Can I Get an Oh Snap?

Vamp [Bot] · Post by **Vamp [Bot]** » Mon Mar 26, 2007 2:23 pm

By comparison, FF13 on Wii vs PS3 or 360 would look like s-h-i-t. Also, if they used extremely large environments or large numbers of characters, it might just not be possible at all. Wii is about the power of an over-clocked GameCube, and that's the frame of reference you're looking at for games.

Mericks · Post by **Mericks** » Mon Mar 26, 2007 2:31 pm

In my book, over-clocked means moderately more powerful. Doubling or tripling your power doesn't seem like a moderate improvement. I don't know if that's what you meant, but that is kind of an etchy term.

Vamp [Bot] · Post by **Vamp [Bot]** » Mon Mar 26, 2007 3:54 pm

In terms of a generational jump, even "3x" the power is virtually nothing. Imagine of the PS2 was just a 90MHz MIPS? Wait that sounds familiar... oh yeah that's what N64 had.

Mericks · Post by **Mericks** » Mon Mar 26, 2007 4:01 pm

And look at what happened with the PS1's worse hardware. It succeeded, and no one I know of ever complained about "The graphics suck on this fucking system and every game ported to this system from the N64 looks like a giant pile of shit."

Vamp [Bot] · Post by **Vamp [Bot]** » Mon Mar 26, 2007 4:51 pm

You are missing the point altogether. Relative to N64, PS1 games didn't actually look half-bad. Relative to PS2, N64 makes me want to puke. Fuck, even Majora's Mask, one of the best looking games on the system, looks like vasoline smeared on a 10fps pile of crap. But that's off on a tangent, the point still remains that back-porting a game like FF13 to a system like Wii would make it look so bad and would cripple the game so much as to make it not worthwhile.

Mericks · Post by **Mericks** » Mon Mar 26, 2007 4:54 pm

The game wouldn't look so bad that you'd vomit on the spot. Trust me, I'm the poor bastard that endured the tragedy that is CoD3 on the Wii.

Verence · Post by **Verence** » Tue Mar 27, 2007 12:01 am

Even CoD3 on the PS3 looks like crap. Infinity Ward needs to make EVERY CoD, not hand the ball off to some jackoffs that drop it the first chance they get.

And FFXIII on Wii would have to be SERIOUSLY hobbled for it to run. I'm sure they could make it look good (thougn not in comparison) if given enough time and effort.

Mericks · Post by **Mericks** » Tue Mar 27, 2007 8:24 am

Well, you never know what kind of hardware is truly under the hood until you see a dev that really takes advantage of it and pushes the console. Of course it won't look or run as good I'm sure, but you never know anymore. You just never know. Everyone's all secretive and unwilling to work with the full hardware of a system off the bat.