Your Wii Games Won't Be Upscaled On Wii U

Just another reason for Nintendo to make money selling HD versions of WII games, i.e. Mario Galaxy

Ugh.

First no Gamecube and now this. Wii U is turning into F U.

Not a problem.

Jesus christ, most of you people don't even play Wii games, stop acting like it's a problem. 

I dunno. My burning desire to replay Wii games (in HD or not) probably won't kick in for several years, by which point the inevitable HD re-releases for Wii U will be available second-hand, dirt cheap. I barely have enough time to stay on top of the awesome new games coming out all the time, let alone the games I already own and haven't yet played.

Put me in the "don't get why this is an issue" camp.

@CL60 said:

@Black_Rose said:

Jesus christ, most of you people don't even play Wii games, stop acting like it's a problem.

The issue is that it should be there. The Dolphin emulator can play gamecube and Wii games in HD. Why can't Nintendos HD console?

To keep costs down. I'm sure Nintendo would like their new console to be priced around $299/US or lower at launch. The PS3 took away their whole catalog of PS2 games when they released a less expensive version of the PS3.

The PS3 doesn't upscale PS1 or PS2 games; I don't know why people were expecting any different of the new Wii.

Desperately needing to replay Super Mario Galaxy in HD is like desperately needing to replay Infocom text adventures with truetype fonts.

/me dons flame-retardant suit

Let's pretend that this matters.

@Black_Rose said:

Jesus christ, most of you people don't even play Wii games, stop acting like it's a problem.

True, nobody should buy a Wii U, so why complain about it....thanks

A Super Mario Galaxy HD collection seems possible now.

somehow i'm not surprised at all by this.

@Phenwah said:

The PS3 doesn't upscale PS1 or PS2 games; I don't know why people were expecting any different of the new Wii.

not to the point that makes them look like the proper HD remakes (as in God of War/Team Ico collection) but the PS3 makes PSX/PS2 games look a little nicer.

C'mon people, get some sense. Not even the most powerful PC out today can handle the Wii library at 100%. Even with low-level knowledge of Wii hardware it would take years to emulate and check every Wii release.

No gamecube games and no upscaling. I'm sure someone's said this before, but apparently the U in Wii U stands for useless.

I grew up loving Nintendo. Sadly, those days are long gone.

2 things: I find it good that they're addressing Wii backwards-compatibility across the board, at least. XBOX->XBOX360 compatibility on a title-by-title basis over the course of years, with some original Xbox titles *still* left in the cold left a far worse taste in my mouth

How many people even know that Wii discs have higher quality assets on them to even begin caring about it, and (pardon my ignorance) how many discs even have those assets in the first place?

In other words, is it really that unreasonable, and worth their effort to make this happen?

Won't being plugged in via HDMI make it look better anyway? OR AM I TALKIN' JACK

People care?

It's not as if people are going to buy this crap right?

This is killing me, killing me! I have stacks of unopened Wii game as I desperately clung to the hope that an upscaling Wii HD would release...and here we are. BLEH.

@n8: don't you mean WiiK?

Won't being plugged in via HDMI make it look better anyway? OR AM I TALKIN' JACK

My desire for this system was" if it upscales wii games I'm getting it no matter what"

That's all I wanted from it

Oh well

This is killing me, killing me! I have stacks of unopened Wii game as I desperately clung to the hope that an upscaling Wii HD would release...and here we are. BLEH.

My desire for this system was" if it upscales wii games I'm getting it no matter what" That's all I wanted from it Oh well

That sucks. But knowing Nintendo I didn't expect them to think of putting it in.

Lame.

Missed opportunity. A good deal of Wii games look excellent in 720p when emulated. I was hoping Nintendo would provide an official means of doing this instead of people having to resort to PC emulators.

Oh well, Goodbye Nintendo Wii....

If people don't properly genuflect before Wii U the resident apologist starts with the mean spirited personal attacks.

Eh, that sucks. Ghost Squad would've looked sexy upscaled in HD :o)

funny how everyone is whining. At least the system has backwards compatibility unlike all the other systems. One thing that nintendo excels at, emulation. Virtual Console emulation is near flawless.

I'm pretty sure nintendo could if they wanted to but it's such a shitty business decision.

Spend X amount of time and money to get this feature so that people can go pick up wii games from gamestop used games bin?

