Rejoice my friends, the Wii U does in fact upscale games to 720p and 1080p. As pointed out by NeoGAF user SPE, while the games are upscaled to HD, the native resolution of the Wii games are still the same. The result is a clear and sharper image for almost every Wii game available, but with really clear and pixelated edges.
Hanzala from eXputer: "The cruel hammer of Nintendo has fallen. Farewell, 3DS and Wii U, you surely brightened my life and many others; you won't be forgotten."
A new list goes over eight of the the most useless amiibo, ranging from the Shadow Mewtwo card to the Qbby figure.
VGChartz's Mark Nielsen: "10 years. It’s been almost 10 years since the last mainline release in the Mario Kart series. Mario Kart 8 came out for the Wii U in 2014 and became the best-selling game for the system by a sizeable margin, and later pulled the same magic trick on the Nintendo Switch under the stage name Deluxe. All in all, it's sold nearly 70 million copies over the last decade and is still selling like hot cakes to this day, so it’s no wonder Nintendo has been in no rush to replace it. However, with rumors of a new system being just around the corner, and reports a few years back that a new Mario Kart is indeed under way, it seems the era of 8 might very well be drawing to a close. It’s an exciting prospect to be sure, but after two Nintendo systems with Mario Kart 8 at their heart, a lot of questions remain about how Nintendo will choose to follow it up."
I hope they just keep building on Mario Kart 8; Add a track-creation tool, and probably open it up to more Nintendo IPs with new tracks and characters, so Metroid, Punch Out, Starfox, Animal Crossing, etc etc.
there wont be a new one until the switch 2 comes out.
nintendo needs their bangers early on
>the native resolution of the Wii games are still the same
>The result is a clear and sharper image for almost every Wii game available, but with really clear and pixelated edges.
Why do most of these reports fail to mention that the differences of Wii games on Wii U and Wii games on the Wii are due to the HDMI cable?
It will not look any different. If you've played the Wii on a HDTV before, you will know what to expect. Before this, the TV did the upscaling (otherwise you'd be playing the games in a tiny little 640x480 window in the middle of the screen), the only difference now is that the upscaling is done before the signal reaches the TV. So your TV will say "1080p", but the image is just an stretched out 480p image, same as before. There can be differences between scalers, but they're rarely anything to write home about.
The only difference you'll see may come from the use of HDMI over composite/component cables. Das it.
I don't care, I can play almost all wii games in 1080p with stereo 3d on my PC with the dolphin emulator.
@lightofdarkness I never said my tv could not play sd signals it won't do the wii for some reason, plus no I don't watch anything in sd all my tv channels are in hd and most people me included don't give a care about sd. My tv was expensive because its 55inch full array led with active 3d. It's not a off brand like westing house or elament either. So show me a tv from two years ago that was either Sony,vizio,Samsung or sharp with those specs for under 1500 I looked at newegg,amazon best buy,wallmart and Fred Meyers and that was the best you could get at the time for under 2000. So no I did not get ripped off lol