This is the advantage of the Wii being so similar to the GameCube. Everything that used to be there is still there; there's just new stuff too. Everyone already knows how to write for the old stuff, so they can add the new tricks to their vocabulary gradually, instead of having to learn everything from scratch with a new architecture.
Plus, just because someone has an HDTV and is buying a console doesn't mean they're buying a console that outputs HD. I have a 52 inch HDTV and I'm getting only a Wii.
By that logic, in a year or two people will be unhappy when home PCs outstrip the PS3 and X360, just as they were 3 years ago when PCs outstripped the PS2, Xbox, and GC. Oh wait...
Nintendo does nothing better than pushing out an incremental upgrade midway through a product's lifecycle. (Witness Game Boy Pocket, GBA SP and Micro, DS lite.) I expect an HD Wii in a few years (when it can be cheaper) that upscales old Wii games, and a requirement that HD-enabled Wii games run on non-HD Wiis. (Shouldn't be hard to manage--PC games can run on thousands of hardware configurations. Wii games would be expected to run on 2.)
It's even sillier than you make it sound. Lots of airlines have online check in. This lets you print your boarding pass from home. It also lets you print two copies of your boarding pass from home. That doesn't mean you can get on the plane. They scan your boarding pass before you get onto the jetbridge, and (unlike with Slashdot editors) if it's a dupe, you don't go through. Being able to print a fake boarding pass doesn't get you anything more or less than being able to print multiple real ones.
I prefer Krusty's studio time. He walks in, says his lines into the mic rapid-fire, walks out, and drives off. A few seconds later the studio tech comes by to tell him they're ready to record.
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This 60GB one's going for ~10 billion yen, or approximately $100M.
This is the advantage of the Wii being so similar to the GameCube. Everything that used to be there is still there; there's just new stuff too. Everyone already knows how to write for the old stuff, so they can add the new tricks to their vocabulary gradually, instead of having to learn everything from scratch with a new architecture.
Plus, just because someone has an HDTV and is buying a console doesn't mean they're buying a console that outputs HD. I have a 52 inch HDTV and I'm getting only a Wii.
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By that logic, in a year or two people will be unhappy when home PCs outstrip the PS3 and X360, just as they were 3 years ago when PCs outstripped the PS2, Xbox, and GC. Oh wait...
Nintendo's home console division should be taking lessons from their portable division.
Conveniently, Wii Play (includes games like Duck Hunt) comes with a Wiimote.
Nintendo does nothing better than pushing out an incremental upgrade midway through a product's lifecycle. (Witness Game Boy Pocket, GBA SP and Micro, DS lite.) I expect an HD Wii in a few years (when it can be cheaper) that upscales old Wii games, and a requirement that HD-enabled Wii games run on non-HD Wiis. (Shouldn't be hard to manage--PC games can run on thousands of hardware configurations. Wii games would be expected to run on 2.)
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It's even sillier than you make it sound. Lots of airlines have online check in. This lets you print your boarding pass from home. It also lets you print two copies of your boarding pass from home. That doesn't mean you can get on the plane. They scan your boarding pass before you get onto the jetbridge, and (unlike with Slashdot editors) if it's a dupe, you don't go through. Being able to print a fake boarding pass doesn't get you anything more or less than being able to print multiple real ones.
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I prefer Krusty's studio time. He walks in, says his lines into the mic rapid-fire, walks out, and drives off. A few seconds later the studio tech comes by to tell him they're ready to record.