Soriku said:
Squilliam said:
It was based off speculation @ beyond3D based off things like the Dolphin emulator and the assets produced as well as rumours etc, I don't have links to specific things but I feel confident in the conclusions made.
I think they will present NES 6 as a super set of the Wii. What this means is that they will keep the Wii branding and extend it so people understand that the Wii line will continue. I think they intend to make Wii games forward compatible so people understand that anything branded 'Wii' will play in both NES 6 and Wii. I think they will call the NES 6 something like 'Wii Stream' to make people aware it's both a Wii and something more than that just as they called the 3DS an extension of the DS line.
I think any motion controlled game will be sold as a 'Wii' title and any NES 6 exclusives will be sold as 'Stream' titles. Does that make sense to you? This way they won't have any conflict of interest if they make another motion control game which is great they can use it to sell to the current Wii userbase and sell both Wii hardware and NES 6 hardware at the same time. I believe they'd want to make the migration from the Wii as painless as possible.
So I predict when you go into the stores in 2012 you will probably still see the familiar white boxes for Nintendo Wii and you'll also see some blue boxes with 'Stream' branding. They will use their marketing to make it clear that the NES 6 is still a 'Wii' but it is also more than that.
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Hmm...what you say makes sense though it really depends if they're going to keep the Wii brand for the Cafe, otherwise the brandings beecome too conflicting. I still don't really think making a late port of Zelda SS would be that beneficial though since it's too big of a gap between SS and Cafe release. Making a late port only makes sense if they believe that the Cafe version can sell a really good amount over what the Wii version is going to sell (which is going to be a lot). Otherwise, I think other games can better showcase the Cafe's features. Zelda isn't some sort of rite of passage to a new console.
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I think thats the reason why they called the Wii mote a 'Wii mote' if you get what I mean? If they follow this naming scheme you'll use a 'Wii mote' to play 'Wii games' and you'll use a 'Stream mote' to play 'Stream games' if you have the Stream console. Anyway I don't think they'll make a re-release of the Zelda game I think they'll make it so that if you put it inside the Stream console it'll be supported with full resolution effects etc. If im right it won't be a Wii game playing in the Stream console, they'll make it run as if its a Stream game and use the hardware as best they can where it is available. So effectively it won't run in an emulator it'll run as a native program on the Stream console as well.
