Nintendo: There is No Wii HD

[mlopinto2k1]

"IT most certainly would anty-up ANY of the games available..)

 

[phantomtrooper]

im still stuck back at WHY DID THEY NAME IT THE WII?

 

[castle songbird]

As long as the general public is conplacent with the product a COMPANY is selling that COMPANY will continue to make money off of selling that product. Four years into a console generation and no hope for any new consoles untill 2012+ ? The tragedy of it is that seeing as the lage portion of pc games are either console ports or games designed to play on consoles computer gaming's evolution is in part stunted as well.

 

[exfileme]

He's already made this clear. I don't know why the Wii HD topic keeps appearing. Nintendo is working on the blueprint for the successor, not an upgrade for the current model. In fact, Nintendo has never upgraded a current model, and it never will.

 

[lightsaber]

There is no point right now for Nintendo to come out with a Wii HD...in another two years a new next generation Nintendo product will come out and then we all will get our HD.

 

[aletoil]

Is there at least a way to upscale? For the few games I play on the machine, the jaggies are tough to look at.

 

[lamorpa]

[citation][nom]soldier37[/nom]The Wii and HD go together like Obama and lower taxes. Not going to happen![/citation]
Your comment and this discussion go together like relevant information and stipid rants. Shut up!

 

[megamanx00]

[citation][nom]exfileme[/nom]He's already made this clear. I don't know why the Wii HD topic keeps appearing. Nintendo is working on the blueprint for the successor, not an upgrade for the current model. In fact, Nintendo has never upgraded a current model, and it never will.[/citation]

Uh, let's see, Ninendo CD, N64 DD. Yeah, no upgrades here.

 

[zjuice]

How many people have an HD TVs? I have one that my xbox360 and PS3 is on, but I also have two older TVs that I have no plans to upgrade right now. Most people that just buy a Wii have standard def. People that only want to spend $200 probably do not have the newest and greatest TV. My dad and nephew have a wii on a standard def TV. My dad with his eyes can't tell the difference between standard and hd and my nephew doesn’t have the funds for a better TV.(he gets hand me downs) I know a lot of people that will not buy a blu-ray player for the simple fact the are not ready to spend the money on HD. Like or not Nintendo is marketed to a greater audience and you got to give them props for their success in this generation.

 

[silverblue]

It's entirely possible that Nintendo aren't making a Wii HD... but something else. Something not using the name Wii?

Wouldn't make sense if they did, though. Wii could become as popular a buzzword as PlayStation (perhaps it already has).

 

[Guest]

Someone said: "They are Nintendo, they are 1 generation behind, yet sell millions hardware somehow."

That is because their target market is 8 YEAR OLDS. 8 year olds don't care about HD, or processors, or GPUs, or console generations, or any of that stuff.

 

[drip50291]

Nintendo seems like a long lost brother to me...they cant live in 480 forever 🙁

 

[godwhomismike]

Is it ready that hard for Nintendo to get a better GPU from ATI, which is capable to upconvert to HD quality? There are emulators out there for the past year or two, which take existing Wii games, and output the graphics in HD resolutions, looking cleaner and significantly sharper than the standard console.

Taking into account the GPU it's using dates back to 2006, it shouldn't be hard for Nintendo to get an equally as cheap GPU, which is significantly more powerful and runs cooler, due to the large advancements that have been made since then in shrinking die sizes and power requirements.

I am rather disappointed in Nintendo. The could probably reengineer the chipset(s) in two weeks, and have a production line retooled in half the time as well.

Sony keeps improving their PS3, which has gone though several revisions, different chipsets, shrinkage in die sizes and power requirements, smaller cooler parts and casings, and large price drops over time.

Nintendo's formula worked great in the past, but in 2010, people are going to be completely put off by these decade old hardware, graphics, and the very slow trickle of decent games.

Nintendo needs to stop riding the money train, as it will soon reach its last stop, and they will be completely unprepared for what's beyond that.

 

[Guest]

Why would anyone need a WiiHD?? I really do hope Nintendo are working hard on a new system, but a refresh wouldn't make any sense.


I'm going to explain something, now try to keep up folks:


- old titles would likely not be able to display in 1080 anyway

- producing WiiHD titles and seperate Wii titles would completely fracture Nintendo's already small software market.

- even if all existing Wii games could be made to display in 1080, the difference would be extremely small. Best case scenario would still be about the same. More pixels on the screen, probably more defined edges - that's it (think turning on 4xAA on a pc game). You'll still have the same low res textures and otherwise filling your big HDTV.

- really the only benefit would be HD netflix and slightly better framerates in games that might have had "laggy" segments. Do YOU think that's worth $300+ ?

 

[masterasia]

I have a Wii Hard Drive. I've got about 200 games on it right now.

 

[eklipz330]

or this can be something like what sony was doing last year... they have to keep it secret so they keep getting sales on the wii, if they announced the wii hd so early, people would hold back and wait for the new console

 

[omnimodis78]

When I worked in retail, Wii sales were absolutely nuts - people standing outside the doors before the store opened. The Wii is successful for the sheer comprehensive entertainment factor, and the initial cost, not because of graphics. I am yet to see Sony or Microsoft marketing their products to the family instead of the just the gamer in the family. That's the 1-up Nintendo has, and they deserve credit for it.

 

[HavoCnMe]

i think Nintendo and Activision/IW hangout on the weekends. To straight up say 'there will be no Wii HD is a straight no-brainer, especially with that new Ultra HDTV they had at the CES, not saying that TV is going to pickup and sell like hot cakes, seeing how its 60+ inches and probably an arm and a leg. But knowing they already have a TV in the works that is sharper than 1080p would make you think, "will the next nintendo be for 5-11yo's.... makes me wonder.

 

[pochacco007]

this is old news. this is what should have been used, http://www.siliconera.com/2010/01/13/reggie-comments-on-netflix-deal-and-future-of-wii/

there really is no need for hd. ask yourself this question. if you watch transformers in dvd as opposed to blu-ray, does it make a difference? the answer is no because no matter how you slice it, in the end it's still the same content.

look at some of the pc games, they are still dx 9 games and that's because dx 9 is pretty darn good enough for most people.

when reggie says capability, what that means is bringing in new innovation which would further extend the life of the console. the wii already has 2 innovations, balance board and motion plus. with these two innovation, the life of the wii has been extended for a long time. if you look at the nes graphics and apply them to new ideas [innovations], then you'll see that at first it looks primative and later more complex. one good example is super mario 1-3. at first super mario 1 is primitive and on super mario 3, everything is very complex.

 

[idisarmu]

Well in that case, you can suck on my balls Nintendo!