2008 at Bruceongames

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Bruceongames said:

gawalls said:
It's interesting that so many people are taking Nintendo's business decision when faced with a cheap or a HD compatible console question as a negative thing when they clearly realised that as the Wii is so different and given the Gamecubes weak stature - their best approach would be to offer it cheap to build a user base and when HD technology boom does take off and Wii is probably reduced then release a new Wii model with HD (and probably storage, maybe even tighter motion controls) for the same bargain price that does automatically upscale old Wii games. The Wii will probably then be the base model (probably named classic or something) and several different Wii's will be released - like Apple did with the Ipod and now Ipod is a brand on it's own.

Precisely.

I've considered this, and I don't think anyone will dispute Nintendo's next console will be HD.  But I don't see Nintendo being under any pressure whatsoever to HAVE to introduce a HD version within the next couple of years.  Unless a 4th competitor enters with what is basically a HD Wii onto which 3rd parties can easily port their existing PS3/360 library onto to, which is likely, then Nintendo would have to respond to that, eventually.

The only reason for Nintendo to release a HD Wii so early would be to crush Sony/MS as they couldn't respond without kissing any hope of ever recouping their 7th gen losses away.  Then the HD Wii could have both Wii and PS3/360 games.  BUT, that would be contrary to what they are trying to do.