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Analyst: 'High Definition Wii could be introduced'

gamepro.com — Familiar industry analyst Michael Pachter suggests that Nintendo may turn its nose at the traditional five year cycle and release a High Definition Wii in 2-3 years to appease consumers. (Pure speculation, though entertaining food for thought.)

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  • DiGiLifeX, on 10/10/2007, -5/+2I have an 80" screen that I play my Wii on and 480p just don't do the trick. Give me at least an HD 720p add on or something along that line, it would make a lot of people happy. Maybe someone should make a Wii HD Digg. ( Digg if you want WiiHD ) maybe that will get Nintendo's attention and they would do something about it sooner than later.
    • brainboy77, on 10/10/2007, -1/+2Never mind the HD-Wii, where the ***** can you get a 80" screen? I can't find it anywhere on Best Buy, Circuit City, or Amazon!! lol
    • PATSCRU, on 10/10/2007, -1/+1big ups to brainboy,
      big fail to digilife. I will now hack into your computer digilife with my 80core intel with ddr8 on a 90" LCD for being such a dumbass.
    • acid0426, on 10/10/2007, -1/+1How does it go along with your 2 inch dick and your Hummer?
    • Wiinii, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1The only people digging Digi down are the ones who don't have a projector like he does. 480p truly does not cut it on a projector, once you've seen even 720p. The bigger the screen, the more obvious the pixels.

      For all the dumbasses replying here, a good projector ownz anything your plasma/LCD can do. Even models that cost less than your TV. You don't have to be rich to own one, just in the know.
  • loganhid, on 10/10/2007, -2/+1This is quite obvious - In about 2-3 years more people will have HD sets in their homes and the production cost of HD hardware will be a lot cheaper, allowing Nintendo to make profit from day one (which MS and Sony aren't doing at this moment)
  • chocobomog, on 10/10/2007, -2/+2It is all speculation but if true three are many questions that should be addressed:

    Is this a new system? A Wii2 that could play Wii1 games? If so, then it would cannibalize sales of the Wii1 (much like the 360 stopped all sales of the original Xbox) and neither would reach the "best selling console of all time" title the Wii currently is heading for. Wii1 owners would have to buy another system, and if the Wii1 is truly a fad then the Wii2 won't have the huge "causal gamers" numbers.

    Or is this an update of the Wii (ie. DS phat -> DS lite)? If so then the stress is put on developers because they will have to create games that can be viewed in both non-HD (for original Wii) and HD resolutions (HD Wii). As such, the HD version of the game will never look as good, because developers had to split their time between two versions as well as use twice as much space to include to two different texture/model sizes (you wouldn't want 480p textures/models on a 1080p game).

    Finally, even if in 2-3 years they are able to create a Wii with graphics equal to the PS3/360 by then both of those systems will be nearly 3-5 years into their life cycles. At that time programmers will have nearly mastered the systems and create games with huge graphical improvements over the first cycle of games (like Okami, Shadow of the Colossus, God of War 2). Not to mention the next gen of systems (Xbox 720) will already be rumored and the bar raised once again. And the entire time, the Wii HD will be going through the initial first cycle growing pains for developers and have graphics that barely look better than before (that is until developers learn the system).
    • lacronicus, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1all it would be is a wii that forces games up to high resolutions. its not that hard, n64 games pumped through an emulator look decent at 1080p. why not a wii game?
  • freetyme, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2I should start listening to analyst now why?

    With the success of the Wii right now, they probably aren't thinking about it. Could they have released a DS with PSP calibur graphics? Yes, but with the sucess of the DS are they going to? I would think probably not. It would be extremely dangerous to rerlease an HD Wii, and would most likely confuse consumers.

    HD is cool, but I think we'll have to wait the normal lifespan of a console to get an HD Nintendo console.
  • doshindude, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1Analysts=not accurate.
    just because they say it doesn't mean it's happening.
  • PATSCRU, on 10/10/2007, -1/+1Pachter is the biggest windbag in the entire world.

    You'd have to overhaul the hardware to do any higher resolutions. Not going to happen unless you're a ***** ***** like pachter. Sorry for the rant, but it infuriates me that this guy gets paid to spew this *****.

    /rant
  • yeshuu, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1it would be too hard to develop for two tiers, as now the games have to be rendered at a much higher resoloution than normal, but you would still have to accodimate those people that bought SD Wiis.
  • AzraelKans, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1I was going to place a well thought comment here, on why the Wii actually needs this in the coming years, is obvious the Wii is getting almost ZERO third party developer support and thats hurting the game library, but why bother? if the Wii is getting so much sales is because is perfect right? it doesnt matter if theres no games, next gen games or if theres proof that Wii software sales are less than spectacular.

    I mean some of the people here in digg, are the same guys that called you "not real gamer" if you didnt had a gamecube and played Smash Bros on a daily basis.

    At least Nintendo is aware of their REAL situation (as shown by the Wii fit cry for help) and is going to eventually do something about it. go ahead Nintendo you already got the soccer moms and the elderly to play (one game a year yay!), now is time to get your gamer audience back. (and no, Im not impressed by playing metroid 3 solo, smash bros (im already tired of it and the hundreds of clones) or being a bee in mario and jumping around aimlessly)

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