VG247

Wii U owners are reporting that when playing Wii games on their new console via an HDTV with 1080p display resolution, the game actually look better – which is good news for those who’ve amassed quite a large Wii library over the years. While the backwards compatible console doesn’t render older games in 1080p, Wii U will upscale the games in the same manner as a decent HDTV line. While the games won’t contain as much detail as the newer Wii U offerings, rough edges are smoothed and few touch ups will at least be applied. In short, your Wii games may not look “as good” as your Wii U games on your spankingly nice TV, but they won’t look horrible either, and that’s a good thing. Via: NeoGAF, CVG.

Makes sense. Most people just used their composite cables to output at 480i and the TV would upscale it to 1080p. Now it's being output at 480p and upscaled by the console itself >>>>> TV upscaler.

Yeah, it's better when the console does the upscaling. And I'm sure it reduces input lag too.

Oohhh, that just made the purchase that much more enticing.

I already had an HDMI converter for my Wii so I don't think the picture will improve from my previous experience. But it's cool nonetheless.