Nintendo exec reignites Wii HD speculation
Fils-Aime talks up “additional capability”
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Despite only recently stating that “there is no Wii HD” in development, the President of Nintendo America has since hinted that HD support isn’t the only new feature that may be added to a next-generation Wii.
Reggie Fils-Aime said during a recent interview with website Kotaku that when Nintendo “move to the new generation” it will be because “there are some fundamental things the [current] console cannot do”.
The existing Wii doesn’t support HD graphics, so could that be what Fils-Aime was hinting at? Perhaps.
Although the Nintendo executive said addition of HD capability to the Wii “will not be the next step” for Nintendo, he added that “there will be more to it” and that “there will be additional capability”.
Quite what Fils-Aime meant by “additional capability” is a mystery. However he stressed that these “additional elements” could take some time, hinting that if a next-generation Wii is launched then it won’t arrive for a while yet.
Many gaming analysts, including Wedbush Morgan’s Michael Pachter, have already forecast that the Wii HD will be unveiled in 2010. ®
COMMENTS
component cable
Yeps the Wii can also do 480p with the component cable, however the standard composite video cable allows 576i (Standard PAL) which is a higher resolution.
"they haven't had a success like XBox Live"
huh?
Success?!
Where?
Since when has the 'Live' been a success? It's forced gamers to pay for a service that other consoles are giving out free.. not to mention the world reach of the services of other consoles, compared to 'Live'. yes it's decent, but I certainly wouldn't call it a success..
Mine's the one with the Molotov in the pocket
When the current hardware can't do something?
Ok how about the fact the Wii (which I own) can't do graphics that look like they didn't come from 2004? Hell even the Gamecube could do 480p if you knew the button combination to enable it.
To be honest, I'd rather see a Wii HD that supported HDMI and 1080p with full backwards compatibility and perhaps even used two different game engines on the same disc (the classic Wii 480p and the Wii HD 1080p) and slowly ease into Wii HD only support. Nintendo did it with the GBA and DS, so you can't say it isn't fair.
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