Nintendo has just announced that the company will release the successor to the Wii, sometime next year.

One market analyst believes it’s more than a simple blip on the chart. If it’s true, why did Xbox outsell Wii last year? How will Nintendo react to this news?

Activate3D has come up with a new piece of tech called Intelligent Character Motion (ICM) technology. The ICM basically allows the player to “feel” through the virtual world as if they were in it – the ultimate goal of most of these motion control input devices. Based on the input (via a Kinect sensor or a Wii wand or any other motion-sensing device) and the surrounds of the virtual avatar, the ICM predicts the most accurate action based on the context.

A possible Microsoft Employee says that Kinect might be buggy when several people are near the device sensor and also said that it is not a Wii killer at all.

It has been six years since the Nintendo Wii was launched. Nintendo Wii managed to set the sales chart on fire, even though many people criticized it. Nintendo has been making record profits every year since then

This recent entry at Mozilla links shows a Wiimote controlled Firefox. Paul Rouget has written a neat hack which allows us to use the Wiimote with Firefox.

Vicious Cycle Software, the developers of Matt Hazard and Dead Head Fred have opened their newer iteration of the Vicious Engine, the Vicious Engine 2 to the PSP, PS2 and Wii. This translates into graphically intense games for these consoles from the developer. The Vicious Engine 2 was available for the PS3 and Xbox 360 only before.