Nintendo Announces Wii Successor for 2012 287
motang writes "Nintendo has officially announced the successor to the Wii. At its investors meeting, Nintendo said they have decided to launch the successor to the Wii in 2012 after the fiscal year, and will show it off and have a playable version at this year's E3."
Upgrade (Score:2, Insightful)
If this will play all the old Wii games and output in 1080p, they've got one sold to me already. The Wii is tons of fun, but the low-res graphics get a little obnoxious on a huge-screen TV.
Can't wait (Score:2, Insightful)
I can't wait for all the wii games to start appearing in the discount bins.
Makes sense. (Score:4, Insightful)
When the Wii was there where still a lot of none HD TVs in peoples homes so Nintendo targeted standard def and kept the prices low. Now HDTV is very common and thanks to Moores law Nintendo can come out with a console that will probably outperform the 360 and PS/3 and be cheaper. Now Nintendo can produce a new machine that will out perform the completion and cost less just as the Wii sales start to drop. Brilliant marketing plan and it will sell like hotcakes.
Re:Upgrade (Score:3, Insightful)
Build yourself a FAST gaming machine and run Dolphin [dolphin-emulator.com] on it. It's one of the selling points is that will output at 1080p. Only downside is the beefy hardware requirements.
Re:Can't wait (Score:2, Insightful)
Re:Well, there goes Nintendo... (Score:4, Insightful)
Top of it's game? The Wii's sales have plateaued, and game sales have gone down. As long as they are backwards compatible, I can't see this as anything but a good move. It'll cannibalize a few sales this Christmas, but they can't be counting on too many there anyway.
Re:Upgrade (Score:4, Insightful)
I've had a USB Loader on my Wii for 2 years now. There has never been a single game I didn't own ripped to the harddrive. (In fact, several of the games I DO own are not on the drive because the disks became unreadable before I got the drive set up.)
Projecting your own dishonest tendencies or lack of self-control on to others isn't very nice. Not everyone steals everything they see just because they can.
I think it's interesting that this thread started because someone said they could get a higher resolution display by using an emulator. Someone else chipped in that running off the hard drive has the tangible benefit of being more robust than juggling disks. However, each of these completely valid uses keep being thrown out because OF COURSE people just want free games.
Having copies of games that you were supposed to pay for is a problem, but it it's a complete separate issue from the concept of emulation and 'media-shifting.' If you won't even respect the difference, how do you expect a corporation will, when it becomes an easy target that affects the bottom line.