Should Nintendo release a Wii HD?

The idea of an HD-capable version of the red-hot Wii-well, the formerly red-hot Wii, anyway-has been kicked around for a couple of years now, but so far, no dice, and the boss of Nintendo's U.S. operations recently slammed the door hard on the idea in a recent interview.

So I turn to you, Wii aficionados, and ask: Should Nintendo make a Wii HD? Would Wii Sports, Wii Fit, and the various Mario epics be more fun if they were in HD? Or are you perfectly fine playing the Wii in SD? Sound off below.

[Stevo35]

Look at the graphics! Would the 16 colors look better in HD, not really.

[GWAVE]

The casual gamers who buy the Wii clearly don't care about the graphics, so why should Nintendo care?

I know that hardcore Nintendo fans are desperately clinging to the hope that Nintendo will love them once again, but it ain't gonna happen.

[ChickeyCantor]

" The casual gamers who buy the Wii clearly don't care about the graphics, so why should Nintendo care? "

Its called marketing, you can make them care, thats the beauty of luring people in.

[reintype]

The thing is the WII have been successful because of 2 things, AFFORDABILITY, and UNIQUENESS for it's time, because of MOTION CONTROLS.

The jump to HD and whatever NINTENDO does include in its next console like Blu-ray as the rumor says, will bump its price point, affecting its AFFORDABILTY. If the next-gen wii is not AFFORDABLE, Nintendo will have problems attracting casuals.

Next is it's UNIQUENESS, which is now been shrouded in doubt. It's no secret, that both MS and SONY are prepping their own version of motion controls, so by the time the next Nintendo console arrives, it is not going to have the Motion Control market all on it's own.

I think Nintendo is currently facing a dilemma, and I believe they know this as well.

[EvilTwin]

The way this is phrased makes it sound like just hot rodding the Wii to make it capable of outputting in HD. If Nintendo releases some sort of add-on for HD, it would be useless. The console is plenty capable of making good looking games in 480P like Corruption and Galaxy and Tri. And high-def isn't needed for Wii Sports or Wii Fit.

HD without a commensurate hardware bump in everything else wouldn't be Earth shattering.

Nintendo will simply need a new console altogether that won't be recognizable under the hood as being like the Wii.

That's not to say they need it now. 2011 or 2012, sure.

[Samus HD]

I have a Wii and a like it very much./';' but HD Will be great .,., I think of course Yes Wii HD will kick PS3 360 out for sure

[madjedi]

A non existant console in hd with no games, will kick out the ps3/360 that already have a ton of good games that have been in hd from the get go, care to explain that logic.

[Jamescagney]

They will make it, but it will be totally different to how you expect it to be.

*does a mystical dance*

You can't predict Nintendo.

*finishes off the mystical dance*

[Kisama]

Nintendo would be stupid not to. Think about all the multi platform games that could have come out for the wii, if it could handle them. When it comes down to it, the thing that sells multiplatform games are whatever it has over the other consoles. Think about MW2 on the wii. Or any other FPS shooter. It's pretty safe to assume that the wiiHD would sell the most copies, because of the superior controlls. That isn't going to be true for much longer now, with all the new motion controlls coming out. My point being, the graphical limitations have prevented 3rd parties from creating multiplatform games for the wii. Hopefully a lesson has been learned and they will think about this.

[madjedi]

I know this is heresy for wii owners, but what makes you think the only thing keeping the wii from getting alot of the multiplatform games is only hardware specs and not the motion controllers, unless dev use standard controllers for their games.

1st why would ps3/360 owners get it on the wii hd and not on the ps3/360, judging by third party sales of wii core games vs ps3/360 there isn't alot of hardcore/core gamers out of that 55 million wii owners.

So where are all of these new hardcore gamers going to magically appear from, not the current install base of the wii, if third party core game sales are any measure, do your really think ps3/360 owners are going to buy the wii hd in droves.

Sony and ms's motion controllers/natal are not far off, if people really are waiting for motion controled hd games, the wii hd is too little to late.

What dumbass logic makes you think a wii modern warfare game hd or not, would outsell the either the ps3/360/pc version, do to superior controls on the wii version, it's a shooting game not wiifit or other popular non gamer games.

By the time nintendo releaes the wii hd the ps3/360's user base will be even higher than it is right now, by then the ps4 and xbox 720 wont be far off, so nintendo will probably be a gen behind again..

[devilmaycry2020]

HD is the least of the Wii's problems.

[tweet75]

if you can play wii/vc games you already purchased on the original wii without sending the systems into nintendo than im all for it. If nintendo expects us to purchase them all over again thats a kick in the face to gamers. Also the price must be low. If these 2 criteria are not met I would not buy a wii hd.