Reggie says No to WiiHD!

[Avinash_Tyagi]

Joelcool7 said:

Avinash_Tyagi said:

Joelcool7 said:

1337 Gamer said:
Did anyone really expect them to release a WiiHD already? i mean really people

I know I didn't but apparently big analysts like Patcher seem to think Nintendo has money to waste. Why fix something that isn't broken? The Wii is still selling alright and the five year life cycle is still two years away so why would Nintendo launch a WiiHD now?

Why would 2011 be any better, Wii will probably still be in first place, and still selling well, so why would 2011 be the right year?

Because 2011 is the end of Nintendo's five year life cycles. Just because something is selling doesn't mean you milk it till its dead. Look at the N64 it got launched five years after the SNES. The SNES was still selling strong and numerous big Nintendo titles were still launching even after the N64 launched.

Fact is you don't want to milk your cow to death, if Wii is too survive 10-years like the PlayStation and PlayStation2 did then the next generation needs to start before the prior console is dead. Think about it a second, Nintendo launches the next console and cuts the Wii's price to 150$ The Wii will continue to sell well and if the next Nintendo console is backwards compatable then Nintendo can keep releasing software for the Wii for along time to come.

Fact is Christmas 2011 is the end of the typical 5 year life cycle Nintendo is known for. Releasing the next platform later then that would be a gamble, you want to leave a generation successful not kill it then launch the next system! I'm am 100% positive that Nintendo will announce its next system during E3 2011.

Also keep in mind the competition, Microsoft has already let it slip a couple times that the next X-Box is under way. Infact I remember hearing in an interview that Natal would be bundled with every X-Box. The guy being interviewed never said 360 he said every X-Box. Nintendo has also been talking about the next generation for awhile now, saying it will be HD and some other small facts.

If Microsoft and Nintendo are already slipping tidbits about their next platforms, what is the likelyhood that we will see the next Nintendo/Microsoft platform come any later then the typical five year life cycle?

Five year cycles, what are you talking about?  The NES was out for seven years before the SNES came along, and the SNES was second to market after the genesis