Wii-U

[Gardocki]

(11-05-2012 02:45 AM)BumblebeeCody Wrote:  

(11-05-2012 02:04 AM)Gardocki Wrote:  

(11-04-2012 11:55 PM)Skarro Wrote:  edit2: Also remember for those getting multiplatform games on other consoles that the WiiU has more then twice the disc read speed and 4 times the RAM!

That's great, but it's up to the developers to take advantage of the hardware. There's absolutely no guarantee that the games will look or run faster on the Wii U.

I played Tekken Tag 2 at MCM on the WiiU and the graphics easily rival those of the Tag 2 arcade cabinets. It looks gorgeous and much better than the Xbox 360 and PS3. Games on the WiiU will look better but they won't be anywhere near the level of what the WiiU is graphically capable of. The WiiU is extremely powerful, true next generation technology, but with games like Tag 2, Bioshock and the rest of the third party titles coming out for it, the games won't look much better since they were developed using dev kits for the Xbox and PS3, and that's 7 year old technology.

That's great for Tekken Tag 2, but I stick by my previous statement. It's up to the developers to make the games look impressive, not Nintendo. Sure, it's possible, and I'm not saying it isn't, but to use the "games will look better on the Wii U" as a selling point is foolish. There were plenty of games that looked better on the Xbox rather then the PS3, which is the more powerful of the two. Hopefully developers start taking advantage of what the Wii U can do graphically instead of gimmicky really quick. I can't see myself buying Black Ops 2 on a "powerful machine" when it doesn't look any different from the Xbox version.