So, Wii 2 announced this year?

[Play4Fun]

gum said:

Play4Fun said:

 The Wii doesn't need a redesign people. That would be stupid and a waste of time.

It only depends on what Nintendo could add to it. The DS Lite didn't need one either but they still released DSi and DSi XL, which were very successful. I can't see why that would be stupid to follow a strategy that was successful for the DS, PS3, X360... for the Wii.

Whatever Iwata has said recently that many unannounced Wii games are in development right now so I think that pretty much confirms that Wii 2 won't be released in 2011. Why working on so many Wii projects if Wii 2 is just around the corner? DQX hasn't also been released yet and Square wouldn't be pleased to launch it on a dead platform. And yet Nintendo certainly needs to do something to help the sales of the Wii. A redesign is one of the solutions that certainly makes the more sense.

You redesign to make it cheaper or more efficient to manufacture. Nintendo made a profit from day 1 so I don't see a need there.  It doesn't need any revisions. It's not huge or loud or failure prone.

They could add more onboard memory, maybe an HDMI port or something else that would be cool but fairly useless at this point.

All they really need to do is sell bundles and maybe different colours until the next system is released.