Wii HD and the possibilities to see it happen.

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yushire said:

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yushire said:
But would that be a seperate game for HD and seperate game for non HD? It'll be suck on Metroid Prime 3 to be in HD resolution. thats what I thought, its not the console itself its the games.

 

The non-HD games would just be upscaled with added hardware effects. Like MP3, SMG or MKWii. And the HD games would have a "core", which is the non-HD game, but also additional data for the HD game, more details. A firmware upgrade would be required for the Wii to know what data to use and what not to use for non-HD/HD versions.

 

But is the added peripheral for the Wii can sustain the current specs of the console? If making a HD console was easy why not Ninty just do it before?

 

Well, it's not "easy", but think of the costs. Releasing a HD console in 2006, would have resulted in extremely high costs, releasing a HD add-on for christmas 2009 with 45nm tech, would be cheap. You'd remain the profits out of the original hardware, without increasing its price and make more profit with the new peripheral who wants one. Look at people who pays nearly two times the price of Wii for the PS3 just to be able to play in HD. The market is big. And even the devs wouldn't have to develope in HD, they still could make their Carnival Games as "standard" Wii games, but games like CoD6 would virtually be on par with PS360.