The Blade's Kirk Baird: 'The Pinball Arcade' a blast from the low-tech past that resurrects the sounds, lights, and manic energy of a pinball table. Unlike other pinball-inspired video games that flout gravity and physics for a more fantastical (e.g., non-realistic) experience for gamers, Pinball Arcade offers “exact recreations” of dozens of popular and groundbreaking pinball machines through the decades, including their play mechanics.
FarSight Studios, developer of The Pinball Arcade, made some very controversial comments recently by voicing their extreme displeasure with the Wii U's hardware.
It's terrible when a studio that releases buggy software complains about hardware
You should ask him why Bayonetta was so blurry and ran at an unstable 30 fps with a sub 720p resolution on the ps3.. And why the Wii U version of the game had no problems outputting it at 1080p (most likely rendered at 720p not confirmed yet) @ 60 fps with a lot more eye candy?
Lets also take into account Need for Speed Most Wanted which by all accounts ran and looked better on the Wii U ... And Rayman Legends... The Wii U did all this with less support than the ps3 and x360.
The Wii U is doing a lot more with less technically superior hardware and support from developers... If the Wii U had just as much support as the other consoles it would have no problem exceeding the performance of the prior consoles... Look at Mario Kart and 3D World as an example of that..
with all respect to those guys
i am not even a nintendo fan or been a fan ever .
but the console can run games like mario kart 8 and super smash bros 4 with ace .
and still can provide more experiences .
its more about the games if i wanted pure power i could have played my games on the PC but because i dont enjoy pc games or pc gaming in general i go for consoles like playstation which is my favorite .
its a cheap attempt to generate attention .
The Pinball Arcade flips onto PlayStation 4 at retail this February
Ten years in the making – The Pinball Arcade is the ultimate authentic collection, and the highest rated pinball experience in history
"Ever since I was a young boy, I played the silver ball. Well, that’s not entirely true. When I was a young boy, I was busy playing coin-op arcade classics like Robocop, GunSmoke, and Rush’n Attack in the dirty game room at my local bowling alley. Pinball was relegated to the smoky bar, where toothless rednecks violently shook them, as they did their small children, in between pitchers of Pabst Blue Ribbon." - Brian Acebedo of Str N Gaming
Loved this article! Seeing the Funhouse clown really brought back memories. I'd love to have a table like the Spider-Man 2 table but my neighbors would kill me.
love it. gotta get back on my pinball grind.
I hope Funhouse is included..