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Some Truth to Wii as GameCube 1.5?
Newsweek's N'Gai tackles the allegation that the Wii is a glorified GameCube. He specifically looked at recent comments by Microsoft's Robbie Bach saying that 'the video graphics on it aren't very strong; the box itself is kind of underpowered; it doesn't play DVDs; there are a lot of down-line components [that] aren't actually that interesting. ... They don't have the graphics horsepower that even Xbox 1 had. So it makes sort of the comparison set a little bit difficult.' LevelUp spoke with a pair of technical experts at third party publishers and learned that, essentially, Bach's comments about horsepower are accurate. However, "the 'Gamecube 1.5' moniker, while accurate, doesn't mean that gamers won't see graphical improvements on the Wii. 'There are three main differences which will result in graphics improvements. One, the increased memory clock speed, from 162 megahertz to 243 megahertz, means that it is easier to do enough pixels for 480p mode versus 480i. Two, the enhanced memory size of the Wii gives much more room for image-related operations such as anti-aliasing, motion blur, etc. The performance to these memory systems from the graphics chip is also improved. So full-screen effects and increased texture usage seem likely as a result.'"
So why don't you fucktards get a used Atari 2600 if games were only meant to be fun. Oh that's right you are a bunch of pretendo loving sheeple. You will purchase anything from pretendo even if it meant Apple II style graphics.
Woohoo a flamebait mod!
As I thought, Microsoft and Sony give you 1080 and more while pretendo keeps pissing on you pretendo sheeple loving fucktards.
Contrary to popular fanboy legend, PCs are not magic devices that magically work exactly right unless the user is a fucking idiot. Maybe you'll figure that out once you have more experience with computers.