In most places, you need to get Nintendo hardware to play Nintendo console games. Not so in China, where the upcoming launch of the Nvidia Shield has seen a number of older Nintendo games – such as New Super Mario Bros., Super Mario Galaxy and Twilight Princess – made available for the set-top device.
There were rumours this would be happening earlier this year, and as random as they seemed at the time, they have been confirmed following a presentation in China yesterday as footage was shown from a range of old Wii games, which are “said to be running in HD”.
Here is some gameplay of Twilight Princess running on Nvidia Shield.
It is said to be running in HD (Not sure what that means exactly in terms of the port).
Wii games on Shield will cost RMB 68. pic.twitter.com/M84WfV9eWE
— Daniel Ahmad (@ZhugeEX) December 5, 2017
This is gameplay of New Super Mario Bros Wii running at 1080p on Nvidia Shield.
It is said that Metroid Prime for Wii will also come to the system in the future. pic.twitter.com/FKYFFoPB2R
— Daniel Ahmad (@ZhugeEX) December 5, 2017
The games are appearing on the Shield courtesy of a local partnership between Nvidia, Chinese video company iQiyi and Nintendo, so don’t go expecting these to ever appear in the West.
There’s more video of NSMB in action here.
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2 responses to “Nintendo Games Coming To The Nvidia Shield (In China)”
Damnit Nintendo!
Interesting price – would be keen to see how that goes considering most computer markets will see you 3 pirated Wii games for about 10RMB