Pemalite said:
teigaga said:
I would have to disagree a little bit here. I want a powerful system but I can't ignore the reality that a lack of power encourages devs to think more creatively about what they offer to the system. Fundementally a weaker system would have to prove itself a success before getting support from many western 3rd parties, but in the event it does, unique titles like what we saw on the Wii, DS and even the 3DS is more benefitial to the industry than Nintendo just recieveing the same big budget games we see on PS4/Xbox One.
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And yet... Console hardware has often held back what developers could do with games.
One of the more notable examples would have been Goldeneye and Perfect Dark on the Nintendo 64, they were amazing games in their own right, but they would also only have 10-20fps in most instances, imagine what could have been achieved back then if the Nintendo 64 had twice the performance? Maybe the environments could have been fully destructable instead of select objects? Maybe Physics could have been more advanced (Which isn't to be understated. - See Portal and Half Life 2)
Lack of power doesn't really stop a developer from being creative, publishers and developers stop themselves from being creative. :P
Graphics and Gameplay can lend itself and augment each other really well, I need both in my games... If a game is graphically poor, chances are I won't be bothered to play it and if the gameplay sucks, chances are the game gets shelved.
Graphics also helps sell games, it's what you see in trailers, what is shown on posters... And that should help drive sales.
The Original Xbox for instance was the most advanced console of that entire generation and arguably had one of the best games of that Generation that would help define the console of the next Generation, Halo.
The extra power offered by the Xbox also allowed for console gamers to experience one of the great PC franchises for the first time, The Elder Scrolls with Morrowind.
Power and thus graphics helps make worlds believable, makes you stand around in a game and enjoy the sunset, I don't believe it's the arch nemisis of Gameplay, I do need both and I do wan't both. And guess what? Thanks to technology you can actually have both.
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And it was also an economic failure. You cant just build a powerhouse console and expect it to dominate the market because of it. There's a fine line of balance to achieve a product that can deliver good price, good value and nice graphics. Finding that is hard and in my mind not yet achieved by anyone except for maybe the PS4 who has decent enough graphics, a bit expensive but not too much but most importantly it is selling extremely well. Which is why I am doubtful about the NEO and Scorpio if they become too powerful they will also cost way too much to find an audience.
