New Nintendo Console "Confirmed" for E3

[Danpascooch]

Who wants to bet this new console is to the Wii as the Xbox slim was to the Xbox

I doubt it's really the next big generation, probably just an upgrade.

That said, I don't really care anyway, Nintendo is going to have to do something BIG to get my trust back after the Wii, it's like I've been saying for years, they fucked over their stable fanbase for a quick cash in, and now it's starting to hurt them long run.

I don't.
All consoles peak in sales and then slowly decline through the next 5 years. Heck, they're giving the hardcore audience what they want. They even brought back Kid Icarus. They have spent the last couple of years experimenting, even on the Gamecube. Mario Sunshine and Windwaker were both experiments, and the Wii was just a more drastic experiment. Try to appeal to a larger audience.

And why would they wait this long for the Wii Lite or Wii Plus? It only took them a year for the DS lite, and another two for the DSi Family. They don't upgrade their consoles like the other two companies. They just make a new one from the ground up.

They wait this long for a Wii plus because now is when they need it, right when sales start to slouch BAM! Hit them with an upgraded version (in this case, HD) so that the already Wii-saturated market has something new to buy, it actually makes perfect sense, almost everyone who wants a Wii has one now, if they release an upgrade a large portion of them will go buy that too.

Did you really just say "The don't upgrade their consoles" right after talking about the "DS Lite" and "another two for the DSi Family" for fucks sake these are the people who made the DS XL the most useless console upgrade known to man, and don't forget Wii motion plus, Nintendo loves minor upgrades to their shit.

I said consoles. Not handhelds. They do fucking love to upgrade handhelds. Gameboy, gamboy color, gameboy advance, gameboy advance XP, Gameboy micro (I think that's the most useless), and I've already addressed the DS. But that's the handheld market.
As for their consoles, they release peripherals, not upgrades. Donkey Konga controller, ruble pak, Wii motion plus. Like the Move and Kinect.
Like that. An upgrade would be like the PS2 and PS3 slim or the XBox 360 slim. Actually, the other two upgrade each generation. Playstation 1,2,3 and Xbox, then 360. Just big, big, big updates.

Yeah, the same way my laptop is a nothing more than an upgraded abacus.

 

[MrNickster]

Who wants to bet Michael Pachter will say that Nintendo is doomed when he gets word of this?

 

[Innegativeion]

Oh yay. Now we can have "Super Mario 12: Revenge of the Chocolate Coated Bullshit".

I'm not getting it unless Nintendo get some new fucking IPs.

Because quality games get less fun every time they're beefed up with new tech, amirite? [/sarcasm]

I am... rather taken aback by this. New console generation (so to speak) starting already eh? Gonna have to start saving up...

 

[Futurenerd]

yes, this is great news. i skipped the wii, if the wii2 has full backwards compatibility to the game cube then i am in at launch. for sure. this is awesome.

You do know the Wii 1 was backwards compatible with the gamecube right? If so what are you talking about. If not, I'm going to look at you with the "are you a wizard" face.

 

[Plurralbles]

directX11 or gtfo, please

I'm excited.

Also, USB ports galore. Already know ther's HDMI.

 

[Xanthious]

I am... rather taken aback by this. New console generation (so to speak) starting already eh? Gonna have to start saving up...

Not a new console generation. Nintendo is just choosing to enter THIS console generation. Allow me to be the first person to welcome Nintendo to 2006!

The Gamecube had a good run I guess. Although after they started packaging it with shitty motion controls I lost interest.

 

[Innegativeion]

I am... rather taken aback by this. New console generation (so to speak) starting already eh? Gonna have to start saving up...

Not a new console generation. Nintendo is just choosing to enter THIS console generation. Allow me to be the first person to welcome Nintendo to 2006!

The Gamecube had a good run I guess. Although after they started packaging it with shitty motion controls I lost interest.

I would consider the console that raked in more profit than both the 360 and PS3, opened the floodgates for motion control (good or bad for gaming, kinect has made good use of it in other fields, and never would have opted for it if it wasn't competing with nintendo), shared many features with the new gen consoles like crappy internet browsers to be a part of said generation.

