The Wii's Brain Exposed

Jon Stokes, at the Opposable Thumbs column, discusses a final revelation of the Wii's technical prowess. Though it's been assumed since the early days of the marketing push that the Wii is basically a super-charged GameCube, a post to Acer's Hardware boards would seem to confirm that. Not, as Mr. Stokes says, that that is a bad thing: "I'm no longer nearly as upset about the implications of this move as I was back in August. In fact, thanks in large part to my DS Lite, I've gone from being disappointed at Wii's underpowered hardware to actually anticipating the new console. I plan to pick one up when they become generally available, and I'm even hoping to hook my (nongamer) wife on it."

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I think in 2 or 3 years a significant portion of the population may have HD-capable TVs, but it will be their primary television set. It will be quite a while after that before you see secondary TVs switching up to HD. A system billing itself as a "media center" needs to have HD capabilities because it is likely to be on the main TV in the house. A pure game machine is just as likely to be in a kid's bedroom or some other secondary TV location, where HD will take longer to get to.