Wii U doesn't upscale Wii games or play GameCube games

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• Aww shucks. : NastyJack
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  Why? Seriously, why? Who has seen Super Mario Galaxy 2 upscaled on Dolphin? Would that not be a system... : deadhorse
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    Yeah, I mean if the PS3 was up-scaling like 12 years ago then it can't cost more then a buck or two on mo... : Liquid
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      Wow, so let's count the number of things wrong here. The ps3 is not twelve years old, it never upscaled... : Schnapple
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        I stand by what I said. : Liquid
        • hell yeah. : burning eye
        • o_O : yAak
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        The PS3 definitely upscaled PS2 games and output them in 720p or whatever, but upscaling basically blows ... : pyide
        • I stand corrected. : Schnapple
      • well, if you look in your game settings menu you can see an option called "ps upscaler" on/off. who know... : kiddygrinder
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    be careful not to confuse upscaling with "rendering at a higher resolution", they aren't the same thing :... : Toraz Chryx
    • WTF no one told me this. : Liquid
    • No, they aren't the same. But the people who don't know better still refer to rendering in a higher resol... : pyide
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    It's not stable IIRC, emulators can't do it perfectly. : Zek
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      There's nothing "unstable" about it. I can play Pacman at 2560x1600 in MAME. You can play Metroid Prim... : imbackbaby
      • Yes, and not every game gives you a perfect experience. Many games give you graphical artifacts and blurr... : SabinRaijin
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    It's most likely because not every single game plays well with being upscaled. Some games get graphical a... : SabinRaijin
    • And by upscaled, I meant re-rendered. : SabinRaijin
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  Ah, I thought I read that it played GC games. :-( : atom519
  • There was question as to how far back it would go, and none of the pictures we've see of it had controlle... : one random winner
• Anybody else think Nintendo is kind of dropping the ball with the Ling Ling? : AgentPothead
• Excitement...dwindling I mean, I'm still excited, but it's a little disappointing to hear some of the ... : PointlesS76
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  So the one good thing about having gamecube controller ports was that you could you plug in a wired contr... : EnhancedInterrogator
  • Meh, classic controller on a Wiimote was good enough for me. Latency on those things really isn't an iss... : one random winner
  • I would hope it has a USB charge cord so if you run out of battery, you can keep playing plugged in / plu... : swiftB3
  • It has 4 usb ports. : sigpro
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  No Wii Upscaling. No GameCube Support. Oh... and at the moment, it only supports ONE new controller. ... : darthfusion
  • Upscaling could, theoretically anyways, be added later with a firmware update, I'm really hoping on that ... : one random winner
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  Don't care about Gamecube games really. Bit of a bummer that there are no GCN controller ports for Smash ... : Zek
  • Classic Controller works just as well : one random winner
• I was really hoping to see Windwaker at 810x1080 (yes, I don't force games into widescreen that weren't d... : RaptorII
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  Does anyone else think Nintendo's gearing up for adding 'Cube games to a Virtual Console-type service? I ... : David Craddock
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    Vendor lock-in and forcing customers to re-buy their game collection is THE FUTURE!! Watch Microsoft and... : the archvile
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      It really is, actually. It is another move towards digital. Personally I'd rather have a digital library ... : gnoleb
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        Well, if Steam and GOG showed me anything it's if you make it cheap enough, add compatibilities, and let me grab it any time, I'll repurchase my back catalog. I guess it wouldn't be terrible as long as you have permanent access to it and the digital copies work going forward (fat chance).

        Jun 10, 2011 8:38am PDT
        Well, if Steam and GOG showed me anything it's if you make it cheap enough, add compatibilities, and let ... : RaptorII
    • My positive spin on this is: The less compatible it is with the old shit, the more likely it is that t... : imbackbaby
  • Still though, I'm not gonna check my GC library but I imagine there will be titles missing due to licensi... : ghost in my shell
• WHAT THE FUCK NINTENDO AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH : PixelPie
• Why do it for free when you can have a "Wii Classics" line at 20 dollars a game that will be upscaled. ... : grabbie
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  Didn't they say all Wii accessories would work? Is a GameCube controller not a Wii accessory? : TroZ
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    The controller might work. But not the games. : gnoleb
    • I am pretty sure if there is no GameCube support than there won't be any GameCube controller ports either... : ovrlrd
  • not really. and emulating this stuff isn't easy. Especially if you want 100% compatibility. Sure ... : chickdigger802
  • Not really : Slowtreme
  • A GCN controller is a GCN accessory : Sailor of Fortune
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  They should just put the Dolphin Emulator in there. I would seriously buy the Wii U for that reason alone... : fauljosh
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    ... still would look as good as on a beefy PC though :-) : apocreg
    • ...woundNT :-) : apocreg
  • There's no need for that... if the hardware is capable of running Wii titles there's exactly zero reason ... : Toraz Chryx
• That's sucked news. :[ I will go for the Playstation Vita! : commanderxp90