“Business” game journalists are not any better than “game journalists” apparently. Take a look at this story.

Despite this shifting of Nintendo’s position on high definition however, Reggie Fils-Aime expressed a conflicting message during a recent interview with GTTV.

“Michael [Pachter] continues to be the only one that believes [Wii HD] is going to happen,” the NoA president told presenter Geoff Keighley.

“I don’t know how forcefully we can say that there is no Wii HD.”

Nintendo’s position has been, since before the Wii launched, that the platform cycle that began after the Gamecube was not appropriate for HD. There wasn’t enough TVs for it. Costs of it were still very high (which is why HD consoles costed so much). You will find Iwata being consistent on this point.

What Reggie is responding to is a Wii HD. That is, the Wii platform that is HD hardware. It isn’t going to happen. Ever. It would split the userbase. HD will come out for the next platform. Nintendo has no interest in splitting up the userbase of the Wii.

In the talk with investors, Nintendo execs are not referring to the Wii. They are, of course, referring to the next platform.

Iwata announced the console after the Wii would be HD. This first occurred not soon after Iwata announced that the “Revolution” would not be in HD.

Does anyone not do any research anymore in the “Game Industry”? Has everyone lost ‘reading comprehension’ lately?

This industry deserves its decline.