It's just a marketing strategy from HVS.

i agree, the conduit is not better looking than SMG or even metroid prime 3, the engine is good but they lack art design, they could have at least used less corridors, i have not seen that many corridors since the 90's, lets hope they improve the art design in their next game

Sure, it's marketing, that's quite obvious. But it works!

Also, I think people are confusing the art style and presentation of the conduit with the actual technical achievements of their engine. Also, keep in mind that Nintendo spent an ungodly amount of time developing their game engine for Galaxy. They started with the base engine from Sunshine and then improved it for the Wii. They put millions of dollars of programming into that engine, so it's difficult to compare that to a relatively small developer.

PR talk... and TC didnt look amazing, tough the engine shows tons of potential. IMO Grinder is the one to look out for, at least the story looks to be miles ahead of the one found in The Conduit...

they can afford it because they are being funded by a really rich nintendo fanboy

why HVS is making games for wii? they should spend their energy on some other platform and try their luck. they r going to go belly up if they keep making games for the wii, bcos after humungous effort, nobody will buy the games.

interesting. although i do believe that there is a game in develo[pment for the wii that hasnt been annoumced yet, i doubt it will be anything special.

Well said. I'm very impressed with the visual effects that The Conduit has displayed: bump, gloss and diffuse mapping, 4 texture layers, advanced particle effects, real-time reflection and refraction (check out the alien weapons and the scopes on the human weapons for example), HDR lighting effects and focus blur. These aren't the sort of effects you'd associate with the Wii hardware, you'd normally associate all of those effects with the PS360 consoles.

The art style may be crap but the quantum3 engine is a technical masterpiece, and looking at Gladiator AD and The Grinder it's come along in leaps and bounds with their imposter instancing technique allowing hundreds or even thousands of models without a significant drop in framerate.

Realistically I'm hoping for another FPS...unrealistically I'd like to see them do a Dead Rising clone with hundreds of zombies and a working camera. It's possible to do from what I've read on the Quantum3 engine, might even have more zombies than the 360 original but Capcom would have a fit lol.

I don't think the Wii is as underpowered as some would like everyone to believe.