The wii is suppose to be a gamecube upgraded in terms of graphically capabilites. So it has the same option to compress textures that wouldn't fit in it's ram? Right? I belive the gamecube allowed for 6 times more textures due to this compression. For example 18mb of ram for textured really was the equivalent to 108mb. So does anybody know if it's the same for the wii, or more? I need to know for my  analysis I'm making of the wii's graphical capabilities, but can't find anything about it.

S3TC is pretty much standard these days but it has 8:1, 6:1 and 4:1 capabiltiies.

 Ok thanks.

Edited my post, sorry.

Oh, well thanks again.

Please I need more help. Did the original xbox and ps2 have any form of texture compression support? If so how did it compare to the gamecubes.

The title of this thread confuzzles me.

 How so?

Xbox also has 6:1 S3TC texture compression.

PS2 supports a different 4:1 texture compression scheme BUT it has to be decompressed before it is piped into the Graphic Synthesizer since it can't decompress textures itself in real time.  Meaning its benefit is purely storage only and not saved bandwidth like the other systems enjoy.