Nintendo Announces Wii Successor for 2012

motang writes "Nintendo has officially announced the successor to the Wii. At its investors meeting, Nintendo said they have decided to launch the successor to the Wii in 2012 after the fiscal year, and will show it off and have a playable version at this year's E3."

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Re:Upgrade

[h4rr4r]

Emulating is not piracy in any shape or form.
Emulating a machine is just emulating a machine.
You do not use a rare DVD drive to get the wii games, you use a wii to rip them to your emulation machine.

No piracy required. Furthermore piracy is theft on the high sea, this would at worst encourage a little copyright violation. Which it does not either, since you buy the games and a wii, and use the wii to make the copy needed to play on the emulator.

Sony and Microsoft have no answer

[Daniel Phillips]

Neither Sony nor Microsoft has breathed a word about a substantive upgrade to their console offerings. By substantive, I mean memory, processor and graphics competitive with a modern PC. Why the silence? In my opinion, because it cannot be done economically. Both Sony and Microsoft currently sit deep in a multibillion dollar hole of losses from the current generation fiasco. How can either justify a new cycle of hardware engineering, manufacturing engineering, SDK development and product promotion? Another round of impossible engineering choices trying to stuff PC class hardware into a consumer electronics form factor? It is anybody's guess whether either will attempt it, but this is sure: neither is anywhere close to taking the plunge. Game publishers and developers have heard nothing but silence in regards to possible specs of a follow on high end console generation. This strengthens my belief that the high end console has died and will not rise again. Cutesy and cheap like Nintendo is the only economically viable choice for a console vendor today.