18th December 2005, 8:05 AM
I agree. Nintendo's going to have a huge problem on their hands when HD starts to explode. But the need for HD for most people wont come from TV or video games, it's going to come from 1080p DVD players that play HD-DVD and/or BR-DVD. Once people see the difference in that they'll be wanting it hardcore and when that happens, Rev's lack of 720p to 1080p is going to show in a very big way. I can imagine the message boards across the internet "Why does my 360 have sharper textures than my Rev?". You gotta remember, most people have no idea what HD is or how/why they need it. Give them a clear reason to need it and the market will explode.
And of course i'm biased but atleast for a logical reason. Nintendo internally develops my most favorite games and this only half opinion. The entire industry looks up to Nintendo's first party games - each one they release is a new benchmark for that particular genre. Nintendo is Disney back when Walt was still alive, all they care about is making the best content possible which has very little to do with realistic graphics and everything to do with gameplay and specialized techniques.
Why anyone would want to defend the value of a Playstation or XBox is beyond me. These companies do *nothing* except manufacture hardware and use out-sourced companies to give them content. Even when it says 'Developed by SCEA' on the box the reality is that an out-sourced company made it and Sony of America purchased it. But somewhere in Kyoto Japan there is a building where Shigeru Miyamoto is making ants float on leaves and saying things like "the rounded leaves are more complicated, let's make them round and try the grasshopper this time" becase he's in the middle of development on Pikmin 3 and the entire building is busy getting the Rev hardware finalized and checking the status of its launch games where massive amounts of people are brought in to test them over and over and over to get everything as tight and flawless as possible because they know the better they make the game, the more it will sell.
Unless you're someone who buys games just for the visual experience, but then those people are getting fed to those giant 'inverted asshole creatures' from King Kong (in my head anyway). God those things creeped me out.
And of course i'm biased but atleast for a logical reason. Nintendo internally develops my most favorite games and this only half opinion. The entire industry looks up to Nintendo's first party games - each one they release is a new benchmark for that particular genre. Nintendo is Disney back when Walt was still alive, all they care about is making the best content possible which has very little to do with realistic graphics and everything to do with gameplay and specialized techniques.
Why anyone would want to defend the value of a Playstation or XBox is beyond me. These companies do *nothing* except manufacture hardware and use out-sourced companies to give them content. Even when it says 'Developed by SCEA' on the box the reality is that an out-sourced company made it and Sony of America purchased it. But somewhere in Kyoto Japan there is a building where Shigeru Miyamoto is making ants float on leaves and saying things like "the rounded leaves are more complicated, let's make them round and try the grasshopper this time" becase he's in the middle of development on Pikmin 3 and the entire building is busy getting the Rev hardware finalized and checking the status of its launch games where massive amounts of people are brought in to test them over and over and over to get everything as tight and flawless as possible because they know the better they make the game, the more it will sell.
Unless you're someone who buys games just for the visual experience, but then those people are getting fed to those giant 'inverted asshole creatures' from King Kong (in my head anyway). God those things creeped me out.