But they're already doing that, they've always been doing that. We're making huge strides in both the audio-visual presentation and the mechanics of games with each passing generation and graphics are a big part of that progress. You can't have complexity without the specs to power it, everything always goes back to the silicon.
graphics matter cause
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like i want to like you xenoblade x but wtf is up with those faces
Indeed. A very poor artistic direction, but a direction nonetheless. To be fair, I'll take this over the misshapen heads of Toriyama's Dragon Ball or the awful One Piece style, but it's still dangerously close to Uncanny Valley.
Ehhhhhh..... I'd still say they're a long way from reaching uncanny valley level, at least in XCX. The hardware and game engine aren't quite there. I've seen some amazing renders that are well into uncanny valley, but games still have a long way to go. Plenty of room for improvement... and that's why there will still be at least 3 more console gens to go.
I meant Uncanny Valley as a derogatory term, just so we're clear.
Technically speaking level streaming has been around since the original Unreal. It wasn't very seamless at that time and games still stuttered every now and then to load chunks, but that's where level streaming made its first steps. Then Half-Life came along and used a similar approach towards levels, and that's a rather old game as well. For all intents and purposes the OUYA has enough horsepower to stream levels just fine, it's a matter of implementation, not horsepower.
The NX is not replacing the Wii U though, it's not Nintendo's next gen, it's supposed to be sold alongside the 3DS and the Wii U.LOL, sad but true.
Textures on the doll/robot look very low res, and I find annoying the texture is so poor I can't read the text on Lynlee's clothes.
Meh, perhaps they put more texture RAM on the NX.
graphics matter cause
like i want to like you xenoblade x but wtf is up with those faces
The quality of anime characters having "large eyes" is a western trait to begin with. They're big in order to be emotive, it's a characteristic borrowed directly from western animation. As you've probably noticed, asians typically have narrow, slanted, smaller eyes, not large anime-like ones. Anime characters are not based on asian physiology, they're based on western physiology.
Generations refer to time frames, not specs. For all intents and purposes the Wii U is current gen, Nintendo's last gen console was the Wii. I don't remember anyone calling the Wii previous gen just because it was only a tad stronger than an Xbox.
Yep, kind of, or more like in a non-existent cartoonish physiology that is definitively not Asian.
The Japanese society lives in isolation on their little island, they tend to be unintentionally racist at times, but usually they don't depict a whole lot of physiological differences between westerners and asians (unless they're black in which case they go nuts and pull out the big 'ol racist booklet).
I expect more from the Wii U seeing that it has four times the RAM and a substantially stronger GPU and CPU. It's not a whole lot stronger than last gen consoles, but it is stronger nonetheless.
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