Nintendo's Takeshi Shimada, who last week spoke at GDC about the development of Brain Training, revealed that enhanced development tools are in the making for Wii.
Shimada spoke of a development application called NintendoWare. Being made by Nintendo and HAL, NintendoWare emulates Wii hardware on a PC so that developers can sample parts of their games without having to load it to a Wii dev machine.
Shimada also revealed that a new easy-to-incorporate fur-shading effect is in the works - we're thinking effects similar to those in Star Fox Adventures could be the result.
The motion recognition could also see an upgrade, with a new predictive input tool that uses prior movement to predict your next motion. Sounds complex.
And you Wii might be able to read the new and weather headlines to you soon, with a text-to-speech tool also in the works.
All we want is more games to look as good as Super Mario Galaxy which, at the moment, is graphically light-years ahead of anything else on Wii. Is Nintendo keeping the "How to make good graphics on Wii" to itself or something?
Well I do believe, the enhanced development tools for the Wii are very good thing. It allows programmers to provide more functionality and therefore produce I would hope more accessible games. So it can only be a good thing and I welcome more enhanced development tools in the future.
As for good graphics, while that's another problem altogether. As we all know with lower end consoles clever programming is needed to really make the graphics seem beautiful or even more so artistic. Therefore when the Xbox and PS2 finally stopped production, perhaps then third party games developers will surely concentrate on the Wii, as they will not be able port from current PS3 and an Xbox 360 games.
he meant : And your wii might be able to read news headlines and the weather to you aswel, as oppose to just reading it urself, and as far as im concered the graphics are good, they have been since the snes and megadrive i dont see the problem, go back 20 years. the way forward the games industry has gone is by far greater than the tv..video..radio etc. Im Happy
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