b5media.com

Advertise with us

Enjoying this blog? Check out the rest of the Technology Channel Subscribe to this Feed

Wii News Daily

Rumor Mill: Wii HD Coming in 2011

by Ingrid on October 5th, 2008

It’s not a hard thing to believe that Nintendo is already working on the next Big Thing, and the rumor mill is spinning rather wildly about what the company has up its sleeve.

According to the story, Nintendo has been showing off the new system to game developers and publishers, and the set date for this device is in 2011.

While our sources are reluctant to be too specific about “Wii HD,” they have been able to divulge some (albeit predictable) generalizations. High definition visuals are assured, as is a greater emphasis on digitally distributed and backwardly compatible content, indicating that the new system will feature some form of local storage medium such as a hard drive or large flash memory solution. It has also been indicated that Nintendo’s emphasis is again on what the consumer will hold in their hands and interact with, rather than the “console” itself.

It all sounds good. I imagine Nintendo knows they’ve got a winning brand with the ‘Wii’ name so I doubt that’s going anywhere. I guess it’s just a matter of improving what’s already there and 2011 is far enough away that we don’t really need to worry about it yet. But it’s still nice to ponder what the next generation will bring.

What would you like to see?

Via | Nintendo Life

Image courtesy of Nintendo.

POSTED IN: News, Rumour

1 opinion for Rumor Mill: Wii HD Coming in 2011

  • Wii
    Dec 23, 2008 at 12:08 am

    Cool, so the wii hd will be hard to find maybe I will be able to find a regular wii. There basically impossible to find where I come from, if a new type came out, hopefully there will be more regular wiis, i couldn’t care less about graphics and long as there not that bad and I tried it in stores and it looks great in my opinion.

Have an opinion? Leave a comment: