Saturday, March 12, 2011

Nintendo's next gen Wii-sh list

The Wii is a lot of fun, but it needs to be much more to sell a next gen product. Total home entertainment is the goal. Here's how.

Faster processor. Duh.
Wireless N. Streaming HDTV, anyone?
1080p graphics for gaming and Internet browser
Better internet video support- no Hulu, no Espn. What's up with that?
Need a wireless keyboard/mouse accessory (preferably from nintendo)
Platform should essentially be a google tv
Disc player should play movies (DVD, blu-ray)
More channels- where's music? Pictures? Facebook? You get the idea.
News channel is weak- suffers from very poor editorializing. Top 'tech' story (out of 2) was the Pope now has a Facebook account. That is not tech, that is pop fluff.
News channel uses NASA for map images, while Google Earth is the standard. NASA graphics suck.
The news channel cat must die, too. What kind of hold over from alpha code is that, anyway?
You must be able to print an email photos/pictures from the Wii. I have a Udraw. Makes great pictures no one will ever see unless I save to sd card and move it to a computer.
Other channels, like weather, need an overhaul, too. Better weather reports, too. I don't even trust it.
Fan inlet clogs up too much causing overheating and freeze of the Wii. Should be located higher on the case.
Decent games for the motion plus would be nice.

Wow. I think this just means I need a ps3 with better games for kids.

So what will nintendo really do? Let's get crazy.

Play your mii in everything- that would be funny
Inject your face into the mii creator or ANY game
Support face and voice recognition
Really good body movement sensing- must support a karate style game.
Open system for developers to work on. No more home brew required.
mmorpg support
Introduce creativity enhancing software with special controllers
Augmented reality games
Built-in video conferencing
in game audio chat for mmorpg
real world mii toy that looks like you and integrates with the Wii (adventures with Mii games)
music creation vice dumbed down music copying/fake play back (through Wii adapter to synth module)
Wii publishing to social networks

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