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Resident_Hazard on 17 August 2010
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Veder Juda said:
Resident_Hazard said:

I think that Nintendo may reveal a Wii successor at next year's E3 for one main reason:  The 3DS is going to make the Wii look dated.  I mean more than it does already.  The portable system should never out-perform the home console, and the 3DS is going to do just that--especially with the rumored tech inside out-performing the Wii.

I think the next Wii is coming sooner than the next Xbox or Playstation.  Nintendo is forcing themselves to upgrade.

I don't think the 3DS makes the Wii look any more dated than the PS3 and the 360 already do.


This is much different.  Nintendo doesn't make the PS3 or X360--nor are they portable systems which are typically a generation behind home consoles.  This is a second machine from Nintendo--and a portable one--that will outshine the Wii.  "If Nintendo can pull off 'HD--style graphics' in portable form, why couldn't they do this with the Wii?" 

Furthermore, the Wii will still likely cost more than the 3DS.  So what sense does it make to have a weaker home console priced more--or even comparitively--to a clearly much more powerful handheld system. 

Nintendo has the next Wii coming, and probably fairly soon (maybe even announced by E3 2011), otherwise they're going to look pretty damn ridiculous with a powerful handheld and a wimpy home console.