The Nintendo Wii has some serious problems when it comes to graphics on a HDTV, especially when it come to text. Since The Legend of Zelda doesn’t have any voice overs, the game requires lots and lots of reading. This becomes difficult when using the bundled composite cables to hook your Wii up to a HDTV. Textures look undefined, text is blurry and the world itself doesn’t look so hot . Along with many others, I’ve been trying to get my hands on component cables for the Wii, which happened to be sold out everywhere. You can pick up the cables on Ebay, but not without paying $100+ for them. The big question people have been asking, is if the component cables will actually make a big enough difference on a HDTV. The short answer is: Yes. Though the pictures don’t do the component cables justice, wiinintendo says you’ll need to see the game in motion to see how much of a difference component cables actually make. At least in the title screen (pictured above) the text is clean enough to read without squinting (component cable screen is on the left). More screenies below.
Nintendo Wii: Graphical Difference With Component Cables [wii nintendo]
Composite looks better – helps hide the jaggies on my Mii.
For a story about how hard text in Zelda was to read, I was disappointed to not see any screenshots that actually showed an example of the “lots and lots of reading required”.
bad pictures… I can’t even say which pictures are better, they all sux =(
Well, the pictures were actually taken by someone who has the actual component cables, not me. So, I couldn’t take a picture of heavy text with/without the component cables. I’m still waiting on NOA to send em over.
I don’t actually see much (or even any) differences.
To me, the most apparent differences are the tan lines and brightness.
You can’t tell the difference in this shot?
http://static.flickr.com/112/308246289_01bbefb16c_o.jpg.
View them large.
You can’t tell the difference in this shot?
http://static.flickr.com/112/308246289_01bbefb16c_o.jpg
It’s still UNBELIEVABLE that Wii doesn’t COME with a component cable.
Gotcha – 480p is the best rez for Wii – so why aren’t they making sure we all get that?!
Also unbelievable that there’s no digital out for sound.
Btw: I believe the fastest way to get the component cable is to order directly from Nintendo’s site.
(Me, I’m still looking for the HDMI connector on the thing!)
Got my wii on launch day (yay) played wii sports for a few hours was fairly impressed, zelda arrived the day after and my god the graphics are really poor. playing on a samsung 32” hd, have ordered me some component cables just really hoping they’ll do the trick otherwise it means digging me old 24” standard def beast from out the loft.