HD Wii in 2011

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shams said:
Seems about right. Wii launched Xmas '06 - meaning they would have got almost 6 Xmas's out of the "old" Wii hardware.

All they need to do with the Wii II:
- lots of storage (crystal system, potentially terrabytes of data)
- backwards compat with current controllers (definitely), also potentially reduces the cost of the device
- possible NO disc drive, digital dist only
- HD visuals, roughly on spec with the 360 (to make it easy for companies to port 360 games to the Wii HD)
- full virtualisation (runs GC, N64, Wii, ... games)

They wouldn't necessarily dump the Wii - just phase it out over 2-3 years. Price cuts, entry device, etc.

One interesting thing they *could* do with the Wii HD, is release a "raw" bundle - no controller (unlikely), if it fully supports Wii controllers. This way a $249 / $199 price point is more than possible.

Very very unlikely.

That would mean going away from the Blue Ocean/mass market thingy.

 

You can't expect most people targeted by the Wii to have that available by that date...

Any new storage system is very unlikely too as the cost would be too high ( it takes a while for new storage system to come down in price..)