Well, it did release in the summer with no price drops. I'm pretty sure the PS3 slim wouldn't have been as effective if it didn't have a 100$ price drop along with it. The Red Wii bundle is what Nintendo should have done when releasing the Black Wii. Red will probably be more appealing than black to the typical Wii consumer as well. If only Nintendo allowed us to transfer our games to another system, then the Black Wii might have increased hardware from existing Wii owners.

The Wii won't get an hardware revision because there's no way to carry on your wiiware and VC games to the new system.

Nintendo themselves can mod the wii so we can transfer the games via SD Card or internet. It shouldn't be that hard for them if they modded the Wii to do the reverse.

You already can run stuff directly off the SD card. You just have to have some free space on your internal storage. If you mean treating the SD card just like the internal flash, that won't happen due to anti-piracy measures. Not that they couldn't make it work, but what they have now is just as good.

That's why I singled out the black Wii, the red one is a really good bundle imo and might shift quite a bit of hardware this holiday season.

He said ever, the PS1 slim was considerably smaller.

I would sell the one I have now and get a new one if it had an HDMI and upconverting chip in it.  I don't know how hard it is for them to re-render the polygons in HD, but that would be nice too.

I would really like it to look more presentable on my HDTV than it is.

The problem is if you simply upscalling to HD you get 0 benefit for TVs that already do a good job upscalling (most quality HD TVs). My HDTV upscalling every signal it gets to 1080p, because it has 1080 vertical lines and it displays all of them all the time. The odds of Nintendo putting a better upscaller in their system than the one currently in your average TV is slim to none.

If they actually render the images in HD and transmit them via HDMI they gain advantages with drawling lines (less jaggies), but gain very little with the textures so people would still think it is ugly.

There is no magical way to make SD content (with SD quality textures) look significantly better. Any real life gains would be minimal to none.

Doing either method would only drive the cost of the Wii up, and would gain minimal (if any) additional consumers.

I'm expecting a Wii successor in Spring 11, so I don't think Nintendo is planning a revision.

If however Nintendo wants to hold off on a successor for a while I think we will see a redesign at E3 next year. I agree with what dunno001 was saying. I think the logical thing for Nintendo to do would be put in a hard drive/or a much large flash memory. Nintendo seems to legitimately want to improve their online store/functionality. The 3DS channel is looking much more streamlined that the DSi/Wii, and maybe a Wii revision could take advantage of a similar strategy.  I think with the harddrive maybe they could expand WiiWare's size limitations from 40mb to double or triple that. I think I read that Black Ops Wii and Conduit 2 supports patching, the extra storage space could help make patching more available for more games. Also more downloadable content like map packs for FPSs would be an option. I think this strategy would be most relevant in that it would just be another step to strengthen 3rd party relationships. I think just a change to the physical appearance of the console, and a new marketing campaign like Sony and Microsoft did with their revisions, and that should give the console a bump in sales for awhile.

I also think the red Wii bundle will help quite a bit this holiday, and Iwata said in the financial report that  new bundles would be an important strategy going forward, so I expect to see a few more instances of that type of thing.

its possible, but i doubt it.