The Internet seems to have been set aflame by the possibility of new Nintendo hardware to be announced at their media summit on the 24th.  I think there will be new hardware, but it will likely be something we already know about; Vitality Sensor, DS xL etc.  Nintendo will hold off with the big guns until E3… AT LEAST.  With the Wii still doing strong, even though it is not as strong as it was, Nitntendo will hold onto the Wii train for at least another year.  Also, everyone has a DS, why change everything up now.

Nintendo has a very similar position to what they had in the NES days and they were quite content to hold on to that until they absolutely needed to move on and I see this situation to be very similar.  The stranglehold will not be released until their victims begin to loosen their icy grip from their wallets.  As a last resort, the DS slightly better and the Wiimproved will be announced.  ….And we will all buy it.

 This article seems negative, but we are all very excited to see what Nintendo has to show us on the 24th, and at E3.  There has to be at least one big announcement in the next few months, as well as some trailers of stuff we know are coming; Metroid Other M, Zelda.  Then of course there will be some Wii Music-esque disasters… but we will happily ignore them and do our Nintendo happy dance… and for that my excitement grows.   

BreakmanX (AKA Matthew Nyquist) founded BreakmanX.com in 2001 after having small video game websites since around 1996. Things really took off in September of 2002 when he started The Game Show with Richie. BreakmanX.com quickly developed a tight knit community of gamers as the crew covered major industry events and interviewed top industry talent. Break later went to the University of Southern California's School of Cinematic Arts to get his MFA in Film and TV Production. He worked in Hollywood for seven years with people like Fred Roos (The Godfather Trilogy, Star Wars) and Dane Davis (The Matrix). He's now gone full circle and returned to Kansas to write and direct a feature film (EyesOpenMovie.com), relaunch The Game Show (BreakmanX.com), and spend his day time hours as an tenured Associate Professor.

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