Comment on Nintendo sues a streamer for streaming ten games before their release
ytsedude@lemmy.world 5 months agoYou mean Wii to WiiU?
Comment on Nintendo sues a streamer for streaming ten games before their release
ytsedude@lemmy.world 5 months agoYou mean Wii to WiiU?
sulgoth@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Wii was just 2 GameCubes in a coat with a fancy new control method. WiiU is another two on their shoulders so it can emulate Games from all three generations.
MrScottyTay@sh.itjust.works 5 months ago
It doesn’t emulate wii and GameCube games it runs then natively
Laser@feddit.org 5 months ago
Yeah, but if I’m not mistaken not because they’re the same architecture, but because each WiiU had full Wii hardware inside it, so it was actually two consoles. The Wii was actually just a faster GameCube.
sulgoth@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Even better
JusticeForPorygon@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Wait the Wii U has native GameCube support too?
MrScottyTay@sh.itjust.works 5 months ago
Yeah the “virtual wii” mode is just running on what is a slightly better wii chipset. It can even run triforce arcade games because of that slightly better power. So it can run anything the wii can, which includes GameCube.
ytsedude@lemmy.world 5 months ago
I was thinking Switch 2 would be to the Switch what the WiiU was to the Wii: graphical upgrade while maintaining the similar form factor and play style.
dustyData@lemmy.world 5 months ago
I know it is hard to believe. But the gamecube, Wii, and wiiu are the same machine. Same architecture and family of processors (IBM’s PowerPC). That’s why the wiiu is just a Wii with a beefier CPU (three Wii cores slapped together), and then a newer more powerful GPU sticked to the side. The switch 2 will just be a newer version of the Tegra.
SomethingBurger@jlai.lu 5 months ago
Dolphin doesn’t emulate the Wii U and never will. The devs have explained several times that the Wii U is too different.
ytsedude@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Well TIL. Thanks!