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HD Version Of Wii?
HD Version Of Wii?
Gamasutra - August 1, 2007
Submitted by flast (640) at 1:22PM PST on August 1, 2007
Noted industry analyst Michael Pachter has predicted that Nintendo may release a HD (high definition) version of the Wii hardware within the next two or three years, as a means to combat an increasing disparity between Wii and Xbox 360/PS3 graphics.
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4@Laoldar,
Very well said.
I don't understand these types of predictions. Nintendo has said from the beginning that they don't intend on competing with MS or Sony on a graphical front. Why people insist that Nintendo is changing their minds is beyond me.[ Speaker ] [ Level 12 ] [ Rank: 857 ]bids
7It won't happen. For one thing, it won't affect the looks of the top Wii games (Sports, Mario Kart, Smash Bros, Mario Galaxy), so why would Nintendo waste the resources to split their production lines? They've said before that they'll bring in HD for their next console and not on the Wii...why do people keep claiming this will change? If their sales were slow right now, I could understand it, but there's no end to that in sight and absolutely no benefit to Nintendo doing this.
There's already a quite obvious difference in graphical ability between the 360/PS3 and the Wii. Consumers have voted (overwhelmingly) that they don't care. There are AMAZING looking games out for the HD consoles already...it's silly at this point to keep claiming "oh just wait, any day now people will stop liking the Wii and want HD!".
The comparison with the DS/DS Lite is flawed. The DS lite made things look better through lighting...making an HD-capable console won't makes games look any better than they do right now through component cables (existing 480p games on the Wii).
Rather than continuing to harp about the Wii "needing" better graphics, perhaps the analysts could make better use of their time by considering what MS/Sony need to do to get consumers interested in their products again.[ Oracle ] [ Level 21 ] [ Rank: 182 ]bids
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4Noted industry analyst Michael Pachter has predicted that Nintendo may release a HD (high definition) version of the Wii hardware within the next two or three years, as a means to combat an increasing disparity between Wii and Xbox 360/PS3 graphics.[ Speaker ] [ Level 16 ] [ Rank: 640 ]
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