If that's all true, that was one of the most enlightening articles I've seen about the Wii. Aside from the numerous editing mistakes, it was chock-full of technical info that I've been looking for on the hardware.

This whole time, I thought the Wii was basically just a GC w/ enhanced controls so I was shocked to learn that the Wii GPU can be 3-5 times more powerful than the GC's and that the system overall can dish out twice as many megapixels per second as the Xbox.

It was also nice to learn about some of the characteristics of the GC devkit that Nintendo fixed for the Wii devkit. Good stuff.

Noticed he or she said the res. is restricted by the developers kit, but not by the hardware.

This makes me think the gpu can do 720p which is what has been rumored for around 4 months now.

I guess by yr end and early next yr we'll see more games looking like Xbox ports of sorts.

How can a developer claim that the X360 is only 2.5 times faster than the Wii? That's utterly ridiculous as Kameo proves the power of the X360 in terms of polygons. 4000 NPCs with unique AI in Kameo. Does that mean you can have 2000 NPCs on the Wii? No.

They all said 700+mhz is nothing, but like itsbubc is saying the whole hardware is important. Lets not forget Wii is running @ 480P max if supported by the game, this also means that the GPU isn't calculating high resolutions('720P+) so plenty of GPU-calculations are left..
we have all seen how good looking the mario:galaxy trailer was..to be honest i didn't expected it would look that good.

Here:

1080p resolution is approx. 1000x1000 pixels, 1,000,000.
480p resolution is approx. 400*400 pixels, 160,000.
Thats 6.25x larger.

6.25X the storage space of a dvd, what, 4.5GB? I'm not looking it up, thats close enough, = 28.125 (GB) or roughly the storage space in a BluRay/HDDvd disc.

Thats how this type of stuff works out.

You cant fit more game on an HD - DVD disc, you use all the excess for the graphics making the SAME game.

Many other hardware issues work out the same way.

Crazy to think the WII is to the Switch 2, as the NES was to the WII back then. 20 Year difference.

Great console, still use it

My wife asks me to bust it out (heh) everyone once in a while to play bowling and tennis with the kids. There was a ton of slop on it but some good stuff as well.

Wii was great but boy howdy did it cause Microsoft to go on a dark walk with the Kinect and the disastrous XBox One launch that they arguably never recovered from.

Not nostalgic for me.. I was there.. anyone who wasnt a little kid realized it was a gamecube with shit tacked onto it, it was the "joke" system and was well below even the switch in terms of comparing it to the latest machines at the time. The machine was well loved by young people and "casual gamers" who now remember it 20 years on, or in most cases more of its sales came in the 15-20 years ago range not right at launch- but again its not nostalgic for people who were "gamers" then really, just for those who ended up with one in their house, the games , graphics, interface and online features were archaic already in 2006.

This game along with Rogue Squadron got me into to Star Wars. The release of special edition VHS Star Wars collection was perfectly times on top of all that. 😆

Because it is.

Please re-release this.

But it wasn't. Although I do agree that some of the tie-in media, like the novels and comics, were pretty good.

Still, games like Dark Forces, Jedi Knight, Rogue Squadron, and the space sims were peak 90s Star Wars. Shadows fell flat because of the abysmal controls and unimaginative levels. And if you wanted to really experience the seedy side of the universe, Jedi Knight: Dark Forces 2 was peak, and it wasn't even close.

Regardless, and much to my dismay, we got the better version thanks to Ubislop in Outlaws, which is what Shadows should've been, albeit at a smaller scale.