Are Wii Going to get Better Graphics then Expected?
Check out the story below from Moz La Punk’s Site. Graphics are a hotly debated subject so I copied the whole article. What do you guys think?
It is an issue that has been hotly debated for years, ever since the 2004 Electronic Entertainment Exhibition where Nintendo announced they were working on a new home console, codenamed Revolution. Nintendo fans have been clinging to the hope that the console, that we now know is officially renamed Wii, will be an all-conquering graphical powerhouse. This flame of hope, that they still held until recently, was doused when IGN.com revealed that developers had recieved development kits and that these kits indicated that the Wii will only be slightly more powerful than the current generation Xbox from Microsoft. With this news and the fact that the Nintendo public stance has been to constantly downplay the importance of graphics, the big N’s fans started to resign themselves to this fact, that Nintendo’s next home console would be a graphically underpowered machine compared to it’s next generation competitors from Sony and Microsoft. With the only existing Wii screenshots available being from one game (Red Steel, Ubisoft), it is hard to tell if these claims by IGN were true.
Our sources tell us the dev kit specs that IGN has been touting about the place of late are not final dev kit specifications. The most likely scenario is that IGN has only talked to third party developers and apparently third party developers do not have final dev kits, in fact only Nintendo themselves and their second party developers have their hands on final hardware. Well, that’s not entirely true, we hear Square Enix is the only third party developer to have a final development kit and they have had it for quite some time. People expecting the company’s Final Fantasy: Crystal Chronicles sequel to be a half-baked, faux FF title are in for a surprise according to the informer.
He also states a lot of third parties have been told by Nintendo to prepare game ideas with Cube quality graphics in mind leading them to believe that was all the horsepower the Wii offered. That coupled with early Gamecube/Wii controller development kits hasn’t prevented this view from spreading but with Nintendo’s proven history of pulling high quality graphics out of limited hardware, our informer’s claims are a little easier to believe. As it stands, only third parties that have an extremely close relationship with Nintendo have been privy to final dev kit specifications he says.
According to this person the Nintendo Wii will be visually on par with the Xbox 360 and may even exceed it slightly. This “mole” also says that the Wii will not be comparable with Playstation 3, which will be a vastly technically superior machine. The Wii has no HD capabilities but it connects to a computer monitor, the informer says this means something…
So why would Nintendo be so secretive with other third party developers who are working on their own console? Could it have to do with the purported “final secret” of the Wii or a new graphical trick or way of presenting graphics? Unfortunately, we do not know and neither does our claimant (or he doesn’t want to tell us). Feel safe that mozlapunk.net will give you the latest news directly as we receive it, no delay. As always, until Nintendo says something, it isn’t true, so don’t take this news to heart just yet, because as experience learned, even MLP informers aren’t infallible.
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