The-chosen-one Posted February 16, 2007 Posted February 16, 2007 TheInquirer.net is reporting that they have personally spoken with a drunken Nintendo Executive, and he spilled the beans regarding CPUs, GPUs and all that Taken from their site: The bit I got the other day was that the Wii GPU has full hi-def capabilities even if they are not exposed. The reason you don't see it is twofold, the fact that the console can't really push HD rez at reasonable frame rates and the fact that it would cost more. The latter will probably become a moot point with the first Wii refresh but the former problem is really here to stay. What it comes down to is that the Wii may be the best console out there, but don't look for 1920 * 1080 games pushing full rez. If anything, SD or maybe widescreen upscaled is about all you will see, but for me, I just want HDMI outs. wat do you guys think? a lie? or is nintendo keeping more secrets for us
conzer16 Posted February 16, 2007 Posted February 16, 2007 No. Wii is not HD capable. Can people just stop hoping against hope??
Fierce_LiNk Posted February 16, 2007 Posted February 16, 2007 The mere mention of HD just makes me go groan.
Caris Posted February 16, 2007 Posted February 16, 2007 Its proboly true, but even if it is it makes no diffrence. No ones gonna play a HD game at 5 FPS are they.
Zechs Merquise Posted February 16, 2007 Posted February 16, 2007 This is the BEST thread EVER!!! Wii has secret HD capabilities... cue the arrival of Zelda Freak (who I actually quite like) and then the impending rebuttal from the Portugese Mafia! Let battle commence!
motion Posted February 16, 2007 Posted February 16, 2007 And the award for the most stupid and pointless topic on n-euope goes to...
blender Posted February 16, 2007 Posted February 16, 2007 I would believe HD is possible .. and agree it is just horse power required is not available in from gamecube architecture. However, I remember those people hacked their xboxes and ps2 to output hd and had reasonable experiences. I would love HD just for the browser and menus. THis is possible and I believe the Wii SP will have it along with other enhancements PS Weekend requires stupid pointless posts so this is an excellent topic for today. My congraulations to you the-chose-one and mr inquirer
Fierce_LiNk Posted February 16, 2007 Posted February 16, 2007 And the award for the most stupid and pointless topic on n-euope goes to... It's not stupid or pointless. I posted it up on the mainsite as a rumour, but I don't believe it. The dude was drunk.
david.dakota Posted February 16, 2007 Posted February 16, 2007 I can exclusively reveal that the Wii does include HD architecture. If you open your Wii, you will see that NIntendo has included some chips which can ONLY be used by Happy Dillans.
blender Posted February 16, 2007 Posted February 16, 2007 I just opened my wii and found a PS3!! OMG!
Daft Posted February 16, 2007 Posted February 16, 2007 I don't see the big deal with HD, I've got a 360 and a brand new HD tv and quite frankly it makes sod all differance! Can someone tell me why HD is supposed to be so great?
david.dakota Posted February 16, 2007 Posted February 16, 2007 HD does show far more image and clarity, and is a far better image than SD. For movies and film this is an amazing difference, however, i'm not coinvinced that we have the technology (at a cheap enough price) to put games in HD which have the same effect as seeing a movie in HD.
Konfucius Posted February 16, 2007 Posted February 16, 2007 Didn't Reggie say something regarding HD possible on Wii in an interview a few month back. I don't quite remember it but I think it was something about a possible revision of the Wii with DVD Player and HD support.
motion Posted February 16, 2007 Posted February 16, 2007 When I walked out of Game with Excite Truck I passed by a new racing game on the 360 being demoed... Jee. Sus. Amazing visuals. Jaw dropping.
blender Posted February 16, 2007 Posted February 16, 2007 Didn't Reggie say something regarding HD possible on Wii in an interview a few month back.I don't quite remember it but I think it was something about a possible revision of the Wii with DVD Player and HD support. that sounds likely. I'm not sure how they would manage VC and downloaded migration though.. I imagine loads of people would want to transfer if a new superWII were launched. Pray for an upgrade. I asuume HD can be done using just component out?? or is a new fangled output required?
