I know I said I'd drop the issue, but it's not like the 3DS is going to be the only focus of Nintendo's conference. Zelda and the Vitality Sensor are undoubtedly going to have a large presence, the latter with corresponding software; Wii Party is likely to get some sort of mention, alongside lots of other software. It's not like another two minutes focused on vague details of a far-away console are suddenly going to split the press' undiverted attention away from the 3DS.
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Is "Wii HiFi" Nintendo's next console?
- Thread starter mehdi_san
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Twig said:
I said they could very well do this. As for the advantages listed, they don't seem very significant compared to the possibility of diverting people's attention away from their upcoming piece of hardware. The Wii's successor could easily be announced and unveiled at next E3 and it would amount to the same without affecting the 3DS in the slightest way.
Now, given they gave us far more information to work with, tying the two products together in some way as Fourth Storm mentioned, that's all well and good. But to just say, "18 months, new console, kthnx" is pretty worthless.
blizzardjesus
Banned
HI-FI: So it'll play records. Sold.
bloodforge
Member
Wii Hi-Fi sounds ridiculous enough to actually be true. This is the company that named their console "Wii" after all.
I know, I know, I can't help myself...
... but you can't eat your cake and have it too. You can't imagine that whatever Nintendo will say would be so insignificant inasmuch as it wouldn't be worth their while saying it, and yet suddenly at the same time it would make the entire media collectively think "3D... what?".
Vinci said:
... but you can't eat your cake and have it too. You can't imagine that whatever Nintendo will say would be so insignificant inasmuch as it wouldn't be worth their while saying it, and yet suddenly at the same time it would make the entire media collectively think "3D... what?".
megashock5
Member
I don't care what it's called, bring it on.
(but, yeah, hoping for more than "on par with 360")
(but, yeah, hoping for more than "on par with 360")
-WindYoshi-
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blu said:
Well, think of it as your average 2D platformer. In most of these games, you start on the left and move towards the right in search of the end of the level, in this case, the conference. So it's fair to say that the left end can contain anything from talk about sales to a reveal of big games like SMG in a video reel... there's even a chance of Miyamoto conducting a Wii Music 2 orchestra! The possibilities truly are, endless.
-WindYoshi-
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camineet said:
Now that I think of it, this would still be considered pretty "blue ocean" of Nintendo. They would be disrupting the flow of the market by deciding for themselves, and everyone else, when "next-gen" begins.
I don't believe this particular rumour, but I DO believe Nintendo should announce a refresh.
Why not? 2011 will be five years post-Wii. Their competitors are 'upgrading' their platforms now on various fronts, and they can do so without a new box because - arguably from a Nintendo POV - they were overspecced to start with. Wii wasn't however, and I think time's right for a new box.
Why not? 2011 will be five years post-Wii. Their competitors are 'upgrading' their platforms now on various fronts, and they can do so without a new box because - arguably from a Nintendo POV - they were overspecced to start with. Wii wasn't however, and I think time's right for a new box.
brain_stew
Member
dallow_bg said:
:lol
I guarantee it!
TouchMyBox
Member
On par with 360?
So in other words, only some games will be in "High Definition". Not interested.
So in other words, only some games will be in "High Definition". Not interested.
I do hope it's the same architecture so Dolphin will be able to continue emulating any new Nintendo system
brain_stew
Member
gkryhewy said:
Nintendo aren't going to launch two new major platforms in one year. 2011 is the absolute earliest time that it could launch.
mehdi_san said:
Ah-Ha! So it isn't Hi-Fi, it's Hi-Vi!
And to butt in on gerg and Vinci's debate about whether this announcement would devalue the reveal of the 3DS, I'd have to take Vinci's side on this one. The industry has been clamoring for the next Wii since, well in some places since the Wii's launch, and to the Western audience it is much more significant than the 3DS. As for the 3DS, it is exciting as Nintendo's new handheld, but having little to no competition in the West it simply isn't as big of a story as the new Wii.
In short the Wii Hi-Fi would overshadow the 3DS because the journalists say so.
neostapler
Member
sounds like a new VCR from 1992
Ninja Scooter
Member
Will it have a knob on the front to adjust the tracking?
painful fart
Member
I´d take this with a galaxy of salt. Why would they be in a hurry to announce their next console? They are still having the highest sales numbers of the current gen consoles.mehdi_san said:(They don't say it directly in the article, but I am pretty sure the logo is not real. They made it just to go with the article. )
The journalist from gameblog.fr are on a leash recently. After implying that they already saw Metal Gear Solid Rising running at Kojima productions, and leaking Mizuguchi's next game code name (Child of Eden), they are now affirming that Nintendo's next console will be called Wii HiFi. According to what game developers told them, it will be announced at the right end of Nintendo's E3 conference, and it is planned to release around November 2011. Here are the details that have leaked so far:
- It should be on par with the 360
- It should not be called Wii 2 but Wii HiFi
- It will be very online-oriented this time
- Community aspects will be a big component
- It should be out around November 2011
They don't know how much Nintendo will be showing at E3 though: just the name? Maybe the design? The controller?
So what do you guys think? Isn't it too early to show it if they plan on releasing in November 2011?
Source: http://www.gameblog.fr/news_15992_e3-10-la-wii-hifi-serait-annoncee-a-l-e3
Fourth Storm
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Mikey Jr. said:Wow, if Pachter was right, you guys are going to eat so much
How would Pachter be right? He was saying it would simply be a WiiHD marginal upgrade(with, I'm assuming, scaling up to HD rather than natively rendering in it) and that it would be out this year! Any idiot could tell you that Nintendo would release another console 5/6 years later and that it would probably support HD resolutions.
TouchMyBox said:
It was stated in an investors Q&A that games like Wii Fit don't necessarily need to be in HD and that it would just waste money. I don't see a problem with this philosophy.
anonymousAversa
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Rapping Granny said:
love it :lol :lol :lol
DeathbyVolcano
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Why haven't we gotten any pictures of the convention center being set up yet? I thought that shit was, like, part of every PrE-3 weekend.
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TunaLover said:
The "Pikmin conference" as I recall was boring as hell and Pikmin was only brought up in a "yeah yeah sure, you'll get your Pikmins too at some point, now shut up" fashion after Kohler(?) got too pissed off by the inanity of the conference and fired the Pikmin question.
blazinglazers
Member
Grandmas know that 'Hi-Fi' means quality electronics.
Fun for them and their grandkids, now with 'internet.'
Grey ocean = this will sell.
Fun for them and their grandkids, now with 'internet.'
Grey ocean = this will sell.
painful fart said:
The name of the game is growth and declining sales, however high they be is like...the opposite of growth.
Besides, most people arn't going to by more than one Wii console. DS? Sure, one per kid no one cares but only one TV means Nintendo has to sell them something new to hook up to it.
The only way that this rumor has any truth to it is if they're reporting general guidelines as specific stats. It very unlikely that dev kits would already be out, if they are they would definitely not be based on the actual hardware and those who had them wouldn't be talking about it. "On par with the 360" would be vague description to help developers start planning and it shouldn't be taken literally. The name of the new system would not be finalized either; Wii HiFi would be, at best, the system's code name.
I find it for more likely that they'd announce a "Wii HiFi" that simply upscales current games than announce a new system at this E3.
I find it for more likely that they'd announce a "Wii HiFi" that simply upscales current games than announce a new system at this E3.