@charizard1605 said:
@speak_low said:
You play 720p Wii U games.
PS4 has more 1080p games than 900p games.
He doesn't play Wii U games, he hates consoles in general.
Can you not bring Nintendo up in an argument that literally has nothing to do with them? Can you just not bring Nintendo up for once in general? You have a bizarre fixation with them.
This guy has a second account. You know him. He has a Wii U - and it's hilarious to point it out because he won't ever stay quiet about the PS4 and PSVR's graphical inferiority. And to be honest, he's not really adding much to the discussion with his typical drive-by "900pStation dumb cows ahaha" jokes anyways under this second account. He does get really quiet whenever I bring up his hypocrisy about graphical standards, which means it works.
And bringing up the Wii U makes as much sense as bringing up the PS4 in this thread (as you and many others have). Just because Nintendo kind of fell out of the race early doesn't mean their mistakes are ancient history or irrelevant (MS and Nintendo share a lot in common with their mistakes when we look back on things). To give more "conversational gravity" to this QB news, we need to bring in more context and recent comparisons about why this MS situation is getting really serious. You can't just laugh at QB's 720p resolution and leave it at that. Why is a highly-anticipated game like QB in 720p going to be problematic in the long run? What does it mean for MS in the larger competitive space this generation? Who are they competing with? Just Sony? Isn't there a third big company named Nintendo? Are there previous examples of the mainstream audience quickly losing interest in a console - and why? (I can think of no better example than the one you don't want me to name). Has hardware/average graphical resolution mattered to the mainstream consumers, or never mattered? How is Nintendo off-topic here when everyone here is laughing at MS and bringing up its yin-yang twin PS4 as well? PS4 is an example of where Xbox One wants to be. Wii U is an example of where they kind of don't want to end up.
To put it simply - MS is running into problems because they are not successfully measuring up to that promised Median Line that a majority of gamers wanted. Nintendo ran into this problem too, and that's why we're almost sure they won't be making the NX another 720p console. I didn't say Nintendo owners didn't or can't have fun with the Wii U. I'm saying Nintendo messed it up with their hardware decision, and fell behind MS and Sony because of that. None of these big three are "off topic" when discussing the whole panorama of Generation 8. "720p talk" is one very small element of the discussion that needs to be enlarged in order to have more weight and significance. I will always bring up Nintendo and Sony if it paints a better picture for MS and Lemmings. I could just come in and laugh with "720p lol," or I could explain further why things like this will become a problem and future headache for a company, and that is when strong parallels and recent comparisons will be brought in.
Lastly - I don't care if a few games just happen to end up 720p/900p. Sometimes it's done because certain games do have a lot of stuff going on, and can still look good. But when 80%-90% of the game library end up that way, then we have to take a look at the competition and what they're doing and see whether it's far better or far worse. And over there on the Best Buy shelf 5 feet away there's a PS4 that's at a similar price, that delivers more 1080p experiences and a bigger jump over last gen than the other two. It's not a surprise where gamers chose to go when it came to home consoles.
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