Resident_Hazard said:
I would like to see the study that shows the GameCube could deliver all the same goods as the original Xbox. I've compared the specs in seperate windows side-by-side from Wikipedia, and the Wii is awfully close to the original XBox--and the original XBox seems awfully powerful compared to the GameCube. I'm curious, are you factoring into your analysis the engine High Voltage developed for the Wii? It's clearly not pushing Xbox360-quality of graphics, but it's clear from some early footage that it's pulling of some impressive stunts. I'm one of the people that agree that Super Mario Galaxy pulled off all manner of stunts that most people thought were impossible on the Wii with the sharp, realistic lighting and real-time shadows, light-emitting particle effects, and massive high-poly characters. Keep in mind, their released tech demo listed all the aspects of the engine they'd built. Also, if you will, I'd like to hear (read?) your opinion on whether or not the Wii can take better advantage of High Def TV's with a firmware update. I'm pretty sure it could be updated to stretch to one level higher than 480i. I think that the sooner The Conduit, Disaster: Day of Crisis, and Factor5's (Kid Icarus) game come out, the better since these are all intended to be pushing the Wii's hardware to higher levels. I know, some of the released screenshots of Disaster have looked pretty bleak, but some of the released footage has also been pretty impressive. Like I said (potentially a different thread, I suddenly don't recall), I've watched gameplay footage of Alone in the Dark on the Wii and a lot of what I've seen has practically sold me on the game. It even looks like they may have the motion controls working almost perfectly. I'm hoping that game garners at least 80% for ratings because it's become a highly anticipated title for me. Finally, I think The Conduit will only get better and better looking as High Voltage finishes tweaking the engine.
That article you posted was pretty good, but I'd like to see a more recent one with some more details |
Julian Eggerbrecht from Factor 5 pretty much confirmed that the GC was on par with the original Xbox.If I'm not mistaken Mikami did as well.
Julian's own words. Link:
http://revoeyes.blogspot.com/2007/09/wii-is-more-powerful-than-xbox-gamecube.html
Original:
http://www.nintendoworldreport.com/specialArt.cfm?artid=1906This whole mess started when Robbie Bach went on saying that the Wii was less powerful than the Xbox.Sadly analyst N'gai Croal who has no idea about tech went out and tried to agree with him and made himself look like an idiot.
I'm also surprised when you said that you did an analysis of the specs on Wikipedia because last time I checked GC's cpu beats the celeron of the Xbox and the TEV mimics anything that the NVidia gpu did.
The good thing aboput this is that when the Wii starts to get pushed we're gonna hear all the "I didn't know thw Wii could do that" comments which will no doubt give Wii even more points.Thanks to this propaganda being accepted earlier on by the biased gaming media this will turn out very well in the long run for Nintendo.This as well as third parties not being fully on board by 2010 to try and catch up ensures an unusually long lifecycle fro the Wii.
The only problem I have with this is that a successor to Wii coming out in 2015 is becoming more and more likely by the day.Good for Nintendo, but damn that's a long time from now.
Prediction:
Disney will make KH3 with Nintendo.Yes,KH3 will be a Disney/Nintendo crossover.
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