Should Nintendo consider a "two console strategy"?

[EricMartello]

Originally posted by: RandomFool

Originally posted by: EricMartello
If I was Nintendo I wouldn't do this. The Wii is basically a slightly overclocked Gamecube...in other words, it's what the Gamecube should have been in the first place. To make a version of the Wii that could spit out HD graphics would require re-engineering the console. It's not like the new XB360 that just adds an HDMI port with no major hardware changes.

Nintendo's Wii maybe outselling the competition but it suffers from the same key problem that the PS3 and XB360 suffer - lack of quality games. The XB360 has some more games out since it has been around for an extra year, but none that I'm really interested in. The PS2 is still chugging long quite well even today due to its massive selection of games.

The gamecube was more powerful than the PS2. The thing that killed it was lack of support by third parties.

Yeah, in other words, lack of game selection. 🙂 The "power" of a console will not make up for lack of quality software, no matter which company it is from.

 

[TanisHalfElven]

a 2.5 year cycle makes almost ZERO sense.
in 2.5 years we'll finally be seeing games that were designed for the Wii by 3rd parties. thats when the fun will really begin. to end the console life then is suicide.