HD gaming, at least as it has been applied to this current generation of consoles by feverish marketing departments who overshot their markets by a mile, is a myth. Always has been. As such, there is almost certainly no Wii HD console coming out anytime soon. Can I be an analyst now?
More from than wonderful Epic Games Mark Rein interview, where he’s been lofting anti-core quotes high into the air in such a way that they glide gently back to earth like falling snow. Truly, for such a slow news day it sure feels like a glorious Christmas in July to me right now:
“Over half the users who played Gears of War 2 so far do not have HDTVs.”
That popping sound you hear, dear readers, is not a bevy of well-placed headshots—but it’s very similar. Nay, what you hear popping in your ears this fine afternoon are core gamers’ heads exploding as the frail stack of cards they built up over the past five years comes crumbling down.
Or it’s some amateur archers nailing a few crucial melon-smashing bonus points in the upcoming game of the year Wii Sports Resort. Your choice.
There is no doubt the Wii’s little 730Mhz processor and 243MHz GPU can’t fully render high definition lighting, textures, models, or resolutions. It’s just how Nintendo viewed the market when building the hardware before 2006. Big N research and development believed that the home console market users didn’t own/use a high definition display. However, coming up on the Wii’s third birthday it’s clear that a very large percentage of the electronics market have adopted higher resolutions into their homes.
Satoru Iwata commented on the increased HD market and what it means for the Wii.
