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kn on 24 March 2008

Do you think Nintendo would have changed anything in the design if they knew it was going to be as big of a success as it is now?  I would have loved to have seen a bit more graphics power -- just a bit... A dedicated AA chip or something along those lines.  Just enough to really set it apart from last gen but not increase the cost more than about $25 bucks... 

Anything you think they would have added/deleted/etc. if they knew for sure it was going to be such a succes?  Or, perhaps, do you think that would have set their decisions in stone even firmer knowing the record money they would be making on the conosle?



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darthdevidem01 on 24 March 2008

They would've made the online better, added a small hard drive....10GB max..

Most importantly

THEY WOULD'VE MADE MORE OF THE DAMN THINGS!



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koopatrooper on 24 March 2008

they would have sold it in the gamecube era



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NintendoMan on 24 March 2008

they would have improved the online, ramped up production quicker and done something about storage, either 2 or 4GB of flash memory or a microHD.



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Username2324 on 24 March 2008

Considering they were making $80 on each console from the start, they could have easily made it HD capable.



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sc94597 on 24 March 2008

Usb HDD support which could be fixed, and slightly better graphics. Not too much.



ChronotriggerJM on 24 March 2008

I think they would have given it a bit more hardware, maybe just enough to get the hand-me down ports of the other consoles. (or at least enough of a hand-me-down to not be a completely new game essentially).

They would have definitely considered getting more of an Online network up and running, it seems so iffy at the moment.

Wiiware would have been available at launch and they would have started with a few original IP titles.



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fkusumot on 24 March 2008
RolStoppable said:
I don't think that they would have changed anything about the hardware or the online. They would have produced more Wiis for sure and maybe charged $50 more per unit.

 Yep. That about sums it up. It wouldn't make any difference if Nintendo knew because they would still have to support the console with the big hits for the first two years.

Now if DEVELOPERS and PUBLISHERS knew then what they know now about the Wii's success...



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celine on 24 March 2008
fkusumot said:
RolStoppable said:
I don't think that they would have changed anything about the hardware or the online. They would have produced more Wiis for sure and maybe charged $50 more per unit.

Yep. That about sums it up. It wouldn't make any difference if Nintendo knew because they would still have to support the console with the big hits for the first two years.

Now if DEVELOPERS and PUBLISHERS knew then what they know now about the Wii's success...


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Zucas on 24 March 2008

They probably as some said would have made more haha. And probably beefed up the online, beefed up the power, and made a peripheal for an HDD. Probably could have still sold it for the same price as well.