| hsrob said: Didn't we already hear this about a couple of weeks ago? Anyways I don't really see how this is news worthy. People are acting like Nintendo have never embraced technology in their history because they made one underpowered system. |
... and people don't consider that by moving up to HD resolutions required more powerful and more expensive hardware. When the Wii launched a "traditional" console would have been powerful enough to produce Wii-Quality graphical effects at HD resolutions, or PS3/XBox 360 quality graphical effects at SD, and this awkward positioning of conventional technology probably influenced Nintendo's hardware choice; in contrast, Sony and Microsoft produced remarkably expensive hardware (for a gaming console), sold it at record high prices while taking record losses.
Today, a $100 Graphics card produce better effects than the HD console at Higher resolutions with faster framerates; and soon enough 50% of households will have a HDTV. From this point forward there is really no reason not to support HD resolutions.
