Michael Pachter: Wii 2 delay is hurting Nintendo

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johnappseed84 said:

Armads said:
I think he's totally wrong. It would be a mistake to release the Wii HD. It's like telling 70 million people graphics don't matter that's why you stuck with us, but now you have to upgrade your graphical capability just to play new games. It would be bad for Nintendo's image and likely would not sell as much as the wii, especially considering price.

I get tired of Nintendo fans using this kind of argument on boards. The truth is 70 million people didn't stick with Nintendo. It's true you've got hardcore Nintendo fans on boards that are willing to heap drooling praise all over anything that would put Nintendo back on top of the console heap even if it keeps truely great games from coming to the system but many core fans have gone on to 360 and PS3.

Most of that 70 million that the poster asserts stuck with Nintendo is composed of people that really don't give a darn about traditional or core games on Wii and are only interested in the system for things like Wii Fit and Jillian Michaels Fitness Coach while much better games on the system like No More Heroes, Okami, Fragile Dreams, and Muramasa or even Nintendo's own core games on the system go on to languar in a great deal of obscurity in comparison to the likes of Wii Fit, etc, which most third parties are more interested in making clones of on Wii than true hard core rpgs and the like since those things are really the only third party games that ever really go on to sell more than a couple of million units on Wii.

Also, Miyamoto himself said in an interview regarding the prospects of a Wii HD in 2008 that he thought that both graphics and keeping up with technology were important endeavors.

It's always the ones with low postcount....