| puffy said: the Wii doesn't nees any of those things. HDMI?? What for? Have you seen the sales at all? The only thing the Wii needs now is software. The successor to Wii will most likely disrupt the market again. It'll be HD as HD will be in most homes by the time it launches. It'll aim to break down more barriers of entry into gaming. It'll try to firther the mantra that the controller is an extension of your body, NOT an extention of the console. It'll start with software that captures the attention of gamers that are beginning to get bored of gaming, people who are still lapsed and the Wii didn't pick up and the people that don't play due to the barriers of entry. Then software will come for people who have consciously said NO to the console (just like Wii Fit) and then just like DSi and the Nintendo TV service software will come that has nothing to do with gaming at all. It'll probably have major 3rd Party support from the get go too. |
I partially disagree.
The next-gen Nintendo console will be disruptive, but it won't simply restart the whole process. I would say, a better term would be that it will continue the started disruption.
Wii already caught a huge downmarket of New Gamers, and neither current technology doesn't allow getting lower, neither would it make sense from the disruptive strategy. They will obviously keep their downmarket, if they don't want to get disrupted, but the "next-gen console war" will take place on higher tiers.
They will go upmarket, that is different to predict how it will look like, because it will be similar to current "hardcore" gaming, but instead of the old market's values (graphics, cinematics, blood and gore,), it will be based on the new market (social gaming, short learning curve, light-hearted).
The biggest challenge will be to succeed with getting deeper, and more complex games, to create higher tiers for the new market, without losing the accessability, that is their main value.
I agree with Demotruk, that the motion+ represents Nintendo's direction.
