Will the Wii reach 100 million by 2011?

[Immortal]

RolStoppable said:

Immortal said:

RolStoppable said:

It can't get much smaller than it is already and what can be done won't make a difference to the consumer. I have yet to here someone complain that the Wii is too big or has an ugly design.

I don't think it was the actual redesign that boosted PS3/360 sales though. My guess is that it simply spurred a lot of interest in the console ("oh cool, a new console, perfect time to finally buy PS3/360") and allowed rebuys. I really can't see any consumer buying a product because it's now "thin" enough to suit their purposes.

Obviously the price drop played a bigger role in the case of the PS3, for the 360 it was more the expectation of better reliability than the difference in size (which wasn't a lot anyway). And you are right, a redesign spurs interest, because it makes the console look new. 

But a redesigned Wii wouldn't look much different than the current Wii, unless Nintendo made it bigger. I just don't see that happening.

Honestly, Nintendo could do something ridiculous like "NES-Wii" with horizontal positioning as standard, Sensor implemented inside console and bundled with SMC.

That'd sell a lot, I'm sure. People really underestimate the power of a redesign. It saed the PS2 from a very premature death.

We're arguing a moot point though, :P. I agree with you that it simply isn't gonna happen considering how interested Nintendo is in boosting Wii sales.