...Do you think it will do poorly?

My reasoning for why it will perform under par of the Wii is that motion control won't be as much of a selling point since all 3 console manufacturers will have it by that time and people will eventually want to upgrade to HD graphics once they finally purchase a shiny new TV. People who have played Wii on an HDTV even with component cables knows that games look very bland with a lot of jaggies. As HD whores and technophiles become more common with the newer generations of gamers, people will start to demand "cooler" consoles. The Wii has been branded as "kiddy" many times over and this stigma will only get worse over time.

Motion control is huge at the moment, and is the reason why many people (including myself...er my mom) bought the Wii in the first place. We are looking for that fresh, new experience that has never been fully implemented in past generations of consoles. By taking away this wow factor, Microsoft and Sony will be able to level the playing field and this will be less of a selling point than it is now for the Wii. Sure the implementation will differ between consoles, but the general idea will be the same.

Price is another factor as to why the Wii is doing well. Launched, and still at, $250 makes the Wii the cheapest current gen console still excluding the 360 Arcade ($199). Parents who aren't able to afford big electronics purchases at the moment due to the economic crises will go out shopping for little Jill and Johnny for Christmas or their birthday, see the $300-500 price of the competing systems, and grab the Wii instead simply because its more affordable and is still a game console. I have a feeling Microsoft, and especially Sony, have learned that no console sells very well at a price higher than $299 and will adjust launch prices of their next consoles accordingly to combat this.

So if Nintendo sticks to its current path of non-HD, motion control gaming, do you think their next console will stumble out of the gate?

I think it will if they do decide to stick with SD, but I doubt they will.
Although I still lol at people who said/still say that it's a fad yet it's competitors decided to follow it's path as well (in terms of motion controls anyways XD).

the next Nintendo console won't be SD, and they will still aim for the 250 dollar mark on the power of the hardware, which by today's console standards, means it will be quiet powerful regardless, not to mention MS and Sony still has 3-5 years to go before they do motion controls correctly. motion control will be standard too.

I don't think it will do quite as good, but will see what creative games Nintendo has for it...
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Who ever said the next Ninty console wasn't going to be HD? The reason Nintendo didn't want HD on the Wii was because when it was released less than 10% of homes had an HDTV. If HD gets saturated enough, Nintendo will definatly include HD graphics standard.

The reason the Wii is successful is that it's cheap, innovative, and has tons of fun games. There's no reason Nintendo can't keep using this formula for decades to come.

I believe Nintendo has gotten a lot smarter when it comes to their consoles/handhelds after Iwata took over.


We may not know what is to come into the future, but I think after this generation that it is safe to say that they may know a thing or two about how to create innovative pieces of equipment and make them something that we need (whether through entertainment, marketing, witchcraft....take your pick).

i wont buy it, ill buy a X-3 instead.

If the next one is like the Wii I can tell you one thing, I won't buy it.

Iwata already confirmed it'd be HD.. He actually said the next hardware would naturally have HD added. Not "it may be something we'd look at"

If the next one is like the Wii, then why would they release it? Do you mean like a new color, such as the bundle in Japan with MH 3? Of course, that's not like it at all, it's black instead of white, but I guess we will see what Japan thinks of that...

Seriously, they already said the next console will not be SD, so really, what do you mean by "like it"? It will likely have better graphics than the 360 and PS3 just because of when it launches, that level of complexity will be a lot less expensive than it is even today.