Nintendo's next in 2011 (why)

[Mr Khan]

famousringo said:
Sounds plausible to me. But only if Nintendo can put together a package which is a substantial upgrade to the Wii with a non-subsidized price tag of $300 or less. Substantial upgrade means more than just beefier processors and more memory. It needs a hook that can really grab people.

It's worth remembering that a Wii HD won't kill the Wii overnight, just as this generation still hasn't killed the PS2. The Wii will see healthy sales two years into the next generation, though it's price wil be reduced by that point.

I think in this case more processing power could do the trick. Something like Wii Sports: Team Sports which took advantage of more processing power to coordinate a football game (either kind of football, really). Keep it simple, kinda like Wii Sports Baseball, but run everything much more like "you're in the game," or something more physics-intensive

 

Between that, and building from Motion Plus, then taking on a few of the features they added with DSi and some of the features of the PS360, they could build a compelling package from the start. Processing power for the sake of it, no, that wouldn't help, but more power for a purpose could be quite compelling to the blue ocean.