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alfredofroylan on 25 April 2011

It's time to move up boys.

In a past newspaper interview, Nintendo CEO Satoru Iwata said that Nintendo would only consider a successor to the Wii once developers could no longer offer surprises with the Wii.

It looks like that has happened! Following today's announcement of Wii's successor, Nintendo held a press conference in Osaka. Kyodo News reports that as reason for the followup system's release, Iwata said "It became difficult for developers to surprise customers with the current Wii."

Covering the same press conference, Bloomberg reports that Iwata insisted "We will offer something new for home game systems."

Whatever surprises Nintendo has in store for the system, 3D may not be one of them. Iwata also said that considering that 3D televisions have yet to spread widely, making 3D into a central point of the system would be difficult.

http://www.andriasang.com/e/blog/2011/04/25/iwata_on_wii_2/



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Acevil on 25 April 2011

It was reasonable to launch a new system. 5-7 year life is typically what is expected of a console. 



 

miz1q2w3e on 25 April 2011

More like they didn't want to make games for Wii - Hopefully this console will be better



noname2200 on 25 April 2011

I don't know what he's going on about. Everytime I see third-party releases for the Wii, I'm quite surprised.



noname2200 on 25 April 2011
RolStoppable said:
noname2200 said:

I don't know what he's going on about. Everytime I see third-party releases for the Wii, I'm quite surprised.

I don't know. Once you've gotten used to expect failure, there isn't much of a surprise anymore. Of course, looking at this in reverse means that every good third party game does create surprise.

So I guess by that metric, you haven't been surprised in quite a while, eh?



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pariz on 25 April 2011
noname2200 said:

I don't know what he's going on about. Everytime I see third-party releases for the Wii, I'm quite surprised.


I've got to admit that I laughed at this. :P



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ethomaz on 25 April 2011
Acevil said:

It was reasonable to launch a new system. 5-7 year life is typically what is expected of a console.

I expected 8-10 years... Wii has three and some months... a successor is very early.



radishhead on 25 April 2011
ethomaz said:
Acevil said:

It was reasonable to launch a new system. 5-7 year life is typically what is expected of a console.

I expected 8-10 years... Wii has three and some months... a successor is a very early.

Even at its peak, it was never in doubt that the Wii wouldn't have been able to live an 8 year cycle.



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UncleScrooge on 25 April 2011
ethomaz said:
Acevil said:

It was reasonable to launch a new system. 5-7 year life is typically what is expected of a console.

I expected 8-10 years... Wii has three and some months... a successor is a very early.


4 years and 5 months right now. When the N6 releases it'll be almost 6 years on the market. That's roughly as old as the SNES was when the N64 released and longer than N64 and Gamecube were supported.



Kynes on 25 April 2011
UncleScrooge said:
ethomaz said:
Acevil said:

It was reasonable to launch a new system. 5-7 year life is typically what is expected of a console.

I expected 8-10 years... Wii has three and some months... a successor is a very early.


4 years and 5 months right now. When the N6 releases it'll be almost 6 years on the market. That's roughly as old as the SNES was when the N64 released and longer than N64 and Gamecube were supported.

Even then, Nintendo can continue selling it, at a low cost. Isn't that what Sony does?