All currently known Wii U games will only run in 720p!

[garyopa]

WTF? -- It seems at launch Wii U will only do low-res! -- Please welcome Nintendo to the 'last-gen'



A Nintendo representative confirmed that all the Wii U games at E3 will ship with native 720p support.

Yes, we already know that the Wii U supports 1080p resolution but... it seems current first-party Wii U games will only run in 720p.

Nintendo has showcased Super Mario Bros U, ZombiU and Project P-1000 to the media and press but they all run only in 720p.

A Nintendo representative revealed at the E3 that all the playable Wii U games at E3 will ship with native 720p support (Nintendo Land, New Super Mario Bros and Pikmin 3).

He didn't confirm if the games can be upscaled to 1080p, only that "native resolution is 720p for all titles showcased”.

Wii U is whole new set of hardware but... Why don't we get 1080p games from the first day?

What do you think about that? That's really bad news from Nintendo...

NEWS SOURCE: Wii-U games run in 720p (via) WiiUDaily

Our thanks to 'Robe24' for this news item!

[Kaos2K]

Pathetic. Nothing more to say.

[nambit]

I wonder if this is because the extra horsepower needed to process stuff on the Wii-U pad's screen. If so, then perhaps the 1080P support is for when they don't use the pad. Sigh, still sucks but that's only current games anyhow and they'll likely run at 60fps. Lots of Current PS3/360 games run at 30fps at 720P (many render less than that).

[tech3475]

I wonder what the PS4/Xbox 720 will render at?

[rinkusama]

I come to this site pretty often (long time reader), and even though I don't post much (or at all), I just have to say, man you really, really are a troll. "Welcome Nintendo to the last generation" Really?. What are you? Ten?

[garyopa]

I come to this site pretty often (long time reader), and even though I don't post much (or at all), I just have to say, man you really, really are a troll. "Welcome Nintendo to the last generation" Really?. What are you? Ten?

Well I added that statement as it makes sense no?

Xbox 360 released on Oct. 2005 -- With no HDMI, but all games at launch render at full 720p using component cables.

Flashforward 7 years later.

Nintendo Wii U is being called the first 'next-gen' console release, I.E. -- Before Xbox 720 or PS4 launches in 2013 or 2014

As Wii U is scheduled for Holiday 2012 -- 7 years after the Xbox 360, and it comes now with HDMI port unlike the old Wii, and is multi-core, and all this talk of having 'next-gen' graphics.

But yet, it will launch with games rendering only at 720p, nothing 1080p.

7 years later, the market is all HDMI, and most homes that will be investing in a new $300+ console will have a 40" flat-screen 1080p TV, some even a 3D version, but yet they will be booting up a machine displaying outdated 720p graphics.

Call me a troll, so be it, but just saying the Truth as I see it, it makes no sense to launch games being first-party ones at that and some third-party ones at 720p, if you want to bring in a new generation of gamers that never seen an X360 or PS3, maybe it might work, but if you trying to pull over some marketshare from the other two consoles it will NOT work.

Sorry to face facts so upfront, but basically Nintendo is launching an X360 7 years later! -- Simple but true. -- Maybe I should have used that tagline instead!

[p1nky]

I come to this site pretty often (long time reader), and even though I don't post much (or at all), I just have to say, man you really, really are a troll. "Welcome Nintendo to the last generation" Really?. What are you? Ten?

I rather think you are a troll or at least a huge Nintendo fanboy! IMHO garyopa was more than modest making the reference to the last generation.
Even the original Xbox was able to output 720p more than 10 years ago, so that was actually TWO generations ago, FFS!
A dedicated games console newly released in 2012 (or even 2013) that cannot do more than 720p (or apparently struggles to do more than that) is beyond ridiculous!!! Even a damn iPad can render 3D graphics in 2048x1536, any half-assed PC gfx card easily can render 2560x1600 at acceptable frame rates FOR YEARS and they cannot build a dedicated games console that can comfortably do more than 1280x720 in 2012!? If that is not beyond ridiculous I dunno. You could almost say they are releasing a retro console.

[Mr.Do!]

I rather think you are a troll or at least a huge Nintendo fanboy! IMHO garyopa was more than modest making the reference to the last generation.
Even the original Xbox was able to output 720p more than 10 years ago, so that was actually TWO generations ago, FFS!
A dedicated games console newly released in 2012 (or even 2013) that cannot do more than 720p (or apparently struggles to do more than that) is beyond ridiculous!!! Even a damn iPad can render 3D graphics in 2048x1536, any half-assed PC gfx card easily can render 2560x1600 at acceptable frame rates FOR YEARS and they cannot build a dedicated games console that can comfortably do more than 1280x720 in 2012!? If that is not beyond ridiculous I dunno. You could almost say they are releasing a retro console.

I agree a higher resolution of 1080p would have been ideal.

But never once did nintendo come out and say WiiU cant render in 1080p. The game DEMOS showed at e3 are at 720p.. (call me crazy, but even if the thing sees very few 1080p games.. I am still happy with 720p)

I have never once said to myself.. "Man this game sucks.. its only 720p".

Hell i still play melee and brawl.. Those games are 480p. Ill gladly take 720p.. Just dont charge me 1000 bucks for it.. lol

[JonathanD]

I guess I would be more disappointed with the Wii-U if even MOST of the games for the last gen ran at 720P the dirty secret of the 360 and the PS3 is that most games run really weird resolutions like 572P and then are upscaled.

Plus it has not even launched yet, gotta give them some time to optimize things a bit, my guess is that the first batch of games will run like that and then move up to higher resolutions.

[Ahmed_p800]

I think you guys are missing the point, WiiU is able to render 1080p, but games shown so far are rendered at 720p (half of which are ports and the others seem rushed)

I mean, it is almost confirmed that the WiiU got an AMD4850 GPU inside it + 1/1.5GBytes of RAM, thats way more powerful than X360/PS3

Give it some time!!

[Z3R0B4NG]

next console i buy ?

1080p or GTFO!

[phallius]

next console i buy ?

1080p or GTFO!

Completely agree. I am tired of None-tendo always being behind the curve.

[billysastard]

Completely agree. I am tired of None-tendo always being behind the curve.

and yet look who is the one not introducing their version of motion controls mid generation and look who is including a screen and who is trying to get you to buy completely separate hardware (a tablet or another games console) to cover for yet another failure to innovate and then look who announced that their consoles were full hd last generation and promptly started releasing games at below 720p

so who will jump first and announce their next gen console with inbuilt screen or will both remain also rans with an expectation that you must buy another piece of hardware to copy nintendo and only introduce their pad controller mid next gen once nintendo has shown how it enhances gaming.

[IJTF_Cinder]

Today's graphic whore children and idiots who aren't aware of what's currently offered anyway, are the ruination of gaming...you are a sad, pathetic little bunch aren't ya?

No blood and guts and boobies in 1080p? Oh noes!

[Kaos2K]

Today's graphic whore children and idiots who aren't aware of what's currently offered anyway, are the ruination of gaming...you are a sad, pathetic little bunch aren't ya?

No blood and guts and boobies in 1080p? Oh noes!

And what is offered? What's the improvement here? A console controlled by a 6" no capacitive, no-multitouch "tablet"?

It's not graphic whoring is just that this is not next-gen. It's just a 2005's Xbox 360 controlled by a DSi XL, but in 2012.