If Nintendo could just date these images or at least tell us which build this is.. things would be much easier.
I have the SW2K1 Mario video on my HDD.. and even though it doesn\'t blow away the other games being released this year.. the video looks about 5 times better than those screenshots. In the video, you can see Mario\'s face clearly; shadowing is implemented, filtering is implemented, some form of FSAA is probably implemented.. perhaps bump-mapping also.
These screenshots are pathetic looking, but based on what this system is capable of and what the 7-month-old SW2K1 showed.. the final result should be much, much better. When Rogue Squadron II and Pikmin were first shown, many of the visual effects we take for granted these days weren\'t applied in RS2 yet, the framerate was hell in Pikmin. The same could likely be said about these SMS shots.