The conduit is supposed to be pushing the tech hard, that's been High Voltage's entire goal and selling point, and it's yet to produce anything particularly impressive. Unless you count that somebody might mistake it in passing for an early 360 game on a 12 in SDTV in a hotel lobby. (which was the bragging point in IGN's preview sometime back during one of those games shows.)
This whole argument is sad for the wii. Imagine a marathon was run and the guy that came in last had all his buddies arguing whether or not he'd be able to beat a guy in a wheelchair in a race. Not doing it out of mean spirit, but genuinely just curious if he could be old mister jones from down the hall in a race down the block. And they debated about it for days. "Is it downhill?" "Well what kind of wheelchair does he get?" "Under what weather conditions are they racing in?" The fact that there even has to be a serious discussion about it is terribly unflattering for the runner, even if he eventually wins in his buddies argument.
The fact that there is a long honest debate about whether or not the wii can compete graphically with a system that came out in 2003, with so many on the wii side saying "well this isn't a fair comparison, you can't really tell" is really sad for the wii's tech. Where is the argument about whether or not the Dreamcast looked better than the N64? Or whether the SNES really looked better than the NES?
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