Hey everyone. Master Graveheart here, one of the newest Official G1s here at ScrewAttack... um... yeah... I guess that does it for introductions. I did post a more detailed one in the forums, so if you're worried about intros, go check it out. I'm too lazy to try and retype it here. ^_^ Something came to mind to me while experiencing the G1 community for the first time today. I made a statement about how Nintendo wouldn’t have a problem with Wii game quality if the PS3 and 360 each didn't make the jump to HD, I wonder how things would be? I touched on the topic of companies wanting to focus on the new polygon-pushing powers of HD. It's an all-new format that has most big companies’ attention. So when more and more attention gets placed on the HD games that the games they'd spent more than a generation perfecting gets shunned aside, which is a shame considering the Wii doesn't focus on HD and the PS2 is still immensely relevant. Let's consider for a second that the companies attract themselves to wherever is selling the most consoles, which logic would dictate that they do. Let's also consider that even though the PS3 and 360, now without HD, sells for a similar price to the Wii, yet is still the second and third-place systems respectively. Would the Wii have as much of a problem getting developers to develop for them? The GameCube didn't have this problem as much as all three systems ran on a similar graphics engine and, in many ways, all got the same content and capabilities. Granted, it still seemed to get the short-end of the stick as far as bonus content went. Now, I know that I'm skipping on a few things, such as a good, powerful, Internet service, but I wonder if things might be different in this generation's gaming pool if the graphics barrier was more non-existent. Of course, maybe fans and companies would have still stayed blindly with their old platforms (says the pot to the kettle, lol), or maybe, with the influx of the casual gamers, companies would have seen not only a large new pool of potentially minted core gamers, but also a smaller barrier to work through in putting their newest top-class releases on Nintendo's diminutive gizmo. Now, I'm certain I'm sounding like a whiny, *****y, Nintendo fanboy prattling on about what ifs and I'm certain I'll get that 'lovely' Christmas jingle, but I just wanted to give some food for thought. HD is the wave of the future. Everything is probably going to be HD within the next ten years... maybe we'll get holograms next? All I'm saying is that I can understand why companies haven't exactly brought their A-Game to the Wii. HD is a damn big thing and I'd be surprised if the next Nintendo console isn't in HD. I mean, who wouldn't want to play Super Metroid in HD, even if its just for the reason of seeing Samus in her bikini in HD? So when you look at Nintendo's Wii lineup and you're looking for companion third party games to No More Heroes, Zack & Wiki, and Tales of Symphonia: Dawn of the New World, and you find yourself wondering why we didn't get a version of Ninja Gaiden or why Final Fantasy XIII announced for the Wii? Well, when all the companies get a new visual toy, they just gotta play with it. Kudos to Capcom, Suda51, and Namco-Bandai for bringing some quality to the Wii in third-party form... now how about the rest of you companies out there? Nintendo may be acting more casually, but is a graphical barrier really going to keep you from trying to release a potential masterpiece on the Wii? I mean, it hasn't stopped 2K Sports or EA from working around the barrier... are you going to tell me you're worse than them? ...Then again, a troubled Internet service didn't help things much... My prediction is that things for the Wii are going to get better. We’re already looking forward to Sega bringing us MadWorld and The Conduit, not to mention the possibility of seeing games like Tatsunoku vs. Capcom, Kolonoa, Tenchu 4, Arc Rise Fantasia, and Muramasa bringing some much-needed third-party goodness our way… now if only we get those games over here… That said, I end this, my first blog, with a little piece of advice for the video game companies. I’m not trying to do your job, I’m not trying to order you around… I’m just saying that you still have plenty of fans within the Wii and PS2 markets that are hungry for some core attention, Wii more so than PS2, whose been at it for an entire generation. Games are all about fun, not how realistic you can make some severed hand’s shadow, pretty as it is. Yeah, when HD becomes a standard you want to have a jump on things. Just don’t forget that there is more than just one market out there, graphically speaking. So that'll wrap it up for this blog. Thanks for reading my incoherant ramblings and good night.