Why the Wii isn't HD

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Kyros said:

The Hardware isn’t powerful enough at a reasonable price.

LOL the base 360 costs less than a Wii now.

2) The industry wasn’t ready yet

Bullshit, "HD" games have been developed for PC for half a decade. You can always make games look worse and cheaper if you think you can make money with that.

3) Developers aren’t ready yet

Yeah sure. Because of this Call of Duty 4 looks so bad. Insomniac releases a AAA game a year and of course games have never been delayed.


Nintendo didn't go HD because

1) They went casual and (correctly) assumed that graphics wouldn't be so important for that market.

2) It did minimize their risk, should they fail.

3) They wouldn't have been able to compete directly anyway against Microsoft's Development Experience and Sony's technological, PS2 image and media advantages. The Gamecube shows how trying this worked out.

4) They simply focused their ressources on the motion controls. And it worked out.

I think thats only because M$ isn't making any money of it's sales and the nintendo is making truckloads of $$$ of wii sales.