What next for Wii? Nintendo announced a black model earlier but perhaps more interesting are the snippets that Mario and Zelda creator Shigeru Miyamoto let slip in an interview with er Popular Mechanics. Ok it's hardly earth shattering news but the successor to the Wii is likely to be smaller than the current version.
With both the Wii remote itself and Wii Motion Plus what we've been able to do is introduce an interface that is both I think appealing and at the right price for a broad audience. And while we don't have any concrete plans for what we'll be doing with hardware in the future what I can say is that my guess is that because we found this interface to be so interesting I think it would be likely that we would try to make that same functionality perhaps more compact and perhaps even more cost-efficient.
Miyamoto also talks about the upcoming Super Mario Bros multipla
The concept for the Wii version from the outset was to make it a multipla
Finally we get a tittle gaze in to the future.
I think originally video-game systems were viewed as a toy and they were something you played with. Whereas now I think we're starting to see a blurring of the lines where obviously the internal guts of a video-game system is essentially a computer and we're gradually seeing video games moving beyond simply entertainment into other aspects of everyday life.
What do you think of Miyamoto's comments then? Smaller Wii likely to tempt you? And will the ability to guide novice pla
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Greg Howson
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