We all know that the Wii insnt a big honking graphical power house. But dont you think that the wii would be even more immersive if it had, even a bit better graphics? I mean i love the wii.. and hats off for Nintendo for doing so well , but dont you think that better graphics will be needed in the not so distant wii future. Having said that MoH:Heroes 2 looks very nice.
Graphics would make it moreimmersive but Nintendo wanted to make i accessible to most people (by minamizing price) and making it more immresive. Because of this that compromise was made.
It would have also made it more expensive. That's a problem, since Nintendo's strategy has always been to A.) produce Hardware at an immediate profit (they have to, since they can't absorb the short-to-midterm losses as well as a company such as Sony or Microsoft could), and B.) to sell their hardware for considerably less than the competition (note that the GCN launched at a hundred USD less than the PS2). A low price-point is especially important now, with the aim of appealing to a broader market.
Of course it would. And there's also no reason why increasing the technical performance on the Wii would have increased the retail price, not with the record per unit profit that they're taking.
But this is a moot point now, and there's really no reason to re-open this argument. The graphic capabilities of the Wii are its graphic capabilities, and it's not about to change.
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