But are making engine from the ground up was more expensive than lowing the existing engine you have now? I doubt Activision losts alot of money by just gimping the COD 4 engine on the Wii :/

Nintendo dug their own grave in this case, from their leading statements about how "graphics were good enough last gen" to the extreme success of the graphically minimalistic Wii ______ series, and the weakness of the hardware.

Rarely enough do the majority of games on a platform look as good as they could. We don't scrutinize Madden 09 for 360 and frown at it for not looking as good as Gears 2, and why should we? Certainly there are games that look "too bad to accept" on Wii, but they are closer to the PS2 in power than they are to the PS360, and it's natural for only a select few developers to really take advantage of a platform's true power anyway

no ps2 graphics on the wii should not be accepted. thats ridiculous. the gamecube had graphics that were very noticeably better than ps2 graphics. the wii is twice as powerful as the gamecube. while maybe its not a huge difference but it at least is enough to make games noticeably better than gc so you can clearly say wii games look better than gc games just as gc games look clearly better than ps2 games.

@mr khan,
yeah rarely do the majority of games on a system really push its hardware to the fullest. thats true. but if apply that to the wii you also have to apply it to every other system,like the ps2. a lot of 3rd party wii games look as bad as these normal ps2 games that didn't even push the ps2 which means they look downright terrible compared to what the wii is easily capable of. just regular looking wii games shouldn't only look as good as regular looking ps2 games because the wii is way more powerful than the ps2. they should look at the very least as good as good looking gc or xbox games becuse the wii is more powerful than both those systems.

3rd parties pushed the gc and xbox hardware last gen and now with the wii its even easier to get those graphics that really made the gc and xbox stand out. to accept or expect anything less is just lazy. all i expect from the wii is decent upgrades from gamecube graphics where i can say to myself the graphics are definitely better than gamecube, not downgrades to ps2 graphics. not much to ask for considering the wii is more powerful than both the xbox and gamecube and even the xbox had graphics that were noticeably better than gc.

^ given the closure of some dev studios, do you think those that are left are going to spend time and money trying to get the most out of the hardware. Factor 5 had time to do it with Rogue Squadron on GC (which looked great and still beats some wii games) but times were better then and there was more cash floating around.

i dunno, i dont always look at graphics as the best thing anyways

 Monster Hunter 3 have good graphics on the Wii...

It can do better though. Not like 360 or Ps3 good, but it can do much better the COD:WaW. COD3 looked better in my opinion. But whatever, hopefully 3rd party companies will follow High Voltage's example with The Conduit and make better graphics.

 COD 3 have good graphics? I've seen it in X Play before, not really good it looks like a average PS2 game.

Maybe I'm remembering it in incorrectly. But I do remember better looking clothes, light, and some buildings. I mean, when you have to kill on of the Bonzai guys in WaW, the graphics on him look HORRIBLE.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uTrFGyqV6Fw

You mean this? actually, even Im astonished about the  detail and the graphics of that one, its like COD 4 engine on the Wii but thats only in one stage. It seem Treyarch dont care anymore and became lazy and just port the other stages in PS2 engine.