@OP
Yes the NGC was actually signifigantly more powerful than the XBox. It's raw number crunching capabilities was apx x3 of the XBox. It had numerous very efficient BUS lines and RISC operations. The NGC was built to stream data rather than load entire chuncks. So it was more suitable to GTA sandbox worlds than classic level designs. It also had the TEV which by developers effective use must be a bitch to use. Since only a handful of developers ever used it since the NGC was released. Because of the difficulty of the TEV and the ease of use of DX Shader Language(Nintendo should have used OpenGL Shader Language with the Wii). It was just easier to get better graphics out of the XBox. Also the XBox had more gfx mem and system mem which meant easier to due chunk loading where as stream loading takes more effort.
The effeincy of the Wii takes advantage of the NGC architect. So as Rol says the Wii is NGC on steroids. So the Wii isn't twice as powerful as the original XBOX it is potentialy x6 that of the XBox. Even after that others are right. Developers unlike last gen who pushed the vastly tech inferior PS2 are not putting in the effort this gen, for most system they are not putting the effort in. Many developers have gotten into a state of just throwing tons of textures and high count models at the hardware and claim to PUSH the system. I don't know why, but I assume it's in part because many PS3 developers got into gaming in the PS1 days. So many are pretty much Sony or MS fans. Developers are no more immune to fandom than any other person.
So yeah developement design is being lazy. Many programmers and artists are putting lot's of effort into there part of the work, but it doesn't matter if the design itself is poor.
ANyways that's my 2 cents on the subject.
Squilliam: On Vgcharts its a commonly accepted practice to twist the bounds of plausibility in order to support your argument or agenda so I think its pretty cool that this gives me the precedent to say whatever I damn well please.
