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Against the grain: Let's all have a HD Wii!

Yes, I'd buy a HD Wii 32 26.67%
 
No, my Wii is fine in SD 36 30.00%
 
No, but I'll only yet Wii2 if it's HD 29 24.17%
 
No, and I'll never get one, it's a toy 14 11.67%
 
Yes, but only if it was a... 9 7.50%
 
Total:120
TripleMMM on 21 December 2010

No HD for me until the successor comes around the corner, I still use an SD TV.



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Conegamer on 22 December 2010
Squilliam said:
Conegamer said:
Squilliam said:
TWRoO said:
Squilliam said:

Thats a pretty good reason in itself. The BOM savings over 30M or more units could more than pay back the development costs of the revision.

And there was a rumour about a year ago Nintendo was working on a convection cooled Wii (no fan) that's more savings (albeit small ones) as well as an impressive technical achievement if they can do it and not have Wii's overheating.

I mean what was the last major console without a fan? I would guess the dreamcast had one, which means the last was the N64.

Well they could use a vapour chamber. They use those on high end and passively cooled graphics cards. Effectively it is like a flat, wide heat pipe which is great for heat disipation with copper fins attached.

As for fans, probably the N64, yeah.

Now THAT'S a good idea!

As for your comments about a HD wii, whilst reasonable and logical (most logical I've seen even!) I don't think that the Wii is suffereing enough at the moment for Nintendo to consider it. If it sells 15mil next year, then there will be NO HD Wii. Of that I'm certain

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Mummelmann on 22 December 2010

I see a WiiHD as pointless this generation but I will be surprised if there's no HD support next generation.



Beuli2 on 22 December 2010

This thread deserves a 6/10, because there have been more Wii HD threads than I can count, and this annoys me.



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Chibi.V.29 on 22 December 2010

I doubt anyone would ready care :/ Sony and M$ have already been terning olg games HD so it would be kinda old



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Silver-Tiger on 22 December 2010

You want a Wii HD? Easy Peasy. Just run the dolphin emulator, set the video output to 720p or 1080p and your got your Wii HD.



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DrZoidberg on 22 December 2010

i am fine with a SD Wii now, and i really don't think it would make much sense at this stage to bother with an HDWii. the wii has been doing great as it is, so nintendo should focus on making their next console (which should be HD) the best it can be



 

silicon on 22 December 2010

Not really against the grain =P



I'm pretty sure Nintendo has amazing market research and their target audience is the mass market. They'll release it when the mass market consumers have HD tv.



justinian on 22 December 2010
Monteblanco said:
bluesinG said:

Frankly, I'm more interested in how much the next Nintendo console improves on the Wii's motion controls than in how much it improves on the Wii's graphics.


Good point. Although I agree with you, I am also certain that the next console will be on par, if not better, than the PS3.

I will go with this. Let MS and Sony carry on with their super hardware war. A wii HD equal in power to a current PS3 and some new innovations thrown in will mean a cheaper console.

On a personal note I would like some sort of internal storage to store in game data. When playing COD my DVD drive is so noisy it wakes up the dead. SD cards are fine but even the fastest are snails compared to a half decent HDD.

BTW I am surprised how many of you still have SD TVs, I mean HD is not that expensive these days. Saying that, everyone is in a different situation as some of you explained so don't take my statement the wrong way.



Conegamer on 23 December 2010
Beuli2 said:

This thread deserves a 6/10, because there have been more Wii HD threads than I can count, and this annoys me.

Hey, sorry man, I didn't realise!

No opinion on the topic then?



 

Here lies the dearly departed Nintendomination Thread.