Nvidia, iQiyi and Nintendo have announced a special partnership to bring select Wii titles to the Nvidia Shield in China. The device will play popular PC games as well as Wii games such as Mario Galaxy, Twilight Princess and Punch Out. It has also been announced that there are more Wii games coming and these games will run in HD.
Thanks to MasterPikachu6 and Giunta for the tip!
wtf i’m high
Isn’t the Nintendo Switch similar to the Nividia Shield? If so, then does this mean this is in a way a test for Nintendo to see how well Wii games run on a similar device, before they decide whether or not to port Wii games to the Switch through the virtual console?
Shield TV and the Switch use the exact same SoC. The only difference is that Switch has 1GB more memory and the Shield has CPU clocked twice as fast and the GPU clocked 30% faster. Neither of those differences should matter much when we’re talking about porting a game to it from a significantly weaker system.
What DOES make a difference is that the Shield TV uses Android while Switch uses a modified version of FreeBSD.
No, the games are going to be streamed over the service GeForce Now, they are not ports.
And I think it would be nice to update the article just to include that small information too (my source for that is Android Police, if it matters)
Also a way for Nintendo to test the Chinese market. There’s a chance they’re looking into launching the Switch in China.
Why can’t we get these games in HD on the switch??? Oh wait that’s probably what they’re gonna do, it was probably just easy to port from the switch to the Nvidia shield
Yeah. But no in HD. probably some kind of rescale But definitely not in HD
While Switch likely isn’t capable enough to emulate Wii games in HD, it’s definitely capable enough to run Wii games in HD if they were ported.
Why wouldn’t it be able to handle emulation? I feel like if they made an emulator optimized for the hardware it wouldn’t be too hard to do
The Switch’s CPU just isn’t as capable as it needs to be. Shield TV does a decent job emulating GameCube and Wii games with Dolphin using HLE audio emulation and an underclocked emulated CPU but it still has a lot of issues. The Switch’s CPU emulation is out of reach for most games.
I actually asked the Dolphin developers if there’s any advantages that the Switch has that would let it run games at full speed where Dolphin can’t. They said the only thing they could do is patch each game to get around things that are difficult to emulate. Even then, it would be really advantagious if Core 0 was clocked twice as high since emulation is generally very single threaded.
thats cool
Okay…why them, on another similar tech platform but not for everyone else buying the Switch? In fact, why not trying to launch it in China? That would scare the shit out of Sony.
I’m going to run a guess and say that working with the chinese government is about a hundred thousand times easier for software than it is for hardware.
Hope this means they’ll port it over to Switch to kick off the Virtual Console.
Most likely, Nintendo wants to launch the Switch there, but there are a number of variables they have to consider first. This is a good start to test the market.
I know they partner with Nvidia but I think releasing the Switch there would’ve exploded it’s success and make Sony piss their pants. lol
So…
How would one go about acquiring these games?
Is it for certain hardware, or region locked?
I need them… for research…
Now is region locked only for China
And they aren’t on switch why?
Experiments
“Nvidia, iQiyi and Wii have announced a special partnership. The letter i will never be the same.”
This means that the games will be steamed online or what? I don’t get it because China is the Mecca of piracy.
*streamed
Yes you can only play if you paid the Nvidia shield service, and also it’s only for China now
Well that was unexpected. First time Nintendo software runs home hardware other than their own.
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