Kyros on 13 April 2008
The law of diminishing return, just because the 360/ps3 may be 4 times more powerful dont mean the games look 4 times better.
If I look at almost photorealistic games like Gran Turismo, ancient Jerusalem in Assassin's Creed, the jungle in Uncharted or some of the war scenes in Call of Duty I think 4 times is a bit conservative. But beauty is in the eye of the beholder, and quantifying it with numbers like 4times is a bit stupid, so let's just say that Wii developers cannot by far use so many polygons, detailled textures and advanced shaders as 360/PS3 developers. This hurts more in some games as in others.
It didn't hurt them in Super Mario Galaxy which has by far simpler and smaller level design etc. than for example Ratchet but it still looks pretty amazing. On the other hand Wii developers will not be able to recreate huge realistic cities even barely comparable to Assassin's Creed or complicated jungle environments as in Uncharted. They could of course but it would look awful.
