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HappySqurriel on 07 January 2009
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The_vagabond7 said:

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?

 

Well, if you look at only one metric it may look bad for the Wii ... if you look at the broader picture its a bit different.

With the marathon analogy in the Olympics there are several countries where their atheletes do not need to go to school or to work and can devote their lives to training, they have access to the most expensive coaches and training equipment available, they take advantage of high-altitude sleeping tents and also cheat using drugs (or other performance enhancers). In contrast, there are lots of atheletes who have nothing but a pair of shoes and a road to run on that also make it to the Olympics ... While the marathon runner who had all the advantages comes in first or second and is praised by their country, I have always thought that the more impressive feat is the marathon runner who comes in third or fourth and had nothing.

Realistically, the $100,000,000 Metal Gear Solid 4 looks great but the $5,000,000 Million "The Conduit" is more impressive.