Amazon.com has posted up some screenshots of Need for Speed: Hot Pursuit for the Wii, and they make for some grim viewing if you’re a fan of Nintendo’s little box. I’m not going to be rude about it, but the screens don’t look particularly good at all, and I actually thought one of them was from the Nintendo DS. Normally graphics don’t matter to me that much, but we know the Wii is more powerful than the PS2 by some margin, so I’m baffled as to why developers struggle to take advantage of that.
Source: Amazon.com via VG247
Ryan1991
Screenshot 4 has to be from a DS. Surely?
Dan Lee
I checked Amazon, they have it posted under the Wii section. I agree though it certainly looks DS.
ER_nut
i agree, that can’t be a Wii screenshot
waddo_89
I do hope so.
cc_star
4 player splitscreen, Awesome – is that on the PS360 versions?
bajere
looks piss poor, but its only on wii. the 4 player looks sweet though! bet it wont make it to the ps3 sadly :(
cc_star
Split screen and HD consoles goes together like popcorn & salt
Ryan1991
Think you mean popcorn and sugar. Salted popcorn is the work of Satan. We discussed this on Twitter the other day.
cc_star
Exactly, as in they don’t go together at all
jacklum
Don’t really buy that. I have ~100 PS3 games and a quick scan reveals that >55 of them have local multiplayer. Granted, most of them are PSN games, but those count surely.
cc_star
The lower visual fidelity is better suited to split screen action, just like it is with 1080p games like the PixelJunk series etc. So, no – they’re not really comparable.
skibadee
there still piss poor.
3shirts
It’s a sad example of where the constant pursuit of better graphics has come at the detriment of fun/features.
Devs, please listen, we don’t mind a drop in graphic quality when playing 4 player split screen! We are having FUN!
DRCD1
Indeed. Actually, I don’t think ANY online game will ever beat split-screen + costomizable bots. Hell, I don’t even mind having PS1 graphics if that means I get that.
OnlineAssassinUK
Looks like its for the N64
icuyesido
Who needs GT5 graphics when you can have these! :P
Kevling
According the box covers on Amazon, the Wii version is the only one not done by Criterion. Says it all, really ;)
DRCD1
Surelly you got those screens wrong. Those are from the original Hot Pursuit. Right?…
retro_
Wii is a rebadged VTECH lol!
Sympozium
These HD-ports (is it?) doesn’t give the Wii any justice…. I’m glad that I’ll be avoiding this
Cadabena
Ok, Hot Pursuit 2 from 2002 on a 10 year old console. Though Googling it now I remember it looking so much better at the time…
http://image.com.com/gamespot/images/2002/news/09/20/nfsps2_screen007.jpg
Cadabena
Though looking in to it more, my friggin PHONE has better graphics than both! My little exercise has proven pretty interesting…
http://androidis.ru/uploads/posts/2010-09/1283986425_tgft.png
Apnomis
My thoughts exactly – I was only looking at some old Need for Speed Hot Pursuit footage the other week and thinking how good it looked for an old generation game – when comparing it to the Wii screens above it’s frankly embarrassing…
I know it’s not all about graphics and that the casual market doesn’t really care, but still it makes me sad that 75 million people experience games this way…