I dont get all the wii criticism. It has just as much power as a previous generation console with more features. So when you calling the wii a calculator or whatever, then a calculator must be faster than your PS2 also.
And Nintendo just put out what many reviewers and gamers consider one of the most beautiful fun game ever.. Galaxy2. Read that line again, not just the most beautiful Wii game, one of the most beautiful games ever.
If Nintendo can make amazing games like MG2, the Wii is not the problem.
@ChuckBartowski You really dont get the Wii bashing due to it's lack of processing power? PP is what defines what games are capable of for an entire generation. Nintendo lies when they say it only affects graphics. Every aspect of gameplay depends on how much PP the system has.
And by going with less PP than the original XBOX had, they held back an entire generation to that of last gen gameplay.
Look at how Dead Rising (or Dead Space) turned out on Wii versus PS3/360. It's not just the graphics that suffered, it completely lost the physics engine (you couldn't even walk in the water in the main area, creating a bottleneck where you could get ambushed easily) the removal of the photography system (in a game where you played as a reporter...) a drastic reduction in both the amount of enemies and how far you could see them (to the point where if you're running, you had to assume they'd appear in front of you or they would and ambush you) and a reduction in the size of every area in the game.
When people say their calcs are more powerful than Wii, you telling them that applies to PS2 as well doesn't mean squate, PS2 was more powerful than anything 10 years ago when it came out. There's no excuse for Sony to release a new system as powerful as PS2 now.
Imagine what Wii could have been capable of had it been designed by someone actually capable of it. Even Miyamoto admitted they ran out of PP making the New Super Mario Bros game, and that was just a side scroller. Compare it to LittleBigPlanet on PS3, which has online multiplayer, a physics engine, multiple layers, and a level editor. People could make the new mario game inside LBP if they spent enough time on it.
@Extinction -the ps2 was not the most powerful it was weaker than both the gamecube and the xbox, and while i agree that wii is way underpowered it is not weaker than the original xbox its technically more like a overclocked xbox while still pathetic it does have a few nice looking games, one thing nintendo has always been good at is pulling off some surprising things with it's hardware if wii had power closer to a 360 and less shovelware it would be pretty damn impressive, while i think they are gonna add some power to this next DS to impress everyone, i dont see them fighting for processing power in home consoles anymore though i think they'll try to make it a lil closer to competition in the future but i doubt that will stop the trend of tons of shovel ware with a few gems buried under it all
Actually in some aspects the PS2 is more powerful then the Wii. The processor of the PS2 is rated at 6.2GFLOPS vs the Wii at 2.9 GFLOPS while the gpu on the Wii is a lil more powerful then the PS2 but not by much. The Wii is limited to 480p for a reason and though the PS2 can do 1080i only GT4 and Valkyrie Profile used it and even then it was more like 640x1080.
@sollord i call bullshit i 'll do some digging around when i get the chance but i clearly remember the gamecube was more powerful than the ps2 and the wii is more powerful than the gamecube granted only by about 2x but that makes wii more than twice as powerful than ps2 by far, and to the person that claimed nintendo didnt have the money to make ii more powerful sadly you are wrong they did have the money but did not care to make the wii powerful, while the gamecube may not have even come close to outselling the ps2 it made nintendo much more profit than sony made from ps2 due to the fact nintendo never sells a system at a loss
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I dont get all the wii criticism. It has just as much power as a previous generation console with more features. So when you calling the wii a calculator or whatever, then a calculator must be faster than your PS2 also.
@ChuckBartowski
And Nintendo just put out what many reviewers and gamers consider one of the most beautiful fun game ever.. Galaxy2. Read that line again, not just the most beautiful Wii game, one of the most beautiful games ever.
If Nintendo can make amazing games like MG2, the Wii is not the problem.
@ChuckBartowski You really dont get the Wii bashing due to it's lack of processing power? PP is what defines what games are capable of for an entire generation. Nintendo lies when they say it only affects graphics. Every aspect of gameplay depends on how much PP the system has.
And by going with less PP than the original XBOX had, they held back an entire generation to that of last gen gameplay.
Look at how Dead Rising (or Dead Space) turned out on Wii versus PS3/360. It's not just the graphics that suffered, it completely lost the physics engine (you couldn't even walk in the water in the main area, creating a bottleneck where you could get ambushed easily) the removal of the photography system (in a game where you played as a reporter...) a drastic reduction in both the amount of enemies and how far you could see them (to the point where if you're running, you had to assume they'd appear in front of you or they would and ambush you) and a reduction in the size of every area in the game.
When people say their calcs are more powerful than Wii, you telling them that applies to PS2 as well doesn't mean squate, PS2 was more powerful than anything 10 years ago when it came out. There's no excuse for Sony to release a new system as powerful as PS2 now.
Imagine what Wii could have been capable of had it been designed by someone actually capable of it. Even Miyamoto admitted they ran out of PP making the New Super Mario Bros game, and that was just a side scroller. Compare it to LittleBigPlanet on PS3, which has online multiplayer, a physics engine, multiple layers, and a level editor. People could make the new mario game inside LBP if they spent enough time on it.
@Extinction -the ps2 was not the most powerful it was weaker than both the gamecube and the xbox, and while i agree that wii is way underpowered it is not weaker than the original xbox its technically more like a overclocked xbox while still pathetic it does have a few nice looking games, one thing nintendo has always been good at is pulling off some surprising things with it's hardware if wii had power closer to a 360 and less shovelware it would be pretty damn impressive, while i think they are gonna add some power to this next DS to impress everyone, i dont see them fighting for processing power in home consoles anymore though i think they'll try to make it a lil closer to competition in the future but i doubt that will stop the trend of tons of shovel ware with a few gems buried under it all
@blizz419
Actually in some aspects the PS2 is more powerful then the Wii. The processor of the PS2 is rated at 6.2GFLOPS vs the Wii at 2.9 GFLOPS while the gpu on the Wii is a lil more powerful then the PS2 but not by much. The Wii is limited to 480p for a reason and though the PS2 can do 1080i only GT4 and Valkyrie Profile used it and even then it was more like 640x1080.
@sollord i call bullshit i 'll do some digging around when i get the chance but i clearly remember the gamecube was more powerful than the ps2 and the wii is more powerful than the gamecube granted only by about 2x but that makes wii more than twice as powerful than ps2 by far, and to the person that claimed nintendo didnt have the money to make ii more powerful sadly you are wrong they did have the money but did not care to make the wii powerful, while the gamecube may not have even come close to outselling the ps2 it made nintendo much more profit than sony made from ps2 due to the fact nintendo never sells a system at a loss