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

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rocketpig said:
You can't compare PC specs with console specs. PC games, in comparison, are poorly optimized (due to the diversity of hardware) and they have this rather large thing called an "operating system" running in the background that has a tendency to eat up resources left and right.

Consoles, on the other hand, are a frozen format where everyone has identical hardware and it has a bare-bones OS running in the background. Developers, as they learn the systems, are able to eek out every ounce of power the system offers instead of having to program for a broad variety of hardware that people may or may not be running in their PCs.

We're really talking apples and oranges here. Other than the fact that they both can play video games, there isn't a lot in common. One is a purpose-built machine while the other is designed to run a wide variety of tasks. It's kinda like wondering why the iPhone can't display games as well as the DS even though the iPhone processor clocks faster.

I'm not even going to touch on the differences between RISC and CISC, RAM speed, and other things. I think I made my point.

 I agree with that. PCs have to run on a variety of settings, that's why PC games have options to recude the resolution/texture/detail level etc. to make sure it runs on lower specced machines (that's why I don;t get the arguements: "My PC is so powerful it can run Crysis" when "My PC is so powerful it can run Crysis at full graphics settings" would be a better arguement. Whereas with consoles, you don't need to worry about the possible variety of hardware, so the devs can spend more time making sure it works optimally on that hardware, rather than spending less time making sure it works on a variety of processors/GPUs etc. at least that's my understanding of it. So IMO, no, it would be very hard. Even if the graphics were dumbed down, reducing the amount of things on screen, physics, AI etc, may mean that the game isn't the game it oriinally was. Can you imagine GTA with 3 cars and 6 pedestrians on screen at anyone time? Of course that's an exagguration, but hopefully you get my point.