Do you think non-disclosure agreements apply if you're one of the guys who built the company you represent? Probably not, as evidenced by
Shigeru Miyamoto, who recently took the opportunity -- while receiving an award, no less -- to blab about forthcoming hardware and games based around the MotionPlus peripheral. There wasn't much content to his mentions, beyond us now knowing that he's actively engaged in the design of multiple games outside of the next Zelda iteration, but this is the firmest confirmation yet that the Wii is set for a
Wiiplacement. Parsing this with
earlier comments from Miyamoto-san would suggest the company will be looking to optimize its present formula (maybe with a
touch of HD?) rather than revolutionize what is already a
wildly successful console. Until then, let's just be happy that one of gaming's patriarchs is still going strong and dropping crumbs of knowledge for us undeserving earthlings.
posted February 9th 2010 3:37AM
wii HD released with new zelda in HD I can see it now. (or can atleast hope for hd zelda)>
@unseen yeah. i have emulators for my consoles only for this very reason: on a 2m x 1.1m full-hd projector wall, not running in full-hd is not fun. n64 in full-hd is. so would wii gaming be (esp. zelda, as it's quite pretty graphics wise)
@Vanillacide
I think that if they come out with a new Wii in the near tern, it will still have a fixed function pipeline, but just powerful enough to do HD rastering with current games. They might also increase the internal flash, but I think that would be it.
Look at the DS vs. the DSi. That's the kind of incremental improvement we should expect from the Wii.
I'm just not interested in nintendo's formula for their console (or future consoles for that matter) and games as of late, and I am trying to be open minded!
@uck I am with you. The name is bad enough, but no HD and the lack of quality violent R rated games is a deal breaker for me.
@blogwhitesitescom
You need to get some help....
@uck
I need at least one samuri sword, one decapitation, one giant chain gun and a nuke in my video games. Bloodbaths help too
I feel really like a lot of big game creators are approaching it with a real, "can't be arsed" attitude. Wonder when EA will release COD8 and FIFA football 2010...
Wouldn't mind a new hand-held from Nintendo. The successor of the DS. No not the DSi XL. A "DS" with an accelerometer please.
It's called an iPhone...
...well it is!
@BUNT2
You are having a laugh! The lack of hard buttons will mean that the iPhone will never be anything than a poor relation to the real handheld games systems.
@BUNT2 iPhone doesn't have a D-Pad or buttons. Don't compute as a viable gaming alternative to me
@coolblue2000 Exactly my point
@coolblue2000
Yeah, keep telling yourself that. But here on Earth, the soft buttons in iPhone games are pretty standardized and work great for both 2d and 3d games.
I can get an awesome RPG for the iPod touch, with about 2-4 weeks (!!) of gameplay, for like, 6 bucks... and the DS equivalent is... eh??, 40?, and I have to carry around all those cartridges? Meh. So retro.
@Wesscoast
I don't have to tell myself anything, I have been gaming for almost 30 years and have played on practically every console that has been released, I am very open to new ideas and not a fanboy of anything but the world of games. It is clear from playing it that most games are not suited to the touch screen. Some games are great with it but these tend to be the more simplistic ones (not a bad thing as I love simplistic games as much as deeper ones). However try playing Street fighter style games or any other button intensive or precision based game and the touch screens just can't cope.
The iPhone has no good games. They're all cheap distractions that you play once then never touch again.
A phone is not a game console, anyway.
@coolblue2000
absolutely. i also don't like how on-screen touch controls either take up screen space on an already small device (and look like ass), or force your fingers to block things you need to see.
OH yes, wait a minute this, is.....
This is Wii music to my ears. please nintendo. bring it back to the early 90's and show these punks who's the boss. ^_^
Link, Samus, Ash Catchem, Mario, yoshi. you have the greatest characters. and if these silly developers do not want to make triple A titles forget em. you dont need them. please resorect your ancient glory and make me go out and buy your system. im not a kid any more. i dont have to cut yards to buy games.
i got lots of cash. and i would love to spend it on the company that directly caused me to love technology.
