That's what SCEWWS is for. :D

To be honest, lately I find myself only buying games developed (or published in some cases, like LBP) by Sony and Nintendo.  They are, in my opinion, the two best development (and publishing) houses by far.

Yeaaah ill definitely be buying more first party than third party this year


So long as GoW 3 comes out..

Actually, What N'Gai suggest makes a lot of sense, and it goes bayond the consoles perspective.

When he suggested to make Wii the lead platform, it can also work out very well for all consoles including the HD ones. And for those fanboys that fear the graphical prowess of the games will be dimished, don't be, because the developer can have two game engines, one that fully uses the Wii, and one that pushes Ps3 and Xbox360 really good.

What is the benefit? The return of the game development basic formula:

1. Make the game playable, deep and enjoyable
2. Make it look and sound awesome

Instead of

1. Make the game look and sound awesome
2. Make it playable, deep and enjoyable

The direct problem you run into starting from the Wii and moving up is Controls. the biggest motivation that people buy a wii is the different controls. I could easily see the ps360 version of a game being exposed badly without the controls to overcompensate for the way a game is designed. just imagine a game like the conduit being ported up to ps360, it would pale in comparision without wii controls because the entire game was designed with motion controls in mind.

its not simply graphics that would be effected in this process the game design would have to be adjusted.

PS2 had a 300 mHZ processor, Xbox had 729. PS3/360 both have 3.2 g(as in giga-)HZ processors, while the Wii is still at 729 mHZ. There is just no comparison in the difference between PS2/Xbox and PS360/Wii.

And HD, in terms of gaming, isn't just about pixels. Advanced AI, high end graphics, amount of objects on screen, etc are all what make up the HD "experience" so, no, the Xbox was not that far ahead of the PS2.

And why would KZ2 lose money? You know what, Halo Wars is going to lose money. How about that unsubstantiated comment?

So... people want developers to stop trying to push the boundaries of game design with games built to take advantage of the power of the HD consoles in favor of making pretty games with last gen gameplay?

Game design needs to change. it's inevitable or the future will make it fall

We apparently also don't want developers to take the Wii remote and make a game perfectly centered around it's control.

I don't know if I like the idea or not, but I definitely wouldn't be buying too many multiplatform games then. I'd rather have my unique Zack & Wiki/No More Heroes games for the Wii and a true powerhouse like Gears 2 or MGS4 for the HD consoles. I don't like the way the Wii mixes with the HD consoles.

Agreed.  Looking further into what this all means, N'Gai might not be right on the mark as I originally thought.

You can understand N'Gai's point of view if you see his PC example. Having a low spec PC game gives you a bigger market to play with, that is why there has been successes from games in this market which aren't graphically marvelous. So he tries translate this situation to the console market, but the console market is not as unified as the pc (same input devices and programing, etc) independent of the processing power of the different machines

It could be interesting for the PC market to have more games go this route with low spec games.