Wii, likewise, is BARELY an upgrade from its DS counterpart just because it's not necessary. You'll notice that while the shading on Mario in Galaxy is a lot better, they hardly made any changes to the overall design and details for Mario himself between Sunshine and Galaxy-and the same can be said for the environment art's construction, which tends to be very simple shapes. Nintendo themselves make hardly any effort to differentiate the new graphics from the old ones. There just isn't a lot to put together for something like Wii Bowling or Boom Blox.Ī couple of the Wii's best-looking games are BOTH ports from the Gamecube, those being Twilight Princess and Resident Evil 4, so there literally is no difference even with some of its quality titles. The trouble is that.Ī lot of Wii games are just PS2 Ports or cross-platform games between PS2 and Wii, like Star Wars: The Force Unleashed, and therefore do not take advantage of the Wii's more powerful hardware as they are specced for the PS2Ī lot of Wii games are simple casual titles that don't involve much of a budget for bells and whistles like writing and artwork. The Wii is actually a bit more potent than the original X-Box was, which still makes it a beefier piece of hardware all-around than the previous generation of consoles, even if it's not a huge leap ahead like the 360 and PS3. Note that in Mario Galaxy he looks a liiitle bit less like he's made entirely out of plastic, mainly due to the lighting.
Here's Mario in Mario Sunshine for the Gamecube. This is ESPECIALLY evident with Mario Galaxy. There's more polygons, the textures are a lot more detailed, and the lighting engine and shaders are a bit more sophisticated, even if they're not using normal/specular mapping. It's not as noticeable a difference between Gamecube graphics and Wii graphics as it is between PS2 and PS3, but it's definitely there. Brawl, which are fairly significant steps up from their previous installments.
Probably the best examples of good-looking Wii games are Super Mario Galaxy and Smash Bros. The Wii has higher potential for better graphics than the PS2 does, but the titles being produced for it tend not to make that much use of its potential.
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