So how strong is the Wii in terms of graphics?

Its a more balanced system than Xbox and is more powerful overall but we don't really see the benefit of it. Wii's GPU is the main bottleneck of the system. It doesn't have native shader support and developers have to write them from scratch which is why most third parties don't bother. The Xbox could do shaders very easily and didn't take a big hit on performance either which explains why some Xbox games look better than Wii games (Doom 3, Riddick, Ninja Gaiden etc).

hardware-wise, its essentially an Original Xbox with 88MB system RAM instead of 64MB.

with the exception that the Xbox had some games that displayed in 720p. But they didn't look all that great.

the Wii's CPU is roughly 1.5 times faster than the Cube, even some devs said the Cube's CPU could go faster than 485Mhz. The Wii's goes up to 729Mhz, in comparison the Xbox went to 733Mhz.

I wish they'd given it more oomphf.

yea i know they couldn't compete and still be affordable, but they could've made it 128MB RAM, and still 64MB VRAM, or slightly more VRAM, 128MB or 96MB. bump the CPU to 1.0Ghz, or dual 1.4Ghz CPU's.

it really would've helped getting some devs on board earlier. but they didn't. nuttin' we can do now.

hopefully nex gen they're competiting WHILE delivering something new (in terms of user input AND computer hardware)

darth-pyschosis

Two Gamecubes duct taped together.

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hardware-wise, its essentially an Original Xbox with 88MB system RAM instead of 64MB.

with the exception that the Xbox had some games that displayed in 720p. But they didn't look all that great.

the Wii's CPU is roughly 1.5 times faster than the Cube, even some devs said the Cube's CPU could go faster than 485Mhz. The Wii's goes up to 729Mhz, in comparison the Xbox went to 733Mhz.

I wish they'd given it more oomphf.

yea i know they couldn't compete and still be affordable, but they could've made it 128MB RAM, and still 64MB VRAM, or slightly more VRAM, 128MB or 96MB. bump the CPU to 1.0Ghz, or dual 1.4Ghz CPU's.

it really would've helped getting some devs on board earlier. but they didn't. nuttin' we can do now.

hopefully nex gen they're competiting WHILE delivering something new (in terms of user input AND computer hardware)

osan0

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I dont know, i haven't seen any system use anti aliasing.

GabuEx

How much did you look? :P This is a screenshot with a resolution of 1920x1080, and it clearly has antialiasing - it's not heavy antialiasing, as evidenced by the fact that the areas with great light-dark contrast still look somewhat jagged, but it's there.

yea looks like AA x2 or AA x4, not too impressive. but look at the textures on the pillar, they are pretty low res. thats how they can do AA. they use low res textures where people arent gonna pay attention. i dont know why. look at fear 2. the demo is a pretty good evidence. my laptop can run the game maxed out at 1280x800 with no AA. i played the demo on both pc and 360 and the textures on 360 were aweful, but it had AA x2. not very impressive, especially since it was only doin 720p and my laptop doesn't perform nearly as well as a 360.

I look at it this way: The Wii may be "two Gamecubes duct-taped together" as that douchebag from EA/Maxis said, but the Gamecube was able to pull out a game like Twilight Princess... Now, regardless of how one may feel about Twilight Princess as a game, in terms of graphics, what the little purple box accomplished with that game is kind of astounding. There may be some ugly terrains here and there, but it's miles ahead of any other game from last generation, especially for a game THAT big, with such a gargantuan world. Now, you just multiply that mental image by two. That sounds like some really good stuff to me.

Just to illustrate what I just said:

Multiply THAT by two.

Think about the best looking games from the original Xbox, now add better shadows and textures, that's as good as it gets

The Wii is a supercharged gamecue, and not much else unfortunately. I doubt yo're gonna see anything that looks better than Galaxy any time soon, if ever. The wii's lack of horsepower is probably one of my biggest gripes with the system.

The Wii is a supercharged gamecue, and not much else unfortunately. I doubt yo're gonna see anything that looks better than Galaxy any time soon, if ever. The wii's lack of horsepower is probably one of my biggest gripes with the system.

The Wii is a supercharged gamecue, and not much else unfortunately. I doubt yo're gonna see anything that looks better than Galaxy any time soon, if ever. The wii's lack of horsepower is probably one of my biggest gripes with the system.

revofanboy2005