Well if you want to talk about 3rd party then go ahead. There is some people who talk lowly of the first party titles because they could have looked better. People always say consoles arent the same as handheld well you are crazy its all video game consoles.
It may be underpowered compared to PS4, yet still more powerful than most people think. That's most likely what he's talking about. Also, read my edited post for an answer to the "special sauce" thing.
They don't release the specs because they don't matter and because nobody would understand them to begin with. Sony and MS release specs as marketing stunts, and those "specs" are usually misleading, highly theoretical bullshit figures. Remember when the PS3 supposedly had 2TFLOPS? Now it appears that not even the PS4 will have 2TFLOPS. I wonder how Sony plans to spin this.
I don't see press mentioned anywhere.
The developers need to know. The consumers don't. Do you know how many MHz the CPU in your car entertainment system has? Probably not. And you probably don't give a fuck either, as long as it does what it's intended to do. Same thing with game consoles. Those are embedded, fixed configuration devices, designed for a specific purpose. All that ultimately matters is that they're strong enough to do what they were created for.
Why shouldn't consumers know? They're buying a product, knowing what's inside shouldn't be seen as a great offense.
Yes, nobody understands, because you can't compare vastly different systems based on a few arbitrary figures. That's why we have benchmarks. And because different software has different requirements, we have a whole lot of different benchmark suites. Problem is: There is no standard benchmark suite for consoles.
It's fine to hand out specs, but they don't really matter, so there's no real reason to do it.
Here you go then:
What is wrong with you?!! When you buy a tablet, smarphone, Laptop, Desktop do you care about specs? No, you just care that it runs an OS and you can make phone calls.
Gamecube's third party support was more at parity than any future Nintendo console has ever been.
Nintendo released some specs, though not even the additional stuff we've managed to figure out through reverse engineering tells us much about the actual performance of the system. And that's the main issue with specs in general.
Can you point me to Unreal Engine 3 for Wii? Do you also know how many games used it?
I think you're arguing something that we've yet to see. It's easy to turn this into an emotional argument and say that 3rd parties don't support Nintendo because they "just don't want to," but frankly I can't say that Nintendo's honestly courted 3rd party support with observable effort, especially in the face of two strong competitors who have realized the value of 3rd party support and bend over backwards for it. At the end of the day, that's what it comes down to.
There are a ton of 3rd parties, many of which certainly are interested in Web Framework and especially Unity. Iwata stated that they're not chasing ports, they want the next big thing on their platform. Nobody knows what that next big thing is going to be, but chances are it won't have an EA or Activision logo on the box. In fact, it probably won't even come in a box.
There are a ton of 3rd parties, many of which certainly are interested in Web Framework and especially Unity. Iwata stated that they're not chasing ports, they want the next big thing on their platform. Nobody knows what that next big thing is going to be, but chances are it won't have an EA or Activision logo on the box. In fact, it probably won't even come in a box.
Except Nintendo never turned down any of those games. They're just not moneyhatting them.
There are a ton of 3rd parties, many of which certainly are interested in Web Framework and especially Unity. Iwata stated that they're not chasing ports, they want the next big thing on their platform. Nobody knows what that next big thing is going to be, but chances are it won't have an EA or Activision logo on the box. In fact, it probably won't even come in a box.
To what end though? Another console without anything to differentiate it? What else then would they have to make console stand out for the non-enthusiasts? Tue wiimote thing again?
