Nintendo's Ability to Move On

[ookaze]

OMG ! Can't you think by yourself ? When DVD came out, most displays (if not all of them) where NTSC or PAL (meaning interlaced). So they couldn't accept the progressive scan so most DVD players outputed only NTSC or PAL. So of course, unless you have a progressive capable DVD player, you will get interlaced signal, that's what standard DVD players are designed to do. I'll made it simple for you to understand : they turned the image into crap because they didn't have a choice to begin with. You make a difference between a DVD (the media) and a DVD player, right ? And FYI, any image transformation will, at best, make your image the same. Most of the time, they induce a quality loss. So you have to minimize the transformation steps. Even only resizing to have a better definition (upscaling) can make you lose quality, depends on the algorithm. The Wii is a supercharged Gamecube if you want, I never denied that. I've only told you that because you optimized the Gamecube doesn't mean you automatically optimize the Wii, surely not by just "setting the game to use 4x more power". If you're into programming, you should know better. And the Wii needs graphics and games. Nobody said it didn't need graphics. Nintendo said they stop the power arm race, that doesn't mean it has to use crappy graphics like you want to imply, just that it has to be good enough. I say fortunately, a console success is not decided by graphics whore. If that was the case, the PS2 would never had succeeded. You can say all you want about Metroid or Mario Wii, their goal is not to push über HD graphics, their goal is to provide a good game. And I think they did a good job about that. I'm not fond of Mario or of FPS, but the videos from the Metroid gameplay actually made me want to try it : that's what counts. I see Nintendo has a great ability to move on and disrupts itself. But I also see graphics whore are completely unable to move on. I don't even understand the complaining, as you still have TWO consoles catering to your needs, with plenty of games.