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2011 Will Bring Wii 2.0 HD

The one thing about Nintendo you have to respect is they rarely make an upgrade that isn’t significant. Based on stories from whatweplay.be this certainly is the case. They report on the Wii 2.0:

“High definition visuals are assured, as is a greater emphasis on digitally distributed and backwardly compatible content, indicating that the new system will feature some form of local storage medium such as a hard drive or large flash memory solution. It has also been indicated that Nintendo’s emphasis is again on what the consumer will hold in their hands and interact with, rather than the “console” itself.”

The fact is Nintendo is not messing around to continue being the top motion based player in the

world. They are throwing some serious money around, which only means good things for the gamers:

“Based on figures from Nintendo’s annual financial reports, the company is currently spending more than ten times as much on research and development as it was five years ago, and since the Wii was launched in 2006, R&D spending has more than tripled. While this could be attributed to any number of additional projects, the level of spending suggests that a large project is in the works. In 2003, Nintendo declared that $34 million was spent on R&D. This figure steadily climbed to $103 million in 2006 (the year that the Wii launched) and the following year bumped dramatically to $370 million.”