Wii to get Ana-like HD?
January 7th 2007 06:51
Ana is a chip in the Xbox 360 that up/down scales games in HD irrespective of what output those games give. The benefit visually of an up-scaled game isn’t as great as that of a game running natively at a higher resolution, however up scaling still makes the visuals look better than if it were running on a lower resolution.
Technically speaking giving the Wii HD capabilities without any hardware enhancements to the console would be the worst decision Nintendo could make. Put simply the Wii does not have the number crunching power to run a game at a HD resolution that will look any good, an upped resolution does not make a game look much better, especially when the higher resolution is at a cost to the actual in-game visuals.
Assuming Nintendo do rev up the Wii just enough so it can run HD they will break the Wii development platform after the Wii already launched, it would cause developers headaches to make the games work on both ‘new’ HD-enabled Wii’s and older Wii’s so that HD runs on the new Wii’s and not on the old ones.
So what about doing it like the Xbox 360 and adding a HD-scaler chip to the Wii? Sure it would probably end with a new line of Wii’s but I see it possible Nintendo could do that within a year.
Game developers won’t have to worry about anything, games would automatically upscale to the highest possible resolution the TV it is running on supports. It would of course help if the game is 16:9 pro-scan.
Technically speaking giving the Wii HD capabilities without any hardware enhancements to the console would be the worst decision Nintendo could make. Put simply the Wii does not have the number crunching power to run a game at a HD resolution that will look any good, an upped resolution does not make a game look much better, especially when the higher resolution is at a cost to the actual in-game visuals.
Assuming Nintendo do rev up the Wii just enough so it can run HD they will break the Wii development platform after the Wii already launched, it would cause developers headaches to make the games work on both ‘new’ HD-enabled Wii’s and older Wii’s so that HD runs on the new Wii’s and not on the old ones.
So what about doing it like the Xbox 360 and adding a HD-scaler chip to the Wii? Sure it would probably end with a new line of Wii’s but I see it possible Nintendo could do that within a year.
Game developers won’t have to worry about anything, games would automatically upscale to the highest possible resolution the TV it is running on supports. It would of course help if the game is 16:9 pro-scan.
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