God I hope this is true. I really want to be able to play my Wii in HD from day 1. I hope that Walmart also has them because that is where I'm camping out and I don't want to have to wait until the next morning to break open the Wii and play some games.

I'm curious was it ever confirmed that the GC Component Cables would work with the Wii system or not? I actually own the GC component cables and it'd be great if I don't have to buy the new Wii component cables if I don't have to.

YAY!

NINTENDO DIDN'T DO SOMETHING REALLY STUPID!

Don't celebrate yet... I don't know if I believe this.

I suspect they'll be right next to the region unlocker.

Well in Australia they are available in stores from launch. I dont see why NA would be any different.

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Well in Australia they are available in stores from launch. I dont see why NA would be any different.

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Didn't Kaplan say the Wii is region free, too?

she says many things....

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Well in Australia they are available in stores from launch. I dont see why NA would be any different.

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You over-estimate NOA's ability to make rational decisions.

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God I hope this is true. I really want to be able to play my Wii in HD from day 1. I hope that Walmart also has them because that is where I'm camping out and I don't want to have to wait until the next morning to break open the Wii and play some games.

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God I hope this is true. I really want to be able to play my Wii in HD from day 1. I hope that Walmart also has them because that is where I'm camping out and I don't want to have to wait until the next morning to break open the Wii and play some games.

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Wii does not display HD in any case, only 480i or 480p. However, component video is far better than standard video, and if your TV runs in progressive scan, a lot of games will take advantage of that as well.

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Thank you God! I hope this isn't Nintendo miscommunication. It's just such an obvious thing to do I don't know why they would ever consider doing anything different.

Nintendo corrected itself after a very stupid decision! F*** YEAH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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Actually, 480P is not double the resolution of 480i. It's the same resolution. The only difference is all lines of resolution are shown every frame in 480P whereas half the lines are shown one frame while the other half are shown the next frame in 480i. Same resolution though.

Technicalities. Though they have the same resolution the picture looks twice as good (sharp) in progressive scan as compared to interlaced.

480p can be slightly wider than 480i.

Well if they would have really wanted to correct themselves they would have allowed for 720P ... but of course it's too late for that now.

It would have been stupid in first place since the hardware would be completely overwhelmed by that and publishers would worry about reviewers deducting points for lacking HD so games would be developed looking worse than they could be just so they can use HD resolutions on the TVs that actually support them.

...the effing component cables should be included with the Wii itself. You shouldn't have to shell out extra money.

Why? The Wii only includes a basic cable, otherwise they have to start adding all kinds of cables and that's not going to be good for the system's price.

If the 360 or the PS3 don't include them with every variation of the system I really see no good reason for Nintendo to.

Yeah, if Sony and Microsoft are the ones publicizing HD and they don't even include component cables with each console, then why should Nintendo, S-Video maybe, but not component.

Are they doing the same stretchy thing for widescreen this time? With the Gamecube, even games that supported 480p + widescreen still only had 640 pixels of horizontal resolution.

Will the Wii be doing 853 lines of horizontal resolution this time or does it need to be stretched by the TV to achieve widescreen?

Chris Kohler has Component Cable impressions..

I sure hope BestBuy gets component cables, I've seen that BestBuy is opening at 8am (FutureShop only opens at 10am) on launch day which has triggered me into changing my shopping space of choice for just that day, and they better have component cables.