COULD THE THE WII BE BETTER?

[ahmeds187]

All the new consoles... Xbox360... PS3... Nintendo Wii...

I love them all and they all have their strengths.

The PS3 and the 360 have great quality gfx. They are huge fun to play. But I find the third, Nintendo Wii, the most fun... until I get annoyed with the gfx. Sometimes I remember the the PS1 while Im playing. So switch to the PS3 with great hi definition graphics its power is unbelievable.

I think that if Nintendo Wii had gfx, as good as the PS3 or 360, it would have won the console war. Or even if had gfx close to match them. Just wondering if anyone else felt the same way..?

P.S. Maybe Nintendo are saving it for their next products... for the time being Nintendo Wii is selling...

[Webmaster]

ya, i have always felt the same way. i have no idea why they came out with such a lightweight system. it seemed to me as if they had almost gone in a backwards direction. it's true that sometimes companies get too carried away with graphics making the gameplay suffer and games can sometimes be fine with simple graphics as in the wii, but making a system where there is no possibility for hi def graphics just seems like a waste to me.

[penshaw123]

I agree that the Wii is capable of so much more but i do not think the problem lies in the power of the Wii itself. I think it is down to lack luster programming.

I is widely considered that the Wii graphics are "crap" but if you look back to the last generation games such as ICO and Resident Evil 4 still look good today against some of the big players, and they were on systems with half the power of the Wii. It seems that developers know that we expect little from Nintendo's baby so they don't pour so much into making their games pretty (take a look at the Wii version of Alone in the dark). After all it is an expensive process.

It would appear that the only people trying to push the limits of the Wii are Nintendo with great games like Metroid Prime 3, Mario Kart, Zelda etc... The games also have decent graphics, not challenging gears of war by any means but give me a good solid game any day over next gen games like Genji.

So in short i did expect more from the Wii when i put my pre-order in long ago but i expected more like Metroid and Zelda and less mini game party madness. Developers see the Wii as a cash cow and enything that sells will be made regardless of time, effort and end result. Real shame because well thought out motion sensitive games could make a real impact.