JJConrad said:
Typical GAF Take speculation, assume it as fact.
Nothing to do with speculation. Perrin Kaplan said point blank Nintendo has no plants to support HD with Rev.
JJConrad said:
As long as the Revolution is capable of HD resolution, there is no reason why multiplatform games would not support the feature. You cant just tell the system to increase the resolution and make an HD game. Textures and models and a host of other aspects have to be brought up to match the output. Otherwise, youre left with a blurry, jarring N64-emulation look. With Sony and MS forcing the resolution, what developer, in their right mind, would scrap all that extra work for the Revolution version? We can do it, weve done it, but we wont include it cause we aint gotta.
While you're technically right, you're intentionally skewing the aspects of it to sound negative. HD = Better. Period. End of discussion. Moving on. Nothing to do with graphic whorism, it just is. And we should always -
always - demand the best (when possible. Which is the case here).
JJConrad said:
By not requiring HD, Nintendo has granted developer more flexibility than the other consoles. Higher resolution is never free. At the very least, it requires fill-rate, which some developers may be able to use for better things. This could then backfire on Sony and MS.
Imagine that Resident Evil 5 is created from the ground up for the Revolution at standard definition. The game pushes that resolution so far, that it would be impossible to recreate in HD without a serious frame-rate hit (and thats still with the smaller textures). It could prevent the game from being ported to the PS3 or 360, unless the two drop their requirements. And before you say That could never happen, remember that Japan and Europe are not as enamored with HD as the US is.
Pure pipe dream. One, for 80% (<< note, this is a made up figure! I don't actually know how many developers will choose Rev as the lead platform, and can only judge by this gen and the trends we can extract from it!) of all developers Revolution will not be the lead platform for multiplatform titles. For another, it doesn't matter who is "enamored" with it, it has nothing to do with anything as far as support is concerned because the systems can still be used for those with shitty televisions. Shortsighted thinking, as is obviously the case here, does not change anything.
HD is best. This is the way we're moving, this is the way we should go. It's that simple. Not including it is only a negative and there's absolutely zero spin anyone on this planet could put to it to make it anything but. Why even bother? It's a waste of your time.
The most entertaining aspect is that you tried to paint Sony and Microsoft's decision to go with the entirely superior HD spec as standard as a possible
disadvantage vs. Nintendo. I don't know what's worse, the fact that someone wrote that or that there's actually a few misguided people that believe it.
JJConrad said:
Now lets assume that everything in IGNs article is true
If thats the case, the Revolution is already underpowered and HD support is irrelevant. If the games already dont look as good, what difference does a lower resolution make? Nintendos focus would then not be on pure graphics, but elsewhere. GAF is full of graphic-whores (Im can be one too), we make way to much out of graphics, and can bitch and bitch about the littlest flaw, but whats to prevent Nintendo having similar success with the Rev, as they are the DS? Graphics be damned, there are a whole bunch of quality games headed to that little abomination.
I don't know, JJConrad. What is to prevent Nintendo from having similar success with the Rev? It's possible, of course. Granted, it would only take a complete 75% (i.e., since GC has 18mil, and PS2 has 90,000,000... and will eventually reach 120-140mil, you do the math) ideological shift in terms of the market and a hundred billion other variables for it to occur, but it is possible.
Of important note, handheld
!= console market. This needs to be emphasized because it seems people are truly tireless in the crusade to try to use DS as an example of some sort of market surprise, but it wasn't. Nintendo had full control of the market, they knew who they had to market to and Sony simply hasn't so far to that level. Likewise, Nintendo lost the grip of the console market long ago and does not appeal to the vast majority of that market anymore. It would take a complete shift in the type of support Revolution had, or a colossal fuck up by both Sony AND Microsoft for anything to change in this regard.
So again, it's possible. But pretty fuckin' unlikely.
JJConrad said:
One last thing about these HD penetration percentages
we made a big to-do about broadband with similar projections. However, despite its success, we still only see less than 10% of gamers online. Even if 80% of the population has an HDTV, that doesnt mean that they all be playing games on them. An example, right now, I know only one person with an HDTV, and it is HIS! Hes got a satellite dish and a DVD player hooked up to it and thats it. The kids have their own TVs (not HD) to play games on.
Anecdotal evidence is weak and really has little place in this discussion.