This news is hardly surprising seeing as the Wii had Netflix and the Nintendo 3DS will have Netflix soon but it’s still good to hear.

While being quizzed on the Wii U Iwata let slip that the console would have the service. This was his response to a question on what kind of gender ration the Wii U will have.

“A number of the videogame genres will be for male audiences, and the male audiences will increase, but on the other hand, this device is capable of many other things. On this device you can see video streams of Netflix, or you can use in conjunction with the TV. Regardless of the gender, you may want to use it … Our hope is it will be equal number of males and females who will be interested in this device.”

It will be interesting to see whether we will be able watch entire videos just on the controller itself.

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, etc., we’ve come to the conclusion that we are no longer in a period where we cannot have any connection at all with social networking services.”

Iwata also went on to discuss that the Wii U could have VoIP features. “So, for example with the question of VoIP (Voice over Internet Protocol), I think what we would like to do is work with them on how to enable them to do that. But, what we’re not going to do is to consider as prerequisite conditions that every game includes features like that because obviously there are some developers who may not want to do that. Rather, I think we’ve come to an era where it’s important to consider how the social graph of the social networking services can work in conjunction with something like a video game platform.”

Concrete details about the Wii U’s online connectivity will be revealed in the future.

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 a very welcome approach as I was quite disappointed to hear that Madden 3DS did not have any online multiplayer features.

“(the games industry is) clearly becoming an industry that’s taking massive franchises and then spreading that experiences across multiple platforms and multiple geographies, anytime, anywhere. There will be no offline games, and it’s very pleasing to see how our industry has embraced connectivity, has changed our business models to react to consumer demands.” Moore said.

He also shared his opinions on the Wii U.

“My dev teams — their heads are exploding, in a good way and a bad way. How do we look at this new technology? We don’t just want to bolt this on; this has to be relevant to the sports gamer. …from the perspective of once again, Nintendo is putting a different spin on things, showing that it’s not all about graphic fidelity and processing power. In the world of sports, our minds are racing as to how we can bring a sports game to life in a unique way. (Using the controller to call plays in Madden is) kind of a no-brainer for us.” He said. “We love the fact [Wii U] is high def, that Nintendo has a renewed focus on building online communities. Nintendo adds that kind of outlier mentality that is a very different take on what the industry needs, and more power to them.”

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 profile remains challenging, particularly when competitors have effectively extended their value proposition to the casual market at compelling price points.”

A price point of $300 would make it only $50 dollars more than what the 3DS and the original Wii launched at in the US. Hickey suggests that if Nintendo go above this price they would risk losing the casual consumers that were so drawn to the Nintendo Wii.

“We suspect a meaningful portion of the Wii market is now dark or non-migratable, as competitive casual content opportunities have accelerated meaningfully since the original Wii release in 2006,” he added.

I think Nintendo could get away with charging a bit more than $300 but over $350 may be a bit risky. Do you think Nintendo can get away with charging more than $300?

We're not too bothered about the Wii U.

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 PlayStation here pretty soon. Our attitude is kind of ‘welcome to the party.’ If you’re looking at being a multimedia entertainment device, if you’re looking at high def gaming, that was 2006 for us.

He also went on to say that the PlayStation 3 is pretty much future proof and still has a lot of years left in it yet.

What we’ve seen from the competition is trying to add features that already exist in PlayStation 3. We invested heavily in that, we rolled a very heavy rock up a steep hill, through the launch period. But now I think that all pays off, and we’ve got a long run way behind it. So, I wouldn’t look for any discussion of a next generation PlayStation for quite some time.

EA is supporting the Wii U but according to Nintendo there is more support to come.

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 would be more announcements from developers soon.

“EA, Ubisoft and many others have dev kits and are showing immense support for what Wii U means for their development teams, franchises and the future of the industry. We will be announcing more great development teams working on Wii U down the road.”

What developers would you like to make games for the Wii U?

Take-Two are responsible for publishing titles such as LA Noire

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 could garner a significant audience, then we would be interested.” He told VentureBeat.

“It is an HD platform that has the processing power to develop a compelling triple experience. If it takes hold of the market, that is good for us. So from that perspective, we are very excited about that. Again we haven’t announced any support for it but obviously we have a great relationship with Nintendo, and we will be looking at the Wii U.”

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 kits arrive, there will be “more information” about unknown aspects such as raw machine power and online capabilities, Sega Europe MD of development Gary Dunn explained. “It’s still a little early. There’s another generation of prototype hardware coming out in June or July that’s going to give us more information,” Dunn told Eurogamer.

Dunn wouldn’t say whether this means that the Wii U would be more powerful than the PS3 and 360. He instead said that “It’s too early to call,”and “It’s different.”

Sega’s first reaction to the Wii U was that they were finding it “quite powerful”. The mind can only wonder how powerful they will find these new units.

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 the Wii U is capable of handling more than one controller but whether this is a practical option is another question.

Iwata also mentioned that Nintendo were not focusing on this option too much because it would be of a considerable cost to the customer to fork out for more controllers. They are instead going to focus on multiplayer games that use one Wii U controller while the other players use Wii controllers.

This seems to be a sensible plan as I’m not sure many people would like to spend lots of money on another controller, would you?

Since the site was renamed from Wii 2 Blog to Wii U Go, our old Facebook page became somewhat irrelevant. Sadly, Facebook doesn’t allow anything with over 100 likes to change its name, so I’m counting on your cooperation to re-like our new page for Wii U Go!

I’ll see you there!