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Wii 2 specs leaked?

#1

Hylian

Hylian

http://www.maxconsole.net/?mode=news&newsid=37744



Exclusive: Wii 2 specs leaked, Blu-ray enabled and 1080p support?

We've just received some exclusive news and specs on the Wii 2 via Logic-Sunrise.com) (though a Nintendo of France marketing employee). The leaked specs denote the Wii 2 will get a Blu-ray drive (mainly to stop piracy), but will also support 1080P for games as well as movies. The new system is due out during the third quarter of next year and there will be the option to trade in old Wii's!

More details below (translated from French):

This is a nice exclusive we have here at MaxConsole courtesy of Artik from www.Logic-sunrise.com on the Wii 2. The actual information is said to have been leaked from an internal source of the marketing Nintendo France Service. Unlucky for them, this kind of information should stay internal, but that's not our philosophy.

- The Wii2 system will feature a Blu-Ray drive with a secondary aim of stopping piracy.
- 1080P and lower resolutions will be supported, for blu-ray movies and games.
- The release date is scheduled for third quarter of 2010.
- The release will be worldwide and on the same day for all countries.
- A scheme will be available in which it is possible to trade in the original Wii for a cheaper price on the new Wii 2.

Moreover, Nintendo wants to make a worlwide annoucement, only one month before release date. Huge publicity and Viral Marketing will be utilized to create the Buzz. Official pictures are not yet available, and more specs will be released in due course.

Why do we believe it at all ?

* Artik from Logic-Sunrise.com has regularly provided news to MaxConsole and has a lot of 'insider' contacts.

* Nintendo has suggested that it's time they embraced high definition technology for the Wii and Blu-ray has firmly established itself. So a Wii 2 with Blu-ray support does make sense.
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While I would love for the above information to be true I have a feeling it isn't. But hey a gamer can dream right?


#2

Shegokigo

Shegokigo

:facepalm:

Already? Jeeze.


#3

drawn_inward

drawn_inward

My folks have a Wii but I don't. My parents game more than me. :Cry:

When I go to their place, my mom can beat me at Mario Kart, and my dad can beat me at golfing. Oh, how the tables have turned.


#4

Bowielee

Bowielee

I haven't even re-set up my Wii from moving yet, and haven't really had any desire to. Shows how much I'm using it nowadays.


#5

drawn_inward

drawn_inward

MAIL IT TO ME.


#6

Jay

Jay

Wii 2 sounds sick.

I hope they'll be a new Smash Brawl....


#7

Shegokigo

Shegokigo

Obviously. Along with a new Mario, Link, Metroid and all the same series' they've had since NES.


#8

Bowielee

Bowielee

I still think it's weird that Metroid never made an appearance on the N64, seeing as it has been one of Nintendo's "go to" series.


#9

drawn_inward

drawn_inward

Please?


#10

Gusto

Gusto

:eek:hwell:


#11



Alucard

Hopefully they get rid of waving your arms about like an idiot laughs.
Thats one thing that stops me personally from owning one


#12

Shegokigo

Shegokigo

Yeah, cause you totally couldn't play some of those games with just the regular controls! :rolleyes:


#13

Covar

Covar

BlackCat is to hardcore. :cool:


#14



Alucard

I mean the Wii is a fun family game to which its oriented too but when i tried it out I just couldnt get into it.

I dont like flailing my arms about when i'm playing a game.

but am glad that the wii will incorporate the blu ray drive in it. i like getting more bang for the buck when i buy a console which took me so long to get a ps3.


#15

Jake

Jake

Well, at least I understand Charlie Don't Surf's flame wars post now.

I just hooked my Wii back up to play the newer Boom Blox game. Still fun. Suck it, hardcorez.


#16

Shegokigo

Shegokigo

Wii is fur pussiez, XBAWKX HARDCORE!
/


#17

Shannow

Shannow

yeah, cuz those pc game nerds are so casual!



#18

Shegokigo

Shegokigo

CRT monitor? He's far from hardcore. :humph:



There you go, now we're talking.


#19



GeneralOrder24

Bowielee said:
I still think it's weird that Metroid never made an appearance on the N64, seeing as it has been one of Nintendo's "go to" series.
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IIRC Prime was originally N64, but got pushed back repeatedly.

Oh, and "Blu-Ray Drive to defeat pirates"

...Can't we burn Blu-Ray now? Won't we be able to do it more effectivley next year?

Edit: Not we as in "I'm a pirate" we as in the general population!


#20

Shegokigo

Shegokigo

Or how about



#21

Shannow

Shannow

Yes sheg, you are proving the same point over and over.


#22

bhamv3

bhamv3

Shegokigo said:
Or how about

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How do you keep track of which trackball is for which screen?:confused:


#23



GeneralOrder24

...my two monitors and a laptop feel so inadequate now.


#24

Shegokigo

Shegokigo

Shannow said:
Yes sheg, you are proving the same point over and over.
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That PC Hardcore > Xbawkx Hardcore?

Duh? :slywink:

bhamv3 said:
How do you keep track of which trackball is for which screen?:confused:
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Tell me about it, my brother triple boxes in his place, and when I visit and try and use a computer I'm like :confused:


#25



Chibibar

I'm sure these people who multibox get use to and remember which is which (which probably be a cruel joke would be switching the input devices to random machine)


#26

Shegokigo

Shegokigo

Which is precisely what I plan to do next time I visit my brother's place. :twisted:


#27

sixpackshaker

sixpackshaker

If he is going to be running so many machines anyway, why not get a good KVM switch?


