| URNotE said: doesnt make good business sense if you ask me... consoles arent handhelds..why jeopordize a good thing right now... |
Thinking about it, Nintendo is approaching the Wii in a similar fashion to how they have handled their handhelds in the past ...
The Gameboy was big and clunky so Nintendo introduced the much smaller Gameboy Pocket
The Gameboy Advance had a dark screen, had an awkward shape and people wanted a built in battery so Nintendo introduced the Gameboy Advance SP
The DS was too large and the back-light wasn't that great so Nintendo introduced the DS-Lite
With the Wii acutal-users biggest complaint is that the motion control on the Wii didn't live up to their expectations and they want 1 to 1 motion control ... Nintendo has reacted to this by producing the Wii MotionPlus which will be released in the near future.
Much like their handhelds, Nintendo would not create a new platform which was not identical (from an internal hardware perspective) from their existing system in the first 3 to 4 years of the life of the system. When their system is 5 or 6 years old they may try to do more unconvential upgrades (DSi, Gameboy Color) in an attempt to increase the life of their current system and/or to try new things for the upcomming generation.
