will the wii u be able to upscale wii games?

[Viper1]

walsufnir said:

Viper1 said:

If they want 100% B/C with everything as they are pushing, a lot of the hardare will need to be there.  And that could incude everything that limits Wii to 480p.

what do you mean with a lot of hardware? the cpu is still a ppc, just generations ahead. the gpu of gc/wii was built by ati/amd, so will the gpu of wiiU. so i don't really see nintendo will build in wii-hardware - this will also increase costs what we could see with the japanese ps3 at launch.

and also keep in mind that it is almost a tradition at nintendo to keep close to last generation in terms of hardware for bc.

Broadway (Wii GPU) is PowerPC .  The CPU in the Wii U is Power 7.

Hollywood (Wii GPU) was originally based on the ARTx designed GC Flipper GPU which utilized a TEV fixed function pipeline rather than AMD's unified shader architecture.

 

Because both the GPU and CPU are very different architecures, it requires them to have much of the Wii hardware built in to emulate the games and operate all the Wii peripherals with flawless operability.