Was Nintendo right to opt out of the graphics arms race?

[burninmylight]

Leynos said:

burninmylight said:

I think he's referring to the Wii being an overclocked GameCube, y'all. In which case, I mostly agree. That decision kept a lot of good games from that generation off of the Wii, or they got severely gimped joke ports like Dead Rising.

It also got a lot of good original stuff just for it. Nintendo could not do the HD reace in 2005. Not financially smart for them. Gamecube already proved the arms race they lost and were not getting that market share back.

Not financially smart to do an HD GameCube, totally agree. What I'm (and I think what Louie was) trying to say is that the Wii could have been a console in the same ballpark with PS360 while keeping the motion controls. It's honestly amazing what the Wii was able to do marketwise despite its graphical and power limitations.

Imagine Resident Evil 5 and 6, or even Dead Space coming to the Wii with pointer controls like RE4... gangbusters. Imagine Metroid Prime 3 looking close to what MP4 is today. Call of Duty ports that are fully featured. How well would Diablo 3 have worked with pointer controls?

I'll die on the hill that the Wii got a lot of good, original games too. All I'm saying is that it could've gotten even more if the power was there.