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sc94597 on 17 February 2008

Does anybody know the wiis max polygon performance?



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Final-Fan on 18 February 2008

I think Nintendo put the 480p limit on the Wii specifically to discourage the kind of pissing contest that HD can become.

Sure, lots of games could do 720p and not take a hit because they wouldn't be pushing the hardware too much in 480p, but then suppose another game comes along and wants to go all out and do all sorts of stuff and so it wants to use 480p to concentrate on those other aspects -- only now everyone's saying OMGWTF 480P SUX GIVE US HD GRAFX! even though the second developer might have much better visuals by doing all those other things instead of 720p.

(Keep in mind that I have NO actual experience or technical knowledge on this particular subject, but this seems reasonable to me. Corrections are welcome.)

Short version:
1. Nintendo's going to stick to its guns on this one.
2. Good for them.



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polishforlife on 19 February 2008

I think gran turismo 4 could support 1080i so it could be possible. There's no way in hell wii could ouput 1080p there's games on xbox 360 and ps3 that have hard times putting out that resolution. Personally in my opinion if game has great art etc. soc it can outshine some games that have more polygons on screen.