makingmusic476 on 13 April 2008
| Kyros said: 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. |
That paragraph is exactly what I was going to say, but your entire post said it 10x better than anything I could've come up with.
And to the guys getting so defensive about the Wii, does it really matter if it's not that powerful? The games are still fun as hell. Honestly, the thing launched at only $250 for a reason (and sold at a profit, no less), and that's because the internal hardware just isn't up to snuff compared to the other consoles.
