The idea of an HD-capable version of the red-hot Wii-well, the formerly red-hot Wii, anyway-has been kicked around for a couple of years now, but so far, no dice, and the boss of Nintendo's U.S. operations recently slammed the door hard on the idea in a recent interview.
So I turn to you, Wii aficionados, and ask: Should Nintendo make a Wii HD? Would Wii Sports, Wii Fit, and the various Mario epics be more fun if they were in HD? Or are you perfectly fine playing the Wii in SD? Sound off below.
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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Look at the graphics! Would the 16 colors look better in HD, not really.
The casual gamers who buy the Wii clearly don't care about the graphics, so why should Nintendo care?
I know that hardcore Nintendo fans are desperately clinging to the hope that Nintendo will love them once again, but it ain't gonna happen.
The thing is the WII have been successful because of 2 things, AFFORDABILITY, and UNIQUENESS for it's time, because of MOTION CONTROLS.
The jump to HD and whatever NINTENDO does include in its next console like Blu-ray as the rumor says, will bump its price point, affecting its AFFORDABILTY. If the next-gen wii is not AFFORDABLE, Nintendo will have problems attracting casuals.
Next is it's UNIQUENESS, which is now been shrouded in doubt. It's no secret, that both MS and SONY are prepping their own version of motion controls, so by the time the next Nintendo console arrives, it is not going to have the Motion Control market all on it's own.
I think Nintendo is currently facing a dilemma, and I believe they know this as well.
The way this is phrased makes it sound like just hot rodding the Wii to make it capable of outputting in HD. If Nintendo releases some sort of add-on for HD, it would be useless. The console is plenty capable of making good looking games in 480P like Corruption and Galaxy and Tri. And high-def isn't needed for Wii Sports or Wii Fit.
HD without a commensurate hardware bump in everything else wouldn't be Earth shattering.
Nintendo will simply need a new console altogether that won't be recognizable under the hood as being like the Wii.
That's not to say they need it now. 2011 or 2012, sure.
I have a Wii and a like it very much./';' but HD Will be great .,., I think of course Yes Wii HD will kick PS3 360 out for sure