What would a "next gen wii" look like?

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During an interview with kotaku, Miyamoto said something interesting at the very end of the session and his translater forgot to translate it because he was too busy translating other things Miyamoto said.

What Miyamoto said was that they could quite easily make Wii compatible with High-Definition now but they probably won't until HDTV gets more popular among households. So Wii2 with High Definition is highly possible.

But generally speaking, the "more power, more faster" approach is definitely not the direction Nintendo is going to take. The president of Nintendo, Iwata, is pretty clear about this saying that this traditional business model centered around the greater power of console got "no future". He's pretty determined about it.

What he's basically saying is that Nintendo will not prioritize the "more power" strategy even though we'll see some hardware upgrades in the next console. Instead, the company will focus more on other innovations to find other "blue oceans" (cf. blue ocean strategy) because they are well aware of the fact that other companies will try to capture the emerging casual market with new intuitive interfaces, and thus will turn the current ocean into red pretty soon.

Bottom line is the next Wii won't be another XBOX360/PS3 with motion sensing controles. It's most likely going to be a surprise, or at least that's what they are going for.