E308 | Wii and DS Refinement in 5-10 Years

During E3 Nintendo's Shigeru Miyamoto discussed something that has been lingering on gamer's minds: When would we be seeing Wii 2?

Some readers had speculated prior to E3 that a new handheld would be announced or at least hinted at this year, but according to the legendary gamer designer in one of his bazillion interviews a new Nintendo branded machine maybe as far off as around five to ten years before hitting the shelves.

He feels that both the DS and Wii have created an "advancement" in gaming, an evolution perhaps. The next step may be taking what the machines have done and refining them, blending new with the established.

In looking at video games, and obviously, it's been a short history, I've seen patterns where you have more refinements as you go from one system to the next, followed by big evolutions, or big changes. And example would be going from the NES to the Super NES was more of a refinement, and going from the Super NES to the Nintendo 64 was more of a big advancement.

So, looking at the recent history, I'd say that the DS and Wii together represent some of those very big changes, both on the handheld and the home console side. Based on past history, I would guess that we would see some refinement sometime in the next five to 10 years and then in another five to 10 years, you would see probably the next big evolution.

Could an HD-enabled Wii follow-up be on the way at the turn of the decade? What refinements do you feel Nintendo would/should implement in their future consoles?