Nintendo Wii: Respectable Specs

[Kwaad]

Game_boy said:

"Graphics come and Graphics go. Today's graphics are tommorow's dull remnants of generations past. Every generation will have better graphics, if you want better graphics, all you need do is wait, if you want better games though, you look for innovation and immersion, not pretty eye candy alone. I'd rather have games I can play years from now rather than games whose selling points are how they looked this current generation."

In terms of graphics, I feel we are at a point where they are good enough. In fact I believe they were good enough during the last generation. Even HD is not much of an improvement from that standpoint.

What we need are technologies that are immersive, and Wii's fully (SIXAXIS really is a gimmick) motion-sensitive controller. With Wii, I am Link; I am Mario; I am Samus.

 Yeah, Six Axis is a Gimmick, and Wiimote is the future... same chip tho.

 

Actually I feel that graphics for the 'next gen' games are about as good as they will ever get on average. Like said in another old antique thread. Games last gen cost 20-40 million. Games this gen 'could' cost upwards of 100+ million. More than a full fledged blockbuster movie! The power of the PS3/360 can be tapped, useing crude pure polygon pushers, and such, but the problem is a true amazing quality model takes so damn long to make, and costs so damn much. To immerse the player beyond a PS3/360, game budgets will beging to pass Blockbuster movies almost every time.

The graphics on the PS3/360 are for keeps, while the graphics on the Wii, isnt even a full generational step. The Wii is 5 years older than the GC, the Wii should be ~8x faster. Not *at best* 3x faster. That's a generational step. Every 18 months a new generation of hardware comes out. Meaning the Wii would be a fitting 'next' gen at best, 1 year before the 360 came out, which did a skip-generation. (like the PS3)

I'm willing to bet I'll be looking at the amazing new next gen graphics on a PS4, while others are looking at the... Idunno what feature added, for the Wii4.