Recently, the folks at 1080up.org posted a comment, inviting me to their site as they try to gain support for their campaign (so to say) to get Nintendo to support High Definition on their next console.

I grew up on Nintendo and and love the brand. When I grew up I had a very unhealthy amount of Mario force fed to me in various forms, from cereal (who out there remembers the Mario/Zelda cereal double pack?), to multiple television shows (Captain N, anyone?) and it has lead to a very personal nostalgic connection.

Like the folks at 1080up.org, I too feel that by not having any future plans to support HD is a very dumb move by Nintendo. The future is HD, and Nintendo just doesn’t see it, for some stupid reason.

Nintendo’s official stance so far is that they will not support HD based on current technology trends, like having only 1% of GameCube owners buy the component connection; however, what Nintendo fails to realize is that when the GameCube was released, we were multiple years away from the forced television switch to digital, and the HD market in the United States was strictly for the lunatic fringe. However, we are now about to enter another phase of the digital switchover: more television stations are now broadcasting in HD, High Definition DVDs are almost upon us, and the content delivery infrastructure (both cable and satellite) now readily supports High Definition upon request of the customer. Before this time, HD was purely a device to show off to friends and family as a status symbol.

Now, from a business perspective, I see Nintendo’s point of view: HD is expensive to implement. The higher the cost of their components, the lower profit margins Nintendo will have on each piece of hardware sold. Also, it’s not essential for Nintendo to support HD because developers will probably support both Low and High Definition formats. Why? Because most people still do not own an HD-capable television, so in order to maximize profits, developers will have to support the majority.

In the long term, this is a bad decision by Nintendo. While the effects will not be felt in the first year of the consoles life, as HD becomes a larger part of the worldwide audience, Nintendo will lose developers because marketing (and customers) will simply demand higher quality graphics - something the Revolution will not be able to support.

So, good luck to the folks at 1080up.org.

Remember: in order to be in the future, you must embrace its concepts in the present.

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