So Wii-er than the Wii?

Ugh indeed.

Hmm. Considering how much time has passed, I'm kind of hoping they'll go ahead and bump up the specs more than a bit. At least enough to generate more than 10 zombies on screen at a time.

Ah well. :/

Hey Nintendo, remember this!? It may not be real, or yours, but do it nonetheless!!

Color me unsurprised but still disapointed.

"What the hell is a Nintendo Wii?!"

The #1 selling home console of this generation, with over 54 million units sold. Any other question?

"That's what cost-efficient means. Keep everything the same, boost the graphics just a bit, sell that sucker for 250 all over again in a few years."

'Boosting the graphics a little' would not be 'keeping everything the same.'

And that's a big assumption to make about engineering something to be more 'cost efficient'. The PS3 slim is more cost efficient than the original, yet it's still arguably the most powerful console available.

We don't even know if he's talking about the console itself or the controllers/sensor bar. I would prefer something more streamlined than a bar that shoots out IR beams. A more accurate, small (perhaps wireless) camera would be nice.

I doubt we're going to see a Blu-ray drive, but HDMI and 720p output (at the very least) seem inevitable. Don't forget, the 360 for all its 'next gen' hype still lacks Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, a web browser, SD card support. The Wii has all of those and by far the most advanced console controller to this day.

"The giant market they opened up with the Wii is not accustomed or probably ready for the idea of the console life cycle."

You mean the same mainstream consumer who buys a new iPod/iPhone every year, or two? We have no idea what Nintendo's new audience is willing to buy, or not. Everyone always says "oh they won't buy this, or that" but it seems that everything Nintendo puts out they just eat it up.

Did anyone expect for them to buy $100 fitness game almost 25 million times over now? The mainstream consumers are the people who always buy the next big thing. Even more so than the hardcore gamer, so if Nintendo's next console is the next big thing again, than they'll be all over it as well.

Nintendo makes more decisions that will likely make them loads of money and more successful? Color me surprised.

Does that cost-efficiency remember anyone about NVidia's participation on Nintendo's new handheld? All Nintendo videogames have been cost-efficient, being released at similar price point of the competition, with equal or better graphics and with a significant PROFIT(The Wii escapes the norm, being much cheaper and, by consequence, weaker).

The interface is developed. as far as I'm concerned, nothing beats a motion-sensitive controller(perhaps with a camera as well) with buttons. Argue as you will, but it's very difficult to find something to replace or build upon it. And even on those cases, a peripheral is all that's needed(Vitality Sensor). One could argue about VR, but do you really want it? Do you want to not be able to freaking communicate with people around you?

The ultimate(as it would seem) gaming interface has been achieved, with a handful of problems. Now, it's about polishing the experience, solving the problems, making things smaller, more intuitive, yet flexible(MORE buttons, please) AND cost-efficient. GameCube was VERY cost-efficient, if you looked at its profit margins. Yet, it was more powerful than PS2 and slightly less than the original X-Box. It's all about intelligent engineering. Nintendo always managed to suck the unimaginable from its consoles. It can make things shitty for developers looking for a quick port, but that's no longer Nintendo's worries, for they've made sure they're not directly competing against Sony and Microsoft(which I believe to be utter bullshit, but I'm trying to understand Miyamoto's statement here).

Anyone else think the graphic looks like a Wii-branded Virtual Lobotomy peripheral?

So, their next console will be as powerful as the PSP2?
Great.
Just fucking great.

Yeah, it'll be HD and all that, but it'll pretty much be a 360 with motion controls, after the other two consoles have moved on to bigger, more powerful systems. And since you can get the Wii experience in HD on the new PS3 dildo, why would you even bother with a Wii 2?

So it will have an integrated hand crank to power it? What's more cost effective than being the WORST consumer electronics company out there when it comes to not giving a crap about the environment. FYI, i'm no tree hugger, but c'mon this is awful.

