Are you kidding about that left shot?

I've been reading about top of the line A/V receivers that can upscale Wii games to 1080p right now. Anyone here have any experience with those? I might buy one if HD Wii is never released.

EDIT:  The comparison shot is from here,

http://kotaku.com/5308117/how-mario-galaxy-looks-in-720p/gallery/

frybread - it's my understanding that dolphin actually renders games at certain resolutions, as opposed to upscaling. So the 720p shot in the op (and the one i linked) aren't upscaled.

There is absolutely no way.

When you're saying 'upscaling,' I think you're meaning rendering at a higher resolution which is completely different. The problem is when this happens it often throws the timing off within the game and has to be emulated. Being 100% bw compatible while rendering at a higher resolution is not possible. If you've played dolphin or any other emulator it requires a much higher spct to emulate properly and when it does it's not perfect. Nintendo 'could' do this but it's not easy, xbox 360 doesn't emulate old xbox games at higher resolutions, ps3 doesn't emulate old ps2 games for the same reason it's very very difficult to do accurately.

But that's because the architecture of the 360 and PS3 are very, very different from their predecessors.  Simply adding an upscaler or dedicated RAM wouldn't be that fundamental a change.

That said, I don't see it happening.

I can't even make out what that friggin level is. I'm guessing that this was from a few years ago? Or maybe it was blown up to suit the idea of 720p?

So what your saying is that the HD twins are not really useing all of their power? and it really can be used on wii? I'm I wrong or right?

ok here is the problem im having over last weekend at our county fair we went into a building that holds like booths to sell things like sham wow and such. well near one of the sections was a family video booth, in it was a 50" HDTV with a wii hooked up to it playing wii sports resort. well guess what it looked better then how any game on my analog tv looks. it in fact impressed me to where when we finally get us a HDTV i am hooking up my HIGH END PC to it and then drool over the graphics of the games i already have for the pc. then ill also be playing my wii as well on it so that ill be one happy gamer. so to me there is no reason to have a wii HD cause of the fact the wii doesn't look bad on HDTV's to begin with.

the idea of Wii HD isn't laughable at all.

what's really laughable is that Pachter expects Nintendo to release it next year.

WM+ already adds at least two more years into the Wii's lifetime so releasing new hardware right after it might be a very big mistake.