Yes… The wii is going to be next-gen… Its better than a xbox,gamecube,ps2… yadda yadda… Nintendo sacrificed perfect graphics for an attempt at mainstream appeal…

Nintendo though what this blog fails to see is that the wii-mote is nintendo’s attempt to push the video game industry forward with innovation… Think about it… whats different from the ps1 controller to the ps3… It has the ability to tilt… and thats only after nintendo came out with something new and sony felt like it had to do something… Xbox 360’s controller is identical as well to its previous built in capiblities…

video games need to evolve like everything else it… Televisions are getting better… Not just in how much power they have but the type of power they have…

I’d consider the PS3 and Xbox 360 to be the best graphics based gaming you can find

But nintendo might find the best as far as gaming… Its not just a 2nd console… I see it being first…

But it is not enough! Raw power isn’t directely innovative, but it certainly allows DEVELOPERS to be innovative. PS3/360 will allow developers to create a more beliving world, more intelligent AI, advanced physics, advanced weather effects, clouds… the list goes on.

Just take a look at one of the developer interviews/videos with the creator of Assassins creed, when the explain how the new hardware enables them to create an advanced crowd simulation. Would that be possible on the Wii? Probably not.

But Wii will be a good 2nd console.

I don’t buy this however. Performance does not gurantee the games will be good. But certain games are not possible without a console with top performance like the 360 and PS3. Best current example is Dead Rising. It’s a really well made game. I am playing that game right now and I seriously doubt that game can be on a console that’s only 2-3x more powerful than the Gamecube only. Even on a 360, that game requires quite a bit of loadings between locations and cut scenes.

Nintendo is simply saying this because they don’t have the resources to develope high performance hardware to compete with MS and Sony. They are trying to make people to believe this is a positive thing even though it’s negative in my opinion. It’s cool that Nintendo takes a different approach. I will definitely buy the Wii at launch date, but there is no way I will only own the Wii but not have the 360 and PS3. Gamecube is a supplemental console for my PS2 ( I don’t have XBOX). Wii will probably be the same if Nintendo does not open itself up more.

Bull. It affects every aspect of software development and determines how much developers can do with their game engine. Saying specs don’t influence gameplay is a blatant lie designed to take advantage of the ignorant

No, developers say Wii clocks in at twice that of the GCN. Not 3 times

http://www.sengo.com/forums/showthread.php?t=13286

http://www.sengo.com/forums/showthread.php?t=13284

These make me want to puke…..I will most likely purchase a Wii a month or two after it comes out..but thats for my Zelda fix.

Now, rumor has it, that the Wii CPU is clocked at about 1400Mhz (something about 3 times the speed of the GC), and MS says, the GC NOW is as powerful as the XBox? I CERTAINLY dont think so. The XBox, with its crippled 766Mhz Celeron for sure cant compete ANYTHING thats thrown against it from the Wii.

I somehow agree with Nintendo, that not the HW Power assures good games. But consoles ALWAYS had to suffer a too small RAM. I mean, how can worlds get any bigger, if the limting factor isnt the CPU or the GPU but the RAM? Loading times suck, thats what the RAM is for.

And for 3rd parties… Of course the more the merrier, thats why the PS2 dwarves both the XBox and the GC in number of games produced (over 1100 unique games released in the EU, interestingly more than in the US).

Thing is, Nintendo really screwed 3rd party developers over ever since the NES, making them pay high royalties to develop for their system. This was the real deathknell for the N64, when Sony entered the console market. Both were a bitch to programm for (the N64 especially, because of its limited texture support) and Sony had the advantage of cheap CDs, which helped small developers to make cheap games.

I think, this generation is the same ALL OVER. Sony knows what it does and Microsoft still screws up in Japan… But we’ll see, what the future has in store for us…