I'm usually in the camp of graphics don't make the game, but I may have to adjust my thinking.

I'm sorry Wii, but I'm expecting a little better than that...especially with a 250 price tag.

I think people will be sorely disappointed if they go the dual console route, ala Wii60/PSWii. Once you experience HD gaming there really is no going back. Hence my original XBOX is no relegated to playing DVD's in my study.

Nintendo really is trying to pull the wool over everyone's eyes by giving you a Gamecube with a new case and a yet to be proven fun interface (Wiimote), at a cost of more than double the Gamecube. Then selling you games you think you want to play for nostalgia reasons. Really, if I bought a Wii I would be at first excited to play Excitebike, but I have a feeling after 15-20 mins of playing it in Standard Definition on a 50" TV I would be bored out of my mind and feel cheated. Some people play games for endless hours on end, yet I can't see that happening if I am having to swing my arms around or hold my arm out and point at the screen being fun after any length of time.

Besides, all those old games can be played through an emulator on your PC and a PSP for free.

This doesn't make Nintendo stupid though, as they can take sub par hardware that is cheap to produce, sell you games that have basically zero production costs (SNES, N64), and laugh all the way to the bank.

To the person who said this is basically an XBox, there was an article on here long ago the listed the stats on the components in a Xbox, PS2, GameCube, and the Wii. The Xbox had the more powerful components out of all of them.

Anyway, the only 2 consoles that will be sitting in my living room will be my current Xbox360 and a PS3, but only when the PS3 proves it deserves to be there with amazing exclusives and proves that the Blu-Ray format will be here to stay.

Pooh on you Nintendo, I'm not sharing my cookies with you.

I just hope that it wont turn out like the eyetoy play games. I shoulda learned my lesson after getting the 2nd eyetoy game. I can already see myself getting bored after the first 2 mins. at least it the sexiest looking console out there :/

Doh!!!!

NintenDon't do it!!! --

I hear the argument out there from some of you, re: graphics aren't everything, but some of these games don't look any better than Super Smash Bros. on the 64 - and the 64 kicked @ss - A GENERATION AGO.

Most of those games arent even finished. Im going to make an evaluation myself about the graphics because the graphics look better if you are actually looking at it on your tv.

But.. gameplay does come in 2nd and hella important. I believe those screenshots were taken in a way to make the wii look cheap and weak, but honestly I believe if some1 had taken that does not seem bias in their photography effort then we would see much nice graphics! and if you look closely the really dont look that bad!

anyhow...the screens are low quality i dont think this fair.
@zZork
gameplay is evrything..how can GFX make a game good? a game always get a high rating becozz of the gameplay.or a low one if the gameplay SUCKS...not becozz it has nice GFX.
cozz we all know ZELDA is gonna have a high rating but you aint seeing HD images

but i agreed for the rest of your post

As my prime example I'll use Gears of War. Alrite, now get an image of it; now pretend it has horrible graphics. Wouldn't it just be another KillSwitch (Horrible game)?

I could go into detail, but oh well :D!

Wii = GC + new remote