Soundwave on 07 April 2012
| Joelcool7 said: Also about the upgradable chip. I believe it has already been stated Nintendo is making the WiiU an upgradable system like GameCube and N64 were. Leaving ports and such for future hardware expansions. I could really see Nintendo releasing a graphic upgrade card in 2014/15 and including the upgrade in a new model the following year. Much like Nintendo added Motion Plus first as an add on later in the hardware. Only thing Nintendo must worry about is making consumers feel ripped off. If a graphical upgrade occurs only core software should utilize it. Any casual driven game should not, this means the pick up and play don't care about graphics people would not be effected. Also most games should be playable in scaled down on the regular WiiU to make sure customers are not alienated or feel forced to upgrade! In other words only a small amount of super power content requiring the upgrade should be released much like it was with N64! |
No doubt if there were such an add-on only "core" games would use it.
The Wii Fits/Just Dance/etc. obviously don't need it. So the consumer who's just interested in playing some Mario Kart/Wii Sports/NSMB/Just Dance/Rayman Raving Rabbids or something now and again ... it could go largely unnoticed by them.
I think it'd be a scalable thing for sure.
Again it's just an *option*. But I don't think it's a bad one. At least put the Expansion Slot there so you have an option, making that one tiny tweak to the Wii U hardware today could save Nintendo a lot of grief in 2-3 years from now.
