Nintendo might be considering hybrid HD/SD console

I like this and I don't...

On one hand, great, Nintendo is going to put HD into their next console. We're at least guaranteed the next Smash Bros, Zelda, and Mario in high def. But, without an HD requirement, that'll allow all the shovelware to just move from the Wii to the next iteration and that's not something I'm looking forward to.

I understand Nintendo is in the business to make money, but if they continue on this path I won't be purchasing the next Nintendo console.

over half of wii games sold don't support 480P. what next format should they get everybody to half-ass

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All HD systems are 'hybrid' HD/SD.

Stop acting like they're doing anything.

Forgot about Wii HD, just give me a new Pikmin with all new multiplayer levels :D

dear Nintendo,

welcome to 2006.

hesitantly yours,
charlie

what i want the most out of the next console from Nintendo is to be able to re-render Gamecube and Wii games into HD. If an emulator can do that on a PC, why not a console system??

Oh my goodness, Nintendo are considering to make a xbox. Not the 360, but the original xbox where it was capable of doing 1080i even though developers were not required to use it. This is ridiculous.

The best thing Microsoft did for console gaming was mandate that all games/upscale well in 720p, why does Nintendo care if most people don't have HDTVs? its not like it wont work on a SD set, and all it does is future proof games. It's almost 2010, producing content in SD formats should be a capital (and by that i mean punishable by death) crime by now.

I don't see why anyone's surprised. Even before the Wii was released, Satoru Iwata stated that the next system would be HD capable. The Wii wasn't because at the time it was released, the HDTV market was very small.

It's a different picture now, sure. Which is thanks to dropping prices on HDTVs.

Sure, how Takeda said this is kinda weird sounding... especially since PS3 and 360 can display everything in 480i/p (though, not always readable).

I don't have an HD TV in my living room. But I think Nintendo has to make something HD capable for its next console. A lot has changed in three short years. My next TV will have to be HD if I buy new. THere's no choice. That being the case, Nintendos next console better be backward compatable with Wii. I haven't had this many games for a system since my original NES. I'm not paying for another system that can't play all the games I have. Hopefully Nintendo learned from Sony's mistake. I wonder how the next generation of consoles will handle the downloadable stuff from this generation? I'm sure each will handle it differently just like backward compatability was this gen.

everyone is wrong because it won't be called wii anything. nintendo will think of a new name. Heck i'd like nintendo to make improvements in the AUDIO area so that when they want an explosion to be heard behind you it will, and when you want to make it sound like the waves are crashing below your feet or you can hear the crunch of dirt below yourself, well that would be the next step in my mind.

Nintendo has never really focused that much on graphics. There's always been a console on the market with better graphics than the Nintendo system it's competing against.

Graphics really aren't a huge factor when you have the casual "gamer" in mind. The 360 and PS3 fanboys have been waging a brutal flamewar over graphics since before they were both even available, but in the end the Wii is the console making the huge sales.

That's not to say that the Wii is "superior"; I mean there hasn't been an actual good, exclusive Wii game since what.. Punch Out? In the meantime we've gotten half a dozen stupid Wii-Fit ripoffs, crappy mini-game collections, effortless license cash-ins, cheer leading simulators(..?), and shameless GameCube re-releases by Nintendo themselves..

Basically, nobody should count on Nintendo to ever push the envelope on visuals.

We have Sony and Microsoft for that, and your little brother and grandma have the Wii for colorful motion-controlled minigames that will keep their attention until nap time.
(Because come on, you know the casual "gamer" isn't playing MadWorld and Okami. Good Wii games like that are certainly out there, but totally under-appreciated.)

What a weird topic. "HD" is just a higher resolution. You can have the same "graphics" at SD or HD, it won't take any more effort, other than maybe memory management.

Of course, if you define "HD" as "ZOMG! gr8t grafix!", then more work would go into it, but I think that's a misuse of terms..

Is HDTV adoption up to 50% yet? I heard it's getting close. (though of course that's just "per household" so each house probably has more SDTVs than HDTVs).

I'm still on a little SDTV :-(

Anyway, UHDTV is lanuching soon, so they might as well skip all those soon-to-be-obsolete HDTVs and go straight for that.