The difference between Wii & PS2 graphics?

[muffincakes]

Yes, I could. Yes, I did. Yes, I will again. It is obviously not better, and you should wear glasses. Also, claiming that a game 'doesn't even try to add shading or textures' when it has instead not been able to after its technical limitations have been met is just ludicrous. I shall just go ahead and assume that you are a ravenous fanboy who lacks reason, and like Old Yeller, I must put you down.[End Scene]

[Camera backs away as the shotgun is loaded. As the screen fades to black, a single shot rings out]

[Roll Credits]

Because it can't doesn't mean it's better. Saying that Hitler was a great painter because it was the best he could do doesn't make him a better painter than Michelangelo. Technical limitations or not, it's not relative to the system's hardware, it's relative to each other. It seems like you are the fanboy in this situation and that you are ignorantly accusing me. In fact, Professor Layton and the Curious Village is only available on the Nintendo DS which is in fact a Nintendo console which is also held back by graphical limitations. But saying that Professor Layton has the best graphics ever would be untrue. Although it does look amazing if I do say so myself, that doesn't make it the best just because it's pushing the limitations of a handheld console.

Alright, I think I've finally understood where you are coming from, and I would like to point out that your comparisons are quite flawed. Since we aren't talking about graphical power based upon the technology at hand, and just how it looks, you cannot just pick two pictures at random and think that makes a proper comparison. For example, does

Spoiler: this

look anything like

Spoiler: this?

I hope you don't think that there is a possible comparison there. If you were to compare them, then pretty much everyone would agree that the bottom(Wii) picture looks much better. If you want a proper comparison, it must be of two very similarly styled games that are trying to to the same thing graphically. No, it doesn't have to be their best, but you can't compare dissimilar things. That's why you cannot compare Halo with Madden. If it isn't similar, it's incomparable, and therefore, your previous attempt at comparison fails because of the parameters you set on the comparison(ie relative to each other and not the hardware capabilities) because the two games shown have no relation to each other whatsoever.

If you want a comparison, it has already been posted. Watch this and you can see for yourself the Wii graphics being superior to the PS2.

Spoiler: Provided by DrDeath3191

 

[Samurai Goomba]

Problem is, the Wii graphics don't look all that much better. Yeah, they look better in the few instances where the designers took time to really work with the system, but the games aren't like those on the PS3 and 360. Certainly not visually.

Still, that business model seems to have worked for Nintendo, so who am I to gripe. Actually, I wouldn't mind seeing worse graphics across the industry as a whole if it would bring prices down. At the end of the day, the game itself (gameplay, story) is worth more to me than the way it looks. Presentation matters, but not all THAT much. Bioshock would be a crap game if it had crap gameplay. Shinobi (PS2) looks extremely plain but plays very well. The GBA Fire Emblem games are about as simple as you can get visually with strategy titles (fairly-recent ones, anyhow), but they still rule.

But yeah, looking at the Wii library and graphics, I definitely wouldn't fork over Current Gen amounts of cash for a system or games.

Oh, and anything other than same-game comparisons are crap. I can cherry-pick a game from any system and compare it with another game from another system made in the same decade and show why game X is better-looking than game Y. It's not a fair comparison. Different devs do (or don't) take advantage of a system's graphics in different ways. To compare games early in the Wii life cycle to late PS2 games is particularly unfair.

 

[CheckD3]

I think Nintendo made a choice of going with style rather than cutting-edge realism.

Yea, to bad that if Sony's new motion controllers turns out to be very successful then the Wii will have almost nothing worth bragging about.

Actually, they can brag that THEY came up with idea first.

Though I think in the next gen., Nintendo will stay the odd ones out by jumping back onto controller based without the motion control, at least I hope. Maybe they'll spend the extra money on new franchises or something, and will get sales based on those people who don't want to wave their arms anymore.