TellTale Games: "iPhone is much more powerful than a Wii"

TellTale Games: “iPhone is much more powerful than a Wii”

Written by Chip Loan on 31 July 2009

The Captain Obvious award of the day goes to a TellTale programmer who made that exact statement in the TellTale Games forums. Fans of the game “Tales of Monkey Island” had been complaining about framerate issues exeperienced in the WiiWare version of that game.

“The voices and textures are the way they are because we’re limited to 40 megs for WiiWare titles. The PC versions of our games are usually 150+ megs, and most modern games range anywhere from 1-10 gigabytes or more. Talk to Nintendo about this one.

Frame rate issues will probably get sorted out eventually, but keep in mind that the Wii is just not a powerful console. An iPhone is much more powerful than a Wii, even.”

You would think that he might take such a bold statement back after having some time to think about what he said. But alas no. In a follow up comment he stands by his previous comment and then proceeds to throw the DS under the bus as well.

“I stand by them. The Wii and DS are extremely underpowered and their popularity doesn’t remove the hardware limitations.”

Unfortunately Nintendo couldn’t be reached for comment, they were too busy counting all of their money.

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The Captain Obvious award of the day goes to TellTale programmer Yare, who made that exact statement in the TellTale Games forums. Fans of the game “Tales of Monkey Island” had been complaining about framerate issues experienced in the WiiWare version of that game.

“The voices and textures are the way they are because we’re limited to 40 megs for WiiWare titles. The PC versions of our games are usually 150+ megs, and most modern games range anywhere from 1-10 gigabytes or more. Talk to Nintendo about this one.

Frame rate issues will probably get sorted out eventually, but keep in mind that the Wii is just not a powerful console. An iPhone is much more powerful than a Wii, even.”

You would think that he might take such a bold statement back after having some time to think about what he said. But alas no. In a follow up comment he stands by his previous comment and then proceeds to throw the DS under the bus as well.

“I stand by them. The Wii and DS are extremely underpowered and their popularity doesn’t remove the hardware limitations.”

Unfortunately Nintendo couldn’t be reached for comment, they were too busy counting all of their money.