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Microsoft and Nintendo disagree about Wii U’s graphical clout

Opinions regarding the graphical power of Nintendo’s upcoming Wii U appear to be mixed. Speaking to investors, Nintendo boss Saturo Iwata asserted that the new console will not lag as far behind its upcoming rivals from Microsoft and Sony as Wii did compared to Xbox 360 and PS3. "We cannot …

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Final Fantasy creator: HD graphics are over the top

The move toward high-quality HD graphics is detrimental, the creator of Square Enix’s Final Fantasy series has argued. "Now that high-quality graphics rule supreme, you can reproduce what you want to communicate visually,” Hironobu Sakaguchi stated in a recent Iwata Asks feature. But at the same time, I don’t know …

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E3 2011: Carmack: Creativity more important than graphics

Genius development engineer John Carmack has admitted that Rage has taken his studio longer than he would have liked, and put the delay down to its drive for top tier technology and tools. That’s the biggest thing when we look back on this generation,” said the co-founder of id Software, …

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