Chris Hu on 08 October 2012
| Jay520 said: The Wii didn't really need to be redesigned honestly. The N64 and Gamecube were probably so little successful that Nintendo didn't see it being worth it to invest in a redesign and instead just focused on later consoles. And before then, I don't think redesigns were really relevant to manufacturers. Depending on how how long the Wii U remains on the market, I think Nintendo could release a redesign or two. I'm not really really sure why some people are so antagonistic towards redesigns in here. Redesign typically take up less space and are typically cheaper for both the consumers and manufacturer. And for some people, it's nice just to have a fresh overhaul of aesthetics which may have been growing stale. The hostility towards redesigns just seems to be based on general hostility towards any practice that Nintendo doesn't do, with little regard for if the practice actually beneficial or at least neutral. |
I don't think their will be a redesing since the actual console is only slightly bigger then the tablet controller. It looks like it will launch with 32nm chips, the next step in chip shrinkage is 22nm but they are not going to be significantly smaller to validate a redesign. Maybe when 14nm chips become widely availabe and afordable sometime in 2015 their will be a redesign but I can't see a radical redesign they are probably only going to shave a few centimeters from the overall size of the console. The only way I could see a radical redesign with the cosole being close to 1/3 smaller is if it comes with a small power brick in the future.
