Wii HD a no-go, says Reggie |
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| BY Chris Barraclough Nov. 7th, 2009 | More on: |
Everyone’s favorite Nintendo President, Reggie Fils-Aime, has emerged to once again crush all rumours of a forthcoming HD version of the Wii. On the latest ep of GTTV he was rather brief and to-the-point, “I don’t know how forcefully we can say there is no Wii HD.”
Of course, this simply triggered further rumors on gaming forums that Reggie was concealing a new high-definition Wii so that Christmas sales of the current model wouldn’t be affected. The real question is whether anyone actually wants or needs to play Wii games in HD. Do we really have to see every follicle on Mario’s tache or the Rabbids’ hairy behinds? One disappointed bunny will be producer Shigeru Miyamoto, who recently predicted a step-up in Nintendo’s graphical prowess. Gamers so far seem to be unfazed, but let us know what you think by dropping a comment below.
November 9th, 2009
at 10:42 am
Well, maybe it won’t be a Wii HD. Maybe it’ll be whatever the next odd-at-first-and-then-only-slightly-odd name that Nintendo gives its next console.
That said, the Wii brand is pretty darn good. So maybe Reggie was playing with words; there won’t be a Wii HD, oh no, but there will be a Wii 2! Or the 2Wii, or whatever it ends up being called :)
If Nintendo doesn’t have a system with HD graphics as its next, then I could see trouble for them overall.