edge-online.com— The current generation of consoles still has three to four more years before newer hardware hits the market, but Nintendo's next may arrive sooner, according to one analyst.
Aug 26, 2008View in Crawl 4
A good rule of thumb, the leader of a generation isn't going to push for a restart. I'd bet we see a DVD enabled Wii(as promised from early, but they later said they would work on meeting demand first) with a little more internal memory, which could let Nintendo go into 2011 with Wii.
Since when is upgrading the current gen considered a new gen system? This article didnt seem to say anything regarding a new system, instead just talking about upgrades.
Classic catch 22 situation, the Wii hardware is very limiting, you can't build big open world games, it's online capabalities are crippling, the hardcore gamers shun it because it's not HD and most of the current titles are targeted at 'casual' gamers not 'core' gamers.Most modern dev studios have one codebase that they can easily fork off to the PC, 360 and the PS3, but they hire a second developer to do the Wii version because it'd be a nightmare to try and run two projects at once and most engines aren't designed to scale back to the Wii. This means the origional game designers pay little thought to the Wiimote, but if it had better hardware and it was part of the the same codebase then top-teir developers would give it a lot more love.
zap2Aug 27, 2008
A good rule of thumb, the leader of a generation isn't going to push for a restart. I'd bet we see a DVD enabled Wii(as promised from early, but they later said they would work on meeting demand first) with a little more internal memory, which could let Nintendo go into 2011 with Wii.
amakazeAug 27, 2008
Since when is upgrading the current gen considered a new gen system? This article didnt seem to say anything regarding a new system, instead just talking about upgrades.
sklter84Aug 27, 2008
Every MS fanboy was probably crapping their pants at this at first. MS would fold without a few years headstart.
dracusisAug 28, 2008
Classic catch 22 situation, the Wii hardware is very limiting, you can't build big open world games, it's online capabalities are crippling, the hardcore gamers shun it because it's not HD and most of the current titles are targeted at 'casual' gamers not 'core' gamers.Most modern dev studios have one codebase that they can easily fork off to the PC, 360 and the PS3, but they hire a second developer to do the Wii version because it'd be a nightmare to try and run two projects at once and most engines aren't designed to scale back to the Wii. This means the origional game designers pay little thought to the Wiimote, but if it had better hardware and it was part of the the same codebase then top-teir developers would give it a lot more love.
nrox653Aug 30, 2008
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