One of Rooster Teeth‘s latest videos joins into the barrage of alleged Project Café leaks we’ve had over the past few days with a comical spin. It’s nothing glamorous or particularly high-end, but rather serves to simply poke fun at all the totally unconfirmed rumours about the console – and succeeds gloriously in doing so.

I know it gave me a good laugh, and I think it’s a great and entertaining pre-E3 watch while we wait for Nintendo’s press conference to begin.

We’re now into the final week before E3, and at this stage, the rumour mill is likely going to go wild, so don’t feel compelled to believe everything you read online about the Wii 2. With that said, an alleged screenshot of a Metroid game on Project Café has surfaced. The screenshot is definitely fake, but I’m sure we’ll all get a good kick out of it either way. Continue reading…

Love him or hate him, industry analyst Michael Pachter has shared his predictions on Nintendo’s E3 2011 conference. In his latest episode, summarised by nintendoeverything.com he shares his thoughts on what will be revealed on the Wii 2/Project Cafe.

He predicts that a lot of titles for the Wii 2 will be shown at E3, his reasons for thinking this are because Nintendo hasn’t shown much games this year. Pachter also thinks that Nintendo will announce that a Mario title will be launching with the Wii 2 when it hits shelves sometime in 2012.

He also believes that the vitality sensor is dead but even if it is dead for the Wii I don’t see why it can’t be reborn in some form for the Wii 2. Feld0 wrote an interesting article covering this.

Pachter goes on to predict that Japan might get an April launch of the Wii 2 with other territories getting the console later in the year. However, he also put forward the idea that Nintendo could stockpile the systems and do a worldwide launch in September 2012.

What do you think of Pachter’s predictions?

For the last month or so the Wii 2 blog has been reporting on Emily Rogers’ rumours that she has received from her sources. Some of them have been believable and some of them haven’t. She has now made a list of Wii 2 rumours which she guarantees to be true or, apparently, she will never write again.

I guess the reasons why she has taken these extreme measures is because a lot of her rumours have been called fake. Now she has decided to “risk it all” as it were. I know some of you are sceptical about the news she gives but I’ll tell you anyway and then you can formulate your opinion.

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There’s been a lot of debate over what Project Café would actually end up being called. The two most common names we’ve heard so far are ‘Nintendo Stream’ and ‘Nintendo Feel’. But an interesting news tip from Dooks1111 (who contributed a piece to the mockup gallery and will get a community showcase feature soon) brings ‘Beem’ up as a potential contender, too. Continue reading…

An image has just started circulating the web, which purports to be a sheet of the Wii 2’s technical specifications. It looks plausible, and is more or less in line with what we’ve been hearing about the console’s specs so far (minus the quad-core CPU – we’ve only heard reports of a tri-core so far), but then again, this isn’t exactly my field of expertise, so I’ll let you judge its authenticity for yourself. Continue reading…

Will one of these be on the Wii 2's controller? Maybe.

We recently ran a story discussing rumours that the Wii 2’s controller might have a front-facing camera. Now we have more information that seems to add a little more weight to those rumours.

In a quarterly results call, the company OmniVision hinted that they were getting ready to ship their 8-megapixel camera for use in a smartphone, possibly the Apple’s iPhone. The most interesting thing was that they hinted that they were also getting ready to supply cameras to a gaming console.

The console wasn’t named but it is unlikely to be for a Microsoft console because the next generation Xbox hasn’t even been announced, and OmniVision let it slip that it was for a console that would be ready in the next several months.

That pretty much leaves the NGP and the Wii 2. The NGP is definitely a possibility but then again Sony would probably use their own cameras. This leaves only the Wii 2.

A camera on the controller is definitely an exciting idea. What are your thoughts about having a camera on the controller? Brilliant idea or just a gimmick? Feel free to share your thoughts in the forums or comment below.

Thank you, prizzaparty, for sending this in.

In the latest issue of Nintendo Power, Takashi Iizuka apparently explained why the Wii wouldn’t be getting Sonic Generations – the game SEGA is making to commemorate Sonic’s 20th anniversary. The reason was one we’ve all probably become familiar with by now – it’s simply not powerful enough for them to realize their ideas on it.

Maybe this is coming to the Wii's successor?

The primary goal for the console versions of Generations was re-imagining the series’ classic zones in vivid, high-definition graphics. The Wii hardware wasn’t a good fit for that concept, so we abandoned development on that, and decided that for our Nintendo audience, we would make a fresh start with a N3DS version of Generations.

It might be a slim hope, but there may be the slightest sliver of a chance that we might get the game on Project Café, particularly considering that the “modern” 3D Sonic games have sold best on Nintendo’s white box before. Personally, I’m hoping that’s what really happened – that they dropped the Wii version of the game in favour of Café – but even if that’s not the case, I hope Nintendo takes this as a cue to make Café powerful enough to retain developers’ interest in it for many more years to come. What do you think?

Zelda Williams, the daughter of the actor Robin Williams, apparently took part in a ‘super-secret shoot’ with Nintendo about six days ago, according to her own Twitter account. It began with the following message…

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…which she then followed up with these three pictures from the shooting, none of which reveal absolutely anything.

There’s a chance this shooting with Zelda (and to my knowledge, she is indeed named after Princess Zelda) was for something Nintendo is getting ready to show us at E3 – a Project Café trailer, perhaps? It may also have to do with the Zelda franchise’s 25th anniversary, which Miyamoto said he was working on something for. Given her name, I wouldn’t rule that out as a possibility, either.

What do you think the shoot was for?

Newbs of Splodinator.com has emailed an article of his in to me, which I thought would be worth featuring on Wii 2 Blog.

In the works since April 25th – the day Nintendo officially announced the Wii’s successor – Newbs’s piece serves as a all-in-one compilation of all the rumours, news, and “facts” we know about the system so far.

It’s well written, thoroughly comprehensive, and an enjoyable read that doesn’t drag itself on. If your head’s spinning from all the Wii 2 rumours from the past month, this article’s a great way to get up to speed. Click here to read it!