Wii 2?



The news is out there. Apparently there have been reports that Nintendo is going to unveil a new console this year at E3, with the ultimate goal being to recapture the hardcore gaming market. Now, whether or not these reports turn out to be true, I think that this brings up a big question for the gaming world: should there be a new console?

To quickly answer my tease of a question, the answer is yes, for Nintendo.

I want to clarify my beliefs here; I don’t think that we need an Xbox 720 or a Playstation 4, I’m totally cool with my 360 and the PS3 feels like it’s still just starting to get good. The real thing here is whether or not Nintendo needs a new system, and I think that it is pretty clear that, yes, they do.

There is no denying that the Wii was a HUGE success, so much of one that in order to get across just how big of a success it was I had to go to all of the trouble of hitting the caps lock for a word. But the Wii’s future is undeniably limited at this point; both of the major system competitors have motion control now, hell they have better motion control, and that’s in addition to their more powerful systems, better graphics, and better games. Whether you like the Wii or not you can’t deny that this generation of consoles, while successful fiscally, was not necessarily a renaissance for Nintendo software. There are great games on the system, some of the best games of all time are on the system (Mario Galaxy, Galaxy 2), but the truth of the matter is that I haven’t played my Wii for a very long time.

So now with the competition matching Nintendo in the motion control department it would only make sense that they are going to create a new console to try and get back some of that competitive edge.

With that in mind I would like to point out a few things that I think Nintendo should know.


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1. Don’t just boost up the graphics of the console. The graphics war is a war that Nintendo will never win; they tried to do that with the Gamecube, and I believe we all remember how that turned out. We’ve had HD consoles for the last six years, and we are still figuring out new ways to boost the graphics and use the technology. I’d rather we all weren’t forced to update for all of our systems. That’s why I said that Nintendo AND ONLY Nintendo should create a new system– the 360 and PS3 are good. So, with that in mind, Nintendo has to try to stand out from the pack. That’s what makes the company successful: when they’re pushing the foundations of gaming, like introducing a 3D world or motion control. What they don’t do well is play the system graphics pissing contest; it’s what made the Gamecube such a failure.

2. Bring the software. One of the things that’s most frustrating about Nintendo is that what they do, they do so freaking well, and what they do is make kick-ass games. That’s why people are willing to buy a whole other console just so they can play Mario or Zelda. I’m not the first to admit that I own a Wii pretty much for the Nintendo games, to the exclusion of pretty much everything else (if I want a shooter I’ll buy it for the 360). So if they are indeed releasing a new console they better bring it. I’m talking Mario, Zelda, Metroid, Pikmin, Super Smash Bros., make the system worth buying, because God knows I won’t buy a console if there’s no software.

3.Go digital. This has been a long time coming, but really, Nintendo, it’s time you learned to use the Internet. Everyone else does, it’s the most annoying part of your console, and to be entirely honest it’s just really annoying that I can’t play Super Smash Bros. online without a friend code or a three-hour wait for a shitty connection.

4. Finally have a real controller. If I have to no choice but waggle control I am going to hunt you down Nintendo, and I will throw my Wiimote in your face.

-Quinn Anderson

So what do you guys think? Want a new system? Don’t want one? How hard does… suck? Post below.