Hironnobu Sakaguchi, creator of Final Fantasy, reinforces that fact. After discussing development of his latest title ‘The Last Story’, Sakaguchi claimed that working with the limited technology of the Wii has actually been a liberating experience.
Magic the Gathering x Final Fantasy has been so successful that it managed to sell $200 million in just 24 hours.
I think if helped they the prices for all these products were extremely high at launch. Like no other cross over had prices these high. LotR for example weren't even close to FF MTG prices
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Skewed and Reviewed have posted panel images from the big reveal at PAX East.
You need good graphics to survive in today's market otherwise the game would probably not sell well as a game with good graphics like uncharted, but this is only true on the ps3 and 360, not on the wii
Sakaguchi has lost his way.
He has gone bonkers...or has nintendo payed him some $$$$?
In a way, Sakaguchi is correct. Some video games don't require the perfect graphics in order to become one of the best games ever.
Look at Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas. THAT game looked as though its been using thePS1 or N64 graphics engine. But was it terrible? No! The gameplay was fun, story was interesting, missions were exciting, and it was an overal GTA game.
Another example is Plants vs. Zombies. PvZ had cartoony-style graphics, but that didn't ruin the gameplay. In fact, the graphics fit PERFECTLY with the gamelay. Zombies bloodthirsty (or plantthirsty) to go invade your house, while your plants try desperately to defend your home and destroy these invading zombies.
Overall graphics can help improve video games, but gameplay is where its most important as well.
it all depends on the type of game your making when putting graphics and gameplay together be it 2d or 3d makes a huge difference in the direction you want to go in