Wii 2 Will be "On Par" with PS3 and Xbox 360

Not really sure how Nintendo will go on this one, on the one hand Nintendo have a massive casual gamer base and obviously want to keep those, but the Wii greatly excluded the Hardcore and as such the next console, Needs to cater for that, Nintendo always had the most powerful console right up to the Gamecube and the Wii was a big sway away from that which paid off, I cant imagine them killing of the Wii name but I can see them taking it up a level in the graphics and `try` to cater for both markets.

I think what he says is about right, they would quite easily upgrade a Wii system to PS3 quality (blu ray player please Nintendo). the tech will be cheap enough and the graphics should hopefully impress enough for hardcore gamers and the casual ones will just like owning something new and shiny.

So what do we think the new name could be? Super Wii (SWii), Wii 3D (W33d), Wii Super Hardcore (WiiSH)

I don't care both the P$3 and Xbox 360 have no games i want to play or i can buy the same games on a PC which look better.

@miacid

Hot Wii

@GOD

Yeah and a decent PC to play those games cost more than all three consoles combined.

and I didn't realise that Gran Turismo, LBP, God Of War etc etc were on PC?

I bought the Move this year, I absolutely love it. But yeah, it def needs more games..This is how it is with every new gaming system that come out though. I can not wait for Killzone 3 to come out on the move..I know they have an awesome line up of games coming out very soon. Remember the wii games when it first came out? They were boring as hell..games are being made fast than ever in the gaming industry!

@haritori the "hardcore" (what a laughable, meaningless, word for a bunch of dorks that think graphics>everything) excluded themselves.

Nintendo has never really been about technological advancements, so it wouldn't surprise me if the wii 2 would be worse than the PS3. But obviously in terms of the number of people who buy it, the wii would probably come out on top. Another point: I was under the impression that Sony part "owned" Blue ray. Would they really let Nintendo use it in their consoles?

@haritori i agree

@Anon

Sony would let Microsoft use BD spec, of course MS and Nintendo will have to pay up for it though I don't think Sony see`s BD as a exclusive tool to the PS3 the inclusion of which was like the inclusion of DVD in the PS2, its more about the revenue they would make from use of BluRay than as a marketing tool.

Mario Galaxy 1/2 looks amazing, so if what he says is true I dont really care. Non biased core gamers bought the Wii because the experiences it offered at the time were completely different from the compition. Ok now Sony and MicroSoft are joining in, but should Nintendo be worried about being under powered... No. Nintendo just need one casual game next year that uses the Wii Motion Plus, and then it'll start selling made again.

meh if u really hate the wiis graphics that look childish bit i want to hear it from nintendos words.

@haritori yea slow start if they do it.

@originaljohn

Well, the Gamecube was regarded as a failure yet had a 6 year life span. Nintendo are in no hurry to release the Wii 2, I promise you that.

However, I expect to see more peripherals for Motion plus coming out next year along with a console price drop.

2011......
1 - Wrist and ankle controllers - great for boxing/fighting/exercise games.
2 - Xvid + Divx player exclusive to the Wii and free.
3 - Star Wars Arcade Trilogy (LONG overdue)
4 - Better Wiiware titles ie. Jett Rocket/Pearl Harbor/ROT Gladiator quality.
5 - Space Combat par online excellence...ie.... Star Lancer 2.

Yeah, Nintendo is crazy if they think they can do the same thing with Wii 2. Have be graphically inferior to Sony and MS. Wii was succesful because of the unique gimmickry of the wiimote. The Wii would not have been as successful if PS3 and Xbox had their Kinect and Motion at the start. If their next consoles are graphically superior to Wii 2 to the point that 3rd party games cant port their games over, then it will be over for Nintendo.

pachter is at it again anti nintendo nonsense wii 2 will be AS POWERFUL BUT NOT MORE POWERFUL,THAN PS3 AND X360 funny how the power figure he talks of is JUST SO PERFECTLY ALIENED WITH PS3 AND X360 BUT NEVER ABOVE ,why would he say this commonsense he is putting down a console he knows nothing about and trying to say oh just buy a ps3 the guys a douchbag

he has no idea whats so ever about wii 2 s power and as the chip industry moves to 22nm vs 90 nm of ps3 x360 and wii and at 22nm you can fit 16 x more chip in the same space he is clearly talking out his ass


2006 tech and process in wii 2 pachter stop talking crap and stop feeding idiot sony fans with nintendo couldnt make a powerful system nonsense or that CLASSIC they cannot afford it

NINTENDO HAVE FAR FAR FAR FAR MORE MONEY THAN SONY EVER DID...

24mb of edma even 32 mb of edram can fit in the same space as the 3mb of wii gpu with todays chip process THE GUYS AN ASSSHOLE and ps3 and x360 struggle at HD and 3D is very poor nintendo will not release a BROKEN CONSOLE

black ops ps3 sub 20 frames a second tearing graphics in 3D i doubt nintendo will be making a console that cannot do what its supposed to do

wiis cpu family is already at 45nm and has 5 instructions per clock efficiency vs 2 per clock of wiis broadway upto 16 of them can fit on one single SOC system on chip POWERPC 576FP check it out worlds fastest per second embedded 32 bit risc cpu a cpl of them at 1.6ghz plus would be 10 x wiis power in cpu easy

micheal f**k off mate