Wii High-Definition

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your mother said:

L_12212012 said:
haha Thank you for the info! And sorry for wasting 5-10 minutes of your life time to find those links.

You're welcome. If it seves the purpose to dispel your doubts... and it took less than a minute to find the links - I have them bookmarked. (Edit: Took me longer to type the reply than it took to find the links)

Some of the xbox games are said to support 720p. But they never said if it were made in 720p.

Try them out on an HDTV if you can. The difference is readily apparent (not necessarily better, just apparent).

Well atleast it supports 720p so maybe the Wii can do it too.

There is no doubt in my mind that the Wii can (esp. based on info from my previous post) - the question is: Why haven't they yet?

I do hope so too cause it looks pretty poor on my HDTV right now.

Yeah, pretty much.

About screenshots, I only look at IGN and Gamespot. All the 720p supported xbox games and PS2 games screenshots there are around 720x480 pixel resulotion.

Pop the game into your console of choice - even screenshots won't do it justice, because they are a) jpegs with artifacts, and b) most screens are smaller anyway; these consoles came out before HD was the rage, and websites back then didn't really bother to take screencaps in the highest resolution (esp. since about 5 years ago, 1024x768 was still the PC monitor standard, which is still too low for HD).

In other words, 480(DVD standard resolution) and not HD(720p). About NGC, I think the disc capacity is too small to hold a 720p game, so that is why there is none.

Yes, but see above. And disc capacity is not the issue in and of itself. You can have a Tetris game in HD which would take up minimal disc space. The question is: why were/are ZERO games released for the GCN/Wii? It's certainly possible from a technical standpoint.

 

About the disc space on GC, just like your mother said, depends on the game would the disc space have been enough for HD. For example Super Mario Sunshine would have fit 30 times on the disc (if i recall). I think the main reason for not to add HD was to keep dev costs low and when GC did not sell like it should have, there was no reason to start making games in HD because of the costs. Nintendo even dropped the digital output from the DOL-100 to cut the cost. Since bigger resolution don't increase the polycount (polygons per second), you need to drop the framerate to get better screens. For example 360 specs say that framerate doesn't drop below 15fps, so you can imagine that how low the framerate have been in the last gen consoles HD. Now you can't compare Xbox and Wii 1 to 1, even that their GPU:s work pretty much in the same frequensies, due to different designs. But anyway, the polycount doesn't suddenly increase from what it was, with HD update (unless possible firmware/software update upclock the console). If Nintendo decides to make this upgrade, it's going to be on the game discs, which are HD compatible. Someone from NOA (Perrin Kaplan?) have said something about possible Wii update to 720p/30, which should be possible. But NOA doesn't decide these things. About the DVD playback, Iwata said sometime close to Wii release, that they are currently thinking a possible DVD add-on. He did not promise anything, just said that add-on may come in the future.