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Xen on 16 April 2011
amp316 said:

I don't know.  What is so special about the PS Move?





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Conegamer on 16 April 2011

Nothing, and it won't happen because Nintendo won't do it. This is Nintendo after all.

And a price cut for the Wii will put it back firmly in first anyway. Nintendo aren't worrying in the slightset



 

Here lies the dearly departed Nintendomination Thread.

bmmb1 on 16 April 2011
milkyjoe said:

I think you've massively misunderstood what these rumours about a new console are actually implying if you think it will just be the mythical WiiHD...

^ This. Nintendo have already said more than once that their next console will support HD, but that this would not be its selling point...



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Smidlee on 16 April 2011

One thing we know is seriously limiting the other HD consoles is their limited amount of ram. For example PS3 still has a very powerful CPU yet you can only do so much with only 512mb of total ram. If Sony was seriosus about the PS3 being a 10 year console then why did they  limit the PS3 with such a low amount of ram. (Of course consoles doesn't need as much as a PC yet  now it's common for  GPU to have 1-2 gb of ram. the 7800 GTX had 512mb of ram itself yet this is PS3 total ram)



Pavolink on 16 April 2011

If you are talking about tha Pachter's Wii HD, nothing special. If you are talking about Wii succesor, I don't know... wait for official announcement.



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Lyrikalstylez on 16 April 2011

I find it funny that the big thing the Wii2 has going for it is HD......Did you guys forget, current Consoles do this already!!

So if Nintendo has a new console, they better do better than that



Linkasf on 16 April 2011

Why not add 1500p? or double that of 1080p. Or provide true HD at 1080p since the consoles right now do not really have that true capability. Oh and more ram would help... (why not 4 gb of ram :P).

 

But seriously, the next nintendo console should be stronger than this gen's HD twins or else... well they will get the scraps again. It should also have functions that matter. I don't feel like specifying what these other functions are.



Smidlee on 16 April 2011
Lyrikalstylez said:

I find it funny that the big thing the Wii2 has going for it is HD......Did you guys forget, current Consoles do this already!!

So if Nintendo has a new console, they better do better than that

I think if Wii2 had 2Gb of ram in HD it would be huge. This would give developers a lot more ram(room) to work with which itself make it easier to develop games for. Yet I'm sure it's would have something more than HD.



Mr Khan on 16 April 2011
Euphoria14 said:

I just hope they ditch the stupid friend code system and give us a competent online platform.

3DS, again. The competent online platform is already there, and a single friend code is no more obtrusive than a telephone number (and works very similarly to any cell-phones contact list)



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Mr Khan on 16 April 2011
kitler53 said:
Mr Khan said:
leatherhat said:

They need to aim higher than the current machines if they want to stay relevant. If they are on the same level people will still pick ps3/360 for the extensive backlog of titles. 

They don't need to aim higher, but they likely will, simply because the PS360 have considerable stumbling blocks that could be easily surmounted (namely it would be easy to cheaply build a 360 with 1 GB of RAM, and suddenly have a much better 360)

Nintendo can be positioned to get everything out of this, if they play their cards right. 3rd party parity is now easy as building a device and putting it out there, given how narrow 3rd parties' profit margins are, and then Nintendo can edge them out with unique exclusives

Though with a samey console, the burden will be entirely on Nintendo's teams to put out the right kinds of games. The GameCube was samey, and with GameCube games got GameCube sales, but GameCube could have done much better with Wii games (the ones that weren't motion-intensive, even)

i don't want to put too much thought into this cause this is all just rumors and speculation at this point...but i'm failing to see who would want to buy a wii HD at this point.

so yes, the multiplats that the ps360 get could appear on this nintendo console.  i and 100ish M others already have a ps360.  wii only owners could upgrade i suppose but if i were an upgrader and the wii HD cost the same or more than the ps360 i'd go with the consoles with a gigantic back catalog instead of the one with only a few game.

which basically means nintendo has to have another "gimmick" to distinguish itself.  if the vitality sensor and the 3DS's current sales are anything to go by -- finding that gimmick that makes the entire market excited for a product isn't all that simple or assured.  can nintendo do it again?

...and if nintendo overshoots the ps360 i'm not sure publishers would follow nintendo -- not without MS and sony also joining so third parties can release multi-plats instead of exclusives.  

i just don't know ... i wouldn't want to have to make the choices nintendo has to make at this point.

I won't deny it's an uphill fight, but Nintendo can be up to the task, so long as they bring the same A-game they brought to the Wii early on, and bring it consistently. With third party parity and their ability to corner the casual market, plus powerful multi-appeal first party titles, the only legitimate threats that would stand in their way are the behemoth of Halo and the service of Xbox Live, and Xbox Live  could easily lose its advantage in a console transition, so long as Nintendo's online service is adequate enough that people can easily play with their friends (though i doubt Nintendo will be aggressive enough to make Live irrelevent, they could, because Live is dependent on the "all my friends have it so i should get it," effect, and in a console transition, that factor becomes a nonissue)



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