Here is why we will never see a Wii "HD"

• Doesnt matter if Nintendo releases it January the 1st of next year of December the 11th 2011, it will cause the price of the Wii go up (this Wii HD) and people who were hoping that the Wii's lovely price cut will also apply to this Wii HD will be sadly mistaken, doesnt matter if the HD hardware is old, the Wii HD will be considered a band new console (not next gen but you know what I mean), therefor it will cost more
• 4, almost 5, years into its life cycle is a little too late to launch an upgrade of the system since I forget the number but like more than somewhere around 70 some million Wiis have sold. They should just go ahead and launch the next gen
• For those 70-80 million peope who have bought a Wii, they will most likely find it upseting that now for the people that can afford this new Wii HD will be experiencing better graphics while they are stuck with their SD Wiis because theycant afford to upgrade to HD. Also some people are extremely lazy and will never buy an upgrade because they like what they have now
• It would be a bad business move to launch both an upgrade to a current gen console and to launch the 3DS, the next generation of Nintendo handheld gaming systems, both in the same year. Nintendo knows this
• Like I kinda stated above, releasing an HD Wii would put a divide into the Wii's market. Game developers wont knowweather or not to release their games as HD only or to make it where the game will be playable on both versons of the system or to just ignore the exsistence of this HD wii
• It will cost too much money for 3rd party devs to create games for it. Out of all of the 3rd party devs that are developing for the Wii, none of them are doing it to spend a pretty penny on the game and know that the game will sell like hotcakes and make up for all the money they spent on making it. No, they are deving for the Wii becaue it is cheap and because they want to make a quick profit.
• And finially, never trust analyst.

Gamingclone

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[QUOTE="Haziqonfire"]You think they'd focus on a new console and a new handheld in the same year? Ha.charizard1605

You think they'd focus on a new console and a new handheld in the same year? Ha.Haziqonfire

5850= $250-$300 as is

Quad @ 3.0 = $130

and even with bulk purchases discounts from the manufacturers these two alone would probably put Nintendo under on production costs.

HavocV3

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[QUOTE="Raymundo_Manuel"]

Not going to happen.

That'd be kinda like committing suicide.

Mystic-G

Well I don't think they would be committing suicide, but it's still not gonna happen. Nintendo is currently capitalizing on low investment, high profit and will continue to do so until they fail at it. They have no reason to invest into a ATI 5850, I'm betting more on a GPU near the 8800GT's performance.

5850=$300

Now I guess we have $0 left to build the rest of the box.

davidkamayor

Yea... Not gonna happen.

Mystic-G

Not going to happen.

That'd be kinda like committing suicide.

Raymundo_Manuel

when the Wii HD is announced and released. They didn't want to release it this year so it didn't interfere with the 3DS and they thought the Wii had big enough legs to last.

The problem is that the Wii was underpowered back in 2006 and now that both 360 and PS3 have motion controls it's really a problem.

But Nintendo can turn things around with the Wii HD and they probably will.

The Wii HD will probably launch at $299 and be considerably more powerful than both the 360 and PS3.

Wii HD hardware:

CPU - quad core @ 3.0 Ghz

GPU - comparable to HD 5850

RAM - 2 GB

Drive - DVD

Storage - internal 16 GB flash (expandable to 128 GB)

Controler - next gen motion control featuring 30fps 720p HD Camera and voice recognition

Total Price including Mario Party = $299

Nintendo can easily release this console and not even lose anything on hardware. This system will be powerful enough to run Crysis maxed out @ 1080p. It will run all of the great multiplat games such as COD, Castlevania, Red Dead and Fallout only it will run them at much higher level of graphics than current gen consoles.

The amazing thing will be Mario Galaxy HD, Zelda Ocarina of Time HD, Metroid HD, Mario Kart HD, Smash Bros HD and that's just to name a few.

I don't know about you guys but i'm buying it at launch!

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IMO you should just buy NGB and pretend there were no sequels

MFDOOM1983