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GamersDailyNews: Nintendo's Next Platform - Sooner Than you Think?

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Nintendo had an admittedly poor showing at E3 this year. Wii Music did not go over well, the WiiMotion Plus was met with head scratching and questions like 'why wasn't this done right in the first place,' and many people thought they simply made fools of themselves.

Now this week it's been reported that Nintendo is hard at work on the next iteration of its console series, but does anyone know what it is?
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Published: 502 days 3 hours ago | Article | Wii | Industry News
 
 

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kevnb - 502 days 2 hours ago
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whats with nintendo and girls in panties?
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ShiftyLookingCow - 501 days 22 hours ago
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Panties Touch! DS confirmed. Rated P for Perverts.
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SuperGuido - 502 days 1 hour ago
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I don't know but I don't complain as long as the panties are no larger than an NES :)
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Tragedy - 502 days 1 hour ago
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Why to make another gaming system if you have amazingly successful Wii and NDS?
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jtucker78 - 502 days ago
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Because the Wii has a very specific audience. I'm guessing that Nintendo is going to keep the Wii going ... as it is very lucrative, but also add a more powerful console to the line up for the hardcore audience. Something that is powerful enough to allow ports of PS3 and 360 multiplatform titles.

Imagine having Mario, Zelda AND GTA4, COD4, Bioshock, etc. etc.
Because the Wii is so different in hardware capabilities to the other two consoles, 3rd parties would have to radically change the game to bring it to Wii, so they end up not bothering. A new console may change that, and they may get some of their hardcore audience back.
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scissor_runner - 500 days 21 hours ago
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Why so they can rule each market with specialized hardware of course? The Wii will live on as the next console puts the smack down on the hardcore stage. I mean really it's old school retro first and then new school next. The same thing happened with the GB, GBA then the DS came.
Now if nintendo can apply what they are doing to hardcore gaming then it's over. The Wii is a great learning experience. Seriously I didn't think they would get this far to getting it right.
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SuperGuido - 502 days 1 hour ago
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Because the DS is getting old and we know there's a new one coming very very soon. Might even drop in Japan for the holiday season.

There's nothing wrong with the Wii whatsoever. It's great fun and is what gaming is about, getting together and having fun. But as with all things progress is necessary and they can't live off of the Wii forever. So a portion of the profit from the Wii is most definitely going into R&D for the next generation.
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Balance - 502 days ago
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first of all i clicked on this article because of the picture.
but R&D is a non stop cycle, both MS and sony started work on new consoles as soon as the 360 and ps3 launched. but nintendo has a different problem than MS or sony,,, the wii is a gimick and nintendo is now out of ideas for any more gimicks and we have already seen the best of what the wii can do.
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jtucker78 - 501 days 23 hours ago
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Slap on another piece of hardware with another core in it?

That is one of the most stupid things I've ever seen written by a game "journalist".

Mother board architecture has to be carefully planned out from the start, you can't slap on another core and integrate it in.
How would that work exactly? Via USB???
You can add RAM, you add Hard disk space, you can't add another core to an architecture that was only built to support one.

A gyroscope to the Wiimote - yes. Another core to a console? No.

That's like saying "I'll make my engine more powerful by adding a couple more pistons to the top of it."
You have to decide how many pistons your engine is going to have at the start. You can't stick extra ones on top.

If you only build a 2 cylinder engine you can only tune it so much.
Start off building your engine with 8 pistons to start with.

Where do they find these morons?
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Kratos Spartan - 501 days 23 hours ago
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Hopefully that pic is their next console. I could spend 75 hours a week playing with that!
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red5ive - 501 days 23 hours ago
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can't stop glancing at that pic.
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ShiftyLookingCow - 501 days 22 hours ago
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she wont play with your Wiimote if you dont have Motion Plus.
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forum_crawler - 501 days 19 hours ago
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I don't see where Nintendo claims that Wii Music and motion plus weren't well received, or not successful...

And wow, what a surprise, Nintendo working on a new console? I mean, Sony and Microsoft aren't right? (This is meant to be sarcastic)

Consoles, like pretty much anything that is intended for mass consumption take years to develop. Same as software, by the time something hits the market, the next version of it is provably in the very early stages of development.

That website is only looking for hits, that is all. No news there...
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Wacked - 501 days 16 hours ago
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I believe the difference though is MS and Sony are developing the next console on money that really isn't there. Since they are losing gobs of money on their consoles, the other hand Nintendo has a boat load of profits of money from the Wii, at this point they may have an advantage??
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SuperGuido - 501 days 15 hours ago
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It's apparent not everyone read the whole article because then the people saying 'well all of them are making new consoles' would have certainly not needed to if they had read

"Anyone would be a fool to think that Sony, Microsoft and Nintendo get a generation of consoles ready and then sit back and close down R&D. The recent reports of Nintendo working on the next platform should have been met with cries of "DUH!" and not raised eyebrows and "Oh really?!"

Which is just at the bottom there in the wrap up heh.
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Wacked - 501 days 15 hours ago
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LOL
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tom9177 - 501 days 15 hours ago
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This is the first time in years that nintendo has a chance to really take a shot at Microsoft and Sony.They've made a ton of money with the wii and can now challenge for supremacy.The question is, will they bring an all in one console that has power, graphics, a large hdd, with games that appeal to all gamers and still keep the motion control that has made the wii so popular.Or will they blow this rare opportunity for Nintendo by ruining what they've already done with gimmicks and not substance.Time will tell.
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lewis - 501 days 11 hours ago
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what nintendo might come out with a more up to date graphics witch would be bad because it will be expensive and the good thing is it should bring nintendo to new hights and a NEW ds would probably be 2 screens on top and controls on bottom but what would happen to the touch screen.
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