The skill of the koji pro team was amazing. And you just had to look at there games to see it. They inspired allot of others in the industry to do better, and if anything showed others what was possible. Thier innovation continues to be felt to this day, and it is a shame that most companies go for the easy win far too often, which results in underutilized hardware and lack of sales, imo.
Definitely true for lack of software support, but re:64 bit power, i believe i read somewhere that it was a scam and it was only 32 bit? I could be wrong.
Absolutely and what a port! And if the gta port is anything to go buy, there was allot of power left on the table.
That's right! When Konami and Kojima production are still going strong, their attention to details even on the small things are admirable
I think, with the power home pc's and such have now. and as Easy as the DC is to Code <because of being Very well Documented and understood> and Port to. We may see in the next few years a Slew of Games, Fan-made, and Fan-Retail made. Like Intrepid Izzy for the DC.
You know... I feel that if, say, Nintendo released the N-Gage as it was, without changing anything, I'd have been hailed as one of the greatest, most innovative devises of its time. The fact that it came from a manufacturer with nearly zero experience AND as a competitor to a Nintendo dynasty killed it, not its lack of merit -- it was actually really amazing for what it was!
True, I guess you could that it was…solid
God, even ports of some other games to the WiiU got such cool odds and ends that it made me wonder how much further certain concepts could be pushed with a second screen. A lot of it was nothing that we hadn't already seen on the DS, but having stuff like hacking minigames in Deus Ex: Human Revolution appear on a second touchscreen was novel. Even ZombiU's inventory being real-time and having the motion/feel of rummaging through a backpack was adorable and it even had that asymmetrical multiplayer mode where the gamepad player played a zombie RTS while trying to thwart a controller player who just played FPS.
The Wiimote's motion functionality seemed like a big deal at the time, but a lot like the DS's touch screen it became a forgotten gimmick that was annoying at best. Nobody's complaining about it in the No More Heroes Switch remake because it's no longer there.When the Wii U was first announced, there was this golf game they showed in the reveal trailer that blew my mind. You'd see the course on your TV, set your gamepad on the floor to show a ball on a tee, then swing your Wii remote like a golf club perpendicular to the gamepad to hit the ball "into" the TV. I nearly went insane – think of the possibilities! It was like a holodeck, and it could theoretically depict any environment for you to interact with!
When the console finally came out, of course, they ditched all interactivity between the Wii remote and the gamepad entirely, and all the games were just poor minigame collections. I'm still sour about that.
Speaking of, I really liked those games where you held the DS horizontally like a book, like Professor Layton or Rhythm Heaven. Nanashi no Game does this very interestingly, too — that’s a good contender for this thread.
