Nintendo president clears up any remaining speculation that Nintendo are going HD this generation, but also hints for the future...

Speaking to VentureBeat, Nintendo company president Satoru Iwata responded to a question regarding the Wii getting full HD support, as Microsoft's Xbox 360 and Sony's PlayStation 3 both do as well. He responded that at the current time Nintendo had "not found a specific reason to make it HD-compatible at this time."

He questioned what the "specific meaning" was to the users, and said that it shouldn't be implemented until this was determined. Yet, if Nintendo "have an opportunity to make a new console, it will probably support HD because it is now common throughout the world."

So it looks now for certain that the Wii will be standard definition for the rest of its life, but that the Wii 2 (or whatever name Nintendo dreams up) will embrace high-definition for certain.

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