As we all know the Wii is rather underpowered, but while we all thought
that as time went on developers would be able to extract something out of the
system, the opposite has proven true with Metroid Prime 3 and Super Mario
Galaxy both considered to be the system’s best looking games. The latter
certainly not on a technical level, though!

So with the recent news that the GoldenEye remake on the 360 has been
canned and may even be headed to the Wii, should we be happy that it still
exists? I find this idea laughable. The fact is on the 360 the game could
easily look like this picture:

But in HD.

Let us take a look at what it would look like on the Wii, at pathetic SD—oh!
Sorry, “enhanced definition”.

Yep, that’s the same female character.

Of course we now know that there’ll be an HD remake on the 360 which
looks not a pixel less than this:

Now let us observe what it would like on the Wii:

Same character. Only the biggest Nintendo fan
boy could not notice the
difference. Yet the fact that there will be no Perfect Dark remake on the Wii
raises an interesting point. Maybe the Wii isn’t powerful enough? Certainly it
was a technological marvel that the N64 could pull off Perfect Dark. A marvel
that even required an upgrade! That little upgrade took it to PC levels of performance
so that Perfect Dark was powerful. I mean do you really think the Wii is
capable of graphics like this:

Of course not! The N64 was one hell of a machine, sadly, the Wii is not.
Even if they did manage to downgrade it would we still want to play it when we
could play it on the N64 with superior controls and graphics? Let’s be honest tacked
on gimmicky waggle won’t contribute anything to the controls and the IR (even
with motion plus) on the Wii is highly inaccurate and cannot seriously compete
with the N64’s razor sharp analogue control.

GoldenEye, admittedly, isn’t as technically impressive, but while it
would run, it’s fair to say that it wouldn’t be worth playing. It would look
like this:

Do we honestly want to play that? And you can imagine the frame rate
when you’ve got four player split screen on! Ugh.

You can’t seriously say that a console that’s best graphics are this:

and this:

:

Could possibly pull of something graphically impressive, especially
without HD? Compared to the Banjo HD remake
on the 360 the difference is night and day:

What a depressing joke you are Nintendo. I hope you can rely on those
casuals in a few years down the track when they’ve moved away from Poniez 5: Twinkling
Hooves and have grown up to be playing Gears of War seven. Then you’ll be back
where you were with the GameCube, which might I add was a great console, and
you’ll be in last place all over again. I await that day eagerly.

If not let’s hope Pachter was right about Wii Plus.