About the cartoony vs realistic graphics, the cartoonish graphics are going to come out ontop with the Wii, in the sameway that the Dreamcast did with cartoony and realistic. The tech is able to do cartoony better, and ontop of that cartoony ages way better then realistic. For instance go back and look at some Dreamcast games, which ones hold up better by today's standards, the cartoony or realistic ones?

Mario Galaxy probably pushes the Wii further then anything at the moment, and surprise it's cartoony as are most of Nintendo's first party titles and since Nintendo designed the tech they've made sure that cartoony would look good.

Nintendo didn't design the Wii tech. It was designed by ArtX and updated by ATI after their acquisition.

About the cartoony vs realistic graphics, the cartoonish graphics are going to come out ontop with the Wii, in the sameway that the Dreamcast did with cartoony and realistic. The tech is able to do cartoony better, and ontop of that cartoony ages way better then realistic. For instance go back and look at some Dreamcast games, which ones hold up better by today's standards, the cartoony or realistic ones?

Mario Galaxy probably pushes the Wii further then anything at the moment, and surprise it's cartoony as are most of Nintendo's first party titles and since Nintendo designed the tech they've made sure that cartoony would look good.

Maybe better but that doesn't mean you still cant create a fantastic realistic looking game on the Wii, you can as RE4 has proven, the problem is developers/publishers are too lazy/too cheap to invest the time and effort to do so.

IMHO this looks every bit as good as any Nintendo title and still holds up well today

http://www.imeem.com/people/x3pRCQF/video/SCFQc3_a/miniditka_resident_evilgameplay_clip_14_videogames_video/

http://www.imeem.com/people/x3pRCQF/video/SCFQc3_a/miniditka_resident_evilgameplay_clip_14_videogames_video/

http://www.imeem.com/people/x3pRCQF/video/xsyMIqlC/miniditka_resident_evil_4water_videogames_video/

http://www.imeem.com/people/x3pRCQF/video/mknsC7cV/miniditka_resident_evilgameplay_clip_2_videogames_video/

Maybe better but that doesn't mean you still cant create a fantastic realistic looking game on the Wii, you can as RE4 has proven, the problem is developers/publishers are too lazy/too cheap to invest the time and effort to do so.

RE4 was ported onto the Wii.

If it was built from the ground-up on the Wii then I wouldn't argue.

I don't get your point, because it was made on a less powerful system it doesn't count . The Game Cube has pretty much the same architecture as the Wii, difference being that its not as powerful, so if they can make a great looking realistic game on the GC, they should have no problem doing it on the Wii.

Maybe better but that doesn't mean you still cant create a fantastic
realistic looking game on the Wii, you can as RE4 has proven,

RE4 wasn't made on the Wii tech, it was done on the GC tech, thus that's not a good example of what the Wii can achieve as it wasn't made for the Wii, it was made for the previous Nintendo system so of course it can run on the current one, and it already looked good when it was first released and still looks good even in this next gen age, but that doesn't have anything to do with the Wii, because it's not like they completely redid the graphics for the Wii version or anything.

the
problem is developers/publishers are too lazy/too cheap to invest the
time and effort to do so.

It's harder to make a good cartoony game then it is a realistic game. Realistic is really easy to do now with the Unreal 3 engine being used so much and so many games having the same look, thus everything has a standard now with realism, where as it's harder to do something really amazing with cartoony as there's no prefered style or set way of doing things and often times it's cartoony graphics that developers don't ever push far enough or get lazy with.