Nintendo’s Wii successor to use 3D

21st June, 2010 by adina
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Satoru Iwata, Nintendo’s President, said to Japanese daily Nikkei that like the recent 3DS console, the next Wii model might have 3D capabilities too. The company is carefully watching the buying rate of 3D TV sets. The next Wii version would be released at the moment when the adoption rate for 3D TVs would reach about 30 percent of the households.

The currently available Wii console does not support high definition graphics, like the competitors do, but this relative deficiency has not impacted on the company’s much higher number of devices sold. Motion-based controllers that the Wii has introduced are now adopted by other companies for their products, such as the Kinect from Microsoft or the PlayStation Move from Sony. Considering these aspects, Nintendo may think it is about time to offer 3D and high definition TV support for the home console it produces.

Sony itself is planning to provide 3D gaming to its PS3 consoles early this summer. Microsoft is also thinking to join forces with LG into similar plans, but this will not happen in the near future.


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