Nintendo Wii U out next year between April and December

[keilbaca]

If they can make it that I can play my DS games on the TV... It'll be a day one purchase for me.

 

I play my ds WAY more than my psp... and quite a few times, I thought to myself, man I wish I could play this on a TV...

Edited June 15, 2011 by keilbaca

[galymcd13]

Nevertheless, I was hoping that Nintendo would break from that past and leap out front performance-wise with this new console, spurring MS and Sony forward in short order. Instead it appears that Nintendo is content to give the Wii a face-lift and just play catch-up.

 

You've got to take into consideration as well the fact that developing consoles isn't exactly a cheap venture, especially ultra powerful ones. And as awesome as Nintendo is they don't exactly have comparable wads of cash to spend like Sony and Microsoft do. :/

 

You're joking, right? Nintendo is leading in the Video Game market! I think they have plenty of money to spend!

 

Leading yes but money wise both Microsoft and Sony eclipse them in total company assets. What I'm saying is taking a massive loss to get out an ultra high tech console(like sony did with the PS3) doesn't seem like something Nintendo could do.

That is honestly something I don't understand. Wii has motion controls, DS has a touch screen, and the 3DS is in 3D, without glasses! Nintendo was an innovator, and you can't make and sell technology affordable like that unless you have a lot of money to spare. And besides, the DS and Wii destroyed PS3/PSP/360 in unit sales. Oh wait, I see. Sony doesn't make JUST consoles along with Microsoft. But Nintendo focuses only on gaming, and that's why they're an innovator, and Sony and Microsoft feel the need to rip off the Wii and DS. But still, with technology like that, they must SURELY have a lot of money to do it.

[Pixelboy]

You've got to take into consideration as well the fact that developing consoles isn't exactly a cheap venture, especially ultra powerful ones. And as awesome as Nintendo is they don't exactly have comparable wads of cash to spend like Sony and Microsoft do. :/

 

You're joking, right? Nintendo is leading in the Video Game market! I think they have plenty of money to spend!

 

Leading yes but money wise both Microsoft and Sony eclipse them in total company assets. What I'm saying is taking a massive loss to get out an ultra high tech console(like sony did with the PS3) doesn't seem like something Nintendo could do.

That is honestly something I don't understand. Wii has motion controls, DS has a touch screen, and the 3DS is in 3D, without glasses! Nintendo was an innovator, and you can't make and sell technology affordable like that unless you have a lot of money to spare. And besides, the DS and Wii destroyed PS3/PSP/360 in unit sales. Oh wait, I see. Sony doesn't make JUST consoles along with Microsoft. But Nintendo focuses only on gaming, and that's why they're an innovator, and Sony and Microsoft feel the need to rip off the Wii and DS. But still, with technology like that, they must SURELY have a lot of money to do it.

I certain won't deny that Nintendo has lots of cash in the bank, and that they have a sizeable and very active hardware R&D department, but there's one thing you have to keep in mind: Nintendo doesn't do all the dev work. They have a habit of seeking out new technologies created by third-parties (potentially located anywhere in the world) and after the signature of non-disclosure agreements and other such legal documents, they bring in this outside technology and Nintendo's R&D department tries to do something marketable with it.

 

Even without knowing the specific back history of Nintendo's products, I can confortably assume that most of their "innovations" were originally created by other parties outside the company, like the motion control components of the Wiimote, the touchscreen of the DS (that much is a certainty), and even the 3D screen of the 3DS. With that kind of "Borg philosophy", if you will, it's indeed unlikely that Nintendo would commit to developing a "ultra-high-tech" console on their own like Sony did with the PS3. Nintendo is more likely to try to find partners who can supply higher-tech (yet reasonably-priced) master components that takes their gaming hardware to the next level. It's a more efficient way of doing R&D.

[Vic George 2K3]

Brrrr...that picture of Miyamoto! Why not make him look even more scary with some dark lighting effects?