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midrange on 07 July 2015
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SJReiter said:
midrange said:

More than half of the games you mentioned are developed by Nintendo or aided by Nintendo. Of course those games are gonna look pretty when you have the actual console maker there to help you squeeze out better performance for your game.

Have you ever considered the fact that most of those games have built a custom engine for the Wii u to be able to play them? Custom engines are great because the squeeze benefits from the customized wii u. Unreal Engine 3 has probably not been optimized for the Wii u as it has for the PS3 and Xbox 360. The only people who have used UE3 on the Wii u either dropped support (Warner bros) or continue to make games with bad graphics (Devils third).

pretty games can be a factor of gpu performance, not cpu performance. Just like how mario kart 8 drop in frame rate with more than two people, the more computations that the cpu has to deal with, the less it can focus on performance (lowering the fps). Slightly mad studios as an example said that their game looks great, mostly because their resolution is where it needs to be (thanks to a semi-decent gpu), it was the fps that was killer (thanks to a poor cpu).

Way to look at possibilities and facts before calling a dev ignorant and lazy. Clearly every other third party is plotting a conspiracy against Nintendo.

Do you really think this was an issue for Mighty No. 9 though? If so, how much of a drop in performance do you think Wii U owners can expect when compared to the other platforms?

I think it's half the problem, the other half would be the engine.

If I had to guess, they are having little problems with the PS3 and Xbox 360 versions since the engine (UE3) has been constantly updated for those console. Since UE4, epic probably stopped updating UE3, so for consoles where UE3 wasn't fully optimized (ps4, Xbox one, wii u), they were probably hoping to circumvent this issue by having raw specs make up for this issue (of which the Xbox one and ps4 have plenty of). This of course leaves the Wii u with the biggest disadvantage (which prompted the dev to say the game was having specs issues with the Wii u).

In the end, the Wii u version will perform closest to the Xbox 360 and PS3 (the dev seems very dedicated to make the wii u version happen). If they had to make compromises on the Wii u, they would probably start with larger loading times (those were the first to go when Rayman legends got a cpu boost on the ps4). After that, they might start removing features, enemy count, and effects, or they would have the game run at an unstable frame rate. Ultimately I think that the developer is dedicated enough and is gonna be able to reach parity by giving up more time and money than the other versions.