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curl-6 on 22 April 2013
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oniyide said:
DieAppleDie said:
curl-6 said:

Retro Studios have stated that the Wii's extra power and memory allowed Prime 3 to have higher resolution textures, more polygons, bigger environments, and the addition of bloom lighting compared to what was possible on GCN. High Voltage also said that the Conduit games could do more effects at once due to the Wii's increased power over GCN.

And the Wii COD games and Xenoblade are massive memory hogs due to their large, detailed, streaming environments. The Wii had 88MB of RAM. The Gamecube had 40MB. GCN simply wouldn't have had enough memory.

And no, we are not talking about "clear gaps at launch." We were talking about graphical improvements within a system's lifespan. You then tried to derail that discussion.

Im watching side by side videos and while MP3 does look a bit better, its no where near that much different than MP2 is. Killzone 1 to Killzone2? thats a huge difference. HVS? Those hacks, the same guys that said they made an engine that would make their game look as good as PS360 FPSs those guys are liars. 

COD is memory hog? Since when? its a linear FPS, and even then they had to cut some stuff back. THere were COD games on GC. xenoblade I could see, but even then all they would have to do is reduce draw distance, its not like the game has alot of textures. There were PS2 games that looked like that.

You said there "isnt anything released on WIi that could not have been done on GC" . That is technically incorrect. Whether Prime 3 looks "that much different" to you or not, fact is it technically could not be done on the GCN. A game only has to use half of the Wii's RAM to be outside the GCN's memory budget.

COD is a memory hog because it's designed for 512MB of RAM while the Wii has 88MB. The GCN COD games ran on a simpler engine with smaller worlds and much fewer characters in play at once.



you are arguing against a wall, he doesnt want to learn, hes just messing around he must be cause its pretty obvious that Wiis best looking games such as Mario Galaxy, The last story, Metroid other M, MP3, Silent hill SM, Conduit 2, Dead space EX....etc. couldnt be done in previous generation without downgrades. I agree that WiiU still has to show up its power, but im pretty sure it will, im confident in that regard.

So even you agree that it COULD run on GC, thats what i thought. 

Is it so hard to just admit you were wrong?