Also, to people saying games like Metroid look great. You may think they look great but wouldnt you want Metroid to look as good as say Crysis or Gears 2 in 1080p or 1080i while still having all the great play Corruption has?

I don't think console gamers understand resolution.

It's. Not. A. Big. Deal.

GTA IV on your PS3?  Halo 3 on your 360?  Yeah, not high def.  At all.

Graphic effects > Resolution

I'd like a pony that crapped golden turds too ...

They aren't bothering to look those things up. Some actually think blu-ray helps graphics, when all it does is increase the ROM size.

Then again, this is nothing new. Remember when bit size on the CPU mattered?

Playing games on an SDTV make my eyes bleed. A Ps3 game on an SDTV looks like crap compared to an HDTV. If the Wii 2 is not 1080p it's going to look like crap (again) compared to its competition. Then again Nintendo only cares about the Benjamins so I doubt they care if their quality suffers as long as their profits soar.

I think it would be difficult to demonstrate that Nintendo cares any less about quality than the competition does, or any more about money, but as a company they do have to consider how they will survive ...

People are often critical about Nintendo because they have sold more than 100 Million units of hardware in the past few years, but they never consider the reality Nintendo was facing when they were designing these systems. Back in 2003, 2004 and 2005 (when the planning for the Nintendo DS and Wii was mostly being done) Nintendo was looking at how the Gameboy Advance underperformed compared to previous Gameboys, the Gamecube was a failure in terms of sales, Sony was releasing a "Highly Anticipated" handheld which could cut into Nintendo's strongest market, and Nintendo was facing competition in the home console market that seemed to have unlimited money to lose.

In order for Nintendo to survive as a hardware manufacturer they had to deal with reality, and that meant that they couldn't afford to spend a lot of money on R&D, they couldn't lose a lot of money up front selling hardware at a loss, and they couldn't afford to have software development costs skyrocket.

How exactly did the GBA "underperform"?? It sold more than any individual GB handheld before it in history. (And please don't start with the 118 million over one and a half decades over several handhelds crap...They don't count as a system but as systemS)

The PS1 and PS2 sold over 100 million units each, heck they are the number one and two most successfull consoles of all time yet their software and graphics quality was comparable to their competitors.

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If they make your eyes bleed then how the fuck can you play any game 6th generation or older?

You do and Im sure of it you just wanna bitch about the Wii and troll.

How are the Gameboy and Gameboy pocket 2 seperate platforms, and the Gameboy Advance, Gameboy Advance SP, and Gameboy Micro considered 1 platform? The Gameboy Color could be considered its own seperate platform, but it also had relatively few games released specifically as Gameboy Color games (and only games that required color tended to go that route).

Why the Gameboy Advance could be considered to have underperformed was that it sold at (basically) the same rate or worse than the Gameboy was later in its life, and it didn't really demonstrate much growth in the market.

i will be happy if it runs the games in 720p, but anything less than that at least will be very disappointing for me anyways.