I wonder how much longer we'll have to wait.

Brian, how long ago did you send this in?

@gamerpete64

You are sitting around waiting for the next system? Have a fun few years at least. I am not even thinking about it that way.

This won't be for a long while. Aside from developers who blindly rant about how games should be 'art' and 'like movies', I can't imagine developers being fond of having to start over from scratch, AGAIN, to appeal to a very low salesbase compared to what they just came from, AGAIN, right when they feel they've gotten a full grasp of what a system can do. Again.

Now that interface has replaced 'zomg graffix' as the most important thing to far, far more consumers than not, the Wii has a long ways to go with how it can change and improve.

@gamerpete64

Seeing that Super Mario Galaxy 2 and Metroid Other M are for 2010 (which likely means that Zelda will be for 2011)...you're looking at 2012 at the very earliest.

@EVIL-C

Agreed! That is exactly how I feel as well.

@EVIL-C

Seconded. But even for WM+ there will still be room for improvement... there is no perfect tech

@WiiLikeSportz

I'm not, just curious.

@gamerpete64

I'm glad for your sake: because though I'm curious too I think if I let myself admit how curious I was it would make the years drag on!

Thankfully there are some pretty amazing games coming out now for our little ol' system.

They are probably still throwing around ideas for what the next console will be like in terms of graphical power and such, and they're probably thinking of a few controller ideas, but honestly I think the Wii's successor won't come around for quite a while.

A bigger question would be when the DS's successor will come out. DS has proven to be a very long lasting system (very much like the original Game Boy, which didn't get a true successor until 2001 with the GBA [Game Boy Color was still "Game Boy," it just had the added ability to display games in full color and not just black and green]). I can imagine the next Nintendo handheld will probably take the touch screen to greater heights, and maybe even include motion sensing and camera functions, and have graphics that are about on par with the Gamecube.

Well Miyamoto just said New Super Mario Bros. Wii is too maxed out with its DS graphics and 4-player mode to have any online. So I guess its time for a new system, right Nintendo? When a game that screams online is limited by the hardware (despite its simplistic visuals and presentation), a game from Miyamoto no less, then you know you made a mistake releasing such limited hardware.

On top of this HD televisions are becoming quite common now, so an HD Wii would be nice in a year or two.

@Despacio

I don't think NSMBW screams online. To me it sounds, get 3 buddies and have a blast.

@Deux Michaels

HAHAHHAHAHA

Nintendo will drag out the Wii as long as they can so as to take advantage of dropping technology costs (which is also why MotionPlus took so long to come out).

srry, but im pretty sure that we still have a good amount of time left with the wii since motionplus isn't out yet. with that piece alone, it will change how we play games, so im guessing it will be 4 more years before we will hear about the next system.

@stealthpengu

'Wii HD' won't come out in 2012, but it'll be ignored even if it has full HD graphics and options [the others will be using the newest thing and HD will be old hat].

It's gonna happen, sadly. People are never satisfied for long [gamers being the perfect grouped example].

There's still a lot of power that developers can tap from the Wii, and I really doubt that any of them have fully mastered motion controls yet, so I don't see a Wii successor coming for a long time. Which is a good thing, as it saves me money.