flameboy Posted February 16, 2007 Posted February 16, 2007 argh grrr the HD argument arises once again, but it is something I have actually thought about today. I used to love Project Gotham Racing 2 on the old xbox, it had great graphics for the time. Now when it came to the 360, wow how jaw dropping are the graphics? how realistic but wait does it really alter my gaming experience, no...its the same game with better graphics...now look at Excite Truck this has given me a sense of excitement that my experience of PGR 3 never gave me. So I guess what I am saying is that most of us have shown we don't care about HD as we have bought the Wii...I include myself on that I had long become bored of gaming with the xbox/gamecube just felt that everything was getting a bit samey the Wii and DS have done this... Anyway doesn't the Wii technically do HD, isn't it a misconception that 720 is the lowest HD resolution?!
Cube Posted February 16, 2007 Posted February 16, 2007 I don't see the big deal with HD, I've got a 360 and a brand new HD tv and quite frankly it makes sod all differance! Can someone tell me why HD is supposed to be so great? Because It's something people who have it can brag about. Half the time I don't notice anything different when watching HD stuff on Sky HD. edit: In some scales, 480p can be classed as HD.
thirtynine. Posted February 17, 2007 Posted February 17, 2007 HD isnt new, for somethings you really knowtice it others not so much. As far as i see it Microsoft and Sony think "thus ish teh not realistic enough lets make it all annoyingly shiney"
DiemetriX Posted February 17, 2007 Posted February 17, 2007 PS2 did HD with grand turismo 4. Just check the box. Wii can probably do HD if nintendo wants. Not sure about framerates etc though.
Domstercool Posted February 17, 2007 Posted February 17, 2007 It's silly really. A console could produce HD if it reduced the stuff onscreen. It's just a output resolution after all. Like DiemetriX said, GT4 on PS2 was HD too.
SpinesN Posted February 17, 2007 Posted February 17, 2007 Haven't we known this for some time now? Being HD is not just some "switch" (for lack of a better term) that is either on or off. It draws power off the chip which could be used to render geometry and raster images. IIRC the wii has a fillrate that would sustain a 2560 x 1600 resolution (1080p is 1920x1080) and frames would be just fine if devs planned for that amount of taxation on the chip. Problem is you would be playing n64 games at that res.
Jasper Posted February 17, 2007 Posted February 17, 2007 TheInquirer.net is reporting that they have personally spoken with a drunken Nintendo Executive, and he spilled the beans regarding CPUs, GPUs and all that Taken from their site: The bit I got the other day was that the Wii GPU has full hi-def capabilities even if they are not exposed. The reason you don't see it is twofold, the fact that the console can't really push HD rez at reasonable frame rates and the fact that it would cost more. The latter will probably become a moot point with the first Wii refresh but the former problem is really here to stay. What it comes down to is that the Wii may be the best console out there, but don't look for 1920 * 1080 games pushing full rez. If anything, SD or maybe widescreen upscaled is about all you will see, but for me, I just want HDMI outs. wat do you guys think? a lie? or is nintendo keeping more secrets for us You know, dude, we've all stopped hoping. Here's the reason: you can run photoshop on an old computer (with 500 Mhz processor and 384 Mb RAM), but using it ony my new computer just goes faster. And that speed, we call it rendering, is important is games, just like in movies. If a movie was a shodin' three frames per second it could pump out Ultra HD if it wants, nobody looks at it. So, if you think of it, Wii should be capable of pulling off Ultra High-Definition. It's only question if we want to look, at Zelda in a frame per minute. BTW, every hardware of the past few years is capable of HD in that sense.
Charlie Posted February 17, 2007 Posted February 17, 2007 If it were HD compatible it would cost a lot more than £180.
DCK Posted February 17, 2007 Posted February 17, 2007 Ugh this is just lame. HD is probably not possible, and if it is, it will criple the system like the guy says. HDMI wouldn't make a difference in image quality. I don't know why most of should care anyway.
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