Wiik in the Knees

One thing people have often said about the Wii is that as time goes on the graphics will look worse and worse compared to it's competitors (360, PS3 and PC). I think that this is a valid point, but developers are making that time come much too soon. Many games on the Wii look markedly worse than Gamecube games. I'd even argue that some look about the same as Dreamcast games.
I don't consider myself to be a big graphics whore, but I do think that many Wii games are aging themselves prematurely. As much as i like playing my Wii, it is starting to look a bit dated. So far nothing has really even lived up to the standard set by Resident Evil on the Gamecube.
People used to mock the Wii and say it was nothing more than two Gamecubes strapped together, Well I think they were being generous. I haven't seen anything that would make me think that there's more than one Gamecube in the box.
I love the new control scheme and I love the idea of bringing more people into gaming, but I don't love the idea of developers half assing games on the Wii because “graphics don't matter”. So far Mario Galaxy is the only game I've seen that was really Gamecube+ in any way, and even it looks very similar to Sunshine (graphically).
This whole post was all spurred on by pictures of the new game Lost in Blue for the Wii. I don't know how far along this game is in development but it seriously looks like a bad Dreamcast game. Take a look at it next to the Dreamcast launch title Evolution: The World of Sacred Device.



Lost in Blue on Wii

Evolution on Dreamcast