Nintendo reportedly intends to release the successor of Nintendo Wii by 2011. Features and capabilities of the next-gen video game system are unknown, but if the information regarding the launch in 2011 is correct, then Nintendo seems to have very high confidence in its Wii, the most successful current-generation video game console.

Citing “multiple sources in the game development and publishing community that Nintendo is currently showing early presentations” of its next-generation home video game console hardware, What They Play web-site claims that Nintendo plans to release its code-named Wii HD machine by 2011. According to the report, the successor of Wii is projected to feature considerably different hardware than the presently available console.

For many years now Nintendo has been concentrating on development of consoles with best possible user experience and has not been focusing on creating the most powerful hardware, unlike Microsoft Corp. and Sony Corp. With Wii HD, Nintendo plans to keep the same tactics.

Some analysts have already expressed their expectations about high-definition version of Wii game console. However, they expected it to arrive in 2009 or 2010 did not anticipated them to be truly revolutionary. But while right now Wii HD is rumoured to come to market by 2011, the console is projected to be substantially different from Wii.

Nintendo did not comment on the news-story.

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