“Nintendo to reveal Wii HD tomorrow?” asks Eurogamer. “Doubt it,” answers Chris Schilling, though I’m well prepared to be proven wrong (and indeed have been, on numerous occasions. In fact, why believe me? Go with Eurogamer’s guess. They probably know something I don’t, after all).

Anyway, this is the story on What They Play, which has veteran games journo John Davison waxing lyrical about Nintendo’s next console, how it’s already been shown to publishers and developers, and Nintendo’s spent loads of money on R+D in the last year so it must be true.

But be still, my cynical tongue. Assuming this is all true, Wii HD will arrive in 2011, it’ll be more about “what the consumer will hold in their hands” than the console itself, and will be all about the digital distribution, baby. Which means much larger storage space. So, knowing Nintendo, that’s 2GB of Flash memory, tee hee.

If true, it will apparently mark a step forwards that’s roughly akin to “Game Boy to Game Boy Advance”. Oh, and backwards compatibility is confirmed. Which, to me, says one thing: Super Mario Galaxy in HD. I’m salivating like a dog chained up outside a butchers as I type this.

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This entry was posted on Wednesday, October 1st, 2008 at 4:05 pm by Chris Schilling
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