The Nintendo Wii 2 will be smaller and cheaper. That’s the word from Shigeru Miyamoto, the man behind Mario and Donkey Kong. He says the console will also move into “other aspects of daily life”, hinting Ninty will follows Microsoft and Sony into the world of home entertainment.
Speaking with Popular Mechanics, Miyamoto, who has plenty of knowledge of what goes down inside Nintendo HQ said, “While we don’t have any concrete plans for what we’ll be doing with hardware in the future… I think it would be likely that we would try to make that same functionality perhaps more compact and perhaps even more cost-efficient.”
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How Nintendo would make the Wii 2 cheaper remains to be seen. All the talk has been of a new model packing in HD, as well as more online functionality to compete with the Xbox 360 and PS3, which would cost the Japanese giant a fair whack.
Miyamoto does think, though, that the Wii 2 will be more than just a “toy”. “We’re gradually seeing video games moving beyond simply entertainment into other aspects of everyday life,” he said. Maybe he was simply talking about the new Wii Exercise Bike?
Out now | £180 | Nintendo (via TechRadar)
