The quote was "It's about as powerful as the original Xbox," he said. "The video hardware unfortunately is not as powerful. There's just a couple of key things that you can do on Xbox like shaders which you just cannot do on the Wii... Overall though it's pretty much what the original Xbox was." which is (pretty much) exactly what people said about the Gamecube.

I (personally) believe that what many people miss is the Gamecube was never designed to be very powerful in terms of programmable hardware on the GPU (shaders) and was (instead) focused more on producing games that involved "high polygon counts" and highly detailed textures. The Wii just takes this to the next level. The overall result is that in many ways it is still not as powerful as the XBox but (if the game is designed specifically for the Wii) you will still see games which look better than anything on the XBox.

 To understand how the Wii has improved over the original Gamecube (which was reported to be "about as powerful as the original Xbox," ):

you have no idea do you?

I remember the last thread this tired argument you keep pulling up comes in. I believe it was the Soul Calibur 4 thread? And what's to stopSoul Calibur 4 from going to the Wii except the graphics? NOTHING. Or, Final Fantasy XIII? Nothing! The processing power in these games go to the graphics alone. They could easily be ported to Wii.  I give games such as Lair, Dead Rising, etc are a different story, but you don't have any idea what you're talking about.

Secondly, notice you even said "there's no reason it can't work on the wii other than graphics". Look at that, it is a clear admission that the Wii is actually LESS POWERFUL than the 360/PS3. Yes, that's correct, you're ridiculous theory that people think the Wii can compete is thrown overboard with your own evidence. No one thinks that the Wii is not weak compared to the 360/PS3.

And finally, you keep bringing out this "old technology" garbage. I'm going to spell it out for you. Low power != old technology. After all, my PC (one and a half years old) that I am typing this on is much more powerful than an iPhone. Does that make the iPhone old technology? NO. Technology goes towards much more than increasing processing power. 

Go take a course in Computer Science before you come in here and talk nonsense. 

You think wii can run the character animation in FF13, do it in real time you really think that or it can do the same grand scale of the world as the PS3.  Whats this about nonsensn.

This argument again?

Another flame thread from Blue3. Why does people think like HappySqurriel that Gamecube could compete with xbox with graphics? Xbox>GC>PS2 it was like that. So to show pics from super smash bros does not prove anything. Wii can handle better graphics then GC dont believe someone in this thread claimed otherwise. If Xbox games were still made then maybe we could compare xbox graphics with Wii. End of thread for me bye.

Whatever.

Devs said so, but still you will still deny and argue facts.

why dont you do everyone a favor in shut up  because you have no idea what you are talking about

 Facts? What facts? Talk from a developer who can't release a good looking game on Wii (SSX Blur, Godfather,etc). Just look at Nights, Super Mario Galaxy, Resident Evil Umbrella Chronicles...

Yeah... Like we didn't know, and do people care?! Looking at sales versus the PS3 not!

And let me tell you a secret then: Consoles don't sell well for 600$... u knew that one?!

Maybe another ban would shut your mouth with your provoking threads. And yeah... Everyone who think Wii is as powerfull as a 360/PS3 is freakin delusion... But so are the people who believe PS3 is selling good (Yeah im talkin to you Blue3)