| goforgold said: if the wii was as powerful, nevermind more, it would have twice as many sales as it currentlys has, and there wouldn't be a single 3rd party that wouldn't be supporting it the shit out it. It'd have BETTER support than the ps2 and ps3 would have been in real deep shit |
The relationship between the cost of increasing power for a platform and the value people see in that increase is (generally) pretty well understood. On the low end of the processing power scale the cost to increase processing power is low and the value people see in that increase is high, while at the high end of the scale the cost associated with increasing processing power is high and the value people see from that increase is low. This is the reason why the HD console's this generation were so heavily subsidized; people saw less value in the processing power than it cost to implement it, and the systems couldn't sell for their true cost of production.
With this in mind, the Wii (probably) could have benefitted from increased processing power but long before they matched the capabilities of the HD consoles the benefit consumers saw would be minimized. It is difficult to know what the ideal performance would be, but I suspect that the Wii would stop seeing sales benefit at 2 to 4 times its current processing power.
