Earlier this month, we reported that Nintendo of America president, Reggie Fils-Aime, had made a point of calling out analyst Michael Pachter regarding the latter's opinion on Wii HD. Reggie stated, "Michael continues to be the only one that believes this is going to happen."
Well, Mr Pachter has now responded via Industry Gamers saying, "Reggie needs to get out more."
He then continued, "I have no personal knowledge of a Wii HD, and I’m sure Reggie has no personal knowledge, either. With that said, I’m pretty sure that there is at least one other person who believes a Wii HD is coming."
The oracle who is Michael Pachter then states, "Let’s just say that I am confident that Nintendo will launch a new Wii SKU next year, and that they will call it a “Wii Plus.” My guess is that the new SKU will have HD functionality."
Place your pre-orders now, or not.
Well, Mr Pachter has now responded via Industry Gamers saying, "Reggie needs to get out more."
He then continued, "I have no personal knowledge of a Wii HD, and I’m sure Reggie has no personal knowledge, either. With that said, I’m pretty sure that there is at least one other person who believes a Wii HD is coming."
The oracle who is Michael Pachter then states, "Let’s just say that I am confident that Nintendo will launch a new Wii SKU next year, and that they will call it a “Wii Plus.” My guess is that the new SKU will have HD functionality."
Place your pre-orders now, or not.
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way 22 Nov 2009 23:46
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He, the present wii probably also has unused HD output modes (even he N64 had 1024*768 mode, which is a lot closer to HDTV). It is a no-brainer, so it depends wherever Nintendo is going to support it. If I were Nintendo, I would be more worried about processing power along with HD, Zelda looking graphics were interesting nearly ten years ago..
way 23 Nov 2009 00:19
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@way Analysis, the next generation needs to be capable of at least Far Cry 1 level performance, maybe even Far Cry 2 to keep high end games looking more palatable over the life of the console), to go along with innovative games. The previous Wii also needed higher performance level, to make high end games look more palatable (but not needing all the bells and whistles).
Innovative control saved the wii last time, but now everybody is getting them (and why or why has it taken the competition so long to et around to this) . So, innovative controls are going to loss their competitive edge, sure there are more control schemes to come, and they will make a difference, but will they make enough over the competition this time around. Innovative game play is where they can still pull the lead, compatible with Intel Larrabee core, or Imagination technology DX11 general purpose GPU array technology (though AMD continue to develop fusion)..
Nintendo needs to go to HD before SHD display sets become available. Sure few people will have them for much of the life of the console, but that would be because many people have or will have HD sets. the bigger the screen the worse SD looks with games but SHD looking will look much better on the 2 meter high screens we expect in five years (probably projection with new usable high contrast day tie screen technology). At that time you kids will have to almost stand in the next room to look at SD, and if they sit too close they will be differentiating between SD pixels. Already in the shops 50 inch screens are common place moving towards 60 and then 80 inch.
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If people actually spend time looking at what is available and coming, they can see some value in a analysts opinion and realize some of these things.
If you even see somebody who perhaps may not know deny something instead of somebody that should know (like the boss at central station), you have to ask why?
But then again, didn't the Japanese guy also say something? it si also likely that there will be no Wiii Hd, because the next unit might not be named wii, and while compatible be a significantly different architecture.
Innovative control saved the wii last time, but now everybody is getting them (and why or why has it taken the competition so long to et around to this) . So, innovative controls are going to loss their competitive edge, sure there are more control schemes to come, and they will make a difference, but will they make enough over the competition this time around. Innovative game play is where they can still pull the lead, compatible with Intel Larrabee core, or Imagination technology DX11 general purpose GPU array technology (though AMD continue to develop fusion)..
Nintendo needs to go to HD before SHD display sets become available. Sure few people will have them for much of the life of the console, but that would be because many people have or will have HD sets. the bigger the screen the worse SD looks with games but SHD looking will look much better on the 2 meter high screens we expect in five years (probably projection with new usable high contrast day tie screen technology). At that time you kids will have to almost stand in the next room to look at SD, and if they sit too close they will be differentiating between SD pixels. Already in the shops 50 inch screens are common place moving towards 60 and then 80 inch.
.
If people actually spend time looking at what is available and coming, they can see some value in a analysts opinion and realize some of these things.
If you even see somebody who perhaps may not know deny something instead of somebody that should know (like the boss at central station), you have to ask why?
But then again, didn't the Japanese guy also say something? it si also likely that there will be no Wiii Hd, because the next unit might not be named wii, and while compatible be a significantly different architecture.
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way 23 Nov 2009 00:28
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Hmm, forgot something. There is a company claiming to be able to do 10mb/s SHD DVD video, lookup redray by Red. Such technology might even prove very viable for online HD+ movies.
DoctorDee 23 Nov 2009 07:18
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way wrote:
Hmm, forgot something. There is a company claiming to be able to do 10mb/s SHD DVD video, lookup redray by Red. Such technology might even prove very viable for online HD+ movies.
H.264 can do HD video at 8mbps.
Not sure what the Disc Format has to do with on-line HD movies? We already have compression algorithms perfectly capable of compressing HD video. As I understand it, Redray is just an accessory for Red's (extremely good, extremely cheap) HD camera that uses these formats, is it not?
I cannot see any information about the file formats on the Red website, in fact, it says "Specification, design and delivery dates subject to change - count on it."