| Bodhesatva said: Agreed. I'd totally agree that HD support would be an obvious choice if it came at no additional cost. But it does cost money -- both to develop and to produce. Increasing HD support for the Wii and its games would bump the price of the system itself considerably, and probably push the games to 59.99 instead of 49.99. Saying that Nintendo should have included more HD capabilities is precisely the same as saying that they should have made a console with better graphics and a higher price. I strongly believe the system would be doing less well if that were the case. |
I think the Wii too should have HD support. The cost consideration gets less and less by the day, plus a larger install base entering the next generation will help fuel something more ambitious than the Wii(in terms of hardware) with little or no cost increase to the customer. In, what are wii(silly pun, I love those) guessing, 3-5yrs? the HD consideration should be very important. One thing that MANY people fail to realize is that HD market saturation is happening faster than any other market advance, whether it was b&w to color, over-the-air to cable, 8mm film to VHS, VHS to DVD, NONE of these can compare with the percentage of people that are upgrading from SD to HD.
