Heres my take.
Nintendo is changing their model. In everything. They have moved from the movie model to the TV model. So we are likely to see Wii2 sooner rather than later. Probably within the standard 5 year mark. Their next itteration will be more like the iPod than say a video game console
Price will stay the same.
Will come as a bundle.
The "Sensor bar" will include Wiispeak and minicam techonolgy.
The Wii will have software to bring in the farther reaches of the market(DSi)
Wiimote will be the Wiimote plus maybe a mic and some ergonomic changes.
It will have a much larger flash ram. 2gb or more, depening on price. Right now I can get a 2GB for $15. That was 3 months ago.
It will continue to use DVD. Unless BR goes super cheap.
Ultimatly the Wii2 will expand to the distant market and be more appealing as everyone machine without directly moving as a the home PC.
BC goes without question considering the MoBo design won't change only increase the components. That means more TEV and not a standard shader :(
The USB will be used for more every day items, like the cellphone. Same with the BT.
I'm hoping though that we will see a single FC system though.
Also as a note. Nintendo will not spend more money to make the console as it does on the Wii release. Instead it will upgrade the components and system equal to the price of the techonolgy for the time period. There won't be multi SKU or mutli Wii types so that people make sure know it's the same.
As a figurative example. If Nintendo pays $40 for it's PPC cpu right now which is single core. They will pay the same $40 in 20XX for whatever it will be. So probably multi core. This will be interesting considering the PPC will likely incorporate Cell cpu design.
Squilliam: On Vgcharts its a commonly accepted practice to twist the bounds of plausibility in order to support your argument or agenda so I think its pretty cool that this gives me the precedent to say whatever I damn well please.
