Wii Warm Up: The next big thing

some things i think we'll see, is obviously motion plus built in, a better sensor bar. hopefully voice chat from the start this time. better graphics, dvd, bigger storage. i think they'll have more than one version. a normal wii, without a big storage, mabey not dvd. something for just the really casual gamers. then a beffed up version, one with the storage, and dvd. and maybe some other stuff. as for when, not anytime soon obviously. wiis selling to good now, then when sales slow down, they'll role out the colors

I think the Wii-Plus is going to be Nintendo's next console. The popularity of the Wii is going to stay strong, so I see Nintendo capitalizing on it by beefing-up and fine-tuning the Wii and making it the next thing. For release in late 2010 or early 2011.

The only difficult part will be keeping it similar enough to ride the Wii's coattails while distinguishing it enough to make the Wii market buy it.

As much as I'd love to see the Wii get some much needed storage, I doubt that Nintendo will make any changes to the current version of the Wii since it's still selling out in most locations and they are making ridiculous amounts of profit.

Well, that's a hard question. The Wii has few flaws that are really bad, one being the storage space. But if they did come out with another Wii, you can BET that it'll include something completely useless, but it would still be cool. I don't think that it would have DVD playback because that's not one of the highest demands and truly, it's not that big of a deal. I definately think that they would do something about the block system that they have going so that they can fix that stupid storage system problem.

ill tell you now wii 2s sencer bar will have a sencer in it a wii speak mic and a motion capture camera

motion sensing camera and 2x wiimotes with 1to1 will allow all sorts of 3d motion 3d tracking godness and camera mic and sencer bar will allow 3d tracking etc and full online video/speak right out the box

wii 2s will be a dual cpu over clock of broadway and a hollywood 2 gpu more edram and fast ram and a big ass chunk of gddr3/4


a super upscale hd chip with additional filtering optimizing ability

iv just leaked wii2 wii hd wii advance its out in 2011

lol

I doubt Nintendo would release a Wii revision. After the DS Mk.III later this year (in Japan, at least), I think they're going to sit on those two systems for at least two years before they begin to talk about their successors.

It's kind of like the NES days again for Nintendo, in that they're going to stretch out their current hardware as long as they possibly can.

Porn mode.

What? You weren't thinking that? You are now!

Consoles don't generally get new versions with non-cosmetic changes.

Consoles don't generally get new versions with non-cosmetic changes. Or at least, they didn't before this generation. >_>

I think, since the part of the market that really cares about more storage is the part that already has the Wii, that they would avoid releasing Wii mk II just to say "now with 2 GB on-board storage!" as that would piss a lot of people off, yet do nothing to convince new buyers.

Like i said further up, i really think the next Wii will be brought in a lot like the Super NES was, to the point that Wii will still be in the name. Wii HD sounds obvious, Super Wii sounds stupid, but something in that vein is what they're likely to do. It'll sell to the expanded audience with the same draw that Wii did, only stronger: more realism in controls. It's what the people want, and if anyone can sell it, Nintendo can.

The most obvious and convenient features would be re-chargeable batteries, a total re-drawing of their online system, more power, integrated 1:1 technology, a better sensor bar that has the teleconferencing mic integrated in it.

Here's what I'd like to see in the Wii-Plus:

1. Full backwards compatibility including games, Wii Shop channel account linking, Wii remote, nunchuck other controllers, etc.

2. Make Wii-Plus branded remotes and nunchucks with built-in MotionPlus technology therefore increasing the use of the MotionPlus technology since everyone would be expected to have this. Since your original Wii remotes and nunchucks would be identical to the Wii-Plus branded remotes except for the MotionPlus technology they could make sure to spread the word that your original Wiimotes will work however you may be required to have the special Wii MotionPlus attachments in order to play some of the Wii-Plus games.

3. Make it HD and include built-in Blu-ray player with Blu-ray movie playback and DVD playback.

4. Keep the same general Wii Menu design but upgrade it significantly one way or another.

5. Give the online system a major upgrade. Don't drop the friend codes entirely however because those will be required in order to have full Wii backwards compatibility. Just make it so you can access your Online Options through the Wii-Plus Menu but also have an option for Parent Online Options. Through the Parent Online Options you could enable Parenting mode. By enabling Parent mode it'll enable friends codes through the main menu where you modify your address book the way it is now. But you wouldn't have to enable parent mode to use your address book and friend codes. If you would like to just add say, someone's Mario Kart Wii friend code so you could race them you could just go to the Parent Online Options section and from there modify your address book without enabling it in the main menu. So you would have a standard friends system like Xbox Live but you would also have the optional friend codes that you'll have to use with the original Wii games but also have it as an option for Wii-Plus games. You could also modify other settings such as mute voice, ESRB, online hours, etc. or completely disable online play. If however you just want to mute voice and keep the standard friends list you could do that. Also they need to include movie purchases, rentals and TV show purchases. They also need to include full Wii game download and even some Wii-Plus games to download.

