Glenn the Great wrote:Nintendo got good reaction at E3 because they showed off some innovation (I'll restrain from calling it gimmicks). It won't be long after the system is actually released that people will begin to realize for themselves the limitations of the Wii's hardware. People are going to be wishing their Wii games looked as good as what is on their friend's XBox 360. New playstyle innovation has had the effect of letting Nintendo's booth stick out like a sore thumb, thus drawing the crowds, but I think it will be interesting to see how long it's going to actually hold up when the thing is released. It may have been great fun for people at E3 to spend 30 minutes or so using their controller like a hula hoop or swinging a tennis racket, but are people really going to want to do that for hours on end in hardcore fashion?
But that's just the thing, the system isn't aimed only for "hardcore gamers". The casual and well, unskilled gamers are trying to be racked in. And for the more hardcore gamer you have games like Metroid Prime and Red Steel. Surely much more in the future.
Cloral, ya it goes to show the old tyrant of a president at Nintendo when the GameCube was developed was a moron. The fewer buttons and disc space most certainly killed alot of ports the GC could have gotten. And I'm sure more RAM atleast for dev units would have helped. Hopefully the Wii will be a turning point for Nintendo. Turning back on track more or less. While they won't have the most ubberiffically impressive system, after people get numbed to the newer graphics level of the Xbox 360 and PS3, the Wii won't really look bad at all. The GameCube already was able to pull off some pretty amazing graphics (Resident Evil 4). Sure that's no uh, Gears of War for X360, but then once you get the Wii upgrade I'm sure it'll be capable of some nicely detailed and well suited graphics.
I am still concerned though about the apparent low amount of memory for the Wii. I always advocate having lots of RAM. The X360 has 512MB, where as the Wii is gonna have like 96MB or some strange number. Why, oh why couldn't they have bumped that up to 128MB or even 256MB. You can never have too much RAM. Well unless you have so much you can't use it and it costs so much no one can afford it. Still, I think it could have used more RAM.