New Nintendo Wii 2 Launching in 2011?
For all of you who cannot have enough of the Nintendo Wii, there is a great piece of information. The next generation Nintendo Wii or the Wii 2 is supposedly as close to commercial launch as 2011! And this despite Nintendo going on record to state that the next Wii is still a ‘long way’ away.
While Nintendo has not confirmed or denied these latest Wii ‘rumors’, you can be sure that something is surely in the works. And Nintendo may simply be keeping mum over the issue, to take gamers all over the world by surprise and hence add to the novelty value of the Wii.
What’s new in Nintendo Wii 2 Console
The current reports suggest that the Wii 2 will have HD output and also a Blu-ray drive built in, among other upgrades which are yet to be revealed. This is obviously good news if you have thus far been using the Wii on an HDTV without actually being able to play HD games, while your friend with a PS3 has been happily enjoying 3D gaming on his console, much to your agony!
And if the new Wii is HD enabled it will be able to take on the PS3 and Xbox much better. Although the Wii has managed to sell more than 30 million units till date, it needs to bulk up and not rest on its laurels, if it wants to maintain the same sort of track record.
Considering that the current Wii only supports 480p video, it is about time that some upgrading is done.
But what is the rationale of putting in a Blu-Ray drive?
Certainly Nintendo is aware of the fact that Blu-ray as a optical media has not been able to make the sort of impact it was touted to. Moreover, the future of console gaming is digital downloads from online stores. So, perhaps this is just an option rather than a major feature in the Wii 2.
If Nintendo is really planning this HD Wii, it will have to bring out the product soon, because if the price of the PS3 drops below $299, Nintendo will have a tough time in putting a competitive price tag on the Wii. Add to that the fact that the PlayStation Move Controller is coming soon to give the same motion controlled gaming experience to users as the Wii, and you have Nintendo between a rock and a hard place. Hopefully they have a trick or two up their sleeves!
Written by Jay Shah on August 14th, 2010
Nurturing a lifelong love affair with machines, Jay simply loves any tech that can make life easier, better, faster and more enjoyable. And with hundreds if not thousands of Gadgets, Apps, Games being launched everyday, there's more than enough out there to keep this hardcore techie occupied and obsessed!
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I love how wrong you are. The gameplay for CoD is better than the controller, just lesser graphics, which isn’t much.
one thing i would gess is when it does happen it will involve the 3ds in some way after all the wii remote uses gyros and motion control has anybody realised that all thes are also now a 3ds staple pehaps nintendo will pull of the perfect sync of portable and home consle imagine looking thro ure 3ds and seeing games that look like they come out out of the tv and thru your 3ds screen pure spectulation guys
I think nintendo should leave the wii alone and do something completely different. Ya HD is nice but I have an XBOX 360 and a PS3 and love them both to death while my wii is just sitting in my attic. I think they should have a different controller scheme with an optional motion controller like PS3. If it gets more HD games / hardcore games like Portal 2, Call of Duty (Which I know it already has but not much and not that great of gameplay), or Bioshock I might buy it.
[...] forthcoming console of Nintendo, will finally see the light of the day real soon. Jay predicted the launch of Wii 2 happening somewhere in the middle of 2011; however according to a very popular gaming portal, IGN, [...]
U couldn’t use ps2 games on ps3, but u could use ps1 games on ps2
How do you figure? The Wii came out in late 2006 as hasn’t seen any reworks or major improvements. Apple has spewn out 5 iPhones, 7 or 8 new iPods, and two tablets. A new Nintendo console (and an HD one) are long overdue.
Ok, obviously, Nintendo is like Apple. There is soo many things like iPad 2 and maybe and probably iPhone5(pretty soon or later) and the latest from Nintendo is the Nintendo 3Ds. SO I’m just telling you, WAIT AND SEE because there even might be a Nintendo Wii 3 or 4 or whatever you can think of. WAIT AND SEE THE NEW CONSOLES!
nintendo needs to step it up the new xbox has came out so all they need to do is wait for the PS4 and try to match the graphics nintendo needs to step it up or else nintendo will R.I.P along with sega
I’m very interested in an upgraded HD Nintendo device, however I’d like to see some sources here before you start claiming that something nintendo has denied up and down is fact. You’re making a lot of tall claims, without much evidence to back them
On the upside though, emulation has proven that all Wii games are scalable, meaning that they can be run in any resolution natively, provided the hardware is powerful enough. They won’t look as pretty in HD due to the resolution of the textures, however it would enable them to be a lot sharper and cleaner on HD television screens.
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