The Games of my Life

While most developers and producers (including big ones like EA and Ubisoft) have said that they are fully behing the Wii, a few developers (”lazy”? naaah) have said that it is “underpowered” for the games they are developing for consoles like the PS3 and the Xbox 360. Gamers, in forums - especially younger ones - also complain about the Wii, calling it “a souped-up GameCube with a new controller”. It’s as if it was CGA in the age of VGA - though those gamers are probably too young to know what CGA was.

That image, however, is wrong - and it just shows that people are simply not thinking.

The Wii is said to be “2-3 times as powerful” as the GC. Right? On paper, that seems to be nothing compared to the multi-core, multi-gigahertz monsters that the 360 and the PS3 are.

That’s a way to look at it, sure. But think of it in another way. Do you think that the current generation of games - PS2, original Xbox, GameCube - are absolutely, downright ugly? Ugly in a way that they are unplayable? Do you find games like God of War, Gran Turismo 4, Halo 2, Metroid Prime or the better-looking GC version of Resident Evil 4 “ugly”?

I don’t think so (unless you are SO young that the 360 is your first console ever. :)) Well then, the Wii will beat all of those in terms of graphics. Easily.