The Playstation III does in fact have the potential to create far better graphics than the Wii.

But better graphics have nothing whatsoever to do with whether a game is fun to play. From what I understand, Nintendo really nailed that one, and that's why its sales are going through the roof.

Many, many years ago, a game called Adventure was created that was nothing but text, and thousands of people played and enjoyed it because they enjoyed exercising their imaginations. Then Zork came, and created a whole mini-empire of text games. They were even more entertaining, and attracted a group of dedicated fans.

Personally, I would rather play one of those games than the shoot 'em ups that pass for games today, but that's just me. Unfortunately, the mass market thinks otherwise, and so we have increasingly deadly and bloody games.

Competition in games was finding out who could create the most realistic gore.

Nintendo realized that might not be the best idea for a true mass market since there are plenty of people, like me, who hate gore. So they produced the Wii as a more personal experience, with games like Wii Sports and the like.

What this means is that Nintendo is not competing on the question of who has the speediest graphics, but whose games are the most fun.

As far as graphics quality is concerned, the more expensive game consoles definitely have the ability to produce higher quality and more realistic imagery. But you have to have talented software engineers to unleash those graphics, and that takes time. So when a console like the PS3 is introduced, it might have graphics little better than the PS2. As the programmers get to know it better, they will start to use its features and the games will improve.

Finally, I believe that if you don't have a high definition TV, you might not see that much difference in graphics quality between the systems. They were designed with High-Def in mind and I think adoption of high-def systems has been considerably slower than the makers of these consoles had in mind.

So the bottom line is that it takes both a great system and a great game design to create spectacular graphics. If you don't have both you will have a sub-par experience.

If the Wii captures your interest, that's considerably more important than graphics.

Graphics make the game look good but they are not its soul. Games without a soul will suffer even if they have the most spectacular graphics.

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