Over the past year, there have been numerous rumors of an upcoming Wii 2, one that includes full HD output.
Today, GGS is reporting that Nintendo is indeed creating a Wii 2, one that will feature a Blu-ray drive.
The console will support resolution up to 1080p, and current Wii owners will be able to trade in their console for a slight discount off the new console.
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Originally posted by KillerBug: It may not be a very old console, but from a technical standpoint, it is only a hair more advanced than the PS2 (and unlike the PS2, it has very few good games). That makes is a very outdated console, no matter how new it is.
That's a pretty gargantuan hair. Even the Gamecube was technologically superior to the PS2, and while many refer to the Wii as a mildly updated Gamecube, it actually does trump its predecessor by a fair margin.
Originally posted by GGPWN: Suppose they go with blu ray and pay royalties to Sony, wouldn't they in some ways profit? What I'm thinking is I would pay royalties to Sony to have my console unhackable using blu ray and the security similar to the PS3 so I wouldn't have to deal with the loss of profit because of piracy. But in the event of where the Wii gets hacked...well... your screwed cause you bet it all on it not being hacked.
the bluray will stop piracy to a point. because the games are gonna be huge. and the fact that the bluray disc that u burn on are different from the discs they use for games and movies.
Originally posted by nonoitall: The Wii has not had a long enough lifetime for them to be putting out a new console yet. They do this and they're going to have a whole lot of ticked off customers. It just doesn't strike me as something that Nintendo would be stupid enough to do - especially when supporting Blu-ray means supporting their rival, Sony. But time will tell.
jajaja really?? Let's see the DS, the DS Lite, the DSi, DSiXL and now the DS3D....Stupid is as stupid does! They change tech like changing a pair of underware. Plus given the preasure of lacking in the graphics department and new consoles that will soon equal or surpass what Wii does(controler wise obviously not performance or graphics), I think it might be possible. However it will also be a mistake on Nintendo's part since the main reason of the wii's popularity is it's relative cheapness in comparison to other consoles as well as games.
This is pretty funny considering the PS3 is getting Move. So, adding BD and HD outputs to Wii is really transforming the Wii to PS3 no? Except of course now you can enjoy all of the Nintendo goodies in HD!
The Wii2 had better have a vastly better hardware spec or Blu-ray won't help sell more. You can't even use it as a media center since it technically can not play H.264 encoded files. Blu-ray isn't what's holding the Wii back. Poor developer support and weak hardware is. With better hardware would come better development support because few companies want to make visually crappier games for the Wii than the competition.
I love the typical rants, they never seem to change! I remember when the Wii was first coming out and these same people were ranting how it would never sell compared to the other BETTER consoles, and look the Wii out sells everything. Guess what they were all wrong. Similarly these people ranted about BD never winning the format wars stating that HD-DVD was better and would win out, what happened there? It is so funny how some never wakeup and learn from their mistakes.
First the original Wii connects up to a HiDef input on HDTV?s already so that is nothing new! But you can bet that if they are adding a BDROM that they will most likely be improving their GPU as well. And software support crews will be upping their games too.
BD licensing will only effect the cost of the console as BD25?s are pretty cheap these days and I doubt that the cost of the console will jump the much either especially in this market. They need to add a BDROM to keep up with the times and it does allow them to tweak their protection schemes. That is exactly why I wouldn?t give them my consoles as an upgrade, it isn?t worth the little bit of monies they?ll give you back.
Having the new console with a BDROM doesn?t mean you have to buy your old games new as they will still work in the new console. So unless they offer a HiRes upgrade of your favorite games there should be no need to replace your old games.
Now with the new console coming out I?m sure the new games generated for it will force you to buy the new console unless they offer them in both DVD and BD formats.
Microsoft is dumb if they don?t follow with a BDROM option for their console at least Nintendo seems to keep their thumb on the pulse.
