Nintendo: Wii Users Don't Need HD Anyway

I like they way they tell their customer base what they do and don't need.


"You guys don't need current generation technology, you're just being picky!"

Whats goin on? Isn't this the second article on this topic today?

People want something, just put the little chip in, ad the new jack and sell a Wii HD to everyone that has a damn Wii. WTF is wrong with these stupid people?

Nintendo sold around 60 (not 26) million Wiis so far, far more than either PS3 or XBOX 360 so the market has spoken.

who buys a wii just to watch netflix? the HD upgrade is for GAMES not to watch movies with.

this sounds like an Apple tactic... telling their customers what they do and don't want. LOL!

The Wii get's more sold due to overall cost. The Games are even cheaper. The main Problem is the games for Xbox 360 and PS3 easily
outstrip the cost of the Console itself. The PS3 and XBOX 360 are not
for money conscious. I actually wait for Xbox and PS3 games to drop to $30.0 or so before I buy.

The latest Uncharted 2 is $50.00 plus dollars and beatable in a couple days. Did it over Christmas at my friends place. You might as well rent. Renting is what my friend does.

He is correct, the Wii is all about content, not visuals.

But on a side note, the Wii wouldn't be able to play HD anyways, have you ever tried youtube on that thing? :S

Great...Nintendo and their Wii are always a generation behind...somehow they managed to ship and sell millions of Wiis then rubbed it in M$ and Sony's faces....damn.

Dolphin-emu is proof enough of Wii could look nicer in 720P/1080P, but it's easy to understand Nintendo's perspective it's not worth the R&D expense for such a minor improvement especially because they could sell Wii's cheaper instead and thus make even more off of games and accessories for the Wii.

That's because the graphics suck BALLS! I've always been disappointed with the Xbox original quality graphics from Nintendo this time around. Not to mention, every game just drills in the gimmicks they based the console around. I've owned every nintendo console but that one. Now, I play PC and Xbox 360

I've always had a Nintendo but for some reason I never got a Wii and now I'm strictly PC. SD really does get to me after so many years of gaming on the PC. That said, I have no problem firing up the old super nintendo and playing whatever. I think maybe the SD only starts to look bad when you add 3D to the mix.

Wii users are a bunch of morons who will buy any crap with the nintendo name on it; throw them some gimmick control system and a new form factor every 5 years and they will keep buying.

I think the Wii should have an HD option regardless. People spend enough on flat panel televisions and deserve to be able to utilize the higher resolution. Jane, what do YOU think about this?

Didn't Bill Gates once say that PC users would never need more than 256K of RAM????

The ONLY reason PS3 isn't crushing Nintendo is because Nintendo SMARTLY developed really good motion sensitive controllers. If Sony threw some money at that, they BURY Nintendo. Let's face it; the PS3 has better graphics, supports 1080P output, does media player stuff (like playing Divx files), and has a Bluray player. WHY would you ever want a Wii if PS3 had the fitness board and better motion controllers?

I own both and would have never bought the Wii if my PS3 had those two things.

Didn't Bill Gates once say that PC users would never need more than 256K of RAM????

The ONLY reason PS3 isn't crushing Nintendo is because Nintendo SMARTLY developed really good motion sensitive controllers. If Sony threw some money at that, they BURY Nintendo. Let's face it; the PS3 has better graphics, supports 1080P output, does media player stuff (like playing Divx files), and has a Bluray player. WHY would you ever want a Wii if PS3 had the fitness board and better motion controllers?

I own both and would have never bought the Wii if my PS3 had those two things.

Didn't Bill Gates once say that PC users would never need more than 256K of RAM????

The ONLY reason PS3 isn't crushing Nintendo is because Nintendo SMARTLY developed really good motion sensitive controllers. If Sony threw some money at that, they BURY Nintendo. Let's face it; the PS3 has better graphics, supports 1080P output, does media player stuff (like playing Divx files), and has a Bluray player. WHY would you ever want a Wii if PS3 had the fitness board and better motion controllers?

I own both and would have never bought the Wii if my PS3 had those two things.

Didn't Bill Gates once say that PC users would never need more than 256K of RAM????

The ONLY reason PS3 isn't crushing Nintendo is because Nintendo SMARTLY developed really good motion sensitive controllers. If Sony threw some money at that, they BURY Nintendo. Let's face it; the PS3 has better graphics, supports 1080P output, does media player stuff (like playing Divx files), and has a Bluray player. WHY would you ever want a Wii if PS3 had the fitness board and better motion controllers?

I own both and would have never bought the Wii if my PS3 had those two things.

And that is why I sold my Wii two weeks after buying it.

reason they wont have wii hd is because they will need a complete new resdesign. Let's face it, the wii's hardware sux balls. It will need a massive overhaul to play hd.

1st off

The Wii to me is nothing more than an updated Gamecube. Id feel cheated if i bought a wii considering I already have a Gamecube. Gamecube came out in Nov 2001 and Wii came out Nov 07. Thats 6 years of no real advancement at all. Its now 2010 and still nothing.

I just don't consider motion interactivity to be an advancement when its something that could have just been added to the system they already had out. Xbox 360 does this already with the addon called Netal.

However for a marketing standpoint, it is better to make something 'NEW' and get people to think that its the latest and greatest when it really is nothing really all that new to begin with.

It's all about money.

They are not saying people don't want HD, their reading the peoples opinion on the sales... If people really wanted HD they would not buy this as hot cakes!!!

hey oblivionlord, Natal seems to have taken a number of years to develop and get out to the public. Natal only happened because someone somewhere saw a need to add motion capabilities to their advanced graphics console, due in large part to Wii marketplace success. My son got DJ Hero for Xmas and has gotten back into playing the Wii again, just like he did after guitar hero. New good play titles are needed more by Nintendo more than HD. many of the released games for Wii are lame, imagine how much more they would all rake in if quality games were a higher percentage of the releases.

This is the reason Nintendo almost failed before is because they KNEW what their customers wanted. They knew their customers wanted a cute box with cute little disc in cute little colors, they just knew that the technology inside the box didn't matter. That is why the game cube did sooooo well! *smell that?* Every time they are on top of their game, they get so self righteous... I don't want or own a wii because it doesn't offer HD, yeah the concept is neat, but MOST of their games are gimmicky. Next generation they are going to get killed again.

Well, I'd buy one if it was HD, but o well, another customer lost, one who has a ps3 and a 360 just to note.

To me it just sounds stupid, just the fact that you would be able to connect the Wi using HDMI would sell another x million consoles, without them having to update a lot more.

It's like ... here is 10 million....no I don't need that I'm already overweight.

With how bad the Wii's graphics are, i don't see a reason for HD on the Wii. They would probably charge $50-100 for the Wii HD and if HD was the last thing i was thinking about when buying a system, why the hell would i want to pay that much more for the colours to be brighter.

PS: Im basing my opinion on that Wii users dont care about HD

I played a lot of games in my Atari console and MSX computer when I was young. Playability is more important than graphics, and that is why Wii won the console battle. I believe that less than 30% of Wii owners around the world has an HD TV, so that is really not important by now. Price matters, and the market for non-HD consoles is bigger than HD consoles. Bingo Nintendo.