What would you add to a Wii ?

[Katilian]

Troll_Monster said:

fazz said:
Wrong my friend, the PS2 was HD-enabled too :)

Gran Turismo 4 had a 1080i mode, and if the PS2 could pull 1080i with a 4MB framebuffer, the Wii should be able to pull out 720p with a (rumored) 3MB one with double buffering.

Just consider that the bandwidth of the Wii's eDRAM is unknown :P

 

the wii only has 2MB frame buffer with a built in 1MB texture cache and this is from what is known.

To do the maths behind this, at 720p it requires 2764800 bytes of frame buffer. So even if all 3mb was available, there is no way it could do double buffering.

At 1080i, we do 2 half frames seperately, so its really 1920x540 required at any one time. This requires 3110400 bytes, so puts it out of reach of the wii to begin with.

Of course,  as was the uproar over halo 3, even HD games aren't necessarily rendered at 1280x720. I suppose if the Wii has a hardware upscaler, it might be possible to do 1067x600 graphics at 720p.