will the wii u be able to upscale wii games?

[Viper1]

walsufnir said:

Viper1 said:

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.

1. power7 is ppc according to wikipedia. the isa is compatible.vhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gekko_(microprocessor) look at the right boxes.

2. gpu could be more tricky, yes. but as details from wiiU by now are missing.

3. if the hardware is built-in then you can't really speak of emulation.

1. No, it's not.   The box on the right has seperate sections for PowerPC and Power7.  Don't confuse PowerPC and Power7 with POWER architecture.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Power_Architecture