I am making this thread so that we may predict what ideas Nintendo may or may not implement in they're next generation home console. It's sort of like a sister thread to the 3DS announcement, seeing how the 3DS is Nintendo's next generation handheld, so please, any and all ideas both old and new, innovative or maybe not are accepted. Now that 3DS has 3D technology, what do you think will be Nintendo's biggest draw on their next home console?

Of course it will be HD. Controller wise I believe Nintendo will implement both classic and motion controls. I also believe motion controls have a good chance of becoming standard on competitors consoles. Holographic storage? There was a patent for that. Maybe Nintendo will try Dual Motion? Maybe holographic images? Is it possible they're running out of ideas?

I can't shake the idea of VR goggles, I know about all the hurdles yet there it is.

Nintendo is doomed, and was doomed since they were a card company.






Knowing Nintendo, they are always full of unpredictable innovative surprises.

Honestly, i don't know anymore. Im completely thrown by the 3DS, so anything is possible.

I predict a return of cartridge.
Maybe a unified cart that can be used in both 3DS and 3DWii.

i predict a console that supports nes, snes, n64, and GC, Wii cartridges/Disks... i call it the Mega Backwards Compatibility ..

I have no idea. The only thing I could think of is NeuroSky's brain-computer interface:

http://news.vgchartz.com/news.php?id=7479

I do remember Myamoto speaking of wishing to implement a console that did not require a TV. So I think the next console could use some sort of projector. And to take it one step further, maybe you will be able to interact and manipulate the images, sort of like Natal, but more involved and interactive, and not necessarily full body motion. Maybe a camera that tracks head movement and looks around when you move your head and built in voice recognition. Maybe there will be an option to project games on the ground and you can interact with them on a table or your floor.

For the controller, it could be sort of a new and improved power glove (one that's far more slick, easy to use, and actually works properly) that maybe you just fit on two or three fingers, like a Minority Report type of thing, with vibration feedback and 3-D motion control. I doubt Nintendo would have the tech to make true holograph just yet, but maybe something close to it, where they can make the projected images look 3-D somehow, without the use of glasses.

I'm probably thinking way too out there with this but with Nintendo who knows, the possibilities are endless :)

One area I see a lot of potential for that is unconventional is to use projectors in-addition to a TV screen as an output device. Today you can buy color LCD displays that are (about) 1 inch in size and actually have a fairly decent resolution (320x240) and with a decent lens and a few white LEDs to back-light the screen you should be able to produce a decent low resolution projector; and depending on what you were trying to do it could (potentially) produce a visible projection that was (up to) the size of a decent TV screen on a surface.

Now, with one projector you could do some simple things and produce a handful of images into the environment people are playing game in; but if you start using multiple projectors the possibilities become far more interesting. Consider a game like Rock Band producing a light show in your room when you’re playing the game, or a FPS allowing characters to be displayed off-screen, a party game displaying something to interact with on the floor (like a DDR mat), or a RPG displaying your world map on the wall.

In a way, if you combine this (projecting the game-space into the real world) with what is being done with the Wii, Natal, and the Playstation Eye (which could be perceived as projecting the actions of an individual into game space) you might end up producing a system where the lines between the game and reality are blurred.

The only problem I see with this (at the moment) is that you would want the technology to be high enough quality at a low enough price to do this well. The minimum I would want to use with an approach like this is 2 or 4 projectors (although you could still do quite a bit with 1) and I would really want to see a resolution from each of the projectors in the 480x320 range (although 320x240 may be adequate)

I'm not going to make any predictions, because whatever Nintendo will come up with will be something wholly and totally unexpected and visionary, that none of us ever would've thought about. I mean after all... it's Nintendo.