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While speaking with shareholders Iwata shared the idea that the Nintendo Wii U could take advantage of voice chat and social networking. Iwata noted that Nintendo could no longer ignore the huge impact that social networks have had. “As for social networks, after examining the penetration and adoption rate of social networking services like Facebook, […]

Peter Moore of EA sports has recently shared his thoughts on online gameplay, the Wii U and how sports games could be enhanced by the Wii U’s unique controller. On online gameplay he said that there would be no more offline games coming from EA sports including those coming to the Wii U. This is […]

According to analyst, Mike Hickey if Nintendo want the Wii U launch to be successful they should aim for a pricepoint of $300 or less for the new system. “Nintendo should be thinking $300 or less for their new console,” Hickey told NowGamer. “The ability to successfully launch game centric hardware within our current economic […]

President of Sony computer Entertainment America, Jack Tretton seemed pretty unaffected by the Wii U. When asked about PlayStation 4 he said that Nintendo’s new system has not made them hurry up with their next console. I didn’t see anything about Nintendo’s announcement that said ‘Oh, we’d better get working on rolling out a new […]

If you were worried about the lack of third party support on the Wii U then worry no more, because as well as Nintendo securing the support of EA, they also have other developers who are interested in developing for the system. In an interview with Toronto Thumbs, Matt Ryan from Nintendo Canada mentioned that there […]

Karl Slatoff, chief operating officer of Take-Two has mentioned his interest in the Wii U in an interview with VentureBeat. Though he admits that they are not announcing anything yet his words seem promising. “Yeah. We haven’t announced any specific support for Wii U at this point, but anytime you’ve got a new platform that […]

Nintendo is currently updating their current dev kits, with the new hardware making it to developers sometime in July. With Reggie saying that we have only seen 10% of what the Wii U can do and the recent news that the developers current Wii U units are underclocked this is quite interesting news. When those […]

Satoru Iwata, CEO of Nintendo has re-confirmed that it is possible for multiple Wii U controllers to be used at one time. While speaking to Japanese gaming magazine, Diamond Online. he said that it is possible to use the Wii U with multiple controllers. It’s good to know that on the technical side of things […]

This interview is a few days old, but I thought it was worth sharing, seeing how many people are thinking of the Wii U controller as an “iPad with buttons.” Speaking to VentureBeat, Reggie Fils-Aime claimed that the Wii U’s controller wasn’t influenced by the iPad, explaining that they began development on the Wii U before […]

We know that the Wii U’s controller will be able to play games without the use of the television set but what will the range of the controller be? Will you be able to play in your bedroom? At your friend’s house over the road? Iwata has shed some light on these burning questions, and […]