 

[King Toasty]

Stronger than the PS3 or Xbox?
No one says you're crazy, Nintendo.
But I sure am thinking it loudly.

 

[Kermi]

Yawn. Over it.

After the novelty wore off I was done with the Wii. Shiner graphics won't change that.

 

[Xanthious]

I am... rather taken aback by this. New console generation (so to speak) starting already eh? Gonna have to start saving up...

Not a new console generation. Nintendo is just choosing to enter THIS console generation. Allow me to be the first person to welcome Nintendo to 2006!

The Gamecube had a good run I guess. Although after they started packaging it with shitty motion controls I lost interest.

I would consider the console that raked in more profit than both the 360 and PS3, opened the floodgates for motion control (good or bad for gaming, kinect has made good use of it in other fields, and never would have opted for it if it wasn't competing with nintendo), shared many features with the new gen consoles like crappy internet browsers to be a part of said generation.

My Dreamcast and PS2 had a shitty web browser too once upon a time. . . .Outside of a highly overrated gimmick the Wii was nothing more than a sad piece of almost decade old hardware that catered to the lowest common denominator.

Sure it competed financially with the current gen consoles but only by catering to the lowest common denominator errrrr the "casual market". Kinda in the same way Farmville will be competing with Portal 2.

 

[Logic 0]

As long as it's backwards compatible my prayers to the gods of nintendo have come true.

 

[SFR]

Please don't cause the other companies to release a console! The Wii could use some improvements, but the graphical capabilities of the current generation is already putting enough strain on developers in terms of financing. Seriously, I know graphics can look better, but... do they need to?

 

[Jas0913]

"It's not a gimmick like the Wii." HAHAHAHHAHAHAHAAAAA And from an anonymous source too....

 

[natster43]

Interesting if true. Wii will just have to wait and see.

 

[CardinalPiggles]

meh, if ive learned anything, its not to trust the eastern games industry.

i guess i might get to have a look at the eurogamer expo later this year.

 

[CardinalPiggles]

a very good point sir, this would lead to more expense for us.

 

[Baresark]

I mean, the Wii is the indisputable king of this generation

Sorry I couldn't disagree more. So make a very subjective statement like that and then call it indisputable makes no sense. There are so many different things about consoles that you can't just say one is the king because a single aspect.

If you continued to read what I had written, I based that on sales numbers and profitability. Meaning that since day one, Nintendo has sold Wii's at a profit and they have outsold the other two consoles. There is nothing really subjective about my statement in the context that I put it in.

The only thing holding it back as a more valid gaming platform is the generation old graphics and system specs. This also made many developers not push their games to what the system is capable of doing, because there were plenty of great looking games on the Wii that got skipped out on. Now, they could create a system that technically rivals the current generation that is both affordable and profitable.

There is also the whole backwardness of motion controls. I don't know if you ever read Yahtzee's article on motion controls (it's a good read, go read it). One-day neural impulse actuators will be as common as mouses and we will control computers with out thoughts further reducing the time to relay commands to a computer. Motion controls are going backwards in terms of how long it takes to actually do what you want in a game. This is not to mention the controls are just fairly unreliable.

While I agree that the motion controls aren't perfect, the Wii had a good amount of games that are in fact great with the motion controls. Once again, this points to a company investing time and resources into a product that isnt' meant to just be on the top selling system of the generation. I mostly agree with Yahtzee, I find most games aren't as responsive as I would like them to be regardless. I come from the PC gamer area, and the response of PC controls tends to completely destroy anything on a console anyway.

 

[Truehare]

You know, I'm old enough to remember the days of the SNES hard drive and CD-ROM, not to mention the Virtual Boy. So I'll take that "significantly more powerful than the PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360" statement with a grain of salt.

Not that it matters to me one way or the other, the NES was the last Nintendo console I've ever really cared for... though I´ll admit I really like playing bowling and Boom Blox on the Wii.

 

[mr.mystery]

I am kinda excited.

 

[Varanfan9]

Yay I'm excited. Loved the Wii but even now its starting to grow a little stagnant on me so I need this.