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epsilon72 on 25 October 2007
bugmenot said:
Ah I see.

Also, I'm more and more troubled by the lack of HD CRT's

I've seen one or two about, but not in a while. They're so nice and bright and so cheap. If I had the space (and I could still find one), I'd definitely prefer it to my LCD.

Can we apply the old adage, "Ignorance is Bliss" here?
I think Sony, Samsung, and some crappy in-house brands still make them.  Maybe check best-buy, circuit city, or walmart to see if you can find any?

 



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kn on 25 October 2007

I have a Sony WEGA 32" trinitron standard definition TV (HDTV on order!)... My 360 blows my Wii out of the water graphically. There are just no two ways about it... Mario Galaxy may look great on SD but it won't beat Gears, Bioshock, Forza, Halo 3, etc....



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Final-Fan on 25 October 2007
kn said:
I have a Sony WEGA 32\" trinitron standard definition TV (HDTV on order!)... My 360 blows my Wii out of the water graphically. There are just no two ways about it... Mario Galaxy may look great on SD but it won\'t beat Gears, Bioshock, Forza, Halo 3, etc....

Some previews have disagreed.  We'll all find out soon enough. 

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Nick on 25 October 2007

I have an old tv and thought my wii looked fine on it. Then I played it on my parents hdtv and it looked amazing in comparison and that was just with the standard hookup.



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The_vagabond7 on 25 October 2007

The problem with that assertion KN is that all the games you named have realistic style, they are made to look like real life. Mario is not in the least. You're right, Mario won't look like a real lifelike human driving a realistically rendered car, but he's not supposed to.



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kn on 26 October 2007
The_vagabond7 said:
The problem with that assertion KN is that all the games you named have realistic style, they are made to look like real life. Mario is not in the least. You're right, Mario won't look like a real lifelike human driving a realistically rendered car, but he's not supposed to
 

True, they aren't the best comparisons.  I appreciate many art styles including things like mario kart and viva pinata.   I was trying to say that games on the 360 in SD, regardless of art style are going to exceed those of the Wii on an SD TV.  Why is this?  bump mapping, more polygons, higher resolution textures, and overall just more powerful hardware.

I would also add that I noticed a rather significant increase in quality when switching to component on my 360 versus standard video.  I'm assuming the same holds true for the Wii but I don't have a component cable for it so I can't say for sure.

This isn't a knock on the Wii.  I bought it knowing it wasn't graphically as strong but instead bought it for the controller (quite cool indeed) and for Nintendo's KNOWN first party IP as well as their tendency to have a much larger family game library...

 



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