What would be so special about an HD WII?

[kitler53]

Mr Khan said:

kitler53 said:

but right now nintendo appears to be the only one in transition and they are apparently transitioning to the same level that ps360 are already at hardware horsepower-wise.  to me that means nintendo has everything to loose with not much room for gain.  what is going to motivate any ps360 owners to buy this new nintendo console if 95% of the console's library is multiplats that are already on the console they already own.

i mean, i might by it cause i'm a sucker for video games and all.  but for the masses, nintendo is going to have to come up with one hell of a killer app to get them to be mult-current gen console owners.

i don't know ... maybe i'm being to pessimistic.  personally i think you're too optimistic. i think i'm just going to fall back on my first point -- until nintendo actually shows their hand we're just speculating which doesn't really mean much.

Nintendo's movement will force transition for the other 2, or at least faster than they would have liked, otherwise the other two would get caught in the same position later on (if they naturally intended to launch in 2015, that's a 3-year headstart for Nintendo, and suddenly the shoe is on the other foot)

Unless Sony and Microsoft hope what you're asserting, that Nintendo will move themselves into irrelevance by doing this, and they can just sit back, do whatever, and keep ignoring them

that's the part i'm not so sure about.  assuming that the rumors are correct (which is of course a big assumption) the next nintendo console is on par with the ps360 in stats.  that means dead space 3 (for instance) could be  a ps360-wii2 multiplat.  that doesn't force ms sony to transition -- if anything it strengthens the idea that sony and ms don't have to transition yet.  i mean really, ps3 and 360 just came off of their strongest year in terms of number of consoles sold.