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Wii Graphics is “FUGLY” says IGN Editor

An IGN editor had the following to say about the Wii’s graphics:

 

“Thousands of IGN employees gathered around Craig Harris’ desk for a glimpse of Nintendo’s new console. When Craig finally got around to actually putting in a disc, the collected masses collectively vomited. Legend of Zelda on an LCD with composite cables is FUGLY. Really FUGLY. So FUGLY it deserves all caps. The same can be said for Excite Truck and likely any other Wii game. If you have an HDTV, the Wii may turn your stomach.”

 

The editor however, offered two solutions: Get a Component cable (for progressive scan) or buy a crappy TV under 32″. Although the editor is still excited about the Wii over the PS3, the editor found Zelda to be a borefest in the first two hours.

 

source: http://blogs.ign.com/Hil-IGN/2006/11/11/36713/

 

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:| I have a HD LCD tv. Looks like I have to order the component cables as soon as they are available online.

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Strangely enough, Composite is pretty much the worst option for picture output, anyway, so why he's making a point about it seems suspect. As to not liking Zelda, everyone's entitled to their own opinion about games.

 

Okay, after starting to read the blog entry, for starters he's wrong about the component cables, Nintendo have confirmed that they will be available in stores at launch. He doesn't mention whether he actually played Zelda, or just watched; to be honest, it's more likely the latter and watching games is very rarely anywhere near as good as actually playing them.

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I don't know from where the big fuss comes from. Everybody know that picture always looks pretty ugly on big LCD TV if you don't use component cables. This is true to every console, not just Wii. :blank:

 

You have a point... the PS3 and 360 graphics would look FUGLY on an LCD tv if you hooked them up with composite cables

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They could have posted examples. Beauty is in the eye of the beholder. Cube games look fine using composite on my 40" LCD

 

GoNintendo.com have been using a Samsung LCD TV, prolly the same one as me and it looked fine according to them

 

GoNintendo also posted a comparison shot of Zelda's Title using Composite and using Component

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Really, I doubt it's that bad :indeed: A composite cable seems a must for HD gamers though.

 

Composite looks extremely bad on LCD no matter what resolution you are using. By my understanding it has more to do with the way how LCD/Plasma television's refresh their screen than actual cables (and nearly all HD-TV sets are either LCD or plasma).

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Ah well it doesn't affect me, I don't have a HDTV or LCD TV and have no plans on buying one in the near future (I only got my widescreen TV this year!!!).

 

Is composite the cable that plugs into the white, red and yellow bits?

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No....I wasnt, don't worry.

Even when using the SCART end to the compsite? (I assume that's what it is)

 

Sorry, I'm not very tech minded.

 

Ah, that's just a Composite > SCART adaptor, you still only have the Composite cable signal even though it's going into the SCART socket. In a proper RGB SCART cable the video signal is split into into three separate ones, one Red, one Green and one Blue; this means you have got a much greater bandwidth to send the signal through, meaning less signal degradation.

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