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Originally Posted by mykalberta
Or you could say now that HD is at saturation it is the right time to come out with the console when its more affordable to produce it.
Nintendo has never been one to cater to the new video card every 6 months crowd.
My prediction is it will be slightly better than the PS3 but have another innovative technology that allows smart phone/ipad users to connect up and use their devices as controllers with an app produced by Nintendo.
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I agree with what you're saying also. Nintendo argued that when Wii came out, HDTVs were not common enough for mass market (especially since Wii was catered to that market). I think now, they'll need to go after the traditional market (run with the wii in unison, Wii for casual, new console for traditional gamers). It also needs to be better than the PS3 or Xbox (but just barely, nothing groundbreaking to keep costs down, but also have a new hook), or else there is no reason to get it. New PS and Xbox apparently isn't out till 2014 so Nintendo will have 2 years of exclusive "next gen" time, so they can get new unique stuff while also getting ports of what PS3 and Xbox360 will be getting. Then in 2014 the big leap will come from Sony and Microsoft and the Nintendo console will fade.
The big things Nintendo's console would need if it is going after the traditional market is a real online system, and some storage system. Either in the conventional sense with harddrives or cloud based and to really support 3rd party exclusives. Nintendo has pretty much succeeded strictly on 1st party exclusive content, but they discourages 3rd party developers for allocating resources for Nintendo stuff since it won't sell.