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"Wii HD" rumours
Since there's nothing about this on here I figured I'd start things off.
Recently a lot of rumours from various sources have started to surface about the "Wii HD" - currently codenamed "Project Cafe".
So far it's claimed it'll be revealed at this years E3, it'll be HD, backwards compatible with with the current Wii (possibly meaning Gamecube compatibility which would be awesome) and will upscale old Wii games.
It's also believed the controllers will have touch screens on them which I'm not too thrilled about - that means the controller will either have pissy little screens on them, or they'll have to be huge to fit one on it. Supposedly there will also be cameras on the front of the controllers (wut?), which are claimed to act like the Wii's sensor bar.
Nintendo have already stated many times they have no plans of ever supporting current 3D screens, but if TVs with glasses free 3D become mainstream they'll support it. Good news IMO since wearing something resembling NHS glasses has never been a frilling prospect.
Oh, and spec wise (if they're close to being right) it'll piss all over the 360 & PS3. That strikes me as a somewhat strange move since Nintendo have never been about numbers.
With the Wii having a major price drop coming up & Nintendo generally sticking to the 5 year console cycle there's a good chance it could be happening.
Thoughts?
Sources:
Game Informer
IGN
CVG
01net [French]
Recently a lot of rumours from various sources have started to surface about the "Wii HD" - currently codenamed "Project Cafe".
So far it's claimed it'll be revealed at this years E3, it'll be HD, backwards compatible with with the current Wii (possibly meaning Gamecube compatibility which would be awesome) and will upscale old Wii games.
It's also believed the controllers will have touch screens on them which I'm not too thrilled about - that means the controller will either have pissy little screens on them, or they'll have to be huge to fit one on it. Supposedly there will also be cameras on the front of the controllers (wut?), which are claimed to act like the Wii's sensor bar.
Nintendo have already stated many times they have no plans of ever supporting current 3D screens, but if TVs with glasses free 3D become mainstream they'll support it. Good news IMO since wearing something resembling NHS glasses has never been a frilling prospect.
Oh, and spec wise (if they're close to being right) it'll piss all over the 360 & PS3. That strikes me as a somewhat strange move since Nintendo have never been about numbers.
With the Wii having a major price drop coming up & Nintendo generally sticking to the 5 year console cycle there's a good chance it could be happening.
Thoughts?
Sources:
Game Informer
IGN
CVG
01net [French]
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Originally Posted by Zayex
I'm still hoping kinect will rule the world
You are a horrible troll.
Originally Posted by madpen
Nintendo better specs than Sony or MS, Keep dreaming Keep dreaming
They've managed it in the past, looking at numbers the Xbox would look like the fastest machine but IRL for number crunching the Gamecube destroyed anything else in the generation. So why didn't the cube take the #1 place in that gen? Cos numbers don't matter. Hell, graphically it was capable of more than keeping up with the Xbox & was superior to PS2's feeble hardware.
However using smaller disks turned a lot of 3rd parties off because they couldn't fill the disks with video (which at the time was a common way of making a game seem longer than it really was). Add that people assumed (and still do) that Nintendo target kids so the console was sadly pushed into 3rd place. Shame, it was a corking lill machine, far better than a half assed repackaged PC.
There's no reason why Nintendo wouldn't bring out a high spec machine, they made a good decision with the Wii. Most people didn't have HDready tvs so going SD makes perfect sense (tried playing 360 Dead Rising on SD? Good luck reading the text), it was initially cheaper than the others + had out the box backwards compatibility with EVERY cube game. Something neither Sony or Microsoft managed to do correctly. And of course they pushed something the others still don't understand - people like local multiplayer.
Originally Posted by ivolt
well, back in the day the SNES kicked every consoles ass because it looked good, and it was reasonably priced.
I don't think it will be too expensive, I mean the 360 & PS3 came out like 5 years ago, hardware has improved. I'm betting somewhere around 400, but that's just a stick in the dark.
Still, IMO I hope they don't continue motion controll. It would be nice to see a nintendo system that *ahem "hardcore" gamers wouldn't complain about.
Snes may have done well in north America & Japan, but it was destroyed by Sega in Europe & south America. Still a good machine, but due to Nintendo's retarded pricing at the time they failed here just as they did with the NES (seriously - NES games started at £50 here, that's around $110 a game in toy money).
If anything it's the price that concerns me, if the controller rumours turn out to be true they could easily cost close to £100 each.
And yeah, they're sticking with motion control - y'know that thing the others have only just started to copy. ;)
However us Wii users all know that you're not limited to motion control all the time. Classic Controllers, ports for 4 Gamecube controllers... The console & controls wasn't the problem, it was the people making the games forcing a single method.
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