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wow that FAILED, try this one

http://www.greenpeace.org/international/campaigns/toxics/electronics/how-the-companies-line-up

Unless it is HD, has at least the underhood power of 360, and doesn't involve some random chance waggle forced on everygame, I don't care AT ALL. The way the Wii went for me, makes Bobby Kotick seem like a saint. At least Kotick tells us the truth, Miyamoto and Fils-Aime and the white suited Palin look-a-like straight dog and pony'ed us core gamers for the last few YEARS!

Nintendo, you better bring it!!! Prove you care about the core gamers, don't give us lip service.

(Yeah I'm upset and with good reason.)

Toy company? What? Just because the gaming market hadn't developed yet and you could only get NES, SNES at KB, TOYSRUS, Playworld, Children's Palace and the like; doesn't mean they are a toy company. There were arcades that people flocked to in the 80's & 90's. I'm not buying that statement

I don't think Myamoto has any idea what the next Nintendo console will look like. Typically the company did simple graphical evolutions, putting their consoles in a slow downward cycle since the NES. Now that they made the Wii, they seem to want to keep a new tradition of making their new products as mainstream and tradition-bucking as the wii. But good ideas can take decades to come up with. That's why for now, Myamoto is simply describing the good things about the wii that the next console will maintain, while avoiding a direct confrontation about a product that has not yet been conceived.

The Wii's success dictates that motion controls are the future of gaming. To say otherwise is foolish. All that matters now is to understand why it happened in the first place:

With their high-end gaming, Sony and Microsoft and the rest of the game industry snubbed low-end gamers and potential gamers with their consoles and games. This gave Nintendo an opening to cater to those shunned customers, hence the DS and the Wii. Their success shows that Nintendo knows how to do business in the longterm, whereas we are now seeing that Microsoft and Sony completely fail to do that.

Whereas Sony and Microsoft and most third parties cried and pouted and "hmph"ed at the notion of making games for the masses, Nintendo saw it as an opportunity, and they took it all the way. You don't make customers by ignoring them, and you don't keep customers by treating them like shit and looking down on them. It's like that in every business, so why should it be any different for the game industry? The answer is that it is not, and the industry is suffering for looking down on "non-gamers" and "casual gamers" because they priced themselves out of the market, and with the economy in decline nobody is willing to spend money on HDTVs to play their hardware. They see no difference in the graphics, so they choose the one that offers the most entertainment value for the least amount of money: The DS and Wii.

Nintendo isn't "competing" with Microsoft or Sony because competition means competing over the same values, in this case Microsoft and Sony are competing over the same customers and the same values (HD graphics and processing power), whereas Nintendo has disrupted them by changing those values (changing the context by which we interface with our games).

Nintendo has always sold their consoles in the green. Sony has been selling their consoles at a loss (as has Microsoft). They may have gotten away with just "throwing money at the problem" during the tidal wave of economic growth, but now that it's receded, we're beginning to see that neither of these companies are the financial geniuses they've made themselves out to be.

The Wii, in my home, has come to be known as the little white box that sits there until I can put a new Mario or Zelda in it. Which means it must be looking forward to next month!

As long as it gets HD I don't care.

Speaking of fanboys, looks like I have one of my own!

If you're going to follow me around, then make yourself useful and go get daddy another beer. Chop chop little boy, I don't have all day.

To all of you who are concerned about if next "Wii" will be HD, Iwata confirmed it a long time ago in an interview.
Sauce: http://www.videogamer.com/news/iwata_new_console_will_probably_be_hd_2.html

@GEMPadre036 - thank you, I forgot that bit of info. That's a step in the right direction.

@TheJesusNinja26

Nintendo has been around since the 1800's. They were a playing card company, ran a series of bowling alleys in Japan, and designed numerous toys. The NES was an electronic toy. They made a killing in video games, and that's what people associate them with. But they really are a toy company. I've seen other industry people talk about how Nintendo is a toy company while Sony and Microsoft are hardware/software companies. It's not a knock against Nintendo, it's just a different philosophy.