LoL, the Wii could run that game.

So yes, the PS3 and 360 have enough juice, to answer your original question :) 

I'm pretty sure the specs for Sim City 4 is low enough for the Wii (game is almost 5 years old now, I think).

I would actually prefer that EA admit Sim City Societies was the worst game they ever made, then let Will Wright make a real Sim City 5 that is multi-plat(PC, 360, PS3 and Wii)

Still, the game can make your computer crawl as you expand.

^^Not if your PC is amazing like mine :)

Sim City 4 "finally" runs smooth on my Core 2 and 2 gigs of Ram.

My old P4 with 1 gig ram struggled. I think this game is more CPU intensive rather than GPU so the video card isnt as important.

My old desktop is twice that recomended specs at the least. And I still had to play with minimum settings when the city grew some.

That minimum specs right there, you probably get frozen by the 10th building.

So, no, Wii definitely can't run it. Unless all the cities are the smallest size and all the buildings are exactly the same sprites.

PC games also have the problem with the minimum/recommended specs.

minimum specs = unplayable

recomended specs = lowest possible settings with some slow downs

At least, that's based on my experience with PC games...

Also, Civ4 is no where near as resource intensive as SimCity4.

Here's a vid on youtube as example,

The thing with games like these (Sim City 4 or Civilization 4) is that they are very VERY RAM hungry... and that's exactly the weak point of current consoles.

I still think the HD consoles could run it, I am just not sure that's the kind of game I would want to play with a controller.

I think SimCity is best left on the PC.

 You need to play it with a semi-decent pc to understand it... with 1Gb PC dual core medium cities eats a ton of ram and run slow due to the loading sprites...

Shame on you galaki, you make me want to play it again, but that thing eat your time very easy...

It would require a complete re-write I am sure to put it on the PS3, but I think the CELL architecture would be great for this game (this game is CPU heavy). It would distribute well, and if done right, I would think you could get all of it in 256 meg of system memory.

Console memory usage is a lot different then PC memory usage. 

That being said, I still don't think this game should come to the consoles.