Nintendo fans rejoice: there may well be a new arrival in the group's family of consoles sooner than you think. Satoru Iwata, president of the Japanese computer games group that has been lauded for its ability to attract new waves of gamers, has admitted that the company is hard at work on a follow-up to the motion-sensing Wii.
However, the speculation that has followed Mr Iwata's hint demonstrates the interest in Nintendo's next offering.
The Wii is now a retro console. Let’s get nostalgic about an often maligned system.
Crazy to think the WII is to the Switch 2, as the NES was to the WII back then. 20 Year difference.
My wife asks me to bust it out (heh) everyone once in a while to play bowling and tennis with the kids. There was a ton of slop on it but some good stuff as well.
Wii was great but boy howdy did it cause Microsoft to go on a dark walk with the Kinect and the disastrous XBox One launch that they arguably never recovered from.
Not nostalgic for me.. I was there.. anyone who wasnt a little kid realized it was a gamecube with shit tacked onto it, it was the "joke" system and was well below even the switch in terms of comparing it to the latest machines at the time. The machine was well loved by young people and "casual gamers" who now remember it 20 years on, or in most cases more of its sales came in the 15-20 years ago range not right at launch- but again its not nostalgic for people who were "gamers" then really, just for those who ended up with one in their house, the games , graphics, interface and online features were archaic already in 2006.
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It's a step forward for Stop Killing Games.
" The ones who came into gaming with the Wii are going to become more demanding and Nintendo will not be able to fob them off with the level of graphics and processing it is offering in the Wii today"
The problem with this statement is that Nintendo did not promote Wii as a eye-candy product. They totally focused on "motion" gaming.
Those people will only demand hollywood visuals if Nintendo is hinting it out to them... i mean come on people loved their wii games on a BIGGER screen and most of you [typical] core gamers actually throw up thinking about that.
Also this is not news whatsoever. Said it before....this is nothing new or special it's happing in the MS and Sony department too(talking about new console projects).
True, but they haven't publicized thus giving Wii all the fame.
evolution or revolution? neither. just more milking consumers with crappy gimmicks and quirky marketing. Nintendo = Apple Junior
*sad face*
do not want a brain controlled system. no thank you, I'll stick with a pad. I do however want better game play, visuals, and stories next gen. but nintendo seems to only think about the gameplay. I believe if you keep the three main things (game play, visuals, and stories) all evolving at a decent rate games will get better and better you don't need to revolutionize the control mechanics, if it ain't broke don't fix it, and game pads have worked since the dawn of consoles so why bother changing the formula (excluding the original Xbox controller :P) this is however my opinion
the fourth main thing is online, but I didn't include it because by game I mean the campaign mode, however, the online needs to evolve just as well as the rest of the game.
and all companies are in R&D for there next console, why does this count as news? not to mention I've read that first paragraph about 4 times today on N4G in various stories.