The point of this long diatribe is that Nintendo now finds itself in a position of having to play catch up. Kinect and Move will have an installed base of 8 - 10 million by the end of 2010, and a base of 20 - 25 million by the time Nintendo launches its "next" generation console. If the Wii 2 is just a Wii on steroids, with technology similar to the PS3 or 360, it's going to be hard to tell current Wii customers that they should trade up, especially if the Wii 2 is priced close to the 360 plus Kinect or the PS3 plus Move, both of which I think could be offered at $249 by holiday 2011. Both of the competitive consoles have deep libraries of content available in HD, while the Wii 2 will have only a catalog of standard definition content. I don't see the third party publishers embracing the Wii 2 unless the technology is similar to the 360 or PS3, making ports inexpensive. Therefore, I can only conclude that the Wii 2 will not be "next" generation, and that Nintendo will have a lot of catching up to do. All of this could have been avoided by launching the Wii HD in late 2009 and making one of my predictions come true for a change ;-)You can check it out over here.
Analyst: Next-gen Nintendo console may offer PS3/Xbox 360 like graphics
Posted on Saturday, December 18 2010 @ 11:49 CET by Thomas De Maesschalck