I don't understand why people like Mario Galaxy Graphics. From a technical point they are a relatively low polygon, barely TEV used game. All that It's got is a Mario Cartoon feel without sell shading and that's all textures. Any system could handle that.

Which brings up. Graphically MG1 & 2 are pretty lackluster on the graphics front, but high on style. So what I'm not getting why do people think that Mario Galaxy are the best graphical game the Wii?

Personally, I'm sick of the "looks good for a (insert less than top-of-the-line system here) game." It's utter bullshit.

Games look good or they don't.

I still think that MP3 has the best graphics and art style.

Mario Galaxy has an unprecedented polish and art direction that make it a very good looking game.

And I've been very impressed by the latest 3rd party games coming to the Wii!

I've always considered graphics to be technical + style. Now if the style you chose doesn't require much horsepower, while the technical side isn't difficult in the grand scheme, you'll achieve the best looks for it way before all the "realistic" looking games come close to perfection. If you can perfect the style you chose, then its going to look excellent no matter how hard it was to achieve.

Spyborg, grinder, gladiator ad, mario galaxy 2, red steel 2 were all very good looking. Finally some dev got it right...

Like I've heard before, the Wii is kind of like how the DS started: At first, most of the only decent games just came from Nintendo with all the crappy 3rd party developers using it to make crappy games = quick buck, but eventually, more start support it in a much better way and it captures more of the market share :D.

Well, we can only hope, at least.

But the situation for consoles isn't quite the same as the situation for handhelds - there's much more competition for the Wii than there is for the DS.

Even the casual games are starting to look good.

See what I'm saying.

Wii is seeing a lot of software now and even the Shovelware devs like UFO have stepped it up.

can't say that I am, but then again PC gaming has spoiled me.