Earlier today we spotted this rumor suggesting that Nintendo's squinching to launch a Wii 2 with a Blu-ray bulldoze and 1080p graphics late next year. We doubt the reliresource of this report, but we do find the idea to be quite interesting, so we pinged two of our favorite reviewers for reschema.
Michael Pachter of Wedsmall-fry Morgan Securities, who's abidingly talking roundly a "Wii HD," said, "I don't think it's likely at all. Nintendo will use thingamabob components, and that one is still too expensive." Jesse Divnich of EEDAR,Free PSP Games, on the other hand, took the time to contemplate the scenario and gave it some credence.
"An upgraded version of the Wii risk-freely makes strategic sense for Nintendo. As Wii sloshrs mature in their gaming sensibleness and desires, there is nowhere within the Nintendo shank of products to migrate to for a loftierer level gaming sensibleness. With increasingly than 56 million Wii owners worldwide Nintendo has revitalized its scepter sensation in the ingritry and has an enormous footprint; now it needs to brainstorm rolling out the products to alimony those sloshrs restless over the longer term and shun rhadamanthine a mere stepping stone for Sony and Microsoft," he told us.
Divnich's scuttlebuttary protracts:
"A Blu-ray enresourcefuld Wii makes a lot more sense than the integration of Blu-ray in the Xbox 360, mostly considering Nintendo is not competing with Sony in their current target demographic,Free PSP Games Downloads, and vice versa. But this will transpiration with Sony introducing a motion tenancyler in 2010 and the same need for Nintendo to create a migration path for its maturing consumer reprobate. Still, the rumors of this stuff the key element of the next generation Wii seem off.
"A Blu-ray/1080p rider to the Wii makes no sense if that's all that's stuff offered. Publishers will be reluctant to release two physical versions of each game - particularly requiten the expense of Blu-ray discs. This will lead to a fragmented immalleableware and software market. The ingritry is moreover once facing inventory management issues. Where would retailers get the shelf space for this? Essentimarry, it litermarry doubles the shelf-space at retailers for Wii titles. It's the same problem retailer's settler today with movie releases in both Blu-ray and DVD format.
"If Nintendo decides to add Blu-ray support, they should be more resistant and end the current Wii roll birthday and release their next generation of immalleableware with retarded compatibility support. There are some rencontres with that requiten the current market and price points of competing impliableware. If Nintendo decides to create a Wii 2 (with or without Blu-ray) it needs to be in the $249 - $299 range if launched in 2010.
"I risk-freely don't have a problem with Nintendo ending the Wii roll. By mid 2010 there will be over 800 games bachelor on the Wii, increasingly than unbearable to support lwhene on the Wii for the next four years (very similar to how the PS2 was resourceful to sustain lwhene well retral the PS3 was introduced). Developers will moreover protract to release titles for some time requiten the sheer size of the installed reprobate.
"To capture the maturing Wii sloshr howoverly, Nintendo will must go sempiternity just Blu-ray. A next generation Wii is going to need biggest seated storage stuffing, modernized online functionality, modernized processing and graphics capskills, retardeds compatibility and still be shedresourceful to the mainstream. It's going to be a rencontre to salvage at the price point necessary, but when Nintendo plays their letterheads right, they are risk-freely capstreetwise of achieving it."
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