Is Reggie full of it when it comes to Wii2 (Next Gen)

[SaviorX]

mike_intellivision said:
Nintendo will do what is needed, when it is needed.

HD is still in less than half of American households (http://www.leichtmanresearch.com/press/113009release.html).

So the decision to do SD for the Wii was the right one for this generation -- especially since it started in 2006.

Mike from Morgantown

If the Wii was on a level anywhere near equal graphically to the PS3 or 360 this gen, their 3rd party support would have been even more worse off.

Last generation, Microsoft coaxed several 3rd parties into delaying GC versions of multiplatform games or cancelling them outright altogether. With a near infinite budget, MS could have spent a large amount of money on any game they wanted to take from the competition. Seeing as to how MS felt a superior library alone would help them even beat the PS2, their drive to beat Nintendo in the process was understandably relentless.

That is why with this Sony Move/MS Natal thing, Nintendo is lucky that they came to foster the creation of these motion alternatives so late in the gen. Otherwise, the Wii might have missed out on a few more games in the interim. I'm not saying Move/Natal will have a large impact now, but developers who 'put all their eggs in the HD basket" have even more reason to stay the course and continue leaving the Wii alone. Look at Japan, who has nothing on the cards for the Wii pipeline for months, with the exception of a few titles like Trauma Team and....Inazuma (??) Break.

 

We all know the Wii has been played like a fiddle on the Western side of things as well this year. So you are DEFINTELY right in that a non-HD Wii was the right thing to do at risk of extinction. Demanding Nintendo should have done otherwise is misinformed.