| woopah said: yep, you read it correctly. I think that Pachter is right and at E3 nintendo will announce a wii that displays in high definition.
but thats not all it will do. I see nintnedo trying quite a relauch to reach mainstream gamers. sony relaunched with the slim, 360 will relaunch with natal and wii will launch with a new SKU. The relaunch will be huge, taking place soon after E3 with supported with massive marketing push and a trade in programme. software support will be the tripply threat of mario, metorid and zelda all within 6 months of each other, with retro's new title leading in 2011. as well as HD there will also be some other big advance but im not sure what that will be
possible additions could also be a bluray player and improved online but im not too sure of those. is there anyway this could be true? |
That is just crazy, no company does that unless the product is faulty and is recalled, do you know how much money Nintendo would lose with such a program? and what the hell would they do with those old Wii's?
Now if your talking about EB trade in stuff, then yeah it makes sense for those that want to upgrade, but to be honest, if Wii HD does come true, all it'll be is a Wii with a good internal upscaler, this way all games made now and in the future for the wii and wii HD will work with no issues, and the cost of hardware will remain the same, well to some degree.
On the developer side things will remain unchanged as the upscaler will just be a passive option available to those that own a HD tv and are using component cables, it'll be in line with the minor upgrades Nintendo does with it's hand helds, hell they could even add DVD playback with it being upscaled, though perhaps this would be asking to much from Nintendo since their main focus is gaming.
As for Blu-ray it won't happen, it's too costly, and as for online, unless it's something that can be implemented on the standard wii and does not affect existing online game, then I don't see why not, it just depends if Nintendo is willing to actually improve their online system which thus far they haven't really done.
