This is for those who have already purchased a Wii or definately will within the next 6 mos. If Nintendo put out a Wii HD in say a year or so, would you spend the $250 again for the new Wii? It wold be like the DS Lite to DS. Same games play, same channels, but upgraded visuals and HD abilities. Obviously, would have better/more powerful CPU and GPU, but otherwise the same. ME - I would after about the 2nd year.

I bought the GB Pocket when I already owned a GB, I bought the GBA sp and already had the GBA I bought the DS: Lite when I already owned a DS. I know many people have done the same thing if it is a relatively inexpensive upgrade it will get people to either convert or grab new adopters, but the big difference with an enhanced WII is it would as you proposed enhance graphics. This may upset a user base that had no intention of upgrading. The only way to appease this group would be to ensure all new titles worked on both the original Wii and this proposed enhanced Wii. Perhaps they can have two graphic modes that auto set upon puting the game in. I would say this would be annoying for developers but it seems computer games have countless complex graphic options so I'd be surprised if this was an unfeasable option. I would seriously count this possibility out if it weren't for two things. 1) you can't ignore the DS's turn around in the market based soley on the introduction of the DS: Lite. 2) The Wii's Graphics are the only thing holding the system back. another aspect that makes this considerable option for many is that most people I know who own a ps2 that we're early adopters at some point in time had to purchase a second unit(due to some sort of problem). Wouldn't it be great if and when you needed that second unit it was simply better? I think so. Plus Nintendo has to figure it won't be long now before the copycat giants introduce motion sensing controls of their own, and have ports of motion sensing thrid party Wii games with better graphics. It would do them well to catch up. And the system is cheap enough where it shouldn't be too much of an issue.

 What is "HD"?

 Why would Ninty do that?  It would hurt their own sales

Well maybe in December people thought it was a good idea.

I think that it may not be necessary for current Wii owners to buy another Wii for HD. If you look at computers (or the PS2 or the Xbox, for that matter) it's not that the Wii is incapable of producing HD resolutions. It may simply a matter of updating drivers, which could be done via online update.

When the HD craze started hitting hard, I had old nVidia drivers which could not support 16:9 resolutions, but to fix that all I had to do was to go to the website, download the latest drivers and presto! 16:9 HD was mine to keep.

Why can't the Wii, or indeed, any console be able to do this?

Look at the PS2 with 1080i GT4, or the slew of 720p/1080i games out for the original Xbox. They didn't even require driver updates or patches. The game took care of that. Suggesting that the Wii is somehow incapable of accomplishing the same would mean Nintendo intentionally locked the resolution to the ATi GPU and threw the HD code out the window (and would also mean Nintendo did something astronomically stoopid).

"Plus Nintendo has to figure it won't be long now before the copycat giants introduce motion sensing controls of their own, and have ports of motion sensing thrid party Wii games with better graphics. It would do them well to catch up. And the system is cheap enough where it shouldn't be too much of an issue."

True true, but there is one fundamental difference: Said copycat giants would be releasing peripherals that are not integral to their respective systems, and historically it's shown that peripherals don't tend to sell very well. If it wasn't there to start with, chances are it won't last the distance.

"It wold be like the DS Lite to DS."

Not really. The DS Lite to DS is mainly in the exterior casing and screen, but their resolutions remain the same and apart from being more portable, there are absolutely no gameplay differences. Having HD when you didn't before, or having motion sensing (on the Wii's level or better) when you didn't before is a sizable change of direction, IMHO.

It wouldn't happen, so this is an irrelevant question! :)

I would buy a Wii HD. Even if it just up-samples the Wii's SD.

 What, like a TV or various set-top boxes can do? Its not that much of a big deal ;)

Since games wouldn't be made for HD (unless optional, like Super Gameboy pallette support), the only reasons would be upscaling, or possibly adding HD-DVD and/or blu-ray support with the upcoming DVD playback support.