Nintendo Wii 2: Release date and what’s needed in the upgrade
Filed under: Gaming, Nintendo Wii | By: Daniel
Posted on: January 6, 2009 | 137 Comments
While many gamers would debate how much of a surprise the recent Nintendo success is, we see the Wii as a product that managed to tap into an audience that Sony and Microsoft never managed to reach.
Nintendo are selling Wii’s faster than stores can stock them and some may believe that they have no need to replace the Wii just yet, but not everyone has this view and Game Player have the view that Wii 1.5 / 2 will be coming in 2010.
Nintendo have shown with the DS and Gameboy that they like to tweak their products with updated versions for more innovation. The existing Wii is well behind the PS3 and Xbox 360 when it comes to hardware, so just what is needed in Wii 2?
Wii 2 will certainly need more high definition support and even support for DVD and more memory is welcomed, but what would you like to see added to the next Wii? Let’s know in the comments.
Also is Game Player on the mark for a 2010 release date, what’s your expectations? Most of this will depend on Wii 2 / 1.5 being an upgrade or an entirely new console.
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They have to make a Wii 2 (I assume the name is pending, we don’t want to make a Play[by yourself]Station trend here)cause there are so many thing that the Wii could have done with the technology at hand back in ‘06 and they kicked the crap out of PS3 and the Xbox 3-sh**ty in their opening year with inferior technology. If they made a sequel, it has the potential to be just awe-inspiring and set the bar even higher between Sony and Microsoft
remember guitar hero on tour series, and how the developers used some sort of “trick” to push more pixles into the game? well, if the big-n can figure out a way to do somthing along those lines, i’m sure that the game’s graphics on the current wii console will be at leat 10% better
(yea, im a nintendo fanboy,but the ps3 rox, too)
more graphics and definetally more games and the ability to play wii 1 games on it. it also needs some kind of kick something that makes it really interesting to buy wheather it be better online contact or more free shop stuff. this needs something that makes it special. definately a gears of war or a new halo for this new system.
I think the wii 2 should have better graphics, have a removable hard drive, and play dvd’s and cd’s
Ability to eliminate unnecessary chat & movement between workouts selections. To be able to select and customize workout routines to flow through without interruption would allow a 30 min. workout to be completed to 35 min. rather than sometimes nearly an hour. Example would be to select 10 or more yoga poses that would run consecutive to complete a workout routine without having to quit, find & select each one or mix yoga with strength or balance. Additionally if the system could recommend a well-balanced order to do the poses for maximum benefit. Although spectacular graphics could add to the fun, a time-wise custom routine would be a great benefit to those of us with more interest in the fitness benefit of the program.
The wii kinda has an Hard drive it has an sd card slot and with the latest menue updade sdhc…Up to 32gb and in the future possibly more! HDMI would be nice and blue ray.
I think that the wii 2 should have wireless wifi without using the internet connection like the DS. It would be a pain in the neck using internet connection and it would take to long. I also think that the wii 2’s sensor bar should be the whole system because it would not be so irratating aiming at the screen and it woudn’t need a plug in sesor bar. It should be portable and I hope you could play all types of wii games and watch movies on it. I hope that all of my ideas are used. PS: Good luck making the system your fan, Kevin N.
It has to play all the original Wii games, and it should upscale them to 1080p, so all the old ones look as good on an HDTV as the new ones do. Also, the graphics should be on par with current HD game systems, and the nunchuk should be wireless. The balance boards should be upgraded to allow for multiple players to use one in games like Shaun White Snowboarding, instead of only allowing one player to use one, and they should be available without a game included. It should play CD’s & DVD’s, and have a cartridge slot for GameBoy Advance games, as well as a built-in webcam & mic.
As for the games, Nintendo needs to be alot more strict about making sure they’re free of bugs and other symptoms of shoddy programming before they allow them to ship. The majority of current third-party Wii games are akin to the majority of current budget-priced PC games. Full of bugs and so utterly horrible that they should all be recalled. This should never have been allowed to happen to the Wii, and it should never be allowed to happen to the next one. The Nintendo seal of quality used to guarantee a quality game, but sadly that isn’t the case with this generation.
Also, all the games should be playable with or without the motion controls, and with your choice of Wii controllers. These should include the remote, the nunchuk, the classic controller, and the balance board. You should also be able to use any controller for NES, SNES, N64, Gamecube, or PC, and have the ability to plug in any GameBoy or DS system and use it for a controller as well. The controller for the VirtualBoy should be an optional controller too, and you should be able to use the controller for any other system with an adapter. It should also support mice & keyboards.
And just to make it absolutely irresistable to anyone and everyone, it should support 3D enabled monitors and have an optional accessory built to the original design specs for the VirtualBoy, so it can play all the red & black VB games in addition to the full color VB games that Gunpei Yokoi intended. Plus it should support multiple monitors and touch screens, so it can play any DS or DSI game to boot. The next Wii should be the ultimate Nintendo game player, and the be-all/end-all of Nintendo consoles. Even if it cost more than the PS3 did at launch, it would be worth it!
HI THERE YOUR BLUE RAY DATA IS OFF BLUE RAY DISC IS BETWEEN 25 GB TOO 400 GB THE PS4 1 TB HALOGRPHIC DISC IS USEING HALOGRAPHIC DISC WICH MEANS DONT BUY BLUE RAY YOU WILL NOW HAVE TOO BUY HALOGRAPHIC DISC PLAYERS AND BUY HALOGRAPHIC DISC IN THE MULTI TERABYTE LEVELS FROM 4 TERABYTES UP TOO 100 TERABYTES ON A SINGLE DISC SOO WII 2 SHOULD USE HALOGRAPHIC DISC TOO I AGREE THERE SHOULD BE 4 TOO 12 GB OF RAM MEMORY
HI THERE JUST FOUND SPECS FOR THE WII 2 ITS GOING TOO HAVE 256 OR 512 MB OF DDR5 MEMORY AND A WHOPPING 4 GB FLASH DRIVE