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scruffybunny on 20 November 2009

Yea if Wii was 720p it would be better "future proofed", but 480p isn't so bad me thinks; Its just that fucking Sony and MS is in the limelight all the time with the big budget game hypings.

I cannot imagine the next Wii still staying 480p, that would be too cheap on Ninty's part. Wii has proven that their motion control is a hit and that people buy shit loads of peripherals. They can afford to make a meatier machine.

Even if Natal becomes wildly successful and Ninty is forced to experiment with different motion sensing mechanism, they can't stay with 480p only machine next time around and hope its still relevant.




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1337 Gamer on 20 November 2009
famousringo said:

It's so hard to know.

Any increase in power would have to be accompanied with an increase in cost, so how many HD Wiis would people have bought at $300? $350?

Would an HD Wii really have attracted more development if it had a lower adoption rate due to increased price? Would the increased dev costs of HD have driven away some of the lower-tier developers or led to more exclusives becoming ports?

The Wii was sold out for about 2.5 years with no price cuts. It's hard to imagine how the console could have been more successful.

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Avinash_Tyagi on 20 November 2009

^Sure next time around, but that would be years off, right now, they have no real reason to move to a new console, graphics aren't a reason, as we can see from sales, no it has to be something more, something like the reason they moved from GCN to Wii



 

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Hapimeses on 20 November 2009

If Nintendo released an HD machine, I'd be interested in them. As it stands, the Wii output looks terrible and blurry on my TV, so we have absolutely no desire to have one beneath our telly-box again. Fine for people playing on an SD set, not so fine for those with good HD sets.



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NJ5 on 20 November 2009
Hapimeses said:
If Nintendo released an HD machine, I'd be interested in them. As it stands, the Wii output looks terrible and blurry on my TV, so we have absolutely no desire to have one beneath our telly-box again. Fine for people playing on an SD set, not so fine for those with good HD sets.

BS. With component cables and a good HDTV, the Wii has the same image as on a SDTV.

I know because I tried... My Philips 32'' CRT and my parents' Sony 32'' LCD show exactly the same image.

 



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Avinash_Tyagi on 20 November 2009

My parents have a Big screen HDTV, Wii games look great on it



 

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scruffybunny on 20 November 2009
Avinash_Tyagi said:
^Sure next time around, but that would be years off, right now, they have no real reason to move to a new console, graphics aren't a reason, as we can see from sales, no it has to be something more, something like the reason they moved from GCN to Wii

Yea I agree, if graphics is the sole reason for a new console, they would have come out with a new Wii sku already.




Azelover on 20 November 2009
scruffybunny said:
Avinash_Tyagi said:
^Sure next time around, but that would be years off, right now, they have no real reason to move to a new console, graphics aren't a reason, as we can see from sales, no it has to be something more, something like the reason they moved from GCN to Wii

Yea I agree, if graphics is the sole reason for a new console, they would have come out with a new Wii sku already.

They're going to because of investor pressure. Next year.

From the talks some people are having right now I don't think it would even be native 720p but just upscaling to 720p. The price for sure would be much higher too.

If NSMBW fails to deliver on what they want, you're gonna see something. It's gonna be a little greedy, though.



Sempuukyaku on 20 November 2009

The next console will be HD because Nintendo will be able to afford to make it HD and keep it profitable. But I agree that the focus will be further pushing the motion controls and continuing to come up with innovative ideas. I could careless what the silly "hardcore" fanboys want. So long as Nintendo continue to make a profit on their consoles then I'm golden.



Hapimeses on 20 November 2009
NJ5 said:
Hapimeses said:
If Nintendo released an HD machine, I'd be interested in them. As it stands, the Wii output looks terrible and blurry on my TV, so we have absolutely no desire to have one beneath our telly-box again. Fine for people playing on an SD set, not so fine for those with good HD sets.

BS. With component cables and a good HDTV, the Wii has the same image as on a SDTV.

I know because I tried... My Philips 32'' CRT and my parents' Sony 32'' LCD show exactly the same image.

 

I have a very good HDTV. Top of the range. And the Wii looks a blurry mess on it. The resolution is just too low to look half-decent on my set. Further, I had the component cables (and they made suprisingly little difference, I was upset to find out). SDTVs cover a lot of sins. HDTVs show those sins, especially when the screen is a decent size (not a small 32" set, I imagine).

Sure, it may look good on your smaller set in your house, but it does not look good on my larger set in my house.

Further, just because you disagree with me gives you no reason to tell me I'm speaking 'BS'. That's just ungracious, offensive, and rude, and I expect more from an established member of this board.



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