Disney Infinity Guardians Of The Galaxy Playset Wii U Visuals "Closer To Xbox 360"

This is the playset I'm most looking forward to

Disney Afternoon Sets plz. ;P

Although I agree that the WiiU is not as powerfull than XboxOne and PS4, it is also interesting to observe that all WiiU exclusives could achieve better graphics compared to 360 and PS3 including all multi-platform launches.

Would that be called "Lazy ports"?

@salxicha I dunno if I would call it lazy porting. It's not the best they could do, but since the Wii U can't rival the other consoles of this generation in terms of graphical prowess it would be a lot of work for one console.

But do the plastic statues in the XB1 version look better than the Wii U version? That's what kids really want to know!

@salxicha Nope, this is what we call a "money grubbing cash cow"
But in all seriousness, yes, they could have achieved quite a bit more if they would have cared more.
Grpahics, shmaphics if you ask me. As long as it doesnt look like Bubsy 3D everything is fine

The playsets look improved,though.Gameplay>graphics.

I think the only reply is unfortunately my obnoxious son one - well duh. The Wii U is closer to the Xbox360 and PS3 than the X1 and PS4 therefore the games will more closely resemble the graphics of the older systems. We should just be thankful when Wii U gets 3rd party support.

Anybody upgrading from the Wii to Wii U version should be very happy w/ the look of a 360 version. I don't care how many times better the new machines are from the old machines, it's nowhere near the jump from the Wii to any HD system. I haven't seen an X1 or PS4 game yet that has really made me feel I NEED to upgrade. Better, yes, but I'm not impressed.

Where are the real Disney characters at?

@Kodeen Well, most multi platform WiiU titles arent profitable enough, thats true. But making these ports even more inferior instead of making the best out of the system doesnt enhance the will to purchase these versions.
This predicament is brought upon these developers themselfes.
By either releasing vastly inferior games, or even not releasing games at all, they dont dont earn money, and without that money, they wont support the system further.
So, either hit it hard and care for your games or leave it be and stop whining, thats what most devs get really wrong.

@Ichiban They just announced Stitch and Tinkerbell if that makes you feel any better.

Copy and paste made easier for them.

Well that's the developers fault. They could of achieved closer to Ps4 Xbone graphics with more effort.

@MrWalkieTalkie it does, thank you!

Surely they could do better than this and Wii U is capable of making beautiful graphics if you know how to use it. But of course only Nintendo knows

@Mega719 And Shin-en. They're like the masters of Nintendo hardware.

So basically this artical is saying that the WII U will look more like the Microsoft System that runs at the higher resolution and fastr frame rate.

Is anyone still surprised by this? I mean come on, these devs are not going to spend a whole bunch of coins to make a standalone Wii U version. It makes more sense to just port the 360 version of the game since they have similar architectures.

@rjejr The Wii U's performance gap between the other 2 consoles is not as large as you think. Yes both systems have juiced up specs but do note that x86 is inefficient. From what I read around, the PS4 is already suffering from bottle-necking. So yeah. With more work the Wii U version can definitely look closer to the PS4/Xbone version, but is it financially viable? Probably not.

@noctowl - "The idea that the wii u is closer in tech to 8 year old hardware is absurd."

Why is it "absurd"? Find me a link that says the Wii U is closer in hardware specs to the PS4 and X1 than to the PS3 and Xbox360, b/c I've never seen it explained that way.

Why do people care so much about graphics? Have FUN people! It really isn't that hard... is it?

@Hy8ogen - "The Wii U's performance gap between the other 2 consoles is not as large as you think."

I haven't seen that much of a difference between Xbox360 and PS3 to X1 and PS4, so Wii U is close to X1 and PS4, but I still think it's closer in capabilities to last gen. Nintnedo could probably make a game look like X1 on Wii U b/c SMG2 on Wii nearly looks like a PS3 game on a 32" 720p tv. Nobody else pulled that off on Wii. MK8 looks damn good, but it pales to Driveclub on PS4 (don't think I've ever actually seen X1 Forza Horizon 2 footage but I'ld guess it looks good as well.) I can't imagine any 3rd party getting a Wii U game to match PS4 or X1. 8GB RAM vs 2GB RAM will see to that.

@rjejr IIRC, the PS4 only has about up to 3~5GB (can't remember the actual numbers) of RAM to run/process the games, and lets not forget the Wii U also has the eDRAM to work with. I got to be honest with you, I'm not a tech guy so I don't really know the significance of those numbers/stuff. These are just purely my own speculations based on my limited electronics knowledge.

Personally I think it is unfair to compare those realistic games to Mario Kart 8 though. However there is going to be one game that we can know for sure the actual gap between these systems and that game is Project Cars. I would be a fool to claim the Wii U's version will look as good as the Ps4 version. But I'm certainly confident the difference won't be huge.

@Hy8ogen - This project cars? -

https://www.nintendolife.com/news/2014/07/wii_u_version_of_project_cars_drops_to_the_back_of_the_starting_grid

Guess we'll have to wait for the side by side comparisons

@rjejr That delay better be justified. Otherwise Imma rage.

@Hy8ogen - Sorry.

'Wii U Visuals "Closer To Xbox 360"'

... duh?

Long as the game looks and play fine I don't care.
So far quite impressed with this, just hope there's a few more classic Disney characters revealed then I may get it.

That's unfortunate. I'll be buying the ps4 version. The graphics were really bland on infinity 1 on the Wii U. No excuse for that. Also, 2 player sandbox mode slows down repetitively. It feels like the 360 version. When they phase out the 360, this issue will eventually go away.