How would you change the Nintendo Wii?

Since we've already sent both of the other major consoles through the wringer -- along with the two most popular handheld units -- it wouldn't really be fair if we didn't come together as a family and give Nintendo's Wii the most bitter critiquing of its young life, now would it?

[Jdash24]

i would give the wii a hard drive, also give it better graphics and more proccessing power so it can stand up to the ps3 and 360, also give it online play

[Art of Motion]

=)

[unsunghero28]

Everyone is going to come out here and say "I would make it with crazzzy good graphics and some l33t hard drive."

I, actually, think that if that happened, and Nintendo made a $400 Wii, it wouldn't sell and Nintendo would be doomed for the rest of eternity to make trading cards with cute anime characters on them.

If I could change the Wii, I would just make Metroid Prime 3 a launch title, Galaxy come out in May, and Brawl in August. If that happened then there would be no question that Nintendo had made a good console despite concerns over sheer brute power.

[MyNutsYourChin]

I think a HD would be obvious if NeoGeo games are going to be on the VC.

[ChickeyCantor]

Not really, ever downloaded a rom? they can come in small sizes (i.e 24 mb)

[the greatest]

hard drive & blu ray player & 1080graphics
online play

[ChickeyCantor]

it has online play.....have you been sleeping under a rock?

[MACHone]

Umm, GAMES, maybe? No, Nintendo, I do not wanna get fit. No, Nintendo, I do not wanna play another version of ping pong. No, Nintendo, I don't think Mario Party 8 is gonna cut it. I understand that it takes time to make quality games, but it's pretty sad when I look at a wall of Wii games and have a hard time deciding if anything's worth my time. I love Nintendo, but it feels like I haven't been getting much love in return lately. If people are gonna bash Sony for taking their sweet time with major titles, they gotta bash the Wii, too.

[Cpt Qwark]

definatley would like to see the wii have have graphics more so closer to the 360. Because i hate goin from my ps3's amazing graphics to the wiis last gen looking games.

[PS-Wii-60]

the Nintendo Revolution!

[StateofMind]

Low budget games on a low budget console should be priced appropriately. It scares me that games like Mario Party 8, Brain Age, Wii Fit, and simple ports from last generation make more money than big budget games that are actually advancing the industry. The Wii could set the game industry back five years if Nintendo takes full advantage of it.

I'm all for innovation and I can't wait to see how Super Mario Galaxy and Metroid Prime turn out, but if Brain Age makes more money than Killzone 2 we could be in trouble.

I guess Microsoft and Sony need to drop their prices a bit to get into the Wii's price range first. Then Nintendo will cut the huge profit that they're making on these things down a bit to keep it in its own range.

[M_Prime]

Nintendo makes a profit every console sold.. they wanted to make it 200 flat.. but retailers wanted a lil profit too.. and shipping and what not..

so lets say in a years time Nintendo decided to drop the price.. i bet they can go as low as 150 and make some money by that time.. and a t 150 its pretty cheap..

ALSO for as to what i would do to change it.. just add HArDDRIVE or allow me to use the SD card to launch stuff, cause 512 ram is not enough

[ChickeyCantor]

i like it the way it is, its a succes after all >=D

[firstworldman]

YES!

but there are stray things that could be improved but not necessary.

[Adamalicious]

Better graphics - the best we've seen so far is like a good last gen game.

Some built in storage - enough for save games at least.

Gamertags.

[neogeo]

oh! and even more power!

[TheExodus]

Interesting to see that most suggestions for improving the Wii are features currently available in competing consoles suffering from abysmal sales figures. Of course that begs the question that if we really wanted these features why aren't we buying 360s & PS3s instead of Wiis?

Personally I find my Wii is nearly perfect as a Wii, but given that my Wii also serves double-duty as my GameCube I'd like to see it be able to use internal storage or an SD card instead of GameCube memory cards. I'd also like the WaveBird's RF receiver built-in so that I can ditch the dongle. My suggestions for improving the Wii have more to do with aesthetics than functionality, but I happen to find the Wii perfect as is & that leaves me wishing it looked as good playing a GameCube game as it does playing a Wii game.

[redsymphony]

Blu-ray better graphics and final fantasy 7 remake

[e-ray]

Whatever it takes to garner a little third party support.

[ChickeyCantor]

they have third party support, and its only growing.

[lawler]

The Wii itself rocks, it's developers' attitudes toward it that need changing. The machine's capable of some great graphics but many companies are just porting over ps2 games that look like sh*t.

So yea, right now I just want more hardcore games with reasonable graphics. It's happening, but it takes time. Wii's got nothing to worry about when compared with the other 2 trainwrecks of this gen.

[TheXgamerLive]

I wouldn't change anything. Changing it would take it out of it's price point and force it to compete on another level with the Xbox 360 and ps3, so it should stay as is, it would fail if forced to compete at a $400.00 price tag.

[BigFART]

Make it less "commercial". Oh, and games, duh.

[PS-Wii-60]

let us play AO rated games!

Manhunt2 would be out AND spinning in my Wii right now =(

[Dragonopolis]

They should of crammed more memory, better online abilities and features, Shoot for at least 720p game play max, play DVD's upscaled (not Hidef Discs regular dvd). Or, What Nintendo needed to do since they decided to stay out of the HD War was to add killer Physics (at PC level quality) and increase they amount of textures and things going on in the game to give their games more life to compensate for the lower resolution.

I don't know if they really needed a hard drive. Maybe Nintendo could have done something different like put in a really fast Dual "Burner" DVD drive instead. Top speed DVD players/burners can hang with the 2x blu-ray drives.

Since Nintendo stayed with standard resolution, I really don't feel they really needed a hard drive. Plus Wii owners won't have to worry about hard drive switch out and Technically have unlimited storage (Even the PS3 has limits with the Hard Drive).

O.k. I was stretching it a bit with the last suggestion but I believe they could have kept the Wii size but still give Storage ability. Hey even a lightscribe Burner would be cool (even though they take awhile to burn those shiny title it just a cool feature that the other consoles don't have)

Oh I was drifting in an out of sleep.... must have been dreaming.