I agree that the Wii U is the best option.
To add to what has been said, there's no official option for HDMI on the Wii. And someone made the mistake at AtariAge recently of buying one of these adapters for use with his new Wii Mini, which didn't work of course since it taps into the now non-existent component video capability of the Wii. So if by chance you want this for a Wii Mini, you can forget it.
And lastly, these cheap 3rd party Wii upscalers don't allow for pillarboxing. So unless you're only going to play widescreen enabled games (Which includes a small number of 4:3 style titles like Mega Man 9 & 10 that self-pillarbox themselves when the system is set to 16:9), stay away from these devices if you care about original aspect ratio since everything is stretched to 16:9 proportions.
There's no switch on it to enable and disable stretching for each situation and there's no way to rectify that unless you have a rare HDTV that allows you to narrow up a 16:9 HD signal down to 4:3 proportions. Wii U on the other hand not only allows for both 4:3 and 16:9 in Wii mode, it handles the selection automatically with no need for the end user to ever intervene.
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