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Smidlee on 25 November 2009
Alterego-X said:
Graphics can be very, very, very easily downgraded.
It is motion control that is a difference, that can't be ported with a few clicks.

Not according to the developers I've read. They had to totally redo the art for the wii just like they would for the DS. You only got 88mb of ram to work with so they have to do some serious chunching to get a 512mb game within 88mb. Often with PC games you can lower the graphics yet the game art  still uses up ram ( or virtual memory).



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--OkeyDokey-- on 25 November 2009

Third parties still bother to make PC ports. If a Wii HD had similar hardware why wouldn't they support it?



theRepublic on 25 November 2009

I'm sure we would see some ports, but I doubt the support would be as much as the other consoles.

Third parties have been finding lame excuses to avoid Nintendo consoles for three generations now. I'm sure they would come up with a few more excuses.



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letsdance on 25 November 2009

not at all. Wii HD user base = 0. It isnt viable.



Dv8thwonder on 25 November 2009

Nintendo will never make a WiiHD, with that said I have a counter argument to this thread. If the Wii was capable of HD from the start would developers care more or less about the console? I don't think so. I believe that one of the best things Nintendo did this gen was to exclude HD. In my opinion the only 3rd parties on the Wii that matter to me are the ones that put effort into their games (Atlus, Marvelous, Treasure, Capcom (to some extent) and many other small developers. If we support these developers now we can build a trust with them that will lead to more exclusive software in the future.



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Serious_frusting on 25 November 2009

they would port a few games over and wait to see how they do. If they sell then they will port more and may even make an exclusive or two.

If they dont sell well at least the Nintendo games would look pretty



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tuoyo on 25 November 2009

Won't make any difference because as far as they are concerned third party games don't sell on Nintendo consoles. They will always make an excuse.



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Ail on 25 November 2009
LordTheNightKnight said:
"I honestly think that many of the people who really wanted the kind of games that the Wii has been missing out on have probably ponied up and bought a HD console by now and for the rest of the userbase would treat the developers and the games the way they deserve for being 3 years too late to the party, with indifference."

That's a bit presumptive, but also another likely excuse given to not give games for it.

MW2 just sold 10 million units in 12 days, do you really think there are many fps fans that are still on the line and didn't purchase their HD console yet ?

Sales tell me the huge majority of them have indeed purchased a HD console....( there isn't a single fps that sold that many units last gen...)

 

Or do you believe there are still many people on the sideline and the real potential of MW2 is something like 20-25 millions units ??

That seems doubtfull...

 



PS3-Xbox360 gap : 1.5 millions and going up in PS3 favor !

PS3-Wii gap : 20 millions and going down !

Ail on 25 November 2009

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--OkeyDokey-- said:
Third parties still bother to make PC ports. If a Wii HD had similar hardware why wouldn't they support it?

They don't make PC ports...

The huge majority of the HD games are developed on the PC.....

Then they are optimized for the target console...



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Xoj on 25 November 2009
Demotruk said:
Well, let's look at history. GC was between the other two consoles in power, and that got loads of third party support, ...right?

it wasn't because of power, but because nintendo practically was a ass in the snes, n64 era.