Batman Armored Edition and Assassin’s Creed III Running at 1080p

Recent reports from the Chicago Wii U Experience tour seem to indicate Batman: Arkham City – Armored Edition and Assassin’s Creed III will run natively at 1080p. It has been confirmed that the Wii U will be able to play games at 1080p but almost every game we have seen so far has only been running at 720p. Although there has been no official confirmation from the games developers, the Nintendo reps on the Chicago Wii U Experience tour did state Batman: Arkham City – Armored Edition and Assassin’s Creed III will run natively at 1080p.

With reports claiming the Wii U is very easy to develop for and cheap to port games to, the news of the possibility that launch title/window games running at 1080p is another piece of very good news for Nintendo fans.

For more info about the Chicago Wii U Experience Tour check out this Gamefaq user’s review and this video with Wii U game clips.

http://wiiu-gamers.com/news/batman-armored-edition-and-assassins-creed-iii-running-at-1080p/

I'd hope so. Going through all the trouble of porting and adding touchscreen options they better bump it up if those games weren't running 1080p already. The Wii U shouldn't have to use 720p for any of its games, its a new machine with better hardware after all. I wonder what the frame rates are like.

Does that mean those games look significantly better on Wii U than on competing systems like X360 or PS3 where they run at lower native resolution (still get upscaled to 1080p in final output)

I don't know that it matters unless the on-screen difference in fidelity and fluidity is noticeable improvement.

First question on my mind, as well.

I'd rather have 720p at 60fps than 1080p at 30.

there is doubt in my mind

We all know 1080p on WiiU is weaker than PS3 in 720p, based on anonymous sources previously.
Think they can display more than 6 zombies on screen at once?

Don't believe it myself until we hear something official rather than third hand hearsay.

There's a huge difference in the processing power needed to run a game in 1080p native compared to 720p. And I'd prefer it if both games were in 720p with v-synch enabled. You'll see most games next gen for all 3 consoles running at 720p native with more bells and whistles imo.

I really hope most games will run at 1080p - for Ninty's sake! They better future proof WiiU better than they did the Wii.

I am content with 720p as it is, and as long as this does not affect the game's performance but enhance it instead, then I am truly all for it.

The official specs haven't been confirmed or released, we really know nothing and it's all speculation.