Ahhhhh fuck!

This doesn't bother me at all for some reason.

This doesn't bother me at all for some reason.

i think its strange that reggie told geoff keighley that wii games are made with assets that dont scale up .

just look at any youtube video of someone playing a wii game on an emulator , stuff looks like its able to scale up to higher resolutions.

and they look pretty sweet compared to what they look when you run them on a wii.

@Devildoll said:

i think its strange that reggie told geoff keighley that wii games are made with assets that dont scale up .

just look at any youtube video of someone playing a wii game on an emulator , stuff looks like its able to scale up to higher resolutions.

and they look pretty sweet compared to what they look when you run them on a wii.

That's the thing, if you want to play games for free in HD from the Wii that option is there. Why should Nintendo pay to put it in their new console? Thanks.

@Claude:

well , the casual part of the wii audience are probably not aware of the possibility of running wii games on a pc , or capable of setting that stuff up.

i haven't read up on this, but I'd guess Nintendo doesn't really want wii emulators to exist. nor condone the use of them.

its probably going to cost some to develop it. but i think that would be money well spent.

guys doing emulators know their stuff for sure , but they usually don't have the access or complete knowledge of how the wii and its games work.

Nintendo engineers on the other hand, who are artisans at this , shouldn't have any trouble pulling this off.

they should be able to pull of software emulation much more efficiently than on pc. granted , they have a lower amount of horsepower to work with.

but unless the architecture too different , they should be okay.

i'd say that that would increase the value of a Wii u more than a little.

but the thing i reacted most to was that Reggie said that wii games assets are not of a higher fidelity than what is displayed on the wii.

when that is clearly not the case , at least not for all wii games.

@Devildoll: Most of the Wii audience, much like me, don't care. Those things look fine in 480p.

That's certainly not good news, but I I really don't care all that much. As long as they have great games to come along on it I'll be fine. I'm most excited to see what these new exclusive Nintendo games will look like. Link, Mario, and Samus in the detail of something like Marcus Fenix, Nathan Drake, and/or Kratos would be a neat thing to see. Starting with the Wii, they kind of brought on a lot of new but needless accessories and tried to win people over with all the new tech, and I wasn't and am still not into that. I'm all for innovation, but when they bring so much into it that it starts getting into an area where it's not all about the gaming experience but more, I'm out.

Would it really be that easy to do? I mean, how long did Dolphin take to get playable? I remember the first couple of times I tried it, before there was a flood of youtube videos of SMG, and there was serious jank for the first few months. The Nintendo devs would have to rebuild the emulation stuff from scratch, I bet, and if it made it into a mass market product, they'd want it to work 100% for every game you could use it with. That doesn't sound easy to me, but maybe I'm missing something.

                   

funny how everyone is whining. At least the system has backwards compatibility unlike all the other systems. One thing that nintendo excels at, emulation. Virtual Console emulation is near flawless.

I'm pretty sure nintendo could if they wanted to but it's such a shitty business decision.

Spend X amount of time and money to get this feature so that people can go pick up wii games from gamestop used games bin?

                   

               

@pot: You obviously didn't go from an xbox with an extensive library to an xbox 360. Even the stuff I have that "works" (eg. SSX 3) is glitchy enough that Nintendo would never allow that to ship as "backwards compatible".

PS. According to wikipedia, about 51% of xbox games are playable on the 360, and in my experience, that's about right.

Weird that Dolphin can but oh well...

So the best Nintendo console is still a PC? 
 
Seriously. Mario Galaxy in "HD" looks freaking amazing.

@pot: But, even though I disagree with the example you used, I will still agree with the specific point you were making, that not all other consoles have dropped the ball on backwards compatibility. Ironically, the best example I have in my house is the Wii itself. I still can't believe they've got those semi-hidden gamecube controller ports in there, and all the gamecube discs I've seen play totally fine....so there you go. We should expect at least "faithful" backwards compatibility between the Wii and Wii U.

Well this sucks :/

Uh, guys. There's a difference between enhancing Wii games through a reverse-engineered emulator, and just playing the same game through similar processors.

Lame.

That kinda sucks, I thought I heard those Wii games were made at higher res and lowered on the Wii. This seems like an attempt from Nintendo to cash in on people's need for HD games, if so they better be full HD and maybe controls that give players the option to play dual analogue controls.