Nice to see you being positive about things.
Need for Speed: Most Wanted Wii U Demo!Dat EA support.[Alex Ward of Criterion Games]
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Nice to see you being positive about things.
Zoramon089
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BLOPS2 isn't graphically advanced?
AkimbO_Arcana
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Heart Attack
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sweet, another delayed port for the wiiu sold at $60. Keep em coming 
frankie_baby
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typical as that would be this game is almost certainly the game DF think outclasses last gen in the article they're putting up today or tomorrow
plagiarize
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Seeing Criterion make a system sing, doesn't mean that it doesn't have problems, or that lesser developers can do the same thing. They're pretty great at working within (and around) a systems bottlenecks. Consider, for example, that they were one of the first devs to put out a multiplatform game on PS3 and 360 where the two versions were almost identical in looks and performance.
Hopefully you don't need to be a Criterion level of talent to demonstrate the Wii U's technical advantage over the other consoles, but there should be no real argument any more that the Wii U doesn't have a technical advantage. It's just a small one, and it takes some specific work to demonstrate it.
When a console represents a generational leap in power, it doesn't take coding skill to demonstrate that it's more powerful than preceding systems.
None of this should be surprising to anyone who was paying attention in the build up to the systems release, but what are you going to do. That launch ports were almost at parity in many cases (and a bit better in a few rare cases) was a good sign for the system. That Criterion have now shown it can run a big budget late generation port at higher fidelity seals it.
The Wii U is more powerful overall. A bit. Enough that you can look at Most Wanted U and tell that it looks better, but not so much you look at it and go 'WOW!'.
the footage is from Dev Demo.. Youtube video title.
plagiarize
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Digital Foundry call out the good ports when they see them. CF: Trine 2 and Sonic and Sega All Stars Transformed (which had some advantages and some disadvantages, but which DF overall favored on Wii U).
ColdBlooder
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I know but people think thats an eShop demo or soon to be released demo, while we have no annoucnement whatsoever for a playable demo on the eShop.
Yeah.. it was a long title that I wrote. Can a mod change it?
Disorientator
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It is and I totally forgot 'bout it. Thanks.
Anyways, my point was that with so much happening at the screen (+ a bump over x360/ps3 visuals), I expected they would have/need to "direct all power" to one screen.
Visualante2
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Alex Ward got a lot of hate when Burnout Paradise's demo came out. He got all emotional and lashed out at the Nintendo fans who haven't played his game since Burnout 2.
Well.. that was dumb but this is how you win people back. UK's most consistent dev probably.
Well.. that was dumb but this is how you win people back. UK's most consistent dev probably.
Smoothice65
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I want to see a graphics comparison with the PC version though...
The PS3 version actually runs better than the 360 one. I didn#t watch the whole video but it looked solid ont he WiiU.
Should be identical, except for the IQ and the DX11 bells and whistles.
bronzodiriace
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I'll take it on Wii U
And resolution. And probably better AA?
actually no.. Add Dev before Demo and take the EA part out.
Actually, DF already responded to a guy from the B3D thread, that they had an article about to release about a current gen state of the art game, that was clearly superior on WiiU... very likely this is Burn... errr Need for Speed.
I think that's what he meant and was being sarcastic about the abundance of trolls claiming otherwise.
That's what I was alluding to when I wrote "IQ". The PC version looks spectacular at 1080p/60fps.
I think your memory may be a bit clouded. As with many others.
Or would you judge the 360 being only slightly more powerfull than the original xbox based on it's own launch ports?
/offtopic
I wish I'd like racing games... I'd buy it on day one, but I don't like them, at all.
When launch game looks as good as late ps360 games that alone should tell you its more powerfull, but I dont think anyone has claimed its a "generational leap" in power, exept if you are comparing it to the Wii.
frankie_baby
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i did realise that, 'twas a jokey sounding response to sarcasm
The most 360 launch ports looked tremdously better than their XBox counterparts.
Visualante2
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Don't forget the load times and maybe the online population.
Load times should be much better since the moment the blu-ray reader of the Wii U is around 2,5 times faster than the 360. Online population, I won't discuss that but if people start talking good about the game in Miiverse, it won't take long to get to healthy levels.
Joeshabadoo
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Criterion doing it right! hells yea
just hope the online community will be fairly healthy, but I feel like it will be. Miiverse will play no small part in making that happen
just hope the online community will be fairly healthy, but I feel like it will be. Miiverse will play no small part in making that happen
Probably because the few that looked different and improved had some effort behind them? Others just looked the same - like 360 -> wiiu ports.
plagiarize
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seriously... stop holding onto this hope that the Wii U represents a major upgrade in power. most of the games in that link look substantially better. a handful only look substantially better if played on an HDTV. I don't see why we'd only compare them at 480p in this day and age. Gun looks notably better on 360 than Xbox. As does the NHL title.
they all look substantially better. none of them look and run worse as some of the Wii U launch ports did. My memory isn't clouded. The Wii U is more powerful, but it doesn't represent a generational increase in power. It's launch ports are a lot less impressive than the 360s as a result.
That article only really backs up what I said.
But, anyway, I am glad that Criterion have given us a game that will let us shut up some of the people still trying to claim that the Wii U isn't more powerful, or that the bad launch ports conveyed anything about what the system was capable of.
only if you ignore the massive increase in resolution. The 360 -> Wii U ports we got at launch did not demonstrate any real increase in resolution.
Smoothice65
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Why is Criterion the only developer that ported a game from the PC VERSION ???
Or were there more 3rd party developers that did that for example mass effect 3 ?
Or were there more 3rd party developers that did that for example mass effect 3 ?
The Horror the horror
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Is this game casual friendly? I'm going to get it, but I want my girlfriend to be able to have fun with it, and her gaming experience is limited to NSMBU and Wii Sports.
Given the effort that most devs put into their PC version, there's nothing significant there to port anywhere.
Trine 2
Only 2 games at 360 launch impressed man, it was Kameo and PGR4, everything else definitely didn't look tremendously better than previous Xbox late gen games. A resolution bump may be spoiling something for you though.
plagiarize
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I know Trine 2 was also ported from the PC version, which just so happens to be one of the other games that shows clear graphical advantages over the PS3 and 360 versions.
frankie_baby
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shocking coincidence
