The Government has offered Australia's three mobile operators, and vividwireless, renewal of their existing spectrum allocated on 15 year licences in the late 90s and early 2000s at set prices, while the Government expects to rake in $3 billion.
Controllers: With the E3 announcement of Wii MotionPlus – the accuracy improving Wii-mote attachment – Nintendo have addressed a little annoyance with the unique motion sensing control system.
Make MotionPlus integrated with the controller, and somehow backwards compatible with older titles (probably impossible with API change barriers) and the Wii 1.5 is already looking good.
Storage: With no hard drive on board, or the ability to connect external hard drives, the capacity to store download content – or all those Virtual Console nostalgic titles. Juggling the current Wii storage is becoming increasingly difficult.
Wii 1.5, allow USB connected drives or bring out a Nintendo controlled external storage unit.
For Wii 2 how about Holographic storage? It seems Nintendo are exploring this solid state storage option with the news that they have signed a patent with Inphase Technologies.
Inphase Technologies are one of the larger players in the Holographic storage field. Nintendo’s interest however would more than likely be aimed at the portable unit market – I.E. the Nintendo DS.
I am sure a boosted online service would feature heavily on any Nintendo Wii fan's wish list.
Perhaps the biggest change that Nintendo could bring to the Wii is – no not DVD playback – a ‘new attitude’.
At E3 this year, Nintendo made a pre show promise that core gamers would not be left out, this proved somewhat hollow as the clear direction of the company is to continue to expand the frontiers of interactive entertainment to include an even larger demographic.
For the core fans, looking for more immersive gaming titles E3 was a disappointment. Nintendo showed off Wii Music, Animal Crossing: City Folk and Wii Sports: Resort. But where was some good old alien blasting or Normandy beach storming?
Perhaps with a beefed up Wii 2, Nintendo could attract back developers currently releasing all the good Zombie Wrestling ™ games on PS3 and Xbox 360.
Readers could also have opinions on what (if indeed anything) could be wielded by Nintendo in the near future. Any ideas will be immediately forwarded to the big N to help spark the creative juices that we know flow in abundance throughout Nintendo’s development teams.
David Bass
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