16th February 2010, 10:39 PM
Yeah, speculation over what Nintendo is making next are flying all over the place, that's for sure... but while a lot of people seem to want a Wii HD, for some reason, I don't think there' much chance that that'd be this year. It certainly shouldn't be, Wii is only a little over three years old and it shouldn't be replaced so soon.
I know that supposedly if the Wii went HD they'd get more PS360 ports and stuff, but first, Nintendo doesn't need to care about that because what they care about most is selling their own games, which are selling record numbers. Third parties don't matter as much to them... I'm sure that they are a little sad that third parties have had such incompetent Wii strategies and are so determined to stay focused on risky, often money-losing PS360PC strategies, particularly because of all the potential revenues they're losing (from the lower third party game sales than there would otherwise be), but the Wii is doing so well that I doubt that bothers them THAT much. With those kinds of profits, after all, who would care about that kind of thing? Nintendo isn't being stupid, financially, the third parties are. :)
Anyway, yeah, of course there'll be another Wii eventually, probably in a few years, and I have no idea what it'll look like, but I don't think Nintendo would release another system if the only change was better graphics. They've said that they'd need to have more than that to make it worth it, and i think that that makes a lot of sense.
As for it being a new handheld, though... that's possible. The DSi is pretty new, but Nintendo seems to have decided to not really support it except with download titles, so they could release another system soon, particularly if it is backwards compatible with both DS and DSiware games... I think it's too soon, but Nintendo seems to be able to get away with anything handhelds-related these days. I really have no idea what they'd do for a system though, there was this one weird supposed leak with buttons on the screen, but I doubt that's real... way too weird and flawed an idea.
So yeah, I don't have a clue what Nintendo's going to do, but I do doubt that it's going to be a Wii HD. :)
Oh, as for a new Eternal Darkness, new game or remake that is, yeah, that'd be awesome. ED is of course one of my favorite Gamecube games, so I'd love to see it return...
I know that supposedly if the Wii went HD they'd get more PS360 ports and stuff, but first, Nintendo doesn't need to care about that because what they care about most is selling their own games, which are selling record numbers. Third parties don't matter as much to them... I'm sure that they are a little sad that third parties have had such incompetent Wii strategies and are so determined to stay focused on risky, often money-losing PS360PC strategies, particularly because of all the potential revenues they're losing (from the lower third party game sales than there would otherwise be), but the Wii is doing so well that I doubt that bothers them THAT much. With those kinds of profits, after all, who would care about that kind of thing? Nintendo isn't being stupid, financially, the third parties are. :)
Anyway, yeah, of course there'll be another Wii eventually, probably in a few years, and I have no idea what it'll look like, but I don't think Nintendo would release another system if the only change was better graphics. They've said that they'd need to have more than that to make it worth it, and i think that that makes a lot of sense.
As for it being a new handheld, though... that's possible. The DSi is pretty new, but Nintendo seems to have decided to not really support it except with download titles, so they could release another system soon, particularly if it is backwards compatible with both DS and DSiware games... I think it's too soon, but Nintendo seems to be able to get away with anything handhelds-related these days. I really have no idea what they'd do for a system though, there was this one weird supposed leak with buttons on the screen, but I doubt that's real... way too weird and flawed an idea.
So yeah, I don't have a clue what Nintendo's going to do, but I do doubt that it's going to be a Wii HD. :)
Oh, as for a new Eternal Darkness, new game or remake that is, yeah, that'd be awesome. ED is of course one of my favorite Gamecube games, so I'd love to see it return...