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Forums - Nintendo - Pachter Time: Wii HD a missed oportunity

jarrod on 18 October 2010
LordTheNightKnight said:
jarrod said:

Skipping a mid-cycle upgrade in favor of a true successor will likely pay off longer term.  It'll allow Nintendo to more easily right the ship in regard to Wii's current issues (a Wii HD wouldn't bring any more 3rd party support)... I mean, just imagine if Wii had been a simple GameCube upgrade as originally planned?

I do kinda wonder what happened to the DVD-movie playing version of Wii Nintendo originally promised for 2007?


Well they might have worried it would go the way of the Gamecube DVD player.

Besides, check this out. http://www.electronista.com/articles/10/10/18/netflix.wii.drops.disc.requirement/#ixzz12iPyo692

I still think it's a shame that Panasonic didn't follow through with releasing Q in the west.  I bet they wish they'd secured the same sort of deal for Wii though...



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blunty51 on 18 October 2010
theRepublic said:
xeroxm3 said:

Did he also recommend 32x to Sega? Seriously, revamping a system like that midway through a generation does not seem like it would work. Too many SKUs just leads to headaches for the customers.

You are absolutely right.  Trying to start over in the middle of a generation is suicide for a hardware maker.  Pachter doesn't care about that though.  He only cares about publishers.  Another console for publishers to make easy ports to would only be good for them.  Since this would hurt Nintendo in the process, other publishers would like it even more.

2 of the most level-headed posts of the thread. Further conversations are not necessary.



Toddifer on 18 October 2010
LordTheNightKnight said:
Toddifer said:

I never said I had proof. It's a hunch. That's it. I don't know anything more about Nintendo's plans than anyone else.


Anyway, a redesign wouldn't get in the way of the next system. It would depend entirely on if Nintendo felt the could improve the pyisical system. The NES redesign got rid of the slot loader that was too sensitive to dust (the infamous cause of blowing on cartridges).

Wait, people didn't like blowing on the cartridges? I thougth that was half the fun of the NES...I became the household master of that shit.



Bah!