It's has some pretty horrid graphics abilities.
Say what you will about
"teh graffix", but I can tell you, personally, I haven't had as much fun with any game in the last 10 or 15 years as I do when playing Super Mario Galaxy. And before that, it was playing Super Mario 64, which even now, 15 years later, still beats the pants off just about every game out there in terms of fun-factor. And hell, one of my other favorite games in recent years is Geometry Wars 2 on 360. That game is just a flat 2D plane with little shapes flying around on screen; hardly something that is pushing the bounds of modern gaming visuals. But it doesn't matter what it looks like when the controller is in my hand. The game is fun, as a
GAME should be.
Just like I was discussing earlier about how specs don't guarantee a great console, amazing graphics don't automatically mean a game is fun. It sounds like you are more interested in the specs and perception of a system, rather than the games and fun that can be had with it. Which is fine, that is your prerogative. But, by shunning some systems
(and brands) without giving them a real chance, you are missing out on some great experiences.
My brother and I were talking about how Every NPD figures come out the Wii and DS are 1&2 and its pretty astounding, cause considering especailly with the DS 90 percent of the games are shovelware. I think Since after they Made Nintendo 64 they pretty much think that Were Nintendo and since that we can have these developers develop cheap crap games and since its a "Nintendo" game people will go out and buy it. I think Nintendo is just basicly in it for the money now cause if they were in for selling games the Game Cube wouldn't have flop and the Wii would have next gen hardware.
The thing that Nintendo does distinctly different than every other console maker is they design the hardware for
THEIR OWN games, and then let other developers in. If you look at every Nintendo console since, well, forever, the top titles will always be the usual names; Mario, Zelda, Metroid, etc. If you look at those same NPD lists every month, where the DS and Wii are dominating, you will also see those same familiar Nintendo names appear in the list of top game titles. That isn't by accident.
Just as I was saying to Spaz above, the main thing that Nintendo holds very dear to their development is fun. People buy those games because they know that, while it might not be the most flashy game out there, Nintendo
KNOWS fun. While they have had their moments of
"high end" console graphics, that has never been a strong suit for them. They might not be the best looking at the time, but when I think back over the last 25 years or so, the number of Nintendo games that I thoroughly enjoyed playing outnumbers all other consoles combined, and that is including Sega.
A crappy game with amazing visuals is still a crappy game, but a fun game with crappy visuals is still fun.
