Comments on: The Digital Home Video: Nintendo will never need a Wii 2

In this episode, Don Reisinger explores why Nintendo will never need a Wii 2. And in fact, the Wii is more like the GameBoy than anything else.

[NEWM0N3Y]

The wii is not a portable device, its a console so stop comparing it dude. By the way there should be a next generation wii, yea your probably right it doesn't need much better graphics, but some people have different opinions. People are looking forward to the future and its suppose to look great not the same

[benignotx]

Come On!!! Of course Wii 2 will definitely NEED to come out! Do you think Nintendo will continue to make money 10 years from now by simply making small upgrades to the Wii? No way! Why do you think Nintendo has already released almost all of their expected Nintendo games( Legend of Zelda, Mario, Mario Kart, Smash Brothers, Metroid, etc.)? It's because they know that the hot streak of the Wii will not last forever. Nintendo will continue to realease as much software in order to bring as many buyers as possible; then they will anounce future plans to the public.

[robbono]

Wow, dude, you're right...they've made Legend of Zelda, Mario, Mario Kart, already... And it's too bad that video games never have sequels.

Come on - think about it. The "hot streak" that you refer to has lasted since the day the console came out. It's not about the games, and it's not about the graphics. It's about how fun the system is to use. If you think that Microsoft and Sony aren't sitting up and taking notes right now, you're dead wrong. Once those companies up the ante with systems that are as intuitive and fun to use as the Wii, Nintendo will have to escalate.

[bigboy187]

ok look he is right thaey dont need wii 2 cuz its good how it. what are you going to make it look like? yeah mybe they can make it smaller, but why would you want what to spen all that money to make other one, but they can just build on it they well spen more money on makeing other one then just build other one. its just like the ps2 what did they do they made it smaller and yes in 10 years they well still make money on it all they have to do is make better games. so plzzzz stop with all this!!!!!

[CyStarkman]

I agree with you Don. Though a part of me wonders if you are just feeding the trolls.

One of my favourite games to play is still Mario World 3. The best FPS is still Quake 2. Game play is not graphics play. Graphics do not make the game, never have, never will.

See. The 1920p, trillion polygon, billion colour, 400 channel, 500 frame per second, 1 terabyte of texture memory, 10 processors each at a petaflop with a dedicated array of physics processors capable of handling a google computations each frame doesn't actually make for a cool game. All it does is make a very expensive game. A game so hard to develop that takes so many people to do it working at it for multiple years that it makes a game that can take no risk. So is going to be a known brand, with a known style.

The other way, the path of the Wii. Sure it makes plenty crap games, cause people can have a go, try to make a game, be a bit different, and fail. But the good designers, well they are and will continue to make great stuff. Little things like Wii MotionPlus. That is the Wii 2, It will cost $10 (or whatever) and totally remake the console with games never before possible, again. For $10. Not another $600

The other part of what Don is saying that he doesn't say is this.

Actually the Wii is the GameCube. I don't mean the duct taped together flame. I mean the coding environment. If you developed for GameCube, well you don't need to learn much more to code for Wii and whatever Nintendo releases next, well it will be the same again.

From a coders perspective, the PS3, may as well have been released by Puntamunga Corp and be called the S1. That's how much help knowing how to code a PS2 would do for you. So that means even more investment and cash to build completely new tools just to deal with it. So how innovative can you afford to be, best not do anything, cause if this game doesn't make a return, you are so bankrupt.

Nuff. I ranted

[MastaShake1138]

It needs a hard drive, Don. A DVD player would be nice too.

Think about it. Right now the internal hardware is only 512, with maybe a small amount of space with an SD card, what max 4GB?

With WiiWare out and becoming more prominent, along with their Virtual Console, and as games become increasingly advanced, they'd have to find some way to store it.

The only other way I could think that they could pull this off without an upgrade would be, let's say, something along of the lines of Apple's MoblieMe/.Mac, where they had a hard drive in the cloud, that you could store an amount of stuff on. I don't know how committed to that they are though.

[Nintendork13]

i respectfully disagree with the video why? heres a few examples: from the NES they changed to SNES new things came with the console like the shoulder buttons and 12 bit graphics and then the n64 with new things again like the analog stick and again better graphics (notice not only did they skip the 34-bit they jumped to 64-bit) and from n64 the GC which did something.... but then they jumped to the Wii with motion sensor controls so they've done quite a few jumps when it comes to consoles so improved graphics on a new console that could still support old Wii games doesn't seem too far fetched for me. Im hoping it does come out and if it does u can bet ill be in line waiting for it.

[Nintendork13]

sorry i messed up the SNES was a 16-bit machine