Official Nintendo Fanboy Smugness & Gloating Thread

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Darkflame wrote: I would hope in 10 years time theres a more significant upgrade. Resolution is sooooo overated. Give me decent colour depth, contrast, forcefeedback and smell-a-vision please.
Oh, and 3D while your at it.
You realise you will eat your words in the future. Resolution is everything, even on 32" displays. The finer the pixel pitch, the better...

10 years before you next upgrade of T.V .....
think 4 years if you buy now.

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I assume anyone that thinks resolution is overrated still runs their PC at 640x480 then?
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sdetoni wrote:
Darkflame wrote: I would hope in 10 years time theres a more significant upgrade. Resolution is sooooo overated. Give me decent colour depth, contrast, forcefeedback and smell-a-vision please.
Oh, and 3D while your at it.
You realise you will eat your words in the future. Resolution is everything, even on 32" displays. The finer the pixel pitch, the better...
But I dont *care*
In motion its already as good as my eyes.
Its other stuff holding it back.
I dont see the point in going beyond what the majority of people can visualy tell apart.
(Id love some double blind tests done, metaphoricaly of course :p)

If everything else was the same, then yes, making something as good as possible in one aspex would be fine. But its always tradeoffs.
If we push for resolutions greater and greater, we are diverting research from other stuff. We are pushing up file sizes, and almost certainly increaseing enviromental impact. (whats the failure rate on these screens like?)

Id like the industary to get a good colour depth, contrast,longer lifetime, greater powerefficiancy, good refresh rate, and no lag.

Give me a 720p tv with those things rather then a 1080p without them any time.
And if the goal of tv is to replacate (safely) "as if we were there" then 3D is also very much the way to go and will add so much more then a few more lines.
I assume anyone that thinks resolution is overrated still runs their PC at 640x480 then?
Used like a tv, 720p is fine. If my eyes cant tell them apart at that range (in motion) now, they certainly wont in 10 years.

Used up close, your reading stuff.
The image is both more static and closer, thus your eyes are absorbing more detail.

And for that I wont be happy till its like e-paper, with print like clarity and contrast.

This is quite a different thing to sitting back and watching a movie.
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The Wii is an amazing piece of kit but for me the biggest flaw is the resolution after using the 360 and ps3 playing the wii is like going back in time.
Once you have experienced The Searchers / CoD 4 on large screen 1080p display realise that resolution is a jump from VHS to DVD to the next level. Clarity of image can be as immersive maybe even more than shaking a controller around.
If I could for example compare how much better these amazing wii gameswould have been with higher resolution .

Endless ocean a game that benefit greatly from increased resolution and detail if you put aqua vita on the ps3 and see the 1080p image of fish and imagine that in endless ocean .

Metroid Prime how much more impressive would it have been if you could read the signs and invole yourself in the surronding without suffering from blur-o-vision , Bio-shock was fantastic at this every detail was visible it gave atmnosphre.

Lastly the great Mario Galaxy would that have been improved with higher resolution , for me definatly . On mass effect last night I was on the moon in space looking at earth and the hairs stood up on my neck at the beauty of it.
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I see your point, but the Endless Ocean series, for example, used to be for Playstation and they moved over, so they clearly don't see res as that big a contributor to immersion. There will be a PS3version soon enough, as the next development in gaming will be dodgy ports of successful Nintendo console games to other platforms. How long before a PS3 game emerges where the platforming levels are spherical? It'll be high res and so on as well. But it won't be Galaxy.

Metroid I just found lush from start to finish, or at least, where I am up to. I never once question the resolution or detail, I'm too busy playing.

Lastly, I still can't see the point in comparing the Wii with consoles that are not only much more expensive but require a heavy investment in a new telly to play. One might as well compare a Jag to my little VW Polo.
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Maybe goatboy and I do agree there is a special magic with nintendo that they can only do , and a higher rez facsimil wont cut the mustard. I would love to just stick a HDMI in a Wii

I don't agree with Wii being cheap after 4 controllers, nun chucks and cables it cost about the same as a ps3. The investment in TV is inevitable and its not only sony and Ms forcing it in that direction media is in general .

Then again the wii is the leader in the consoles at the moment , so what do I know ;)
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Mele wrote: Endless ocean a game that benefit greatly from increased resolution and detail if you put aqua vita on the ps3 and see the 1080p image of fish and imagine that in endless ocean .
Would you mind posting your thought of Aqua Vita and any of the other stuff you've downloaded recently in the PS3 thread?

I've not found much info on the recent crop of stuff, especially the eye toy stuff.

What does the eye toy stuff do? does the aquarium work without one?
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Mele wrote:I don't agree with Wii being cheap after 4 controllers, nun chucks and cables it cost about the same as a ps3.
Are you comparing that to a PS3 with four controllers? I think not. ;)
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Mele wrote:
I don't agree with Wii being cheap after 4 controllers, nun chucks and cables it cost about the same as a ps3. The investment in TV is inevitable and its not only sony and Ms forcing it in that direction media is in general .
Wii, cheaper than some mobile phones, same price as PSP launched.
Blu-Ray HDDVD 2% of the video market
PS3 didnt do what was promised
LCD TVs 60% depreciation in 15 months.

I can honestly say the Wii is by far the best investment sitting in our lounge.
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Mele wrote:The investment in TV is inevitable and its not only sony and Ms forcing it in that direction media is in general .
Debatable. I feel no pressure to move to Bluray or HD-DVD seeing as there are next to no discs out there and hardly anywhere sells them. Outside the US and, possibly, the UK HDTV is next to non-existant. My cable provider has a massive five HD channels, only two of which are in any way connected with one of the major networks.
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