First place console theory

[JDWolf36]

Only thing about your post davygee is that I have a 10 year old dell monitor that can display essentially in 720p 1280 x 1024 highest resolution I also have a new LCD monitor that comes close to 1080p with 1680 x 1050 resolution but the thing is I know why these devices have higher resolutions than my 10 year old Panasonic television and that is how close I sit to them when playing games and just generally working. If I go up to my roomates 720p/1080i samsung television while we are watching something in 720p it is hard to see the individual pixels but they are visiable as I back away they become less and less noticiable this is why a television displaying 480p that is under lets say 30in really doesn't show that much more detail to the average viewer than a television displaying 720p at 30in assuming the same distance from the television. Now I'm not saying there is no difference between a program or game viewed at 720p/1080i just that the distance you sit from the television and the size of the television are the main contributing factors to that difference. As such I think another part of Nintendo's plan with the Wii was a calculated risk 480p viewed on a large television from a distance and on a small television up close is not going to make a huge difference to the average consumer as they will see little to no difference until they either close the distance or increase the size of the television. Higher resolution in monitors is the result of both of those happening I believe as you sit around 1-2 feet from your monitor as opposed to 5-6 I'd say for most televisions and monitors sizes increasing over time. Taking all that into account and the fact that Japan has one of the highest HD television concentrations in the world yet the Wii is outselling HD consoles in Japan 2:1 and you can kind of see why they would build a less expensive console at the cost of giving up 720p/1080p gaming. Anyways point is while I don't think we will be playing in 480p forever or anything like that I do believe that true HD concentration may take another 5 years to fully flourish and by that time based on Nintendo's record from the SNES to the Gamecube it is likely we will see a new console likely to display in 720p.