Sad Nintendo Wii Owner :( Should I trade it in ? Help me make up my mind...

[greenmedic88]

megaman79 said:

Xen said:
Don't buy a PS3 until you get an HDTV. Some games are unplayable in SD.

As much as my Sony-fan genes tell me to recommend that you buy it, don't. Not at the expense of another system - you will surely regret it.

 

Unplayable? What do u mean unplayable? You cant use SD tube tv or something. Doesn't it downscale?

It sends the signal fine, but the games themselves were designed for display at more than 480 lines of resolution. That allows for greater detail at shorter draw distances as well as greater detail at further draw distances to be seen.

In many games, that visible draw distance is necessary in order to play or you're left responding to distant onscreen action/enemies you can't even see properly onscreen.

Text in HD games will always be in smaller fonts. Not clear or sometimes even viewable at SD/ED resolutions.

This is the reason why all text in Wii games looks like block print: to make it legible at 480i/p resolutions. The text for Dead Rising Wii for example was re-programmed with larger fonts.