Wii 2: Iwata Confirms Nintendo’s Next Console Already In Development
From the “perpetual next-gen” department comes this totally expected tidbit. The old news: Nintendo’s working on a follow-up to the Wii. The new news: Confirmation comes directly from President “It print money!” Iwata.
Iwata told Forbes magazine, “We are always preparing for the next hardware. We are under development. But the hardware is a kind of box that consumers reluctantly buy in order to play our games.”
A successor to the Wii is clearly inevitable, but the question is when and to what degree this new console will change Nintendo’s winning format. Will they buckle to demand for HD output, or integrate better online play? Will we see incremental steps towards better motion control, like the Wii MotionPlus? Or maybe something more radical, like the awesome head tracking demo we saw a few months ago?
Rest assured, Microsoft and Sony are already working on their next consoles as well. But Nintendo seems to be confident in setting the standard for casual gamers, expanding the marketplace while they irritate long-time, dedicated gamers.
So what do you think will be included in Wii 2? A new Brain Age that actually scans your brain? Holographic Pokemon? Wii Music packed in with a Showbiz Pizza Band? Who can predict what Nintendo has planned next?
Source: CVG