I guess i will have to "Leave Luck To Heaven."
ps: your a true gamer if you know what that means off the bat. ^_^
@Alexandertron 'Leave Luck to Heaven" What Nintendo really means ;)
@Alexandertron
you forgot about Pikachu
@AlienSix
Actually, only "Ninten" means "Leave Luck To Heaven", "do" being a suffix.
Hopefully they'll do a good improvement on the Wii.
Will they ever do a more traditional type of console (without motion sensing being it's main focus)? One can only hope, and leave it to the heavens.
If they up the power for the next gen a bit and add live style online integration (ie I want to know when my friends are online, what they are playing and then be able to talk to them via a headset), a hard drive, HD and improve the motion plus further then I think it will be another great console.
Wiiplacement? You know someone did the nerd dance after coming up with that one.
@Your Name Here
and rightfully so!
I really enjoy the controllers, especially now that the motion accuracy is actually good with the wiimotion plus (before it was only accurate for gestures), and many of the cartoony games have great play mechanics... BUT...
You're so damn limited by the weaksauce console specs!
The 360 and PS3 specs are pretty crap compared to 2010 hardware too, sure, but a 800mhz power-pcand and that archaic 90nm ATI gpu w/ 88megs of shared system memory is saaaaaad.
Please make it so the Classic controller is independant and doesn't require a connection the remote.
Since my 360 Dual red lighted I've been PC gaming and will probably start using the Wii again once I return home from Uni.
Improve online, better internals, Motion Plus intergrated into the remote, Wireless sensor bar. The list goes on...
@Chasethebase
I don't at all mind it being connected to the Wiimote. In fact I kinda prefer it that way. Less batteries to deal with, fewer things to sync, and there's no question making it wireless would hike up the price significantly.
It wouldn't hurt to offer a wireless version. But I would hope they keep the wired one too.
You know a new system from Nintendo in say 2 years from now would make a lot of sense and would also hurt the competition pretty badly since both Microsoft and Sony seem to be on a much longer generation cycle. Would certainly give Nintendo an advantage in hardware for the time it takes the other two to make new systems. And if the PS2 and Wii have shown us anything, its that the least powerful console in a generation can more than best its opponents.
I jut hope Nintendo try to take on the big guns while maintaining their casual market they've magic'd up from no where; atm my 360 is getting a lot more love....
@Hobsie What I don't understand is why they don't offer tiered consoles.
Even on the very most basic computer games, you have the options for low, medium, and high graphics scaling.
Why not do the same with consoles? No recoding of the games is required, just offer a low and higher performance version of each console which will automatically set to run games in low or high graphics modes. This is not only desperately needed for the Wii, but I played Mass Effect on my buddies XBox, and going from 1080P 16AA/AF to 720P ueber anti-aliasing with heavy object pop was atrocious!
@Ducman69 oops, I meant ueber jaggies (zero anti-aliasing)
@Ducman69 Why do you think 'no recoding of the games is required' in order to enable support for different graphics settings? One of the benefits of console development is that there is... in theory... a single shared specification machine and developers don't have to worry about complex options or 18 possible types of video card.
@(Unverified) Ah, the fine art of extreme exaggeration. I say two near identical consoles, a high and low cost/performance version of the console, and you bust out with "eighteen versions" out of the blue.
And on the PC, there are far more than eighteen versions, more like 8000 popular combinations of harddrive, CPU, GPU.
Just use the same processor and GPU "family", and simply bump the timings, memory, harddrive, etc of the expensive "high-end" version that simply automatically picks the high-graphics option when plugging a game in. That way if people want a cheap 360, they can have one, and if they want to play the games with better graphics, they have the option too.
That is one of the ugliest people ive ever seen in my life!
that man loves to dress like a professor - i swear.. every outfit i have seen him in
I can't help but think he looks just a bit like a Japanese Mike Myers. Yeah baby!
@Looozer
Can't Unsee...
Mr. Miyamoto has a great fashion style, tweed and turtle neck, that is so 2010, thumbs up.
reggie fils amie needs to be fired
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