| Mifely said: The Wii will have some decent 3rd party engines after a while, but they'll never be truly spectacular in the graphics sense. They won't suck as bad as most of the shovelware does though. Nintendo has consistantly set the high bar for their games with their 1st party titles. There really aren't engines that ever outdo them on their platforms, ever. Some come close now and then (RE4 on the GC, for example), but Nintendo will always be king. You can't ever expect more out of the Wii than Nintendo provides. Their games are fun to look at, but not astonishing in the graphics department. I would argue that "fun to look at" is what really matters to the typical Wii user, and Nintendo knows that. Some of the shovelware... heck a lot of it, appeals just fine to kids. Thus, it sells, and the older gamer sees it as shovelware. The % of shovelware will always be much higher though, due to the nature of the beast. People *do* buy the shovelware... and that's exactly what keeps it goin. The Wii will never see the likes of games like MGS4, GTA4, etc... FF XIII, and so on will just never go back after hitting the high end on the PS3/360. If the Wii has any breakout awesome titles, they pretty much have to be new IPs, where there's no "step backward" to be taken. Even then, the Wii is limited -- much smaller memory than its competitors, weaker CPU/GPU... it just doesn't compare. Compare it to a PC of even greater potential... say a 1.4 GHz P3, or even a superior Athlon, with 128 MB of memory and a 32 MB graphics card... all supposedly faster/bigger than the Wii, even after considering the superior architecture of the Wii's components/bus/memory/etc. How long has it been since you owned a PC of those (superior to Wii) specs? |
Wait what? You do realize that a pc with 128mb of main ram and 32mb of vram wouldn't pull anything off better than the ps2? Especially since at the time the ram was alot slower than the wii's. You also are forgetting all of the backround processes running in the memory.
