Here’s an intriguing snippet of information direct from those news hounds over at the Inquirer who’re suggesting that Nintendo’s Wii console is currently capable of displaying high definition content.
The questionable news was supposedly forced out of a drunken Nintendo employee who willing divulged to the hankering reporter that the Wii GPU has fully functional High Definition capability’s, but they’re not exposed.
The reasoning behind the lack of support from ardent developers is namely the fact that the console can’t really push High Definition at an acceptable frame rate, and the all-important complication of higher development costs.
mmmm interesting well this ps2 game and Xbox game could display in HD (720p) so i mean, thats alright. i hope they bring a cable for that or something. then ppl would shut up saying that the Wii graphics are shite.
I don’t believe this, but if it were true I wouldn’t be surprised. The original Xbox could do HD if the game was designed with HD in mind. With the Wii being a Wii more powerful than Xbox 1, it’s most likely possible. Processing power isn’t the real issue, it’s whether or not the graphics chip supports it. Chances are it would only be capable of 720p anyway.
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Drunken is the key word there.
I believe you’re more than correct.
from what i know, GPU’s can run in many resolutions, so even if its a rumour, its not far fetched at all, taken in account that Wii is graphically and from a technical point of view more advanced than xbox or ps2.
Ah the things which reporters hear from drunken Nintendo employees. What was the big one which hit the internet in the spring? “Wii more powerful than 360?” Something unrealistic, and look didn’t it come true.
TBH, if it can’t run HD at a decent frame rate, there isn’t much point. The Wii can do normal mapping and bump mapping, what else do we need? Apart from more POWERRRRRRRRRRR as Clarkson would say.
Jim Squires on the home page calls BS on the idea that displaying in HD would affect frame rate. I think the assumption is that if a next gen console outputs HD 720p that it is also rendering in that resolution. Increasing the rendering resolution almost always has a negative impact on frame rate.
Game cube could output using HD couldn’t it? (or was that just Progressive Scan?) Either way, it wouldn’t surprise me if the Wii ‘could’ do it. I don’t even have a HDTV though (or know anyone with one) so it doesn’t really bother me.
I believe the Gamecube could run in progressive scan mode if you possessed the ultra-rare Component cable.
and owned one of the first barch of Gamecubes. It seems Nintendo got rid of the progressive scan port because nobody used it.
And yes, make that mega-ultra-rare. ='(