be ACU. It's a less technically complex game overall, but those crowd simulations on a 1.24GHZ tri-core CPU... I kind of want to see it. The PS4 and X1 already had a hard enough time with it (even if it wasn't entirely their fault).

I think the animation system is UC4 would have to be simplified; other than that, I think the primary downgrades would be screen and texture resolution, and the omission of subsurface scattering for skin. With the right amount of talent and resources applied, Wii U should be able to get what we've seen so far running at an Uncharted 3 level of fidelity.

ACU, on the other hand, would be much more problematic. I suspect there would be no option but to scale down the crowds; as you say, Xbone and PS4 were already struggling to do it, and Wii U's CPU is its weakest link. Of all the PS4/Xbone games out so far, ACU is probably the worse fit for Wii U's hardware.

"and the omission of subsurface scattering for skin. With the right amount of talent and resources applied, Wii U should be able to get what we've seen so far running at an Uncharted 3 level of fidelity."

Please, let's be serious, shall we? ps3 level of fidelity? we are talking about a console quite above ps3. as for the "subsurface scattering for skin", wii u would have no trouble doing that on cutscenes, after all, they are just cutscenes.

As for ACU, I don't see what's problematic about reducing the crowd that's already filler to begin with. I suppose any version of that game would be better with less people on the streets.