Despite the Wii doing phenomenally well – and let’s face it, everyone was surprised at quite how well it sold – there have been rumors and speculation surrounding its replacement for a couple of years. Shigeru Miyamoto, the creator of Nintendo classics such as Mario, Zelda, and Donkey Kong, has now had his say on the matter.
Popular Mechanics asked Miyamoto whether a motion sensing controller would be a part of future Nintendo hardware, and he responded by saying:
With both the Wii remote itself and Wii MotionPlus, what we’ve been able to do is introduce an interface that is both I think appealing and at the right price for a broad audience. And while we don’t have any concrete plans for what we’ll be doing with hardware in the future, what I can say is that, my guess is that because we found this interface to be so interesting, I think it would be likely that we would try to make that same functionality perhaps more compact and perhaps even more cost-efficient.
In essence, that would mean the Wii 2 being more of the same only with a redesigned controller. If it were indeed more cost-efficient then that could mean Nintendo being able to sell the consoles at an even lower price than the Wii launched it, which would likely guarantee another storming start for the hardware.
Miyamoto doesn’t mention graphics in his answer, however, which means this isn’t necessarily going to be the Wii HD that was at once time thought to be definitely on its way. And, of course, there was no mention of a time line, even though if anyone knows what Nintendo has up its sleeve it’s surely their chief games designer.
http://gamer.blorge.com/2009/10/21/miyamoto-talks-wii-2-more-of-the-same/
The Wii was already at a mass market price when it launched and very compact so does this mean Wii 2 will be more of an evolution then revolution?
