| UncleScrooge said: To add to the points a lot of people made already: It's not only Nintendo wanting the 3DS to take the spotlight this holiday season. They also have to have enough software for the Wii 2 launch period. Currently most of Nintendo's first party stuff is making one or more 3DS games (Zelda, Star Fox, Animal Crossing, Mario Kart, Paper Mario, 2D and 3D Mario just to name a few). Even the development teams behind Nintendogs and Pilotwings would be under lots of pressure if they were to release their first Wii 2 games earlier than holiday 2012. I still fully expect them to reveal a Wii Slim (probably called "Wii Plus" to stay in line with Wii Fit and the Wiimote) around e3. They could keep the price at 200$, make it prettier and add some internal storage. That should be enough to keep sales high in late 2011. Guess they tried to push a Wii slim as far back as possible but sales are down massively now and there's no reason to believe sales of a redesigned Wii would drop before the Wii 2 is out. |
Also, I think it would be cool if Nintendo dropped a new sku alongside the release of Zelda, a Gold Zelda edition Wii console would be awesome. If this gold wii was the Wii Plus you hypothesized then, that would be a sale for me.
I think Nintendo would hold off either way until 2012 to announce their next console regardless if that means a launch for late 2012 or even 2013.
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