6. They need to make it just as powerful as the Xbox 360 if not, a little more powerful.

7. Include DS connectivity and Nintendo's next handheld connectivity.

8. Include better media support. Have more video codec support and online streaming via Windows Media Player or Orb.

9. Include head-tracking support.

10. Built-in wifi and built-in USB ports and an ethernet port.

11. Include rechargeable and removable battery packs with a USB charger cord that plugs into the bottom of the Wiimote where the Nunchuck plugs into.

12. Have wireless headsets and a camera at launch.

13. Have a Zelda game and a brand new Donkey Kong platformer at launch in holiday 2010. In Early 2011 release a brand new IP preferably an action title or even an FPS. Summer 2011 release a new quality Mario Party title. Holiday 2011 release a brand new Mario platformer and Super Smash Bros. Brawl. Spring 2012 release a new Mario Kart, a new IP and a new Metroid game. Summer 2012 release a new Star Fox game and a new F-Zero title. August 2012 release a new Mario Party title, a new Zelda title and a new Fire Emblem game. Holiday 2012 release a new Donkey Kong title, a new Animal Crossing title, a new Kid Icarus title and a brand new 3D Kirby game similar to the Mario platforming but done differently. Early 2013 release a new Wario game. Nintendo needs to buy High Voltage out and help their team help with production on the Mario, Zelda, DK and Kirby titles as well a release a new Conduit title. They should also buy out some other smaller companies with talent and have them develop one of the new IPs.

I DO NOT WANT TO SEE NINTENDO CATER TO THE CASUAL.

http://kotaku.com/5055944/report-new-nintendo-ds-coming-this-year-with-camera-music-playback


is this true

I'm not a huge fan of changing the console's specs, but in the Wii's case, I think everyone will make an exception with regards to storage.
From what I understand, at some point, it would actually cost them MORE to keep the 512mb storage in there and cheaper to put in more space.

Anyway, aside from that, if they were going to come out with an upgraded Wii, I'd like to see it have:
• more storage space
• DVD playback
• built in ethernet port
• rechargeable Wiimotes
• Wiimotion Plus built into the Wiimote.

http://www.gamekyo.com/videoen13210_monster-hunter-3-tri-new-video.html

ONLY MOBILE PHONE BUT STILL LOOKING SWEET

right there's a rumor a DS lite MEDIA version is in the works, comes with camera and flash card reader and media aka mp3 etc built in i think it may be fake but all the same nintendo do have a press event this coming week......

but this tallys strangely with an email i got from a friend game testing at nintendo germany (a job that i was offered but didnt take the bastard lol true)

anyway he is employed via a german work agency as a wii games/english tester quality control tester at nintendo europe in germany

right ill get to the point this is ether wii or wii 2 related

theres a sencer bar this guy has seen that contains the sencer a wii speak mic and also a motion capture camera all in one cool looking sencer bar with a usb conection at the end of the wire.....

the camera can act as a web cam and video camera its also eye toy like motion capture and is also linked to 3d tracking my freind stated that wiimotes 1to1 and mouse funtions combined with the cameras motion capture allows a level of 3d interaction thats simply amassing

dual 3d mouse was mentioned as was dual 1to1 wiimotes


this has to be wii 2 right or is it a wii sp or wii lite type new version of the wii

nintendo is also linked to a super scale hd chip manufacturer

all true please go ahead talk about it but please dont shoot the messenger


MY POST AT CVG I GOT EMAIL FROM GUY AT NINTENDO GERMANY

Hi-Def support is a must. A DVD player would be convenient, and more storage is something else that they will have to fix. The VC is a great idea, and these old games don't cost hardly anything to re-release as a download, so Nintendo needs to make it easier for us to give them our money.

A more powerful system would be nice, but maybe not completely necessary. I think that they're either going to leave the Wii Remote alone, or come out with a new one that has the MotionPlus built in, but that still works with the games that don't feature MotionPlus support.

About a year or so ago I would have come up with all sorts of ideas of what they might do (and right now, I could come up with an enormous list of things I'd *like* to see), but at this point I think "something utterly useless" sounds just about right, especially if the recent DS rumors are to be believed.

Hi all. I may have missed this in the discourse so far - has anyone considered putting heart rate into a Wii game? There must be a way to do this easily given the Wii has a BT interface (I think - feel free to correct me). Has anyone come across anything like this to date? It seems like a logical extension to the Wii fit side of the device/game family.

yeah, i think a new model will be introduced with bigger storage size (8GB?) to solve that problem. other than that, i don't see much being changed.