| chaospluto said:
I've already read it, I know what I read. It still says they're not interested in it, regardless of how you read it. They need a reason to go HD and they haven't got the reason yet. Which still means they're not interested.
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I think you should read it again because that is clearly not what he said ...
What I think is a more accurate interpretation is that pushing for higher resolutions or 3D displays does not (in itself) create new game-play experiences, and therefore he does not see a point to release a HD version of the Wii. If that is what he meant, he is also correct.
Since the middle of the 1990s PC games have had the option to play the game at resolutions that roughly approximate SD and HD resolutions, and playing the game at higher resolutions has never really (fundamentally) altered the game-play experience. At the same time, there have been various stereoscopic display units created for PCs for most of the past decade and playing the same games with a 3D display does not (fundamentally) alter the game-play experience.
Even if Nintendo produced a system that was entirely focused on enhanced processing power this kind of statement would not make them hypocrites, because as long as the processing power increase was enough to offer a significantly different game-play experience it would fall within their philosophy; and you could probably argue that the kind of hardware that is/will be available for next generation systems will provide a drastically different game-play experience than the Wii can.
