The Wii HAD to take the bullet, for all our sakes.

[SaviorX]

Destroyer_of_knights said:

theARTIST0017 said:
You know. The Wii is a refreshing break from playing so much HD (360, PS3) and I think that is one of the points Savior is making but I will have to admit I do hope next time around Nintendo launches a super powered HD console with a combination of Classic Style and Motion control because HD is nice too.

Iwata already said that their next Nintendo console will do HD, and it's a given that it will happen, however, Nintendo being Nintendo and wanting to make profit on day 1, and selling for their usual price point of around 200 bucks...one can already guess that their next console won't be super powered HD, instead will see a cheap but high performance set up capable of doing 720p standard, something near to what the current HD machines can do...they will however be behind Sony and Microsoft in terms of tech and raw power come next generation.

Now I'm not saying that Sony or Microsoft will go all out as they've done this generation, but they have established technology that they will use such as CELL in PS3, but it will simply have more cores and such, along with more RAM and a better more console centric graphics chip, most likely it will be priced at $400 day one...no one will ever be touching that $600 price tag ever again.

take that as you like, since it's just my own opinion.

I think when theARTIST0017 means "break from HD", he means the limited genres that such consoles cover, primarily being Shooting/Sports titles.

 

I agree with you on Nintendo's progression for the next-gen. I doubt they would release anything that passes the $299.99 barrier and it must be cost effective. The difference in power will not be as wide next generation as it was in this one. It will be like the PS2/Xbox/Gamecube, with the Wii 2 being the PS2 in this case, and the other consoles being interchangeable.