if there going todo that, they may as well just make a new console.

Expansions as you suggest simply don't work, not even Nintendo could make it work, they would devide the market and make it harder for developers, and that's the last thing Nintendo needs especially with 3rd party.

Now while the idea can be implimented, it's just not practicle for business

I knew it was possible somewhat, just not exactly how.

The only way this could work if it was a SCSI (pronounced Skuzzy) connection.

that's interesting, i think it sounds similar to the expansion pack N64 needed for Donkey Kong 64 or something

imagine if that's what Nintendo meant when they said a Wii with simply HD output wouldn't sell, and there are rumors that this conference is going to be huge, and Nintendo likes accessories and add-ons....

time to wake up, i'm daydreaming actually : P

HD is nice, like little bitty small nice, nothing worth fussing over... and yet it's overrated amazingly..

I don't expect anyone else to understand how HD isn't important to me, I'll just say that for myself and the vast majority of people, it's not needed. It's JUST nice.

My HDTV is large and it's thin, that's the most important thing, the image changes depending on signal and it's fine. It's pleasing when we're using it in HD but I don't really care, and really not that many people do. You'd be surprised how little it matters in practice.

A bunch of external add ons..gee sounds like what hurt the Sega Genesis in the end.

Ahhh the Sega Uranus... I thought it was a myth.

Considering what the opening post asks for, it might just be logistically more feasible to create a cable that connects two Wiis and uses the power of both.

Now that I think about it, that'd be kinda cool. It'd need a cable that connected both video outputs to one port on the TV, though, to get around the fact that there's no port on the Wii that can transfer data fast enough to directly share resources.

How about if you take the GPU + memory + CPU and put it in another console and then insert your regular game discs into that one instead? I think its called backwards compatibility though im not sure.

Sega Addons= fail.

I dont remember an addon which improved graphics and was succesful. The N64 was planned right from the start with the expansion slot for the ram.

One game utilized it and the game was expensive. Because of the 4Mb ram addon.


USB 2.0 is to low bandwith way to low. For HD gaming. Where is the point designing an addon so people can play HD games ? A DVD drive is cheap. The hardware in the wii is cheap. The new addon would need more expensive hardware and be more expensive then WII.

Wouldnt it be better to make another console and sell Wii and the new console at the same time to get control over all markets.