Wii's 2 year resistance

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senseinobaka said:

I see many predictions for Wii market resistence heading into 2009.

The question I pose is: "How could Nintendo best address this?"

I think the best plan would be to make a new SKU(over used gaming acronym). Perhaps a Wii Premium that would have alot of the tech some wish it had now (HD output, movie playback, high quality streaming capabilites, more storage, etc). This would make perfect sense since at the time resistence hits the technology would be cheap enough to implement and maintain it's attractive price point. Also the original Wii's price point could be dropped to 129 (DSL levels) for further market exploitation.

 

What do you think nintendo should do?

There is ZERO chance of Nintendo releasing an "updated" Wii with "HD" support.

Why? Because its impossible.

Only the next evolution of the machine (i.e. a full Wii II) could do that. Requires increased frame buffer, new games designed for it - which wouldn't work on old Wii - etc...

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Nintendo will release increase storage for the Wii soon - maybe even E3. Even a BIOS update to better support SD cards could handle this.

A DVD-playback channel is more than possible, and may also be coming.

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In short Nintendo just don't care - the Wii is still constantly selling out, which indicates that they are on the right track as it is.

(you could argue that MS/Sony should release NON-HD versions of the PS3/360 to boost sales!).