Wish Nintendo forced AntiAliasing...

I don't know about you, but in this day and age, jaggies are becoming more and more obvious as people start purchasing bigger TVs, or moving on from a CRT to a nice LCD/TFT/Plasma/etc Wide-screen system which are crystal clear in comparison...

What I never understood (even back in the GameCube times), is why Nintendo never made it a requirement for developers to use anti-aliasing to help prepare the system better for higher-quality displays, as aforementioned television sets bring those jaggies out like nothing other, making titles that otherwise look decent on your average-joe 19" CRT, look utter crap on anything else.

Last I checked the Wii's GPU (including the GameCube) has native support for Anti-Aliasing, and I really did wish the majority of developers made use of it, rather than copping out just because they couldn't code a decent enough engine to be able to sacrifice 2-3 FPS just to make the display all the more better looking.

Oh well, my rant's over, discuss.

It's strange how so many games actually look far better on regular old CRTs. This new technology is supposed to be so much better, but the fact is that plenty of games actually look much, much worse on them. For example, Wii Sports has no jaggies on a regular TV and I haven't noticed any jaggies on ANY Wii games on my regular TV.CampusVoice

That's because the HDTV's and the like highlight everything about the game, whether it be good or bad.

I agree,by the way How many games on the Wii using AA ?

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It's strange how so many games actually look far better on regular old CRTs. This new technology is supposed to be so much better, but the fact is that plenty of games actually look much, much worse on them. For example, Wii Sports has no jaggies on a regular TV and I haven't noticed any jaggies on ANY Wii games on my regular TV.CampusVoice

It's because CRTs use an interlaced display (it draws every odd line, than every even line) which hides jaggies a fair bit unless they're really horrible in the game, which cause the "dancing ants" issue with diagonal lines on static graphics (like Zelda:TP's minimap).

Not to mention CRTs tend to bleed colours together so edges get slightly blurred in the process as well, it's why low-resolution videos on CRTs (like 320x240) still appear smooth.

Jaggies are a crapload more obvious when in progressive scan (480p) as it draws the whole screen one per frame, making those unsmoothened edges more apparent.

Anyhow, it's not a problem with the Wii's graphical capabilities, I've seen some GameCube titles that look better than any current Wii titles out now, which had AntiAliasing enabled (Soul Calibur2 comes to mind). If the Wii is 1.5x (or whatever it was) more powerful than the GameCube, there's no excuse why AA couldn't be enabled without major sacrifices in the graphical output.

Hell, the Wii is running in fricken' 640x480, Anti-Aliasing is a joke for a video card to perform at that resolution, my last PC could do 8x AA easily there, Wii should be easily capable of 2/4x if the developers are not incompetant.

Yeah, I don't understand why they don't use it. Red Steel, TP and GodFather would have look SO much better.m_machine024

While I do agree -- to the point where I've considered unhooking my Wii from my big-screen HD LCD to return it to the 27" CRT -- I'll say that I would RATHER Nintendo focus on putting out games other than lousy minigame collections and previous-gen ports than focus on graphics. I mean, if it's going to be about the graphics, give me graphics. But if it's going to be about the games, GIVE ME GAMES, Nintendo!Generic_Dude