| Million said: With screenshots of Sonic Unleashed rumoured to be for the Wii ( I must admit if they are Wii screenshot's that is pretty impressive) Nintnedo supporters have become increasingly confident in the Wii ability to display next gen graphics , one even claiming that the Wii was being used as the lead platform for Sonic Unleashed. r3av3r2k1 said: http://www.vgchartz.com/forum/thread.php?id=23496&start=200 If this where true however , this could become a trend for multiplatform games (prays it's not so) , if this happen i'd proly stop buying multiplatform titles all together. I'm taking the quote slightly out of context because he said it was possible because the game was more cartoony , regardless of the artistic style the PS3 and 360 are still capable of superior visuals. To make it clear to everyone (including myself) could anyone with the knowledge explain how big the gap between the Wii and PS3/360 is , some are making it seem like it's similar to the gap betwen the GC/XBOX and ps2 when it clearly isn't.
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I have to say there are a few things wrong with this post... First, nothing has "next gen graphics", since "next gen" is still another 5 to 6 years away (or more). Second, it's not unexpected that the platform on which the game is mostly like to sell the most is the lead platform, because they would want the game to be the best on that system. It's like most games were made on the PS2, then ported to the other consoles, even though the GC and Xbox could handle much better graphics and effects, because the PS2 version was most likely (and I believe without exception, always) the system that was going to sell the most of a game. Games that didn't lead on the PS2 and were ported from the GC/Xbox (RE4 I believe is one example, and the only one that comes to mind), often took framerate hits or had other problems (like I believe I've read that RE4 PS2 had some minor framerate issues).
And saying that you won't buy multiplayform games that lead on the Wii is pretty shallow. Yeah the graphics probably won't be as great as they could be, but I still have a hard time telling between good PS3/360 graphics and great ones. Course, that's the reason that console makers want to be the best selling console, because then most games will be made for it, and made to take advantage of all of it's features. But it's more likely that games that are multiplatform, will have an engine built for the Wii, and also an engine will be built for the 360/PS3, to take advantage of the platforms strengths.
As for the power differences, I do believe it's likely that the difference between the PS2 and Wii is similar to the difference between the Wii and the 360/PS3.
