The topic may be a bit misleading, seeing as this is about Nintendo and the Wii.

Nintendo has been the most innovative of the three console makers, but what will they make in 5-6 years when a new batch of consoles? They couldn't go back to a regular controller, that'd be a bit strange and pointless.

No flaming. If you have nothing to contribute to this topic, don't post.

What could Nintendo do?

Nintendo is straight out of ideas from there because they were loosing the race and this was a last ditch effort to pull themselves back up with the Wii.

Maybe like a suit where you control the player with your body motions. But that's highly unlikely.

I think from here on out, Nintendo is on a downward spiral.

In depth virtual reality, if you die in game. you die IRL!!!

I think they have to option to go two different ways. Firstly, can can do what all the other consoles are doing in just sticking with what they have and just improving upon it. More or less just taking the Wii as it is and making it more powerful, adding more features and the like. Similar to to PS2->PS3 and Xbox-> Xbox 360. Their other option is to go the route that they went with the Wii, to make something yet to be seen. This would be more difficult as I'm sure the Wii took a lot of the futuristic plans. I would think they would just try to improve upon the Wii for the next console.

They've already got Wii2 planned I think.

Maybe with HD?

their competitors will probably steal the Wii's ideas and make it better... causing Nintendo to be as rubbish as it was before the Wii

Oh please don't tell me you just said that.

The wii remains one of Nintendo's lowest selling consoles. Infact, were you to compare units sold across all consoles pre-sixth Gen, Nintendo has sold 429.85million units. If you compare that with Sony: 242.74million units. And that was only what was shipped; many remain unsold.

But the wii is still the fastest selling 6th gen console, having sold 20.3million units in a little over a year. If you compare that to the PS2 which sold 120million units in 7 years: the wii is currently the fastest selling console of all time.

If you compare the highest selling games pre-6th Gen (And actually post 6th gen at the moment, only Halo 3 even comes close to the top 20 selling games of all time):



I do believe that's 8 of the top 10 highest selling games of all time having come out on Nintendo formats pre-wii. And that's discounting the bundled games:
# Super Mario Bros. (NES – 40.23 million)
# Tetris (Game Boy – 33 million)
# Super Mario World (SNES – 20 million)

People just fail to realise how popular Nintendo products are. Mainly because they always appeal to both children and adults, bypassing teenagers for the most part. And that's fine because teenagers are dirt poor and never get bought anything by their parents.

ontopic:
I think PS & XBOX will follow the Wii and make new modern products instead of upgraded versions.
Wii will probably just continue along this line and upgrade it, untill something new comes up that is

offtopic:
Rob's right

Two Wiimotes. You hold one in your right and left hand, and the other you attach it to... never mind. But I think it will just be a better graphics engine and a Wiimote. But currently, the only thing that will be advancing his handhelds (graphics, more and more portability), because I think we have peaked at the graphics state of age.

Obviously you're right, but you say its the slowest selling consoles. When you compare the one year of Wii compared to at least five years for each of the other systems, of course at this point the Wii will be down.

Nintendo will always be around for the long time fans of the many series of games that they have created over the past 15 years, as for whats next, I really don't know but the wii seems to be pretty populor for children and adults, which was Nintendo's original intension.