| Soundwave said: Except the DS is Nintendo's "new Game Boy" and they already have "remixed" the DS several times. DSi could be a new platform on its own, it has 4X the RAM of the old DS and a more powerful processor on top of an added camera. |
Nintendo specifically stated that the DS is not replacing the gameboy when it first came out, now we all know this was not physically true but I think they meant that the DS would work different and evolve different than the gameboy and it has. That said I think Nintendo will do with the Wii what they have been doing with the DS, that is incremental (3-4 years) improvements - I just don't know how well it will work for a console, the handheld market is a little different.
BTW - they got the marketing idea from Apple and the iPod so looking at the parallels between the evolution of the iPod and the DS should show the kinds of thing we can expect from the Wii, it's just a matter of how it translates to a console instead of a handheld device.
Currently dreaming of: DKC4 or Sonic the Hedgehog 4 (classic 2D platformers) for WiiWare, Smash Bros. for DSi, New Super Mario World for DSi, a Wii remake or true sequel of Final Fantasy Tactics.
One down, hopefully more awesomeness to come.
