Provide a single link to a developer other than Crytek or ID saying that they are reducing support for or not supporting the Wii on the basis of its lack of power.

This is tangential, but I do want to correct this minor point: contrary to popular belief, the Genesis did not in fact contain more horsepower than the SNES. Yes, a comparison of the two base units will lead to that conclusion, but the SNES, like the NES before it, was not intended to have the full RAM and processor in the base unit. Instead, SNES game cartridges, like NES cartridges earlier, often contained a co-processor and additional RAM, which boosted the system's capabilities beyond those of the Genesis. In essence, with some games you upgraded your SNES much like you do your PC, but you never realize that you're doing it!

This is why late SNES games like Donkey Kong Country and Yoshi's Island had far more advanced graphics than anything that the Genesis, or even earlier SNES games, could muster. This is also why the FX chip is so special: the 3D graphics featured in games like Starfox and that racing game who's name escapes me right now needed far more power than the base unit could offer, but the FX chip had the additional processor might and added RAM needed. There were multiple chips released in this manner, starting at launch (Pilotwings). You can read about the list of SNES enhancement chips here.

As a final addendum, the Genesis did technically employ a similar system, called the Virtua Processor Chip, but the Genesis was not intended to employ the same cartridge-based add ons as the standard, like the SNES did, so only one game was ever made with this method (Virtua Racing), and it was extremely cost-prohibitive.

Okay, I'm done with my tangent now.

I already explained why (imo) the Wii was given bad support, see my posts above.

As for Nintendo addressing the issue, the 3DS is more than a generation ahead of the DS because there was a specific thing it needed to do (3D), we know nothing about project cafe yet. Why do you say that Ninty sees the issue?

You say so much and source so little

Examples of companies that believe that my argument is correct

EA - http://www.develop-online.net/news/37298/Nintendo-must-heed-third-party-warning-EA-says

Nintendo - http://www.next-gen.biz/features/gdc-iwata-how-succeed-wii-ds

Ubisoft - http://au.gamespot.com/forums/topic/26027796/ubisoft-well-have-nintendo-like-quality-on-the-wii-in-2008?page=0

Miyamoto-san himself “If there’s only one piece of advice that I could give to the managers of third party companies, it would be that a lot of times it seems that when they’re putting games out on Nintendo hardware, those games are being developed by their third-string team or their fourth-string team. Maybe that’s because they see those products as being unique projects or somewhat smaller-scale projects. But when Nintendo puts out a title that is designed to really support and sell its hardware, that title is always developed by one of our number one teams. And so I think that when it comes to the question of trying to compete with our software, I would really like to see them try to do that with their number one teams rather than with the third- or fourth-string teams.” 

Can you please provide a link to why you think third parties aren't supporting the Wii based on its power, or how Nintendo believe this to be the case.

Double Post

hm, yeah, I like the idea of zelda and mario being in hd BUT Zelda SS hasn't even released. 

Time to rant: SS will be the first zelda game to be developed purpusely for the wii. It will release 5 years after the last console zelda game, so by that reckoning, we won't see Zelda HD until 2016. oh..the joys of being a Nintendo/Zelda fan. 

Master System more powerful than NES, that was basically a tie I'd say... I should know I had one.

Mega Drive (Sega Genesis) was not in its wildest dreams more powerful than SNES. Get your facts straight.  I had both of them too.

Nintendo 64 more Powerful than PSone IN A SENSE. Yeah, it produced very pretty polygon graphics, but it also had a  serious limitation by those stone-age era cartridges, lol. It was the decision that BROKE NINTENDO and served the market to Sony almost in a silver platter.

But yeah, it's not all about being powerful, it's also about having the right content and the right marketing. Hardware is not only about power, there's also innovative features or different options that could appeal to many gamers. There's also the price tag, which is not the most important factor but it certainly counts.

There's also the company relationship with the developer and publishing partners. Nintendo was a monopolist bitch back in the day, look where that got them to, and I don't think they changed that much with the Wii...I could be wrong. But yeah, nobody likes a bully publisher trying to squeeze every dime out of your software to get their "seal of quality" just because they command the market.

LOL you know I was joking, right?

(you probably did, but I'm adding this gif anyway cause it's hilarious )

LOL. Ya i was face palming more at the thought of all thos games being HD.

=)

HD makes no difference to me. Games on Wii look good, adding HD isn't going to make any of the other elements (gameplay, accessability, music, art design, level design etc) better. If anything it takes anyway time and money from those elements which are all far more important than graphics.

I also don't understand the comparision to the SNES-N64 transition. Going from SNES - N64 was huge because it was going from 2D to 3D. Unless Project Cafe can provide games in 4D/5D its not the same transtition as that but rather the same as Xbox to X360 - the same thing it just looks a bit nicer.