Third Party Devs have made up their minds about the Wii.

[Procrastinato]

Khuutra said:

Procrastinato said:
The "because of HD graphics" is pretty vague statement. Gears 2 cost $10M to develop. Lots of people claim it has some of the X360's best graphics.

Almost every Wii game in existance probably derived from a pre-existing GameCube engine, since the architectures are next to identical, outside of clock -- so how did Gears 2 get so cheap?

I'm not calling your honesty into question here, but could you source that? I'm really curious, now.

It's pretty easy to find.  Here's the first thing I came up with in Google:

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My point was to illustrate that 3rd parties were comparing re-used engines (GameCube engines, which are basically Wii engines) to brand new PS3/360 engines, when those "1/4th to 1/3rd" quotes were made.  That's no longer the case.