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Old 02-04-2012, 12:16 PM   #4516
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Originally Posted by The Rogerer View Post
Surely this just means nothing more than the game supporting an output resolution of 1280x720, which puts no demand on anybody. Nintendo will expect games are standardised to the resolution of the WiiU screen, which is exactly the same thing.
Are you, stupid? Puts no demand on anybody? How about it puts a lot of demand on the console to be able to pump out graphics in HD? There's a reason the PS3 and the 360 are system spec juggernauts compared to the Wii: it's not in HD, so it doesn't need that kind of power to support shovelware graphics. And now that fine detail is considerably easier to see in HD, the guys handling the graphical side of the games have to put a lot more of that fine detail into crafting the models so they don't look like shit on a 50 inch flat panel screen pumping out visuals in 1080p. That is both time consuming and expensive. Do you think a world as expansive and graphically detailed as Red Dead Redemption took the same amount of effort, time and money to make as pretty much anything on the Wii? If you have a Wii, go grab a component cable for it, plug it into a 46"1080p LCD tv and see how "amazing" it looks. It looks a little shit. There's only so much a component cable can do to smooth out the jaggies and textures; Wii games just look bad on HD tvs.
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