Everybody's favorite meat ambassador, Reggie Fils-Aime, has spoken about the future of the Nintendo Wii in an interview with Reuters, quelling rumors that Nintendo is already whipping up a console to take the Wii's place on the throne:
We believe the role of a new console, a new system, is to bring great new entertainment ideas to life. We launched (the Wii and DS) those systems when we had great ideas that would benefit either from a touch screen or from a Wii remote.
Fils-Aime went on to say that Nintendo would consider the launch of a new console when they had "great new entertaining ideas that can only be done with a new console." Of course, anyone with a half a brain about the way the industry works can guess that something stinks here; any successful organization is always planning towards the future. Nintendo are hardly the type of company to rest on their laurels, now are they?
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10:02 AM on 11.14.2008
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Good for Reggie, thinking outside the box and all.
Uh oh, Nintendo fanboy shitstorm in 3, 2, 1...
So everyone stop getting your panties in a bunch over what should be staying behind closed doors.
"We believe the role of a new console, a new system, is to bring [profitable] new entertainment ideas to life. We launched those systems when we had [profitable] ideas that would benefit either from a touch screen or from a Wii remote."
Once the Wii isn't selling 800,000 units monthly, see how quickly the tune changes.
PS - I love the Wii, and can't wait for a more powerful successor to show up. It sucks that we'll be waiting so long, but this is just smart business on Nintendo's part.
That being said, I wouldn't be surprised if they update the Wii with a few GB of internal storage and piracy/homebrew busting measures.
And PLEASE, make the next one backwards compatible with both
the GC and the Wii. I don't want to have lot's of consoles plugged to my TV.
More power next time please.