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I guess it was the other way around then. Nintendo games are 720p, 3rd party 1080p. I know for sure it was split up weird like that.

Game developers can choose whatever resolution they want for their games. We've seen 3rd party games in both 720p and 1080p for the WiiU.

I know they can have any resolution they want, it's just that I've been hearing (I know specs aren't revealed/leaked yet) that the WiiU isn't powerful enough for 1080p 60fps on games like Assassin's Creed and Batman, for example. I also remember hearing about Nintendo games being 720p too.


Edit: But then again, the Zelda tech demo was 1080p 60fps. Oh well, glad to be wrong, I suppose.

There are a few game developers that have announced 1080p games for the WiiU. But the majority will probably be 720p.

Most major 3rd party Wii U titles (ZombiU and stuff) are 1080p. Nintendo's titles are 720p. Som title from 3rd parties are also 720p. It does al depend, but a solid amount of games are 1080p. The system is plenty powerful.

The GPU is better than that in the XBox 360/PS3 and most games for those two are 1080p@60FPS. This is a letdown (except I was not considering getting a WiiU, so this doesn't affect me).

Got a question about resolution, is it affected/changed by cable type? like for example my ps3, i use an AV cable (Yellow-white-red) to connect it to my TV but the picture quality does improve when you use a HDMI cable. Why is the HDMI clearer than the AV, does the resolution get lowered to 480p or something?

Quote:The GPU is better than that in the XBox 360/PS3 and most games for those two are 1080p@60FPS. This is a letdown (except I was not considering getting a WiiU, so this doesn't affect me).

No... Most games run at sub 720P at 30FPS, where the majority even struggles to maintain the 30FPS.
Doing 1080P at 60FPS requires a pretty strong GPU, which neither of the consoles have, including the Wii U.
And FYI, the Zelda demo only ran at (true) 720P at 30FPS.

Quote:Why is the HDMI clearer than the AV, does the resolution get lowered to 480p or something?

Yeah, the PS3 lowers its resolution when your TV isn't hooked up with an HDMI cable.

I see, guess i should use a HDMI cable then

Or a component AV connection.

The Phono AV specification was never designed to be compatible with HD-like resolutions, as only computers used them then, and they used VGA leads. Even before HDMI was brought out, it had been decided that Phono AV wasn't good enough and S-Video was brought in as well (which was a problem as I've never seen a TV with more than one S-Video lead).

Also, both Phono AV and S-Video are in a scart connector, but those were stupid as they never fit the socket on your equipment, so lost a lot of picture quality that way.