If Nintendo (Wii) wins this gen...

[famousringo]

Soriku said:

famousringo said:
Gonna have to agree, not a chance of a new Wii by 2009. The console is selling plenty strong enough to last a full 5 years, give or take a year.

The next Wii will come out after the format war has been resolved and the victorious format is cheap. It will have HD because HD will have broader adoption by then. The most substantial improvement will be a more sensitive and responsive Wiimote. The motion sensing is quite good now, but it's not perfect. Expect Nintendo to sink as much R & D into perfecting the Wiimote as possible. It will push hardware as powerful as it can while keeping the whole package cost at $300 or less.

Hm, I do believe I've made my first prediction. Now I fell like I belong here. ;)

 

Actually, the Wii Remote CAN do 1:1. Devs were too scared to do it though...

 I didn't say 1:1, I said perfection.

 

Look at baseball in Wii Sports and how you hold the bat. It demonstrates that the gyro does indeed know what position you're holding the Wiimote in at all times (1:1, if you will). It also shows that it's sluggish and sometimes inaccurateor confused. Then look at Wii golf, which sometimes can't tell the difference between a backswing and a foreswing. The IR pointer can also sometimes get confused by reflective surfaces and other heat sources.

 

I have no doubt that some issues can be resolved with better software, but I think one more generation of refinement in hardware and firmware would be a dramatic improvement in player control.