| PearlJam said: The Wii's TEV isn't any more capable or programmable than what the GC had, the GPU is just clocked about 50% higher and has more memory to work with. The whole point of the TEV is to emulate effects that are possible on more expensive setups. What you aren't getting is that these effects can be done on Xbox without the same kind of strain that it puts on either the GC or Wii. GC and Wii can do these effects at a greater cost to resources, not so with Xbox. Xbox used tons of middleware and was programmed like a PC, it was never exploited or taken advantage of and was itself more programmable than either Wii or GC it just wasn't needed. The two games you just named are both on-rail shooters, which just proves my point. To have a nice looking Wii game, you need a controlled environment where physics, AI and everything else that takes away from graphics won't be a factor. You are basically playing a giant cut-scene where everything is controlled. If the same devs were working on the original Xbox with nearly 10 years of programming to the metal, I can assure you that shader effects would look better on Xbox, and not just in controlled environments. |
You are still thinking about PC and Xbox, it doesn't have to emulate anything, it's not emulating shader model effects, it's simply creating effects that would output something that you'd see as the samething if you know what you are doing due to the nature of the TEV(you can port any game from the Xbox to the Wii and even make them look better if you know what you are doing.) Wii's gpu was also improved upon, it doesn't work the same way as shader model directx standard. yes, they are rail shooters, because they have a lower budget, they can easily make it full fledged games given time and money, which most Wii games don't have atm, sad for the leading console isn't it? also, you seem to think shader model in any form don't affect performance for some reason, which is odd, because the more complex it is, the slower it is as well just like anything else. Given 10 years, the Wii would look better than Xbox easily due to it's sheer upper hand in power and the limitations of shader model 2 lol.
