Wow did this thread veer way off course. Nobody said the Wii is as powerful as the 360 or PS3, why do wii-haters feel they have to keep making that point? The question was whether the Wii is more powerful than the Xbox (original, 2001 Xbox). Misplaced MHz infatuation aside, I think the posts have generally supported that it is so why are people arguing that the Wii's games won't look as good as PS3 or 360 ones? Come on people, some on topic rationality would be nice.
I think it should be added that even though the Wii is 50-100% more powerful than an Xbox is doesn't mean the graphics will be 50-100% better. Both the Xbox and GameCube came very near to maxing out what 480i 4:3 could do. A lot of the Wii's added power will be utilized for standard 480p 16:9 and filling in the last few improvements still possible while, in all but poorly written games, performing without lag. The 360 and PS3 don't look 10-15 times better than Xbox or PS2 games in 480i so it shouldn't be surprising that there's not much there from which to improve (except for the PS2-PS3).3
