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.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (3 children)

It doesn't emulate wii and GameCube games it runs them natively

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 days 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.

[–] JusticeForPorygon 2 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Wait the Wii U has native GameCube support too?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 days 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.

[–] sulgoth 3 points 4 days ago

Even better

[–] ytsedude 1 points 4 days ago (1 children)

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 1 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (2 children)

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. Thats why a single emulator can target all three consoles. The switch 2 will just be a newer version of the Tegra chip.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Dolphin doesn't emulate the Wii U and never will. The devs have explained several times that the Wii U is too different.

[–] dustyData 1 points 4 days ago

True that, the tri-core PowerPC is quite a unique challenging mess. But underneath it is just the same processor.

[–] ytsedude 1 points 4 days ago

Well TIL. Thanks!