| Kurakasa said: No, it is not possible. :) Wii has like 90mb of memory, that is not enough for any of those games. Unless you just make the textures white or have a "loading" on your screen every 5 minutes. Wii's gpu is a slightly upgraded version of GC:s gpu, combine that with old ppc-processor which clocks at 730mhz. That is not enough, unless you dumb down physics/AI. And of course, wii has only Pro logic. You would be missing a lot with stereo sound. |
Correct the wii does have 90mb of memory, but while this doesn't compensate for the shortage of memory I would like to say that the wii's memory is a lot faster in the ration of clockspeed/bandwidth than both that of the ps3s and 360s. This is because some of the ram is 1Tsram which has far less latency than the GDDR3 and XDR ram that the rest of the wiis ram is, the 360 uses, and the ps3'uses. Now while this doesn't compensate too much, it helps considerably. Now for the power pc being old? It is based of the 730CL which was shipped in 2006. And to top it it is even better than the 730CL. Also the abilitiy to run Out Of Order code while the 360 and ps3 both run in-order code allows for about double the performance if they are at the same clock speed. So what ever amount of times you think the 360s cpu is compared to the wiis cut it in half. Now the cell is tricky because it actually benefits from this In-Order code. so I'm not going to talk about that. Now as for it only being a slight up grade from the GC's gpu, how bout I tell you that everything in terms of numbers is doubled. I have no doubt that it also has double the piplines, and a more advanced TeV unit. So I wouldn't call the upgrade small. I haven't seen any ps360 game that has Physics or AI out of the capability of the ps2 let alone the wii with the exception of GTA IV. I don't get where you are going with the sound, but only audiophiles would be able to tell the difference. So while the wii isn't AS powerful as the ps360, its definately a capable system, and far ahead of all of the last gen systems. If it didn't have so little ram, you may have seen HD graphics on the wii, just not as good as they are on the ps3 or 360. So its major bottleneck is the ram, but it already has faster ram, and more ram then the xbox so way ahead of last gen. I beleive somebody said that the wii is comparable to the original Xbox earlier in this thread. I laugh at that statement. ALso we know too little right now about the wii's capabilities because of nintendo's secrecy.
