Rumour: Cell Chip Could Power Wii Successor

Wow, I read it as "Cell chip could be wii successor"

You should visit an optician.

I read "Cell Phone could be Wii successor"

I think this is very likely. Im sure Nintendo is looking at 2 more years until the next home console releases. By then the Cell will be even more affordable and the extreme difficulty to learn how to produce games on the Cell has already been broken with PS3.

Very possible in my opinion, but also in my opinion I think the Wii is done after this generation, I dont expect a Wii2.

so much news to expect from Nintendo, but probably a long wait for anything solid. I've got to go buy next year's calender so I can mark down E3.

Wow, wouldn't that be something!

Seeing what major graphical improvements the 3DS gets, it would be likely.
Nintendo always sets gameplay over graphics, and it wouldn't be different here.
The Wii revolutionized the control over a game, and it's successor will stick closely to the original control scheme, with a few tweaks. After they've established satisfying gameplay to the control and found out how much and how little motion controls should be involved, they can focus on the visual experience of a game.
It's like in Zelda: Whereas Wind Waker was graphically not very challenging for the GC, but Twilight Princess picked up Wind Waker's engine and made it look amazing and complex.
I think you can even see a similar pattern in Nintendo's console.

@Slapshot82 By "Wii Successor" he means the console that comes out after the wii. As in, the Wii is the Gamecube's successor

I read "Chips Could Power Wii Success"

Nintendo thrift - ie. stinginess - when it comes to their tech is amazing. I wouldn't be surprised if they bought up a load of old PS3s in a few years' time and cracked them open for the chips - lol.

I would love the next nintendo console to be of a level that doesn't set it apart negatively in the visuals and technicality department.

This wouldn't just mean huge graphics improvements, but also huge gameplay improvements - think monster hunter tri times 4, with huge areas you could travel across.

I hope nintendo doesn't pull a "just enough to bear 5 years" this time.

The thing of it is, they don't need to just reach the power of this generation but go all the way and be strong even for 7 years from now(considering a release in 2 years). I think the wii still has potential as a concept; most people don't like to go back to regular gaming after they've used motion control.

Will there even be a "Wii 2" or will Nintendo go down a different route (holograms, headsets, mind control)?

I want to see Mario but with Gears of Wars graphics. Lot's of shadows and really brown textures! =p

The wii succesor with this chip could have the same size as 2DSXL.

I think they should at least do something better a little better than the PS3. The PS3 is a 4 year old system. Will probably be 6+ years old when the Wii's successor comes out.

I think N should not look @ their next gen system as necessarily needing to have hardware that can be a competitor, or @ the other extreme end of the spectrum, following to the beat of it's own drum. Imo, N should make it's next gen hardware very powerful, but not make it powerful only for the purpose of being a competitor. I believe that if, N does such a thing, their next system will become a competitor anyway.

No gimmicks should be used either. It divides gamers into factions, & self-titled groups. & next gen, if N has an expansion/extension port, &/or something similar on it's next system, hopefully unlike the Nes/SNes/N64 hardware, it will be put to good use.

^ Actually, that idea has merit. Akin to a floppy disk, or flash drive holding info/file(s) that can help your pc boot, should the boot info be damaged/lost/destroyed by malware/virus/etc., a disk could help restore the system firmware, or @ least copy the boot loader into ram enough to start the system, & repair it.

Edit: But of course, it'd be more profitable for N to have us send our consoles into them for servicing.

@JesusSaves: Do you REALLY want to have games span over 1,000 floppy disks that you would have to change every 5 minutes of game play? Floppy disks might have been great at one time, but the fact that they can only store a crumb of information compared to flash drives makes them obsolete.

I wouldn't mind them going to a card format, like the DS. A blue ray gets up to 50 gigs or so, an SD gets up to 64. In two years, they should be cheap. at least they'd be lighter and less incline to damage

@mjc0961
"Example, look at Dead Rising on the 360. Then look at it on the Wii. Then back at the 360. The Wii version had so few zombies that you can probably go through the whole game without ever being bitten or grabbed. Why? Not powerful enough to show as many zombies at once."

...honestly, that seemed like BS. Everyone knows that the Wii version wasn't just ported down, it was thrashed down.
It honestly felt like Dead Rising's team thought the Wii was weaker than the PS2 (it's slightly more powerful than the GC, and the GC was actually more powerful than the PS2... even getting close to being as powerful as the Xbox)... their attempt on Dead Rising Wii was abhorrent!
The Wii could have easily added tons more zombies, maybe not as much as the 360's but enough so that wouldn't be a joke!

Hell, all they had to do was lessen the graphics a bit, add polish to make it okay-to-look-at, dumb down a few AIs (which shouldn't be too noticeable, considering they are zombies...), add minimal motion support, reduce the number of items but add special ones, and voila! Now they've got enough space to keep the number of zombies interesting! And the game would still be great!

But no... they cut down the graphics, barely tried to polish it, added wonky motion controls with ugly "swing" images, and just removed a bunch of zombies! Capcom's Dead Rising team did a piss-poor job on the Wii port! They should honestly be ashamed.

I think the next console should be 4 nvidia gtx 295's duct taped to a disc drive... That would have 880 GB/sec bandwidth ... !!

ummmm... any news on the Dreamcast 2. lol

The title is somewhat misleading. It is obvious that, after spending so much money developing Cell that IBM will integrate its technology in their products. As such, the commentary has some punch power but is trivial, at best.

@JesusSaves You are now the coolest member of NL.

I want to know when they will finally switch from silicon chips to graphite chips.

the PS4 will have a 32 core processor called the mega cell... but only 15 of the 32 cores will be usable... and it will be backwards compatible with 2 PS3 games... sports champions, and no that's it... retail price will be $1299... but it will cost $3600 to make...

Floppy disks vs. CDs. Really? T_T

Why would Nintendo use technology that has been obsolete for at least 10-12 years already for a future successor of the Wii? That would be like saying the PS3's successor would have a LP player to play records with video games ingrained in its grooves.

@Link-Hero: you're just feeding him. let it go. :3

I can't believe you guys took the floppy disc thing seriously.

We know that Nintendo wants the Wii 2 to be surprising – the inclusion of a chip capable of powering a PlayStation 3 would certainly fit the bill.

I think it would be pretty unfortunate if the successor to the Wii couldn't top a system that launched at the same time as the Wii in horsepower.