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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."
When the Wii was there where still a lot of none HD TVs in peoples homes so Nintendo targeted standard def and kept the prices low. Now HDTV is very common and thanks to Moores law Nintendo can come out with a console that will probably outperform the 360 and PS/3 and be cheaper. Now Nintendo can produce a new machine that will out perform the completion and cost less just as the Wii sales start to drop. Brilliant marketing plan and it will sell like hotcakes.
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The announcement was light on details, but this caught my eye...
the system's rumored codename, "Project Cafe," hints at its ability to shoot a cappuccino directly into your gaping mouth.
It's about time someone in the console industry started paying attention to their adult customers!
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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.
Top of it's game? The Wii's sales have plateaued, and game sales have gone down. As long as they are backwards compatible, I can't see this as anything but a good move. It'll cannibalize a few sales this Christmas, but they can't be counting on too many there anyway.
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The Wii?
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.
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Ah, well if you decide to get back into it, keep those cables in mind. The problem isn't that the Wii's output sucks, the problem is that modern HDTV's interpret the signal lousily. It's something I will never understand.
...and don't forget to change the output to 480p (NTSC) or 576p (PAL) in the Wii's settings.
Progressive scan really is better than interlaced.
If you're playing GameCube games on the Wii, you may have to hold a button down to get the option to play in progressive mode (B on the GameCube controller by default, I think).
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I've had a USB Loader on my Wii for 2 years now. There has never been a single game I didn't own ripped to the harddrive. (In fact, several of the games I DO own are not on the drive because the disks became unreadable before I got the drive set up.)
Projecting your own dishonest tendencies or lack of self-control on to others isn't very nice. Not everyone steals everything they see just because they can.
I think it's interesting that this thread started because someone said they could get a higher resolution display by using an emulator. Someone else chipped in that running off the hard drive has the tangible benefit of being more robust than juggling disks. However, each of these completely valid uses keep being thrown out because OF COURSE people just want free games.
Having copies of games that you were supposed to pay for is a problem, but it it's a complete separate issue from the concept of emulation and 'media-shifting.' If you won't even respect the difference, how do you expect a corporation will, when it becomes an easy target that affects the bottom line.
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