All I can say is that WiiU games don't look anything better than PS360 games... I had hoped to see an improvement over current gen, but it looks as if WiiU's gonna make a Wii and get left in the dust by the upcoming PS720...

Just throwing this out there on the 1080p topic, but the Wii U should be able to produce 1080p at all times because the eDram is big enough to hold a framebuffer of that size. Consequently 4x anti-aliasing will actually be free this time (Unlike another certain current gen console).

1080p or 720p + 4xAA is great! Finally we're getting smooth looking console games. :D Aliasing annoys the hell out of me.

I agree, those late games you mention were the shizzle and true classics in every sense but they were the exception talking in terms of graphic quality. Sega's AM studios could create stuff that PS1 couldn't do, at the time at least. But they till had limitations, water always looked rubbish on the Saturn, as did any window, and it's lack of bilinear filtering made it so it's best games couldn't match that of a PS1's best game. Those games you list don't have bilinier filtering which is the whole problem. Bilinier filtering was the main reason to own a 3d card for pc back in the day, beautiful smoothed textures with no pixelation, this simply wasn't possible on the Saturn due to a completely lacking set of hardware 3d features and badly thought out future by Sega.

In regards to my previous posts on graphics generations, I must have been smoking something strange and breathing out bullshit myself.

Hangs head in shame.

Sounds good. I like.

A PPE is just a Power5+ core with some additional modifications.  In terms of the Xenon processor, it's no different than having three Power5+ cores.  Where the PPE truly differs is in the Cell, where it serves as a master to the 8 SPUs.  The later Power line of processors gained those same features, and more. 

that's BS even today most PC gaming rigs have those specs already..... and like i've said plenty of times.... instead of doing full games especially for small production.... they can go with serialisation... with dlc content.... subscriptions etc.... do kind of a Manga format for games....... 

that and the vg industry is one if not the most profitable entertainement industry... so if you are confident you have a good product.... you shouldn't be worried by dev cost....

They should do more episodic content and the like but either these usually fall into two catagories either:

1) The first is well recieved and then there is high expectations for the next one and when the second is like the first people complain. (Sonic 4)

2)The first episode comes out and not wanting a samey experience the next episode is stuck in development hell. (Half-Life 2 episode 2/3)

Thing is episode content whoud save a lot of money but the end users have to be ready for it, and the developers have to be ready for complaints that it is the same experiece. I think the genre that will do the best with this is RPG's. Related to episodic content DLC content can help but that is also a very polarizing issue amoung end users.

Well, you read Millennium correctly.  I'm saying the distinction between a PowerPC Core and a PowerPC Engine is minimal at best, especially when you look at later developments in the Power line of processors.  What IBM engineered in the PPE was used in the Xenon, but what was engineered in the Xenon was used in the Power5+ line and future Power cpus.

The SPUs are what distinguished a Cell processor from your standard everyday Power5 cpu, not necessarily the PPE (PowerPC core).

People want to make a big deal out of the relationship between the Xenon and Cell, but there isn't a big deal to be made.  It's a Power5 PowerPC core with some performance enhancements and management for the SPUs.  Each of the Xenon's three cores are roughly the same as the PPE but without the SPU management enhancements.  With six threads, the Xbox can run the game in one, and then the game can split itself off into 4 or 5 parts to process sections of code, much like the Cell can.  The difference is that the Cell can do it in parallel to other operations, the Xenon does it symmetrically.  So they can have an SPU do work, return the finished work, and move on to do another task.  Where as on the Xenon processor, the game may be limited to waiting for a particular task to complete before it can move on.

That is were the difficulty in programming the Cell comes in.  Micromanaging the code so that the SPUs are working, rather than waiting around for other tasks (SPUs) to finish.  It is a difficult art to master.  Kind of like conduction an orchestra were each of the musicians are playing a different piece of music, yet when it all comes together what you hear is one harmonious piece of music. 

Sorry if I rambled.