I hear the angels sing.

In an interview, Satoru Iwata has stated that the company is indeed working on the next Nintendo console.

"We are always preparing for the next hardware," Iwata says. "We are under development. … But the hardware is a kind of box that consumers reluctantly buy in order to play our games."

"Every hardware needs some revolutionary features," Iwata says. "This time around, it happened to be we had a revolutionary user interface. Will it be the same for the next generation? I really can't tell.

"It's natural for the current customer to expect Nintendo is going to once again do something different," he continues. "If the people are expecting so many different things from Nintendo, it's going to be difficult for us to go beyond that expectation again."

Of course we still don't know when the new console will debut or be shown at a game show for that matter since the Wii is still selling like hotcakes. Those are all the details Mr. Iwata has given and it will probably be years before he even talks about it again. One can only wonder what the Next Wii will look like and what type of power if any Nintendo will add to the console and what type of storage will it use. 

Right now people conplain about the graphics and the lack of storage space and a few people complain about the online system that Nintendo has implemented which they themselves say it is a useless system. This will probably be the only post of its kind until a few years from now when Nintendo becomes more open to talk about their next-gen console.