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This Gameplayer article explores the potential of the upcoming Wii-exclusive game engine, Quantum 3, with quotes from the developer and some info about the first game that is using it, The Conduit.
As you all know, since launch, the Wii has been selling like hot cakes, and is currently at the top of the console market. However, many people have been critical of the Wii's success, calling the graphics last-gen. High Voltage is looking to change this trend with Quantum3, and produce 'Wii60' graphics.
Immense console sales are all well and good for the bean counters and the Nintendo money bin, but when it comes to game titles the Wii has a fatal flaw: 3rd party shovelware and the piss-poor graphics contained therein.
With the occasional exceptions from a handful of talented 3rd party developers with the time and money to spend on their products, most of the high watermark visuals weve seen on the system have been spewed forth from Nintendo themselves. This is mainly due to the majority of third party developers saturating store shelves with low budget, half-arsed attempts at games (or ¼ arse attempts in the case of Far Cry and Red Steel) which, understandably, none of us ran out to buy.
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IF they could boost the graphics it would be soooo sweet!!!!!!
Cause you can't have great graphics and the game itself being shit. But you can't have shitty graphics and great gameplay. There needs to be some sort balance. But while that game does look great than majority of the Wii games and a few 360 games, im more interested in the overall gameplay.
They stated that the graphics u see are from an average wii.
Anyway, The Conduit itself seems good. Better graphics can be a plus. But I'm not setting my expectations too high. Those marketer-types will say anything.
But we have to w8 because of "work in progress" for the wii60
Wow how could I have not seen the light, it was as clear as day, fanboys are the ones who know the truth about the capabilities of consoles they trash daily. Oh my you have impressed me so much, so much that I think I'll just sigh and roll past your comments in the future because of how poor they are.
People do amazing things with hardware every single day, they've done it through gaming history and they'll continue to do it. Last generation only helped to note that to gamers as titles reached their last rounds, God of War II, Rouge Squadron, Doom 3, I mean what on earth Doom 3, they researched the GPU of the Xbox to extremes and pulled out a game that could run on ancient hardware.
Think before you post. I'm not going to ask anything more because that might be too much.
It's not simple math btw, what are you smoking again? Crack? Sounds like it. Try to actually carry yourself when you post.
Did I say that the Wii was going to match the 360 or PS3? No. I didn't nice failed attempt at shoveling a false statement on my plate, you can keep it though. I did say that this industry has shown time and time again it's not limited to the uninformed masses though. Yeah I know my "shit" about coding and it gives a lot of power over what uninformed trolls like you spout off.
Try to actually have points instead of making up things I didn't say so you can pretend to have a fight.
Saving the disappointment? no you're ranting on and taking the piss out of a gaming system because it's how you can get your kicks for a while. I forget though, exactly when did you code your own engine based on technical documentation to explore all the avenues of the Wii, go ahead and note when you found out exactly when the system was tapped out with your engine and how all the effects that we see now are totally impossible, not even a few of them could ever hope to run on the Wii and that it has to use all sorts of techniques from yesteryear instead.
The problem is, you don't know squat about running code over pipelines or layering calls or how much you can push through a pipeline on your own because zomg, you got your news from people that like to talk, not people that like to do the work and get their elbows dirty and have proven it on this platform already.
The problem is, that they said the same thing often about the last gen, and zomg the consoles defied the critics and the alleged experts. You do need to have a developer tell you what they can and can't do, because unless you spend the time to optimize your code on the machine, then you never tap the potential of the hardware. I'm not saying there's some magical infinite potential in the Wii, but with all the trash you're talking, you act as if you've been at work on the system since day 1, which of course you haven't.
This is the reality, you really don't know squat about the industry and the history of consoles. There is no debate, because all that trash you just posted demonstrated to everyone here that you're here in this post to troll around.
I'm all for actual debate, but I'm not entertained by people spouting garbage because they feel entitled to kick dirt on a developer trying to make progress because it doesn't meet their standard. You go do the work and then you can talk, until then, shut it.
Anyway you do not know any one of us and making such brash assumptions brings you down to "our" level, the only difference is you like to write a *bleep*ing essay every single time to try and prove your intellect in an almost egotistical way, with some kind of i am the best syndrome, while you try and make the rest of the site look stupid.
Sure i may make some brash comments, i don't often have the time to mull over the topic at hand like it is a scientific theory, while waiting for someone to post something absolutely obsurd, just so you can knock them down, i bet if you could you would ban many people like me for not taking the time to post coherently and sufficiently and to contribute completely to the topic at hand.
Either way you may know your shit like some overqualified geek, others like me an iLL take the situation and comment on it like we should, last thing we want is some egotistical asshole coming over and telling us we know nothing about something...
So, in the future, like Existenz said, keep your egotistical comments to yourself. Its ironic that you think all I do is troll around, yet whenever something like this comes up, you come out the shadows and get overly defensive. Are you in bed with Miyamoto? You act as if I said something derogatory towards the Wii. All I spoke was the truth, yet you..you know what, I really don't give a shit. Do me a favor and do NOT tell me what I do and do not know. Get over your own escapades before you decide you want to have a real discussion.
You're going to tell me who I know on this site? Really? I'd say it's safe to assume you have absolutely 0 clue who I talk with on this site at all. I don't have some elite club, I just have people that can carry themselves in a decent discussion without making fools of themselves.
You deliver yourselves exactly as you want to be addressed, if you want to make false claims about what I didn't say then so be it, I'll talk down to you because you're grasping at straws hoping to fake a point and I'll be very brash because you're trying to take me down since you don't have a leg to stand on.
I wouldn't ban users like you, it's impossible to curb trolls, everyone already knows that, plus what would you even learn from being banned? That so and so banned you because you're so uber cool and the guy was just jealous of the skillz.
Maybe you can actually prove a point or have something to back your claims and then I might give you the time of day for credibility. Instead though you'll do the same song and dance both of you will.
iLL, I don't think often that I know much more, usually it's just apparent that someone is at a total loss for their stance and is just fluffing themselves in hopes of bullying people and pissing on their optimism about a prospect. Sound familiar? It should.
You get your news from yourself, a Wii programmer, sweet. Never knew you dabbled in such things. Oh wait. you dont. I never actually said the Wii can produce the same things as a 360, that's your wording, and Existenz wording I might add, you both must have went to the library to compile that bit of a lie you made. So to that I have nothing further to say because, oh my you pulled it out of your rear, both of you did actually. GG on failing to comprehend basic english.
I wont keep my comments to myself, you know why? This is a comment page! It's amazing I know, but yeah it's here for comments. If you don't like that, then polish up your rhetoric instead of hopping around with pessimism. I can already tell that you're failing at the end of this, in bed with Miyamoto? right. Maybe you should look at my console list before you leap out with your desperate grasp at life. I'll recommend all day long what you can do though, I mean it's clear you guys don't listen anyway and just get infuriated when you get called on your trash.
When you're ready to you know have a "real discussion" bring it, in the meantime all this garbage you post is exactly that. Garbage.
Just because the majority of the games on the Wii don't utilize the hardware efficiently, doesn't mean the Wii's hardware is shit. It's just a bunch of lazy developers who only care about making a few bucks.
Let's hope this game ends up being golden, and not a half-arsed attempt.
*Drools*
*fails*
So yes it is possible. Wii + new engine add on = better graphics.
But seriously, I thought they would have been working on a storage solution before something like this, but, who's complaining
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