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The Tokyo Game Show and Yoichi Wada
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He rumors a new Wii
And shock, in HD!
Note now that this limerick's... okay, forget it. I don't have footbigmike's boundless energy for goofy.

Long story short, Yoichi Wada, president of Square-Enix, is using his press time pre-TGS to postulate on the next generation of consoles, implying that the motion-sensing applications of PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 will have a small impact at best. Seems that Wada either doesn't think they can do it better than Nintendo, or that nobody will actually care, particularly when the next Wii comes out (for which, not coincidentally, Wada also has theories - mark your calendars for sometime in 2011 and buy a HDTV if you don't have one, says the Man). The gist is this—in a couple short years the console market could look very much like three identical entries in different colors.

Source: Joystiq

I'd have to agree with him on both parts.

1) I don't necessarily think that the Wii's main selling point is it's motion control. It's really because it's cheaper and family-friendly. Sony and Microsoft adding motion control isn't going to give them Mario and Zelda. But....

2) The only thing that gives the other two consoles an advantage is that they are high-def, and I could see Nintendo trying to bridge that gap.

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I agree, that the Wii's main selling point is its family nature, with games that appeal to a wider audience than 360 and PS3. If anything in the next generation, we'll see those two competitors try to increase the range of their games so as to take a bigger stake in the casual gamer market.

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Quote (Death Penalty @ 22nd September 2009 17:08)

I agree, that the Wii's main selling point is its family nature, with games that appeal to a wider audience than 360 and PS3. If anything in the next generation, we'll see those two competitors try to increase the range of their games so as to take a bigger stake in the casual gamer market.

Yeah, you've seen that happen already, with such things as Little Big Planet and the new avatars on the Xbox 360. It's really obvious that Sony and Microsoft are trying to catch up with Nintendo, and I'm sure Nintendo will try to do the same.

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