Wii & the 4 Types of Gamers (Great article on the 'Wii Bubble' theory)

[shams]

Blue3 said:

shams said:

 

And everyone (writing these articles) seems to 'assume' that the Wii is a Gamecube/PS2 graphically. Its just not true. As expected, too many of the games out now are simply ports - quick cash ins. It won't be until Nintendo release Metroid, Galaxy & Smash will we have a better indication of just how powerful the Wii will be graphically.

Its not going to catch up to the 360/PS3 - but I don't think it has to. What it will do, is proof conclusively that its more powerful than a GC/Xbox/PS2. And consumers will be very happy about the graphics that come out of this little "duct-taped" GC.

 

Wiis capability is alot closer to the PS2/GC then the PS3/360 and thats the problem. Just how well do you think Metroid and Galaxy will stack up to the likes of Uncharted or Rachet adn Clank ?

 

Its completely irrelevant. There have been numerous threads about this, so I won't go over it again - but:

1/ 3D Graphics reached the point where they are "good enough" with the PS2

2/ It has been shown time, and time again - that pretty gfx do NOT sell hardware (or ensure its success).

Couple this with the fact that the Wii is selling to CASUAL gamers (i.e. people who have never owned a previous console) and its even more irrelevant.

What matters is what the Wii can do - not that it can't do as much as a 360/PS3. And yet again - if people are purely gfx whores - stick to PCs (and many of them do).

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And as someone mentioned, look at sales figures. Motorstorm has sold the SAME number of units as ExciteTruck or Sonic (& secret rings) have in the US.

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And one final point...

Look at the sales of the Wii vrs PS3 at the moment. Look at the graphics of the average Wii title vrs average PS3 title.. (that are available at the moment).

IMO, the Wii is going to have a much more significantly improvement of graphics (in % terms) than the PS3 will (over the coming years). This is primarily because the average Wii title at the moment is simply a ported PS2 title.

By the end of the year, we'll see some better Wii & better PS3 titles - and the difference in quality will be LESS than it will at the moment. How this is going to help the PS3 catch up, I'm not exactly sure...

(the PS3 is going to end up with games with more geometry & more stable frame rates - whereas Wii titles will end up with lots of shader effects, much nicer textures, more geometry etc - compared to now).