If wii is twice as powerful as the gamecube how come it dont look it

Maybe i dont understand how much better twice is for a tecknely perspective but all the wii games dont look twice as good as the gamecube. Maybe the developers are just not used to how the wii works but 8 bit o 16 bit is twice and that looked a lot better. The wii is twice as powerful then the GC how come it dont look twice as good.

The games that don't look as good are PS2 ports

I noticed this too.

WWE Smackdown vs Raw 2009 Wii

WWE Day ofWWE Day of Reckoning 2 GCture

It's not twice as powerful as the Gamecube.

The Wii can make great looking games. Problem is, a majority of devs are being lazy.

It does not have twice the power of a GC...who told you that?jfkunrendered

Wii

CPU 729 MHz PowerPC based IBM "Broadway"[60]

RAM 24 MB "internal" 1T-SRAM integrated into graphics package
64 MB "external" GDDR3 SDRAM
3 MB GPU frame buffer memory

GPU 243 MHz ATI "Hollywood"

GC

CPU 485 MHz PowerPC"Gekko"

RAM Main RAM 24 MB 1T-SRAM
Video RAM 3 MB embedded 1T-SRAM
16 MB DRAM

GPU 162 MHz ATI "Flipper"

its about twice as powerful

Hmm...interesting. If this is correct that is strange. I will look in to it some more....Good point, never realized this.jfkunrendered

It's not twice as powerful as the Gamecube.

The Wii can make great looking games. Problem is, a majority of devs are being lazy.

Erebyssial

Also it doesn't have twice the power of the GC. PS3 is close if not over and 360 is almost over. But the Wii compared to the GC is only 1.5 at most more powerful than it.

But its usually the devs part. Not a single game has produced the BEST graphics for the wii yet, the games can be better if we stop bugging devs about release dates.

Legend of Zelda WW was supposed to have 2 extra dungeons but deadlines came...the execs at Nintendo didn't believe the game would do well, but it did and even got a "sequel" in PH.

So its also partly the PUBLISHER's fault. (Nintendo, EA, others)

I noticed this too.

WWE Smackdown vs Raw 2009 Wii

WWE Day ofWWE Day of Reckoning 2 GCture

shadimoscouplos

1. The 360 is no where close to 30 times as powerful as the original. That's not to say it's not a crapload more powerful, but think of what that would imply! The PS3 would be like... God.

2. Nintendo said themselves the Wii would be approximately twice the power of the Gamecube, long ago. Like in 2005-6. So this should NOT be a surprise.

3. Yes, it's lazy devs. They figure no one cares about graphics on Wii so they make pieces of crap for it. Look at Guitar Hero III. See any graphical updates on that one?

4. If you wanna see what a Nintendo console can do, look at a Nintendo product. Super Mario Galaxy. Metroid Prime 3. Super Smash. I'll bet Mario Kart Wii will follow in their footsteps, but with the wheel, it'll appeal to more casual gamers, and thus they'll realize they like good graphics too. (PS: a little birdy told me cartoony graphics can be superior to realisitic looking ones)

5. The Wii can produce graphics near the quality of 360 games. No joke! Their engines are incredibly similar.

Devs, figure this out! A lot of games u make only for 360 and PS3 could run on Wii. No, not all, I'm not stupid, but more than believed.

Resident Evil 5 is headed to Wii, if Capcom's not retarded (they're not).

Not trying to be a fanboy, just looking at stats. You'll see on down the road from some Nintendo product come end of this year, early next, probably.