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Nintendo Wii U Screen Resolution Revealed (WVGA)

So this is what we found after staring at some hi-res photos and manually counting individual pixels – by our estimation, the screen on the Wii U tablet is about 870 pixels wide. However, that doesn’t jive with any standard screen resolutions and it certainly doesn’t match any LCDs commonly in production. 854, though… now that’s a winner. 854 x 480 (WVGA) is a very common widescreen resolution, and it’s within 2% of our not-scientific-enough measurement. Unless Nintendo changes things for the final units, we’re confident the Nintendo U tablet resolution is WVGA.

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Amaterasu - by Minhimalism

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L.A. Noire - by patrickbrown

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Red Dead Redemption - by patrickbrown

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Dreamcast - by 2dforever

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Zelda Four Swords Adventure  - by ry-spirit

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Shadow of the Colossus - by MetalHanzo

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tegaki ganny - by makani

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Eternal  - by Rueme

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Sonic Gang  - by Raito-Sarudoi

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2FORT  - by Kuroi-Tsuki

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The Bird and the Bear  - by steven-donegani

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Samus Aran  - by jdillon82

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Final Destination  - by Kuroi-Tsuki

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Dragon Age: Origins  - by soffione-san

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For those of you who have been following Golgotron for a while now, you may remember a little debockle that broke out amongst the crew about a year ago — “Just what the hell is a Shmup!?”

Screaming into my headphones at the prerecorded Golgocast, I was completely dumbfounded that a few people just didn’t get it, and then, even after they settled on a definition, a few decided to keep trolling forever and pretend that Gunstar Heroes is in fact a SHMUP. Although it does involve shooting ‘em up, it couldn’t be further from Shmupdom.

For those of you who have always wanted to know what a SHMUP is, here’s your answer.

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1981 Donkey Kong Poster  - by strongstuff