Hardware Wii U hardware back-compat penalises PAL gamers- Digital Foundry

[emigre]

Sony and Microsoft may have turned their backs on older hardware, but Nintendo's approach with Wii U is refreshingly different. While the new console is capable of running current-gen HD titles, its technical underpinnings are designed in order to fully accommodate hardware backwards compatibility with the vintage 2006 Wii. Any and all Wii titles and peripherals run with the new hardware. Sadly though it's not all good news - because in our testing we found a number of display-related issues that may might persuade die-hard purists to keep hold of their existing consoles.

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Full article and I suggest reading the article to prevent the possibility of looking like a dick.​

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Interesting article and a pretty good read. Slightly disappointing Wii backwards compatibility isn't all there.​

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[Hasney]

Probably going to only play games that support 480p unless this gets fixed. Dropping to 50Hz is unacceptable. It's not an N64.

Glad I'm using HDMI as well. The fact you can only have 50Hz and interlacing through component is a joke.

 

[indask8]

Does the Wii U contains the Wii GPU? (Hollywood) if not (using the new ATI GPU which may be backward compatible) then graphical issue may happen.

 

[Wizerzak]

Meh I kinda expected it really, every console has backwards compatibility problems.