Christ people, Fumanstan was joking.

I think.

Yeah, pretty much. People tend to forget that Sega didn't go out of business over night. It was a long process of failure after failure from the Sega CD to the 32X to the Dreamcast. One failure alone doesn't mean bankruptcy at all. If that was the case, no company would ever survive because every company fails at one time or another. The only real failure that Nintendo has had was the Virtual Boy which was more than a decade ago. They have since recovered from that.

And I wonder if Nintendo drops the bomb and shows off a "significantly more powerful" console than the PS3 and 360, if Sony and MS are now planning to unveil their next-gen consoles at E3 as well. Once the first bomb drops, the rest follow shortly... This gen certainly isn't going to last until 2015-2016 like some people think...

I mean heck just a couple weeks ago I built a gaming PC for $600 that is significantly more powerful than the current consoles. If I can build it myself for $600, then a company which gets deep discounts for mass bulk purchases can build it for much cheaper. The PS3 and 360 are very outdated. By 2015, they are going to be ancient. Heck, the PS3 uses a 7800 GTX video card which is already ancient by PC gaming standards.

The color screen is cool but how much would this cost if you accidentally drop the controller and break one?

I know that's probably IGN's mock-up, but fuck Nintendo needs to lose the octogon frame around the analog sticks. What purpose do they possibly thing those serve?

Yeah I was, I guess people have short memories

Convex analog sticks... really?

I'm guessing the point is so that when it's moved all the way in one of the primary directions (up, down, left, right, diagonals), it settles in to nudge you in exactly that direction. So for example, you're moving straight forward instead of being slightly off. But I agree, it should go.

While they're at it, make sure the triggers are analog. Those triggers look digital since they used the Wii Classic Controller Pro as the basis.

Pretty sloppy mockup. All they really did was just take a classic controller pro and throw a screen on there and such.

i would simply be happy with a Wii that upconverts the old games to HD and has a larger internal hard drive

this is interesting. if they could truly get some of the games that xbox360 and ps3 get, it would be huge for them. the only downside is if they can integrate online play as well as microsoft did with live. wii's online stuff is atrocious.

Earlier I said that I'd be surprised if they didn't allow transfer of VC, DLC, etc.

Online falls into the same category, as far as I'm concerned. They can't introduce Project Cafe, say "We're going after the hardcore gamer market," and then keep online play the same as they've done with the Wii.

That controller looks nice. My only concerns are that the A/B/X/Y buttons look a little low. And I wish the L2/R2 buttons were triggers.

This might just be the best system ever, but I'll tell you : I didn't just buy a 60 in LED HDTV to have to keep looking down at the little screen on my controller. Maybe for local multiplayer Madden, but otherwise not feeling it yet.

You know that screen isn't going to be used for the main part of gameplay... so I don't know why this is a concern of yours.

You might have the option to play your quarter of the screen in Mario Kart from another room, but obviously the screen will be used in other ways as well.

I guess the way they display the mock-up the screen looks integral to gameplay. I bet it will be very cool in actuality.
Based on current tech, I don't see how they can bring in a controller like that for under $100 though. I'd they actually charge that much for a second controller, it would certainly hurt sales.

unless they packaged 2 in with the console at the beginning.

Packing in two controllers and a game (like Wii Sports) just like old times would go a long way to establishing some good will.

Yeah, but if the Controllers are real, those will be pretty freakin' expensive. I'm game either way.

I highly doubt they would do that. Maybe a game, but not two controllers.

Watch it be like a dreamcast VMU....


*screen sold seperately

i know times have changed and they don't really do that anymore, but Nintendo does think outside the box. you never know.

No way they will do 2 controllers. The retail "partners" will go crazy. Best buy and others make money on the accessories, not the console sales

I bet they'll be in the $69-$79 range.

It's official:(no new details though)