Did you hear about the Ghost Busters Wii version?

[Viper1]

JRPG said:

Viper1 said:

JRPG said:

Go look at screen shots from some orignal xbox games, those game even hold up today. There is no reason Wii games can't look that good.

 

Xbox had the advantage of being an x86 processor and a DirectX8 based GPU.  This allowed developers to easily write code that brought out quality graphics.  The GC and Wii utilize a fixed function TEV enabled GPU which means all shader work must be re-written to take advantage of it and most developers either didn't budget that financially or timely to do so.   This is why a lot of GC and Wii games had a flat shaded look to characters and environments except for those with the biggest budgets who actually put forth the effort.

Then i demand to stop getting banned everytime i say its not as powerful as an xbox. Damn mod said i was lying.

Well it is more powerful than the Xbox.  The problem is not so much power but rather effort.   Coding for the Xbox isn't much different than a PC itself so it makes things very easy for them to bring about certain graphic effects.  The Wii can out muscle the Xbox without problem provided it is utilized properly.

 

The analogy is this.  Car A has 400 HP but has anti-lock brakes, traction control, and a host of other features while Car B has 600 HP but is much harder to learn to control because it doesn't have those features.   Car B is still the faster car and given a good driver which best Car A all day long but most drivers (read: developers) are Car A drivers.