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Wii 2
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Unless the Wii 2 has something to make it a true console, then it will work. But HD itself isn't that important.
On another note, we need better terms than "casual" for people who play games but don't care about them or invest in them substantially. A "hardcore" Farmville player is a gamer: gaming is a significant portion of his life. Yet, Farmville is barely a game. Nintendo has made a great deal of its money on yet another demographic, that I think we can call the "incidental gamers." They play games, but in the same way that I watch a youtube video. It's there, I'm bored. They wouldn't extend any amount of effort to play more games, nor would they pay more for better games.
I'm also extremely dubious of a new system. Nintendo has shown in the past generation of systems, like the DS family and the Wii, that the new control schemes and ideas tend to be gimmicky, and the game libraries have been less than stellar. I can't think of many games that really utilize the potential that the touch-screen or the Wii controllers, and control issues aside, there are very few games on either system that I play (or want to play) with any sort of frequency. We even have a DS and a DS-Lite, I occasionally play Brain Age, but no other games have held my interest. Kate hasn't touched any DS games in years, and I think we've actually played a game over the link once or twice.
IF they are releasing a new system this late in the game, it would need to be spectacular. Even then, I'd not buy it until it had a considerable library of games that I wanted to play.
The problem with the Wii is the American market of casual fratboy gamers. The Wii has some of the highest quality games of the generation, just counting the Mario games, but as long as the yearly Call of Duty sells a billion copies then just making quality games isn't going to save Nintendo.
They banked a lot of money on hardware when Sony was losing money on each hardware sale and Microsoft suffered from their support black hole because they design hardware about as well as a third grader with some cardboard and tinfoil. If Nintendo were to release a console now with better hardware for the PS3, real controllers along with the motion controllers, and support from the big companies for all the "popular" games as well as the Nintendo catalogue then they'd kill. Plus, they could charge enough to be competitive and take a loss now, just using the original Wii profits to write it off in the books.
That's fantastic, but FUCKING WHY. Just use the 3DS as the controller, and actually FUCKING USE IT. FF:CC, Four Swords, FUCK YOU NINTENDO.