JWeinCom said:
I didn't say it needed those exact specs, but that was just to give an idea of what HD consoles were doing. Someone with more tech knowledge can correct me if I'm wrong, but I think to get even in the ballpark would require a pretty major hardware revision, rather than an update with a cheaper chipset. Unless you're talking about some real barebones upscaling, and I dunno if even that could be accomplished while cutting costs. As for whether or not the idea is a good one in general, I don't think so. The PS4 Pro makes sense for instance, because there is a significant amount of the PS4 audience interested in top quality visuals and 4K. Whereas I don't think the Wii audience was mostly interested in visual fidelity. I'm sure there were some people who would prefer an HD Wii, but I don't think it would be enough to make it a profitable venture, especially if it means developing separate versions of all their games to run on both systems, or making Wii HD exclusive games which would fragment the market. A Wii HD would have made sense later on, but 2009 was still way too early IMO. |
What I'm talking is indeed just rendering internally at higher res with somewhat better AA and AF, no additional effort really. Those 2.5x are about what you need for that, and tech inside Wii was very heavily outdated even when it released, let alone in 2009/2010.
I'd argue that difference between Wii and Wii HD would be much more noticeable than PS4 to PS4 Pro. Wii looks good on SDTVs, but it really falls apart on HDTVs.
I think it would give an option to those interested in crisper image and would probably had better legs and end up maybe in 120 mil range combined.
