I see many predictions for Wii market resistence heading into 2009.

The question I pose is: "How could Nintendo best address this?"

I think the best plan would be to make a new SKU(over used gaming acronym). Perhaps a Wii Premium that would have alot of the tech some wish it had now (HD output, movie playback, high quality streaming capabilites, more storage, etc). This would make perfect sense since at the time resistence hits the technology would be cheap enough to implement and maintain it's attractive price point. Also the original Wii's price point could be dropped to 129 (DSL levels) for further market exploitation.

What do you think nintendo should do?

Adding HD would be a terrible idea. Customers would be paying at least a hundred euros for a feature most people wouldn't ever use.

That being said, it's extremely likely we'll be seeing a new model of the Wii in a few years, seeing as how the most succesful console of each gen tends to get a remake. Games for it would still have to run with full features on the old model, otherwise it'd be a new console with full backwards compatibility, but it could have all kinds of cool stuff. I imagine more storage space, DVD movie playback, inbuilt support for wavebirds, and being able to store savefiles for Gamecube games on the internal memory are all plausible. An even sleeker form would be nice, but if they go much sleeker they might as well make it a handheld. =P

Wiimotes with better speakers would be nice too.

Exactly RolStoppable, all they have to do is producing great games for all audiences, which means some for the casuals and at least as much as for the gamecube for the hardcore gamers. maybe they should talk with third parties, but that's all.

Nintendo doesn't need to change a thing with the Wii.

Not a thing. That kind of stuff will actually weaken sales.

The only thing Nintendo in the somewhat far future needs to do is add those colors. Boy oh boy when that happens...whoo!

Some people are holding out on Wii just because they want a black version. It DID look pretty cool.

John Lucas 

I have a feeling that just such a thing will happen. By then, HD penetration will actually be high enough to matter and, as the DSL and GBASP have proven, a second SKU later in a system's life is bound to make Nintendo a lot of money.

If Sony does recover, this will be a long generation. An HD Wii would be able to maintain the system's life through 2014, which should be pretty sufficient for them and a ton of profit to boot.

 Nothing, just keep releasing good games

I would support HD (hard drive). If they can get Neo Geo and Arcade games on VC that would be mandatory.

 The DSL and the SP were not changes in hardware, just exterior, you fail to grasp that difference, there will be no HD Wii

 You know with the Wii and the DS they show colors early but at launch they never have them. It bums me out because I wanted a black DS lite and black Wii. Oh well.

About a new system I think people forgot that despite HD penetration most channels aren't in HD and most people will still be watching regular dvds even in a few years. So people won't be-anti non-hd formats yet. and the Wii in a few years will be insanely cheap, I think even alot of people who are now complaining about the Wii will probably pick one up at some point because it'll offer them something they'll like and it will be cheap enough for just about anyone. Heck look at the ps2, for a $120 I just bought one, it's like at that price why not? I think the Wii will have the same effect. Why risk confusing people with two versions and having some games only support one and the likes it would just be to crazy.

There were plenty of changes to the hardware. Nothing as extravagant as an HD Wii would be, yet changes were made nonetheless. As long as all of the new games play on the old system it's good enough. And as those two handhelds have proven, Nintendo's loyal customers will pick up a new version of the system later in its life for even minor improvements. HD, considering that it will rule the TV market from 2009 on, will be a pretty sizable improvement.