I bet he is talking about the massive life line that something like the Wii console will have. Think about it, every console like the Xbox, or the Gamecube, or the PS3 are made to extend their lifespan beyond the normal 4 year life, but they never do. Why? because they based their product off of being significantly better than the competitions. What consoles have had the longest then? NES, SNES, PS1, PS2, and now its gonna be Nintendo Wii. They have figured out the pattern and now the Wii is gonna last longer than all of them. I am betting they will continue selling the Wii for the next 10 years, THE EXACT SAME MODEL. Only in 4 years when the competition comes out with something to compete with it at a 250 dollar price, the Wii will cost only 40 dollars!!!

Conclusion? The need for better graphics is at an all time low, everything is real enough.

I will be laughing my ass off if this comes true, and I think it just might.

OK. I love my Wii and all. I am a Nintendo fan but most of this thread seems more funny that real. Sorry folks.

Almost as funny as your grammar and spelling!

I see the Wii havin a 7-8 year life like the PS2, after that we will need a new console, but where will nintendo go after the Wii is the real question.......

I have much optimism for the Wii's future but don't hold anyone idea of its prosperity too tightly as upsets and unforseen hurdles are a given along the way and even in five years so much can happen to turn the world on its ear.

"Miyamoto - wait until you see the Wii 5 years from now"

covered in dust and unused

Present. (hand raised)

I think I've said it here before somewhere but ironically the one system that will most likely have the 10 year lifespan Sony planned for is the Wii.

When Miyamoto says it, you better take it to the bank. I saw this all along. 240,000,000 is child's play. This system is most likely going to sell into the 500,000,000 range.

Oh yeah. I've said that number before. At first in private to a few posters like Neos & Parokki when I originally made my 240,000,000 Wii lifetime prediction and then in shadow in some other post that I forget where it is now.

Wii is NO fad. Wii is FACT.

John Lucas 

In a lot of ways I see the Wii as being heavily related to the original Gameboy ...

At the time of its release the Gameboy was unlike anything the industry had really seen before; certainly, there were portable games before (and even Nintendo had previously seen success with the Game and Watch) but the Gameboy was the first handheld game system as we know it today.

From (pretty much) day one the Gameboy faced countless more powerful systems with higher resolution and colour screens, but the Gameboy survived and Nintendo thrived. Nintendo's amazingly polished, creative game development really outmatched all of the processing power their competition threw at them.

Personally, I believe that Nintendo is as creative as they have ever been (their polish is still very good, although more developers are able to match it today) and I wouldn't be surprised if they could pull off a Wii Sports/Pokemon/Nintendogs/Brain Training craze every year for the next 5 (or so) years on the Wii. If they're successful with this they will (indirectly) show developers how to take advantage of the Wii, which will also result in many good third party Wii games.

I bet he is talking about the massive life line that something like the Wii console will have. Think about it, every console like the Xbox, or the Gamecube, or the PS3 are made to extend their lifespan beyond the normal 4 year life, but they never do. Why? because they based their product off of being significantly better than the competitions. What consoles have had the longest then? NES, SNES, PS1, PS2, and now its gonna be Nintendo Wii. They have figured out the pattern and now the Wii is gonna last longer than all of them. I am betting they will continue selling the Wii for the next 10 years, THE EXACT SAME MODEL. Only in 4 years when the competition comes out with something to compete with it at a 250 dollar price, the Wii will cost only 40 dollars!!!

^Gets it. Nail on the head, and all that.


The consoles with the shortest runs
Are the overpowered ones
In order to be future-proof
It must be present-proof, in truth

^I hate myself.

But seriously, Nintendo will not release a new home console until they have several Brain Age/Nintendogs/Wii Sports/Wii Fit type ideas that can't be implemented on Wii, and will require a new console. This won't be for a long time. Wii will have at least a decade-long lifespan similar to NES, Game Boy, PS1 and PS2.