Wii Vs PS3/XBOX360 [Technicaly]

[Kyros]

will probably agree that the Wii is far closer to the midpoint between the PS2 and the PS3 than it is to either console.

I think here you delude yourself a bit. Midpoint is as arbitrary a statement as xtimes better but the simple fact remains that the Wii is an enhanced Gamecube while the 360/PS3 have graphic cards that are only eclipsed by very few gaming PCs with all technological advances and CPUs to match.
And I don't say enhanced Gamecube to play it down, its just true, the Wii got all the advantages of using legacy technology as basis:

- cheap price
- fast development (putting out all big N franchises like Smash, Mario, MEtroid and Zelda in a strong year wouldn't have been possible with a completely new architecture
- full backward compatibility

but 1/6 the memory of PS3/360, no real pixel/vertex shaders (which is "confirmed" AFAIK) simply put it nearer to the last gen than to PC/360/PS3.

Size comparisons between chips are a bit desperate to contradict that .

And if you take the best Wii games and compare them to the best PS3/360 games like Uncharted, Call of Duty, Gran Turismo which run silky smooth in 60FPS(Call of Duty4, GT) and for example GT have even higher resolutions than 720p I am really astonished how anyone can pretend that the gulf is smaller.

http://wii.gaming-universe.de/screengalerie/5288.jpg
http://wii.gaming-universe.de/screen.php3?show=http://wii.gaming-universe.de/screengalerie/5066.jpg&title=Metroid%2520Prime%25203:%2520Corruption
http://wiimedia.ign.com/wii/image/article/833/833298/super-mario-galaxy-20071107020423368_640w.jpg
http://static.4players.de/premium/Screenshots/ea/6a/1778668-vollbild.jpg

vs.

http://ps3media.ign.com/ps3/image/article/796/796450/call-of-duty-4-modern-warfare-20070613104409229_640w.jpg
http://ps3media.ign.com/ps3/image/article/796/796450/call-of-duty-4-modern-warfare-20070613104412307.jpg

http://www.gameware.at/screenshots/Assassins_Creed_1.jpg
http://images.amazon.com/images/G/03/videogames/features/assassins_creed_sprung_big.jpg

http://ps3media.ign.com/ps3/image/article/805/805900/gran-turismo-5-prologue-20070717071557845.jpg

Of course there are better screenshots for Wii games and worse for ps3/360 games but come on.

You can argue that graphics do not matter much but I think its hard to argue that the difference is smaller than people perceive it to be.