[Rumor] High-DEF wii scheduled for 2011

[FiB3R]

Nintendo are going to keep everything the same but just change the CPU to a slighly faster one , say 1Ghz and just overclock the GPU to get games running at 720p (I wouldn't be surpised if games didn't run natively at 720p in Wii HD and just upscale from say 576p, Nintendo lovers wouldn't notice/care)

So everything will remain the same apart from slightly updated CPU and GPU but same controls and who knows with might get DVD playback.

Yea Nintendo i applaud your creativity i really do /sarcasm

Wii HD = Wii (What it should of been in the first place)

Unfortunately, I agree :(

Do you honestly believe the Wii HD (assumably with 3.0Ghz dual cores or whatever) would have survived in the market? Nintendo did that dance last generation and got rinsed because of it.

Yes, I think it could have. And now that their position is so strong, I want to see them come out swinging.

They got rinsed because hardware wise, they've been dancing like a ****ing retard for years. And now they're making us jump around like retards too. I'm not Nintendo's target audience any more. In fact, I haven't been for a long time, I've just been in denial.

[Joel]

nintendo is so far behind on everything they should just make a completely new console and release it with the new xbox and ps4 in 2011

And their sales would seem to indicate that being 'behind' is in no way making them lose out.

[monkey13]

nintendo is so far behind on everything they should just make a completely new console and release it with the new xbox and ps4 in 2011

And their sales would seem to indicate that being 'behind' is in no way making them lose out.

Spot on Joel. I'd like to add that they are ahead in innovation (Making things in a higher resolution is not innovation), fun and market range (Age, sex, nationality etc).

[Smigit]

Do you honestly believe the Wii HD (assumably with 3.0Ghz dual cores or whatever) would have survived in the market?

Why wouldn't it? Having more power doesn't mean they can't still focus on the Wiimote and use things such as the Balance board ect. Infact having more power wouldnt have to affect Nintendos's 1st party titles what so ever. Thing is, Nintendo are really only getting by on those 1st party titles IMHO, if they had more power maybe they'd have more big third party titles too.

So yeah, I don't see how a more powerful system would have hurt them besides the obvious cost of assembling it at the factory. It doesn't mean Nintendo would have to change it's way of designing games, but it sure as hell might have eased third parties into the system more.

Edited October 13, 2008 by Smigit

[+Audioboxer Subscriber²]

You seen the crazy money everyone was paying for the Wii anyway after launch - And that was the casuals!

The whole concept of the Wii was making people go nuts, coupled with the price of course, but retailing at $30-80 more for some beefier hardware, IMO, wouldn't have impacted on sales.

[The Teej]

But A) It wouldn't have had that nicer price point ($250 sounds a lot nicer then $350) and B) It would have meant Nintendo loses money when they originally launch, which would have been disasterous for them considering how many they've sold. You have to cast your minds back to 2005, when Nintendo was only perceived as being a company for kids, so what the hell would the 360 and PS3 guys want with an overpriced kids toy (Wii Sports and Gamecube Zelda would have hardly given major appeal to the majority of hardcore gamers)?

2005 Nintendo wasn't the same Nintendo today, and I don't feel that if they decided to release a tech-heavy, expensive machine it would have appealed to the casual crowd (IMO the craze managed to get going because of the smaller price point which allowed mass market penetration) nor would it have appealed to the hardcore crowd either (no 3rd party support at the beginning, nintendos non-hardcore offering).

[+Audioboxer Subscriber²]

Well I'll put it this way, I'm not a tech heavy guy, but I wished 720p support (a form of native HD) had been in the Wii from the start.

If I knew my stuff and could estimate the cost bumps in hardware it would've made for Nintendo to be able to support 720p max, I'd maybe withdraw my comments if prices would soar.

However with the GPU currently in the Wii, I do wonder how much more power would've been needed to support 720p...

[The Teej]

720p would have been nice, but to get any sort of decent graphics upgrade (you know, to make developers pay attention to the Wii's potential/make the resolution upgrade seem worth it) it probably (for the time) might have bumped up the price just a little too much. Plus, you have to remember, the system also comes with Wii Sports which equally needs some sort of profit too. I dunno, I'm just price guessing really, but clearly they made these decisions for a good reason, they didn't exactly have loads of money to play around with before the Wii so sometimes while uber hardware might have been nice, it might not have been practical for Nintendo.