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Loud_Hot_White_Box on 26 March 2009
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sirroman said:
Loud_Hot_White_Box said:

It would be REALLY smart for Nintendo to launch Wii HD now.  They'd put out a box that's HD-ready, perhaps as powerful as 360 and could still be $250.  Keep the Wiimotes, all the peripherals still work, and everything keeps going just as it was.

They'd take a hit in their net profit per console for now, but they'd add 6 years of viability to Wii right now, when Wii is at its apex, and they'd steal PS360's graphical thunder.  WiiHD could still see the flood of casual titles, but additionally a number of higher-powered offerings.

The key would be to treat it like PSP-3000.  This isn't a new console; it isn't Wii 2.  It's just that Wii now supports HD, and some future HD games may not work with older units.  This is basically the SAME thing they did with DSi.  It would work.

 

No, releasing a Wii HD would slash the market and create major riots, old ladies would burn their wii balance boards and myamoto would REALLY be kidnapped... by our grand-fathers!

Wii-HD WOULD be a new console, change Wii to PS1 and Wii-HD to PS2, now you may understand why IT WOULD BE ANOTHER CONSOLE. It would be a new console with backwards compatibility, sony used it a long time ago, you know? So early, it would only confuse the market.

DSi-only games will be those that use the cameras, it's a niche inside the whole DS+DSi software, it's a new "peripheral" in it's own sense . Just like the Wii-balance board creates it's own niche. I am SURE that most of the 3rd-parties will use the DS-slot, bigger install base.

If Nintendo ever releases Wii-HD this year, 3rd-parties will still create HD-less games: it has a huge install base and is cheaper to develop. Wii-HD would die from inside.

 

Also, what would you think if you spent a whole year trying to buy that pretty new and sexy game-machine (aka "wii" for the non-HC) and... They released a new one!?!?!

I actually didn't know that about the DSi; I thought it was a forgone conclusion that we'd be seeing a significant new set of games for it.

As for the last question, 1) well, maybe most games would still be non-HD as you've said, and 2) better than buying a console that doesn't seem to have as many core games as you'd have liked.

In part though, when I said it would be "smart", I meant largely "awesome for us", the gamers.  Yes, the sophisticated ones.  No, not the new Blue Ocean casualties, or not as much anyway.