The gamecube could do shaders. In fact, Rogue Leader was already running quite a few shaders in 2001 (on top of models that went from 30000 to 130000 poly's). 

The problem is that they are handled a bit different then the shaders that are used in nvidia/ati cards (and the xbox) which means that all the shader code has to be rewritten for the cube.

http://wiiall.blogspot.com/2006/06/wii-gpu-has-nice-blendingshading.html 

We have Elvis, Jimmy Hendrix, the 80's Metal/Rock scene, and Bob Dylan. We own.

The_Ish

 The beatles, The rolling stones, Led Zeppelin, Pink Floyd, Queen, David Bowie, the Sex Pistols, Depeche Mode, New Order and Radiohead say hi.

And now we're not even talking about electronic music... 

To give some credit to America: Jazz and old school hiphop are great.

We have Elvis, Jimmy Hendrix, the 80's Metal/Rock scene, and Bob Dylan. We own.

The_Ish

 The beatles, The rolling stones, Led Zeppelin, Pink Floyd, Queen, David Bowie, the Sex Pistols, Depeche Mode, New Order and Radiohead say hi.

And now we're not even talking about electronic music... 

[QUOTE="Haziqonfire"]Why must you bring up the games that OBVIOUSLY lack in the graphical department.im not saying that the Wii has awesome graphics, everyone knows it doesnt - but to constantly come into threads like this one and post images of games that obviously look bad on the Wii .. shows that you really must be a fanboy. and of course the games like DK Jet, SPM, and LoZ:TP's graphics wont be as good as ground up Wii games, because they are being PORTED from the GC.God, i cant explain it much farther then that. if you dont get it, you dont get it. Dualshockin

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xgzgIbTY0Zs

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cddwtJXJ4Nk

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wYbBDG3MOc8 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0V8U6yybPxQ 

Great, comparing bullshots of Metal Gear Solid 3 (higher res, lots of Anti-Aliasing) against crappy screenshots of GC games. Here's a better comparison:

As good as Metal Gear Solid 3 looks, resident evil 4 easilly wins. Both the lighting and the models are way better in Resident Evil 4.

Sweet, what we need to know now is which console it will be on.tegovoltio

It has been announced for the Wii quite a while ago. The only thing known until now though was that it was a project with both Kojima and Suda51 working on it. 

3rd party games not selling on a Nintendo console is bull. Red Steel sold great (even though it sucked) and good gamecube games usually sold pretty well. Soul Calibur 2 sold more on the GC then on the PS2 or XBOX. Tales of Symphonia sold better then most other tales games as well. RE4 sold only a bit more on the PS2 then on the GC, even though 4 times as much PS2's had been sold.