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axt113 on 18 March 2010
RolStoppable said:
I love the Power Wii. It's so bad.

First thing that popped into my head



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HappySqurriel on 18 March 2010

For some reason "Wii Power" just popped into my head, which reminded me of this:



vaio on 18 March 2010

It might have something to do with the new roumored sensor bar.

They might have meant just a new sensor and not a new sensor bar though.



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Vertigo-X on 19 March 2010
HappySqurriel said:

For some reason "Wii Power" just popped into my head, which reminded me of this:

ROFLMAO!!! Post of the thread! :D



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d21lewis on 19 March 2010

If they didn't register the name "Power Wii" when they did, that's what Sony would've called "Move". Search your feelings. You know this to be true.



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j.thomaz on 19 March 2010

Nobody seems to care about what I said. But it is not "Power Wii" but "POWER Wii" reading the original threads.
Unless I'm wrong, the caps play a big deal regarding labeling the products.

All the other peripherals we can think about in this moment do not have all letters in caps high, are not presented
and registered in capital letters:
- Power Glove
- PlayStation Move
- Microsoft Natal
- Wii MotionPlus

But in the consoles naming many are capital letters marketed:
- XBOX
- PS (1, 2, 3, P)
- DS
- NES/SNES

So I have a good feeling about this. Am I the only one



LuStaysTru on 19 March 2010

@J thom You just might be right. They make an announcement of a new system at E3 but tell us nothing else like when we they told us about the DS but told us nothing else.



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yum123 on 19 March 2010

it will probably be a new game



silicon on 19 March 2010
chaospluto said:
HappySqurriel said:
chaospluto said:

I've already read it, I know what I read. It still says they're not interested in it, regardless of how you read it.  They need a reason to go HD and they haven't got the reason yet.  Which still means they're not interested.

 

I think you should read it again because that is clearly not what he said ...

What I think is a more accurate interpretation is that pushing for higher resolutions or 3D displays does not (in itself) create new game-play experiences, and therefore he does not see a point to release a HD version of the Wii. If that is what he meant, he is also correct.

Since the middle of the 1990s PC games have had the option to play the game at resolutions that roughly approximate SD and HD resolutions, and playing the game at higher resolutions has never really (fundamentally) altered the game-play experience. At the same time, there have been various stereoscopic display units created for PCs for most of the past decade and playing the same games with a 3D display does not (fundamentally) alter the game-play experience.

 

 

Even if Nintendo produced a system that was entirely focused on enhanced processing power this kind of statement would not make them hypocrites, because as long as the processing power increase was enough to offer a significantly different game-play experience it would fall within their philosophy; and you could probably argue that the kind of hardware that is/will be available for next generation systems will provide a drastically different game-play experience than the Wii can.

 

 

 

 

Either way, they're still not interested, lol.  I don't care how it's looked at, at this current time they're not interested.  Which if tomorrow or next week or sometime the next couple of months they decide: "HD WE ARE DOING IT!" and they have no real need for HD then yes that does make them hypocrites.  They stated: "What we have to push for are groundbreaking new experiences. Technology has to enable it, not to be a means all by itself."

That is all I'm trying to say, lol.  Yes I know I'm going a little unrealistic, but it still stands.

Edit: I'm very tired atm, so maybe I will come back to see it in more detail.

It wouldn't be in their best interest to say they were until they had an HD model out. Saying they were interested in HD would imply something new is coming out, and that their product somehow lacks in comparison to others. Regardless, they will say they're not interested.

 



TheGameFather on 19 March 2010
j.thomaz said:
Nobody seems to care about what I said. But it is not "Power Wii" but "POWER Wii" reading the original threads.
Unless I'm wrong, the caps play a big deal regarding labeling the products.

All the other peripherals we can think about in this moment do not have all letters in caps high, are not presented
and registered in capital letters:
- Power Glove
- PlayStation Move
- Microsoft Natal
- Wii MotionPlus

But in the consoles naming many are capital letters marketed:
- XBOX
- PS (1, 2, 3, P)
- DS
- NES/SNES

So I have a good feeling about this. Am I the only one

haha, those are all acronyms you have there in caps?  Except for XBOX that is.

 

As for what POWER Wii actually means...  Its hard to be sure, but its a pretty awesome handle.  

 

If it is a hardware upgrade, I would expect it to be something that amalgamates most of the existing optional wii hardware into one bundle.  

New wiimote with M+ built in and an improved speaker, sensor bar with built in camera and Wii Speak and possibly another one or two leds for improved pointer precision, larger built in memory (maybe a whole gig!), and possibly a wireless nunchuck too and some other things I'm forgetting.

 

The one thing I'm sure of is that it has nothing to do with HD.  It wont be anything that makes the standard Wii obsolete in any way.