Nintendo: 'Jaws Will Drop' With Next Console

I don't care what you do Nintendo. Just give me HD and give me Zelda and Metroid and Mario. I'm tired of having to use dolphin.

can't wait!

Promises, promises...

"We prefer to create something new that catches attention", Sakamoto said; continuing "every fifteen years or so..."

Jaws will drop? Setting themselves up for a big let down making comments like that.

RELYING SOLELY ON FIRST PARTY GAMES, WE WILL CREATE A MOTION CONTROLLED SYSTEM WITH THE PROCESSING POWER OF THE PS2! MUAHAHAHAHA THE WORLD IS OURS!!!1!

Why is that? Are they actually going to produce a new console for a change? Not just stick a gamecube into another shell again?

"We have never done what others have...."

And there is your problem in the new generation. As an owner of both the PS3 and Xbox 360 there are things I consider non-negotiable when purchasing a new system.

1.) Internal HDD of decent capacity
2.) Internal Wi-Fi access (I have the Xbox slim to clarify)
3.) GPU processor and RAM that can more or less kick out next gen look and feel with HD 1080 resolution


I never bought a Wii and dont plan to. Unless the next Nintendo has something like the above specs, I wont buy into whatver they claim will "drop my jaw"

Not a fan of backwards compatibility? Lots of people actually liked playing previous PS1 generation games on the PS2. Why buy a new controller if the gamecube controller was compatible when needed?

Its a magically machine that will make your money disappear...and then your jaw will drop when wonder why you paid so much for it.

Should be good. The hardware in the Wii left a lot to be desired graphically, but the inclusion of motion-controls from the start catapulted the console into a "family gaming" machine, where XBox and PS3 were left as more "hardcore gamer" machines, with their traditional controls and highly-priced hardware.

Nintendo survived Atari, Sega, Sony, and Microsoft by innovating both with the console and the content (not ONE of those competitors could have created a franchise as insanely successful as Pokemon, they just don't have it in them). They'll survive Apple and Google too (those aren't gaming platforms, they're phones and mp3 players that happen to play games). PCs didn't kill off consoles (heck, lots of people are still touting that consoles will kill off PC gaming). Besides, with the next Gameboy, you won't have AT&T/Verizon telling you what apps you can download or how much data they can consume (hopefully).

This business starts to look more and more like politics. A lot of empty promises.

They're going to shock everyone by doing what no one expects them to do this time... release another underpowered console that relies on Mario to survive.
Because clearly they aren't going to surprise many people if they launch a console with HD graphics, and 3d is practically an expectation with the new generation.

Legend of Zelda: Link to The Past FTW

I was wondering who would be first to jump on the bandwagon in announcing a next gen console (instead of just a redesign). Hopefully they'll really push the envelope with graphics and CPU, while refining the motion sense technology take makes the Wii so appealing.

We aren't talking about Sony here...

can we move away from physical media and have a Games store like steam where we can download games to a central location (like a NAS) and access that through a network/internet connection (which would allow me to access my game collection from anywhere in the world, maybe even on a mobile gaming device...) or at least use space friendlier media like micro SD card or even usb flash sticks which also has superior access times ( the damn games already cost on odds $50 anyways so give me something worth paying $50 for)

Hey its just like a boat, a hole in the water that you put your money into.

Hmm... I was personally expecting Nintendo to tell us that "We won't really be impressed with the next Nintendo console. Shocker. I'm amazed at how much change marketing trends have gone through these days.

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i think nintendo should make the high end console of the new generation of consoles and games

When I read the title, I thought Nintendo was bringing the notorious NES Jaws game to the Virtual Console.

Im a PC gamer, and no console has ever made my "Jaw Drop". Sure, they may have impressed me at times, but never anything close to Jaw Dropping.

The only thing that amazes me about the Wii is how people just keep buying them. I've played on one for a couple of days (Stuck at aunt's house; not my fault), and after about 5-10 minutes I just got so bored of it.

I personally consider the Wii to be a flop (despite sales figures). I'd like to see the average number of games purchased for each console. I'd also like to see how many people are still playing each console 1+ years after purchase. I'm willing to bet that the Wii loses on both counts. The games are just not very entertaining once you get past the initial 'wow motion controllers are neat'. Maybe in the future motion controlled games will be good, but for the moment and the foreseeable future, they are not.

Im sick of sandbox games stupid console gamers. their like 40 acting like 3 year olds. that how old most of them are i laugh at them every day. AMD 4 life!

they dont know anything about gaming they just have the money!

Only if they would upgrade their hardware to be HD capable.

There are multiple approaches to backwards compatibility. Sony's approach with the original PS2 was nothing like Nintendo's approach. Yes, they had PS1 hardware in there, but not JUST PS1 hardware. They *also* crammed in a new and completely different architecture for the PS2 side of things.

While I was not really a big fan of the PS2's architecture (in particular the GPU side of things), at least they didn't let backwards compatibility hold back their performance. I love the idea of BC - but if you're using it as a crutch, and it cripples the performance of your resulting product, you've taken BC too far.

Besides, they're just gonna put the games on their online market and sell them to you all over again in a few years.

You give AMD fans a bad name.

The only interesting games for the Wii were first party games...it is really sad that they can't get one good developer for a third party game to make a great game for the Wii.

If their next gen console actually gets good third party support, then it could be a great console.

Calling the ps3 and the xbox hardcore is kind of insulting to the pc crowd, I own all 3 (360,ps3,pc) and have had to deal with dumbed down games and sequels and achievemen rich gameplay derived excuses for a videogame for the last 5 years.

Anyways, knowing nintendo and their 'sorry , normal gamers arent our target audience anymore', they 'll either ducttape 2 wiis together and come up with the 'wiilan' allow you to play with 4 people on 1 console and connect two tvs to it in a revolutionary way.

That, or they'll backpeddal so hard from their previous statements that the wallpaper around them melts.

As a previous poster said, unless it has a proper 500GB (it has to last remember, current game installs are upto 15 GB big on pc) HDD by default, a proper controller, built in wifi and a proper amount of ram and vram so we can all stop looking at brown n bloom sub 720 p games it's not even going to get a single glance of attention from me.

More like "Vomit will come up in mouth". PS3 will still own it and then the PS4 and the high end PC owns it all. If it doesnt beat a hexacore (thats 6) at 4ghz and 12gb ram, 2560 x 1600 res, usb 3.0, 85mps download speed,DX11, make me coffee, do my laundry and cut the grass like mine does then they can keep it!