Hardware Archive

Sony: “We’re not afraid of a little coffee stain.”

An unknown Sony employee (well, not entirely unknown; we know her first name is Sandy) has just gone on record trash talking about Nintendo’s next console with the following line: We’re not afraid of a little coffee stain. Oooh, Nintendo’s not gonna like that, Sandy. Does the line imply that Sony has secretly been working […]

Why the Wii 2’s rumoured touchscreen controller makes perfect sense

Chris Kohler of Wired.com has written a wonderful editorial on why it makes perfect sense for Nintendo’s next home console to have a touchscreen controller. It touches on Nintendo’s past attempts to add extra screens beyond the TV to the living room, and presents several likely reasons for why the Wii’s wireless connectivity to the […]

Project Café to ‘offer a new way of playing games within the home’

Iwata seems to be warming up for tonight’s investor relations meeting. At a conference earlier today, he assured us that the Wii’s successor will ‘offer a new way of playing games within the home.’ The full quote is as follows: As for the details of exactly what it will be, we have decided that it […]

Getting ready for Nintendo’s investor relations meeting

A short guide to what we can expect to hear from Nintendo’s investor relations meeting tomorrow, and how you can follow it.

Yet another image of Project Café leaks out – this one’s of the back

Wow, so much for a set of images that everyone is convinced are fake. I just found a picture of the back of that console, which shows us where everything would plug in. There appears to be an antenna, two USB ports (or are they HDMI?), and some other attachment point that I can’t really […]

Official Nintendo document confirms 2012 Wii successor launch & playable E3 showing

An official document from Nintendo’s investor relations site confirms that the Wii’s successor will be revealed in playable form at E3 2011, followed by a 2012 launch.

Third set of ‘Project Café’ pictures leaks out

Two more alleged pictures of the Wii 2 have leaked out. They look exactly like the console that was pictured in the two earlier leaks. I’m now 99% sure these are fake, because the console in this particular set has a light turned on, but isn’t plugged in anywhere (and home consoles aren’t exactly battery-powered). […]

Further confirmation of the Project Café codename

After that earlier find on Wario World, Manukineko from GoNintendo dug up the above image that more or less confirms that Project Café is the real codename of the Wii’s successor. It can be found at: https://www.warioworld.com/images/cafe/cafe_header.jpg So I guess that’s it. Café really must be the new console’s codename, unless someone at Nintendo decided to […]

Could ‘Project Café’ be the Wii 2’s real codename?

A curious anomaly on Wario World suggests that Project Café may actually really be the Wii successor’s codename.

Project Café to abandon friend codes? [Updated]

In 1UP’s latest Oddcast, Sam Kennedy has been quoted as saying that Project Café will no longer use friend codes for its online system. The origin of the information is unknown, as is its validity, but it’s certainly still a tempting proposition that Nintendo might finally do away with the friend code system entirely. However, we […]