If Xbox could run Doom3 & HL2 is it impossible Wii could run 360/PS3 games?

[rocketpig]

scorptile said:
anyone here ever see the actual specs od the ps2 and gamecube? ps2 ran at *gasp* 256mhz roughly. the gamecube was easily 660mhz roughly xbox was a little more 720mhz roughly it was all in press releases. i have a hard time believing the wii is 750mhz roughly and since they have NEVER released actual specs we will never know what they are. for all anyone here that says and believes the above number is correct are misleading themselves till they officially release the specs which probabl y wont happen. can i say one other thing think of the ranges in speed for processors p1 75mhz to 266mhz, p2 266mhz to 650mhz, p3 650mhz to 1.3ghz, and p4 1.3ghz to *shocker* 4.6ghz so to optimize as much speed as u can out of a gamecube processor you can get easily 2ghz so dont be suproized if tyhis is more true then the 750nhz junk. and for that any game on 360 or ps3 can be ported over.

Um... You're wrong. The GCN had a 480mhz chip. The Wii has roughly a 750mhz chip based on the same architecture. It also uses a slightly higher-clocked GPU based on the same chip the GCN used. These are also RISC chips.

The PS2 was around 250mhz and was an ARM processor.

The Xbox was a 730mhz or so CISC Intel chip.

So, that tells me that in CPU terms, the Wii is more powerful than the Xbox but its GPU is inferior. They're probably close to a wash with a possible slight advantage to the Wii.

EVEN if the Wii had a 2ghz chip (which it doesn't), it still couldn't run 360 or PS3 games. It has far too little RAM, that "2ghz" chip you theorize would STILL be single-core, and its GPU is completely incapable of running half the textures and effects of the PS3s or 360s chips.

BTW, you're basing the scalability of the Intel P4 to an architecture formed by AIM (Apple, IBM, Motorola) nearly 15 years ago. Motorola gave up their chip division a long time ago and IBM stopped paying attention to the G4 a half decade ago while Intel was scaling the P4 because it was their main consumer chip line. Your arguments don't make any sense.