Harrison: Wii Hardware Revision 'Not Out of the Question'

jonnkids

Today<a href="http://biz.gamedaily.com/industry/feature/?id=16889">GameDaily</a&gt; is proud to present the full E3 interview with Nintendo of America's George Harrison, SVP of Marketing and Corporate Communications. Harrison talks about the sales and marketing move, acknowledges that Nintendo may "lose some purists" while attempting to broaden the audience, and he doesn't rule out a Wii revision. That and much more inside...

MinionOfCthulhu

Your opening post is terrible. No copy-paste of the interview, you didn't even do the linking correctly.

I give it a 2.5 out of 10.

DesertBox

Hmm. First post? Is this site legit or terrible sitewhoring/bot ?

Couscous

It's interesting, console hardware has always historically been on a sort of fixed, sequential pattern almost every five to six years and it takes you about five years to develop a new piece of console hardware. The handhelds and portables, like Game Boy and now DS, we've always been continuously innovating, and whenever we feel like it's time or have an upgrade, we'll do it, whether it's an improved screen for the handheld or slimmed down like the DS Lite – those types of things. So it's not out of the question on Wii, but we're not even to our second holiday yet, so it's kind of premature to talk about any revisions to the hardware itself.

This is really nothing new. It isn't exactly unknown for really successful consoles to get a revision.

darleysam

regardless, it's an OP with little content, rather directing us to.. i'm guessing his own site, to read then discuss.

I'm gonna go with no.

Xenogears of Bore

titmouse wrote: »

It's interesting, console hardware has always historically been on a sort of fixed, sequential pattern almost every five to six years and it takes you about five years to develop a new piece of console hardware. The handhelds and portables, like Game Boy and now DS, we've always been continuously innovating, and whenever we feel like it's time or have an upgrade, we'll do it, whether it's an improved screen for the handheld or slimmed down like the DS Lite – those types of things. So it's not out of the question on Wii, but we're not even to our second holiday yet, so it's kind of premature to talk about any revisions to the hardware itself.

This is really nothing new. It isn't exactly unknown for really successful consoles to get a revision.

hey, you shouldn't leave out the PS3 and 360. :P

chaossoldier

Gamedaily is a pretty legit site. OP just probably wasn't aware we use BBCode and not HTML.

jothki

That's what the preview function is for.

I wonder what kind of a hardware revision we're talking about. I doubt it's going to get any smaller, and they really can't change most of the specifications. I wonder if it turns out that they can't get running stuff off a flash card to work correctly with just a firmware update, and they're working on new hardware that can.

darleysam

chaossoldier wrote: »

Gamedaily is a pretty legit site. OP just probably wasn't aware we use BBCode and not HTML.

fair enough, but it's the "that and much much more inside" that i don't like. Could just post the article here to look less like a sitewhore, but hey, i'll go sit this one out over there --->

Couscous

It isn't even like what the companies say has that much bearing on what will happen.
I mean,

Algertman

Yeah, in about 4-5 years. They'll called it Super Wii. Chrono Trigger Wii FTW!

KiTA

jonnkids wrote: »

Today GameDaily is proud to present the full E3 interview with Nintendo of America's George Harrison, SVP of Marketing and Corporate Communications. Harrison talks about the sales and marketing move, acknowledges that Nintendo may "lose some purists" while attempting to broaden the audience, and he doesn't rule out a Wii revision. That and much more inside...

He probably just copypasted. Gamedaily isn't really a small site, btw.

Echo

This reeks of sitewhoring anyway.

"That and much more inside..."