#28



Chibibar

sixpackshaker said:
If he is going to be running so many machines anyway, why not get a good KVM switch?
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I'm guessing it is too slow? Some people actually have software that can multibox (i.e. control everything from one set of keyboard/mouse) but I guess some can do other things while the other characters doing something else.

those couple of seconds can be crucial in raid ;)


#29



jasonisgreat

Meh.

If this is going to be anything like the current Wii, I'll pass. It wasn't the graphics that drove me away, it was the ridiculous amount of lousy games.


#30



Chibibar

jasonisgreat said:
Meh.

If this is going to be anything like the current Wii, I'll pass. It wasn't the graphics that drove me away, it was the ridiculous amount of lousy games.
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I think that is true to any system. The Wii is new. There are a few gems here and there (we got a library going) lots of family type games when we throw parties.

I am not sure on the price point tho. I got a Wii already and PS3. I'm saving up for the new Xbox 360 so I can play everything :)


#31

Shegokigo

Shegokigo

The Wii has been out long enough. That's no longer a valid excuse. Jasonisgreat is right, it really failed in the library department.


#32

Covar

Covar

Says you guys. The amount of quality games really coincides well with my low game purchasing habits.


#33

Shegokigo

Shegokigo

Granted, but we're talking a more system vs system library sort of thing here.


#34

AshburnerX

AshburnerX

The reason they are already planning the Wii 2 is simple: People have stopped buying the Wii and they want to be able to keep printing money. Expect shorter life times for systems from Nintendo from now on.


#35

sixpackshaker

sixpackshaker

Wii II is coming because Nintendo skipped High Def, where MS and Sony embraced it. But they embraced it too early. People were buying High Tech hardware to play it on an old cathode-ray tube TV. Now that more and more people are opting for HDTV, it now makes sense to come out with the better hardware.


#36

figmentPez

figmentPez

Damn, this is going to be so tempting. I don't have an HDTV, but I do have a computer monitor with an HDMI input. My TV is an old 19" CRT with RF input only, so my Wii looks like crap on it. My old monitor had S-video but it died.

Hopefully Nintendo will include digital 5.1 surround this time as well. That was a stupid oversight for the Wii. Unfortunately, it's possible they'll skip Dolby or DTS encoding and just go with some sort of multi-channel PCM, or whatever the uncompressed audio is called, which won't do me and my older receiver any good.

EDIT: as to "too soon!" the Wii came out in Nov 2006. A fall 2010 release would be 4 years since the Wii. Gamecube to Wii was 5 years, N64 to GCN was 5 years, SNES to N64 was 6 years (5 in North America), NES to SNES was 5-7 years depending on the country.

So, yeah, time between systems has been slowly decreasing. Relative pricing has also gone down a whole lot, too. A NES cost a whole lot more than a Wii if you adjust for inflation.


#37

Frank

Frankie Williamson

Nintendo likes to make money selling consoles. My interest on upgrading a console I don't use to new console I probably won't use will depend on it's price.


#38

strawman

strawman

This is great news.

This means next Christmas the Wii will be $99 on black friday, and all around in sales.

-Adam


#39



JONJONAUG

Probably not true, due to the line about Bluray stopping piracy.

Nintendo uses their own optical disk format, not DVDs. If they switched to Bluray they would become much more susceptible to piracy than they already are (which is pretty much not at all unless you count Wii emulation).

I'm calling fake.

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Shegokigo said:
The Wii has been out long enough. That's no longer a valid excuse. Jasonisgreat is right, it really failed in the library department.
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Eh, I would put it as higher than the N64 but lower than the Gamecube.

After 2010 (between now and the end of 2010 we'll have two new Mario games, the Silent Hill remake, Tatsunoko vs Capcom, No More Heroes 2, Sin and Punishment 2, Epic Mickey, and a few cool pieces of WiiWare including a Cave Story remake) it should be higher than the Gamecube, and lower than the NES/SNES (but that hasn't been topped by any modern console, so that's not such a big deal).


#40

Shegokigo

Shegokigo

I meant "game library failed" as in vs Xbox360 and PS3, not as a system on it's own.


#41

Ravenpoe

Ravenpoe

JONJONAUG said:
If they switched to Bluray they would become much more susceptible to piracy than they already are (which is pretty much not at all unless you count Wii emulation).
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Wii piracy is actually pretty easy. All you need is a wii, software, and usb storage device (flash drive or external HDD). You can rip wii games from their proprietary discs using the wii itself, and dump it to your storage location of choice, or do the reverse with pirated games and play from the device.


#42



Olorin

It's probably fake. It would be weird if the best selling console of this generation is the first to be replaced. Unless it's considered a minor upgrade like the DSi and not an actual Wii 2.

Also, the Wii has plenty of good games. I wish I had more time and money to play them all.


#43



GeneralOrder24

Shegokigo said:
The Wii has been out long enough. That's no longer a valid excuse. Jasonisgreat is right, it really failed in the library department.
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Awe, even Final Fantasy 4, The after years?


#44

Shegokigo

Shegokigo

Not exactly a "Wii" title was it?


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