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On a serious note, I think the fine line between consoles and PCs are slowly going to begin to blend. Consoles are heading towards becoming multi-media systems in the future, and I predict a couple generations down the road you'll be able to use your "Nintendo" as your go to stop for tv, music, games.

But that's just a prediction. Whatever Nintendo decides to do, it will be just as awesome as every other generation they have put out has been.

anth0ny wrote:I predict a couple generations down the road you'll be able to use your "Nintendo" as your go to stop for tv, music, games.

This could be done next gen, so I assuming that video game systems will be nothing more than PCs with different disc formats (not unlike back in the 80s when computers had unique cartridge formats)

While I like where gaming consoles are heading, and I really rather have one device doing everything than a dedicated device for dvd , decoder, gaming, wifi, etc...
less wires, less clutter...

I hate consoles being PC like. I remember when a friend first brought in the original Xbox, how large it was, the noise it made, I knew it was a small PC.
I had a problem with that , because to me consoles were a home appliance that run games quietly , does not turn hot, and does not crash or hiccup. Any one recall the NES crashing, or Genesis having hard time loading material?



but maybe in the future console manufacturer will be like paid TV. Buy our "reciever" and get exclusives "tv channels"(games) ,

If the next big innovation was something obvious, Sony and Microsoft would have already beat Nintendo to it. If we can come up with it in this thread, it's probably not what Nintendo is going to do.

kingmohd84 wrote:but maybe in the future console manufacturer will be like paid TV. Buy our "reciever" and get exclusives "tv channels"(games) ,

They've all tried it at one point or another and at multiple times too.

It's always failed miserably.

(I previously thought of this some years ago.) This would be something that Nintendo/Sony/MS could do for the 3rd party developers & customers (& perhaps the companies as well). All 3 companies would make the same, literally same internal hardware but make their own controllers for their 1st party games (and they could design their own unique outer casing). (I know it sounds like a PC but with the ease of a console instead.)

That way, if you really wanted to play Nintendo 1st party games, you could:
A: buy Nintendo's "X-console" first - instant play/authorized play via their H/W & controller
or
B: buy either the Sony or MS "X-console" and purchase Nintendo's controller separately to enable play on "their" systems.
So if you had Sony's system, and wanted to play Nintendo games, you buy N's controller, said controller profits go directly to Nintendo but the original System purchase went to Sony.

As for 3rd party devs, they simply make one title that plays exactly the same on all 3 consoles (but they'd have to make 3 button layouts for the 3 different controllers). This would/should save them lots of money on multi-console development and there wouldn't be H/W performance issues, just controller preferences for the games.

I thought of this originally when people were comparing the PS3 to the 360 saying that there really isn't much of a difference between the two so if you really wanted a 360 game but had a PS3, you'd need to get a 360. For the "X-console" idea, you'd just buy MS's controller and there ya go.

I know it'll never happen but I just thought that'd be really convenient for customers, 3rd party developers, but the N/S/MS would/could never agree on what H/W specs etc would be inside it. I'm sure there are other things that would come up too but I didn't give it much thought due to the impossibility of the situation.
But it woulda been simple too since all 3 are made at Foxconn anyways.

AmishSamurai wrote:Enable DVD playback on their system? Make decent online?

But in all seriousness, I'd like to see a way to combine the nunchuck and vitality sensor, possibly into a glove peripheral that allows you to grasp and manipulate objects in-game. The glove goes on the dominant hand, and you hold the Wiimote in it as your basic game controller/in-game weapon, and then hold the controller in your other hand and grasp stuff in-game. Trying to flesh out in my head how it would work. Like, would the joystick be moved to the wiimote? I can't stand the Wii's d-pad, and I could see my thumb positioned so I can move the joystick and hit the A button together easily.

Impossible. Nintendo would never do something that crazy.

AmishSamurai wrote:
But in all seriousness, I'd like to see a way to combine the nunchuck and vitality sensor, possibly into a glove peripheral that allows you to grasp and manipulate objects in-game. The glove goes on the dominant hand, and you hold the Wiimote in it as your basic game controller/in-game weapon, and then hold the controller in your other hand and grasp stuff in-game. Trying to flesh out in my head how it would work. Like, would the joystick be moved to the wiimote? I can't stand the Wii's d-pad, and I could see my thumb positioned so I can move the joystick and hit the A button together easily.

Are you telling me that this glove can give me the true power necessary to really be IN my games? How would they pull off such a powerful hand based interactive covering?

long live the dolphin!

I have this weird belief that the Wii was designed the way it was to basically print money and enable them to fund 3DS development. The continued money printing from the Wii mixed with the inevitable money printing of the 3DS considered, I have a feeling Nintendo is going to have a lot of cash to sink into something very special. Just from the 3rd party support the 3DS has out the door, it already gives off this vibe of Nintendo saying "seriously guys, we're not screwing around anymore. let's do this thing"

The way things have played out I have a feeling Nintendo will wait until Sony and Microsoft are deep into the whole motion control platform and then strike with something completely off the wall.