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Originally posted by: Artimus
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It's really hard to get a feel for how Corruption looks compared to Echoes when almost all the screens are blurry, but I think the first 2 are a good indication. You can definitely tell that Corruption does looks better that Echoes. It's not head-and-shoulders above it, but you can definitely tell that it's better. There are a lot of subtle touches that set it apart.
And for anyone saying that Wii should be easy for developers to pick up and run with just because it's based on GC hardware... Um... just what developers would you be talking about? The only 3rd parties that really tried to do anything worthwhile on the GC were Capcom, Amusement Vision, and Namco. No one else really tried to do anything with the system, or have we all forgotten the string of ports that actually looked WORSE than their PS2 counterparts. For a system that was almost on par with the XBox how was it possible for so many games on it to look so bad?
Because developers never really learned how to use the hardware properly in the first place. They practically ARE learning it all over again with the Wii. But as we can see from the launch titles, very few of them are learning much of anything.
If Wii can continue like it is and actually give the PS3 a run for it's money you will see developers take the system seriously and actually put some effort into making it look good. Nintendo's not usually one to do that but every once in a while they do put out a title that proves they know exactly what they're doing and can more than hold their own in the face of graphics whores. In the mean time we're going to get bad launch titles, but what system is immune to that? Wii might be getting more than it's fair share though given where Nintendo's coming from and 3rd party's desires to cash in on the new interface without any real effort but you can't fault the system if no one is actually taking advantage of it in the first place.
What we're seeing right now is in no way indicative of what the Wii is capable of, I'm absolutely certain of that. When a direct GC port with no graphical upgrades is the best looking game on the system you have to know that there's something wrong. Even if we took the CPU and GPU processing speeds at face value what we're seeing right now is laughable at best.
I will say though that the Mario Galaxy footage that I've seen so far looks incredible. I don't care about polygon this or shader that, I just know that the game looks like incredible fun and in the end that's really what it's all about, isn't it?