Sonic Developer Impressed With Wii U Development Platform

Chrono · 2012-08-28T07:00:36Z

At least one developer was surprisingly pleased with the ease of developing for Nintendo's new platform.

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nintendojunkie285024d ago

They're not the only devs to have said this.Like the Wii U or not,the fact that it's easy to develop for is a big deal.

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Silver-Hawk5024d ago (Edited 5024d ago )

Correct. It's easy to develop for so it most likely is close to being maxed out already and from what some people who played it have to say is that assassins creed 3 on Wii u looks worse than the ps3 version and the system is freezing and lagging. If Wii us version of assassins creed 3 looks way worse than the ps3 version then one can conclude that the ps3 is more powerful than a Wii u. With games like uncharted 3, killzone 2 ,3, gow 3, the last of us , beyond and a lot of ps3 exclusives looking way better than ps3 version of assassins creed 3 then it wouldn't be silly to say that the ps3 is better and more powerful than the Wii u

In the case of it being easy to develop for and developers having gotten a tight grip on knowing how to work with this gens consoles, they shouldn't have any problems pushing the limits of the Wii u with its easy architecture. Looking at the games already shown on the Wii u is representative of what games will look like in 3 years on the Wii u proving that the Wii u hardware is weak and not next gen .

Ps. If you disagree it means you agree and if you agree you agree

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SolidSystem5024d ago

you have to be kidding me. you obviously have no programming experience, so stop talking about which you don't know.

Being easy to develop for means its straight forward, got good tools, and good documentation. that has nothing to do with how well a developer uses those resources to "max" a console.

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Hisiru5024d ago (Edited 5024d ago )

@Solid System
You should ignore him, don't feed the trolls.

It's good to see the WiiU is easy to develop for, I hope we will hear the same thing about the other 2 next gen consoles.

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Xperia_ion5024d ago

I have to admit 2013 PS3 games look amazing.

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nintendojunkie285024d ago

If I pay the troll toll,will you go back under your bridge?

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sandman2245024d ago

"Wii U has way more memory, so we can take advantage of that with less compression on elements and textures, so it will look all lovely and shiny" my only problem is, will the multiplatform developers take advantage of making the wii u version pretty or will they keep all games looking the same because of the old consoles hardware.

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LostDjinn5024d ago

With news this good you should run this story twice!

http://n4g.com/news/1066716...

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Xperia_ion5024d ago

Good!!!

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zerocrossing5024d ago

Im not saying the Wii U is going to be bad or anything, just don't forget that it is in the best interest of any dev that plans on developing for the Wii U (Or any console) to say that the console is good.

It would be pretty stupid for them to say "Yeah it's crap, but buy it anyway so we can have your cash!".

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MadMen5024d ago

Its sad that we devs are going through this "suprised" that its worth anything

IMO the WiiU will fail especially in comparison to the Wii

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hkgamer5024d ago

Most devs say that games are really easy to develop for when a console is about to release. Not sure why, maybe they just want a little bit more publicity.

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cleft55024d ago

Developers where openly complaining about the PS3 being hard to develop for before it ever released. Most devs have been saying good things about developing for WiiU and I don't think that is just to grab headlines.

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hkgamer5023d ago

When the PS3 released a bunch of tech demo's all the people were saying how easy it is to develop and they only took weeks/months to produce the demo.
Kojima also said it was really easy to develop for and did't take long to produce the demo.

WiiU wouldn't be too hard to develop for because it is slightly stronger than the PS3 & 360. Most developers right now are just porting their games over to the WiiU. None of those games look next gen at all.

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NastyLeftHook05024d ago

im impressed with the wii u too.

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3-4-55024d ago

Easy to develop means more games for us. And more quality games at that.

It means less time spent trying to figure out how there ideas could work on the hardware, and more time spent putting good quality creative ideas into the game.

Easy to develop also is good for indie game dev's who want to reach out to a wider audience.

In the end this can only be a good thing. If people complain about the graphics now, just remember that the easier it is to develop , the faster they can learn and master the hardware and the sooner we get games with better graphics.

It takes a few years to figure out how to get everything you can out of these machines. At least that is what we are told.

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cleft55024d ago

I am just glad that devs are liking what they see of the WiiU so far. Hopefully third parties will be able to sell their games well on WiiU.

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wiiulee5023d ago

the wiiu is going to be an incredible system.....the opposition knows it too...thats why you have all that hate

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