| mrstickball said: Yes, but they won't be standard, whereas 720p is the required format for the other next-gen systems. |
Yes and a non-mass market price is also standard on the other next-gen systems. It would be good for a lot of posters here to stop and think about the relationship between those to standards and sales.
On topic, I agree Quantum. I've argued the first point many times, the Wii from what we know of its specs is somewhere around 100-150% the power of the Xbox. I think Nintendo's official position is that the Wii is 2-3x as powerful as a Gamecube. In utilized power the Gamecube was around 50% of an Xbox (as I understand it they were close overall, and in some ways the GCN was better but things like 24MB vs 64MB of useful RAM really hurt it in utlizeable power) so that is pretty close to the 100-150% better the specs would indicate.
As to your second point, SD/ED graphics will be the way the majority of gamers play until near the end of this generation. Next-gen will be different but then the power required to take advantage of HD will be cheap and will be usable by essentially all gamers. Until then, arguments over SD/ED being dated are arguments between a small minority of gamers with the money and knowledge to actually care about such things (and who frequent video game forums to argue such things). Sony and MS can lose all the money they want catering to that crowd, Nintendo chose to make tons of profit serving the majority of gamers.
