Wii only owners, do you guys own an HD Tv yet?

[NightDragon83]

thetonestarr said:

NightDragon83 said:
So from reading all the posts in this thread, it seems unanimous that it wasn't Nintendo fans who needed to do some catching up getting into the HD era... it was Nintendo themselves lol.

Ironically enough I'm a not a Wii only owner (also purchased a 360 a few months after I got my Wii back in fall '07), but I didn't get my first HDTV until February 2008 just in time for the Superbowl, which was several months after I actually owned an HD console lol. Used to have both hooked up to our old 36" CRT Panny that was nearly 10 years old and weighed a ton, and it was like night and day when I hooked them up to our new 50" Panny plasma. I was even impressed by how sharp the Wii looked at 480p. The neat thing was I was finally able to play some old GC games that output in 480p like F Zero GX, and man did it look better than ever too.

No, at the time that the Wii was released, HD was indeed an unnecessary investment. As Superchunk said, HD wasn't really a big deal until 2009/2010, so for more than half of the Wii's lifespan, it was never "behind", just "conservative". The majority of people responding here didn't have anything HD when Wii released, and on top of that, we're ALL technophiles in some way, so we're ahead of the curve.  Meaning our HD adoption rate is likely higher than the average consumer.

I don't think that's true at all... last gen Sony was pushing DVD at a time when the medium was essentially brand new and standalone players were still going for $300+, but it paid off in spades because it helped their console achieve a higher install base than it would have sans-DVD while simultaneously accellerating the growth of the medium in homes around the world.

This gen M$ released the 360 at a time when HD was still in its infancy and almost prohibitively expensive for the average consumer, yet it paid off for them too because it allowed a massive jump in visuals that wouldn't have been possible of the console was still SD, and it along with the PS3 also aided the market in adopting HD which by 2008/9 was becoming the standard here in the US as well as around most of the globe.

From Nintendo's perspective it might have been unnecessary for them simply because of the weak position they were in at the end of the previous gen and they didn't want to go head to head against Sony and M$ in an arms race again, but for everyone else it made sense.