Telltale dev: iPhone more powerful than Wii, DS and Wii are limited

July 29th, 2009 Posted in DS, News, Posted by Valay, Wii

A developer over at the Telltale forums has caused a bit of controversy with some of his comments. A member who had recently downloaded the first chapter of Tales of Monkey Island, noting his dissatisfaction with the game, posted some big complaints relating to frame rate issues. A Telltale developer responded in the topic, but riled up a few Wii owners in the process by saying that “An iPhone is much more powerful than a Wii.”

“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.”

Later, in a response to a user saying that he used “strong words,” the developer said:

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


  1. 12 Responses to “Telltale dev: iPhone more powerful than Wii, DS and Wii are limited”

  2. By opiumx on Jul 29, 2009

    One thing I have learned in business , dont kick the people in the balls who make you money.

  3. By real deal on Jul 29, 2009

    i think he was just saying the truth.
    reading from the forums of telltale, the guy was one of the developers of the game & knows what he’s talking about in reference to the technical capabilties of these products, the only problem was, they didnt release it on retail & chose to limit it to a downloadable content/wiiware which is the effects of lots of technical issues.

  4. By opiumx on Jul 29, 2009

    They should know by now that nintendo doesnt care about graphics, and they havent in a long time (not since sega died at least, lol). If they think its so bad, why even release anything on wii? Why? ITS MONEY. Like I said, dont kick them in the balls. They keep it up and there will not be a ep 2 of monkey island.

  5. By real deal on Jul 29, 2009

    that concludes that wii is just a gimick.
    real games are being released only on ps3 & 360 & wii is left with more mini games, i just hope that in the future nintendo doesnt continue this trend because with the experience of a wii owner who was not satisfied with titles released for having the console for 3years, i will invest more on an xbox rather getting lots of shovelware & low quality titles. getting nintendo console is good if your ok sticking with first party titles that even sometimes you cant call a true game developer.

  6. By Voltaire on Jul 30, 2009

    Iphone isnt even as strong as the Dreamcast. Do the math.

  7. By Pete on Jul 30, 2009

    ey real deal .. what do you mean by REAL GAME??? on ps3 and xbox360??? for me, real game is to have FUN playing it.. so for me, the wii is the REAL GAME console.. Mario are real game.. they’re fun to play!! I don’t care about Halo Or Grand Theft Auto, this is not games for me..

    I don’t care the power of the wii.. mario galaxy is awesome and smash bros brawl too so..

    Oh, I’m going to play NOT REAL GAME on my wii real deal!!!!

  8. By 357Lobster on Jul 30, 2009

    real deal is a dope. Play RE4 on iphone, then on Wii. Can you play something on par with Galaxy on iphone? No. Conduit? No. Even something on par with say Punch Out or Madworld? No. Is real deal a brain dead troll? Yes.

  9. By Dave on Jul 30, 2009

    “lots of shovelware & low quality titles”

    These exist of course, but why buy them when there are plenty of decent games to play on the Wii? (not just 1st party)

  10. By real deal on Jul 30, 2009

    can you even call the wii, a game console if it only released lets say, 5 quality games for a span of 3years? c’mon! how can you have fun with these titles for that long once you finish & replayed it for a week or two!

  11. By Miles Conrad on Jul 30, 2009

    jesus people, read deal is a dick, hes lookin for people to just wind up so just ignore him and stop havin gay little arguments on a comment section with people you probably wont ever meet ffs

  12. By Jezze on Jul 30, 2009

    “5 quality games for a span of 3 years?”

    You have slept the last three years, didn’t you?

  13. By real deal on Jul 30, 2009

    Yes with dreams seeing nintendo losing lots of their fans switching, craving and playing quality games on much powerful & limitless non nintendo consoles. Have you guys slept for the entire 5 years waiting for link to be in a zelda game again not even hearing him say any word or even a phrase, not mentioning mario saving peach again… Poor nintendo fans, playing the same recycled games over and over again, won’t you like to experience something new rather than fooling yourself that you would really lose weight once you step on that white board? Crap. Spend your hard earned money in to something that really works!

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